Northeast Arkansas . of luxury and ease to their surroundings. Game is fast step-ping aside to give place to domestic animals, but fish are plentifuland many well stocked lakes and streams are well known to loversof the sport in other States. Newport is a city of more than 4,000people, and is rapidly expanding in population, trade and manu-factures. Other towns are Swifton, Tuckerman and heavy colored population is employed on the great cotton plan-tations of the county, but they form an unimportant factoras compared with the total population. Lands can be hadat from $ to $15
Northeast Arkansas . of luxury and ease to their surroundings. Game is fast step-ping aside to give place to domestic animals, but fish are plentifuland many well stocked lakes and streams are well known to loversof the sport in other States. Newport is a city of more than 4,000people, and is rapidly expanding in population, trade and manu-factures. Other towns are Swifton, Tuckerman and heavy colored population is employed on the great cotton plan-tations of the county, but they form an unimportant factoras compared with the total population. Lands can be hadat from $ to $ per acre. Because of its locationat the entrance of the Grand Scenic Valley of the upper Whiteriver, its many miles of railway and navigable stream, togetherwith the home products of its forests and fertile soil Jack-son county and the city of Newport are destined to great indus-trial development in many lines, and no one who is in search of ahome or a business location will be disappointed if he locates here. DO. INDEPENDENCE COUNTY. Area, 779 Square Miles. Population, 22,557. County Seat, Lands for Sale, 25,586 Acres. Bisected by the White river and bounded on the east by theBlack, both navigable, traversed by the new, through line (WhiteRiver Branch) of the Iron Mountain Railway. With a grandnessof mountain scenery, with fertile soils from plateau to valley, withgreat deposits of phosphate rock, manganese, marble limestoneand iron, the attractions and possibilities of this county are won-derful. The bit of scenery shown in our frontispiece—Penters Bluff,with a glimpse of the river and distant peaks in the back ground—is located on the New White River Line, and the photo was takenfrom the back platform of the train while passing through thiscounty. The tops of the mountains form broad, fertile plateausadapted to the raising of all crops and particularly .-excel in fruitproduction. Live stock does well and outside pastures are is no need
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