. Louisiana and Arkansas railway; its territory industries and financial condition ... COTTON COMPRESS Ar PRINCIPAL TOWNS Because of the needs of the constantly increasing farm-ing population and the growth in manufacturing, many ofthe towns on the road have doubled in size in the last fouryears. For the sake of brevity we confine our descriptionto five towns, Hope, Stamps, Minden, Winnfield and Jena,no two of which are alike in their industries. LOUISIANA AND ARKANSAS RAILWAY 57 HOPE Hope, the northern terminus of the road, is a prosper-ous, energetic community of about 4,000 people.
. Louisiana and Arkansas railway; its territory industries and financial condition ... COTTON COMPRESS Ar PRINCIPAL TOWNS Because of the needs of the constantly increasing farm-ing population and the growth in manufacturing, many ofthe towns on the road have doubled in size in the last fouryears. For the sake of brevity we confine our descriptionto five towns, Hope, Stamps, Minden, Winnfield and Jena,no two of which are alike in their industries. LOUISIANA AND ARKANSAS RAILWAY 57 HOPE Hope, the northern terminus of the road, is a prosper-ous, energetic community of about 4,000 people. Thecenter of a rich farming country, it shipped this year aboutforty carloads of fruits and melons, as compared with lessthan ten carloads the previous year. The ground aboutHope is very fertile and produces large quantities of longstaple cotton, as much as a bale and a third per acre havingbeen grown on land in this vicinity. The city has various industries. Among them are acotton compress, which handled last year about 33,000 SHINGLE MILL AT MINDEN 58 LOUISIANA AND ARKANSAS RAILWAY a $100,000 cotton seed oil mill, an iron foundry, a brickyard and a canning factory. A short distance from thetown is a bottling works that ships out a considerableamount of mineral water. In the wood-working line are agood sized planing mill, a spoke factory with a daily capacityof 10,000 spokes, a handle factory and a stave and head-ing plant with an output of twenty carloads a week. With a population of about 1,600 people at the time ofthe last census, Hope has more than doubled in size in fouryears, with every prospect of continuing its growth. Newbuildings, both for residence and for business purposes, areconstantly being erected. Its banking facilities are good,the town having three banks with total deposits of about1500,000. Hope is an important railroad center, with linesleaving it in five different directions. Its strong position fromthis point of view alone guarantees its growth,
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