Pine Bluff and Jefferson County, Arkansas . her things being equal, may be con-sidered at double these estimates. FARM LANDS. Where unimproved land which has never been culti- jp:fferson county, ark. vated is in question, the price per acre may be fixed atS3. Yellow pine and cypress lumber sell at the mill forS7 a thousand feet. This county being a pine andcypress region, mills are convenient to almost all comfortable house could therefore be put up at thesmall outlay of S160, which would suit the majority offamilies. This course is, in general, very advisable, asit enables each family
Pine Bluff and Jefferson County, Arkansas . her things being equal, may be con-sidered at double these estimates. FARM LANDS. Where unimproved land which has never been culti- jp:fferson county, ark. vated is in question, the price per acre may be fixed atS3. Yellow pine and cypress lumber sell at the mill forS7 a thousand feet. This county being a pine andcypress region, mills are convenient to almost all comfortable house could therefore be put up at thesmall outlay of S160, which would suit the majority offamilies. This course is, in general, very advisable, asit enables each family to have a home somewhat aftertheir own notions. utensils. With $200 he could easily supply his tamiywith provisions till the crop will have matured; andsoon a vegetable garden would spring up, a cow, hogsand fowls accumulate around him. HOMES. The noblest ambition which should animate thebreast of any man is to acquire a home—that sacredrefuge of peace and happiness to which the memorymay ever fonrllv return. This furnishes a key to the. COTTON COMPRESS OF THE STANDARD COMPRESS AND WAREHOUSE CO., PINE BLUFF As in the last case we shall here make a suppositionof a case that might easily occur. A man selects fora farm 40 acres of unimproved upland. The price is $3an acre or $120 in full. The payments are $40 in cash,S40 in one and two years. Thus, for the small sum ofS200, $160 being full payment for the house, and $40part payment on the land, he could have the dearest ofof all earthly objects—a home At first it might indeedbe homely, but taste and labor would gradually trans-form it into a most welcome abode. With $100 thatman could procure a horse, plow and other necessary unhappiness and impoverishment of so many familiesin the over-crowded districts of the Eastern is for them no prospect of a home--let themlabor ever so hard and every member economize e%erso much. It is continous living from hand to mouth. There may be a little money in the bank awaiting the
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