The Ozark Mountain region of Missouri and Arkansas as it appears along the line of the Kansas City southern railway . PACKING PEACHES FOR SHIPMENT, DECATUR, ARK. 22 THE OZARK REGION. A STOCK FARM, GENTRY. ARK. Gentry, Arkansas Gentry is situated about midway northand south near the west line of Benton Coun-ty. It is 222 miles south of Kansas City,Mo., and the altitude is 1,252 feet. Accord-ing to the U. S. Census, the population with-in the town limits is 668, and that of Gen-try township 1,383. The local count, basedon the school district census, claims a pop-ulation of 1,200. The town lies o
The Ozark Mountain region of Missouri and Arkansas as it appears along the line of the Kansas City southern railway . PACKING PEACHES FOR SHIPMENT, DECATUR, ARK. 22 THE OZARK REGION. A STOCK FARM, GENTRY. ARK. Gentry, Arkansas Gentry is situated about midway northand south near the west line of Benton Coun-ty. It is 222 miles south of Kansas City,Mo., and the altitude is 1,252 feet. Accord-ing to the U. S. Census, the population with-in the town limits is 668, and that of Gen-try township 1,383. The local count, basedon the school district census, claims a pop-ulation of 1,200. The town lies on a high,level plateau, a beautiful nearly level coun-try, interspersed with groves of young tim-ber on the west; rolling timber land with anoccasional rich valley on the east; a fine,fertile valley on the north, and Flint Creekvalley on the south; and still further southby a very level country—mostly prairie. The principal sources of income at Gentryare general farming, the raising of live-stock, fruit and berry growing and poultryraising. The annual fruit shipments in anordinary season are valued at from $200,000to $250,000, consisting in the main of apples,peaches and be
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