. Southwest Arkansas ... Issued by Land department of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern and Little Rock & Fort Smith railways ... ye, sorghum,potatoes, melons, cantaloupes, early apples, peaches, pears andberries all do well here. The great forests of pine ,oak, C3^pressand other woods which grew over the face of this county arerapidly disappearing and giving place to ^^tock ranches, larms,orchards and gardens. The minerals of the county are slate, honestone, of which two varieties are found, iron, salt and lignite country districts are almost exclusively people by whites,while
. Southwest Arkansas ... Issued by Land department of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern and Little Rock & Fort Smith railways ... ye, sorghum,potatoes, melons, cantaloupes, early apples, peaches, pears andberries all do well here. The great forests of pine ,oak, C3^pressand other woods which grew over the face of this county arerapidly disappearing and giving place to ^^tock ranches, larms,orchards and gardens. The minerals of the county are slate, honestone, of which two varieties are found, iron, salt and lignite country districts are almost exclusively people by whites,while in the towns and about the great sawmills a considerablenumber of colored people are found. Malvern is the county seatand chief city, and is a prosperous and growing place of about3,000 population, located on the Iron Mountain Railway mainline and is reached by a branch of the Choctaw, Oklahoma andGulf. Gifford and Witherspoon are also growing villages onthe Iron Mountain road. At Malvern are located brick manufac-turing plants, the output of which is unequaled for color anddurability by that of any other locality in the Good schools are maintained and all leading religious denom-inations are represented in all parts of the county. Wild lands can be had at very low prices, owing to the rapiditywith which the forests are being cut out, after which most of thelands are offered for sale to those who desire them for agriculturalpurposes. GRANT COUNTY. Area, 617 Square Miles. Population, 7,671. County Seat, Lands for Sale, 5,440 Acres. Few of the counties of our State are so fortunate as Grantin surface and drainage, and while the entire county is undulatingenough to drain well, but a very small portion is so rolling asto wash away the fertility of the soil, or to prevent its county is crossed by many never failing, clear streams, fedby thousands of bold springs. The soil is a light sandy loam,much like that of the adjoining county of Sali
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