. Southwest Arkansas ... Issued by Land department of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern and Little Rock & Fort Smith railways ... red lands, all underlaid by the redclay and gravel peculiar to all the hill country of this section,which lies south of the Ouachita River. In the creek and riverbottoms a deep dark alluvium is found. Hempstead county is afine general farming, fruit and vegetable country. Clover andalfalfa do well, and the vicinity of the city of Hope is especiallynoted for its fine peaches. Chalk and greensands are found, andclays suited to the manufacture of brick, tile and
. Southwest Arkansas ... Issued by Land department of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern and Little Rock & Fort Smith railways ... red lands, all underlaid by the redclay and gravel peculiar to all the hill country of this section,which lies south of the Ouachita River. In the creek and riverbottoms a deep dark alluvium is found. Hempstead county is afine general farming, fruit and vegetable country. Clover andalfalfa do well, and the vicinity of the city of Hope is especiallynoted for its fine peaches. Chalk and greensands are found, andclays suited to the manufacture of brick, tile and fire brick arecommon and of high quality. Hope is a beautiful modern city ofabout 3,000 population, with water works, electric lights, telephonesystem and other modern improvements. She has many blocksof fine brick business houses, several large factories, cotton ginsand compresses, and four lines of railroad. She also has a finesystem of graded public schools, a college and churches of allleading denominations. Owing to the extreme fertility of the surrounding lands,Hope is one of the most important cotton markets in the State,. and several mammoth cotton storage houses with compresses arclocated here. The business men of the city are wide-awake and progressiveand offer attractive inducements to secure the location of substan-tial industries of all kinds. This is a good place in or neaiwhich to secure a home, no matter what line of business or farm-ing you desire to engage in. Other important towns are Wash-ington, the county seat, and Fulton, at the crossing of the IronMountain Railroad over the Red River. vVild lands range in price from $ per acre for lands oimedium soil located in the remote parts, up to $ or $ foithe best soils and most desirable locations. NEVADA COUNTY. Area, 616 Square Miles. Population, 16,609. County Seat, Lands for Sale, 7,440 Acres. This county adjoins Clark on the south, and, like Hempstead,has a very large acreage o
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