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 COPYRIGHTED 1905 
 
 BY 
 GEO. R CHANEY 
 
PRBFAeE 
 
 The principal object I have had in the preparation of this booklet, 
 has been to allav and destroy, as far as possible, the feeling of prejudice, 
 which exists in the north, east and west, against Arkansas, as a state, 
 by calling attention to her resources and natural advantages. In doing 
 this, I have endeavored to make none but truthful statements, which 
 are fully verified by the records and history. In quoting from the 
 speech of Congressman Reid, I have done so, because I believe every 
 word of it to be true. Arkansas has been woefully misunderstood, and 
 such books as "A Slow Train Through Arkansas" and "Three Years 
 in Arkansas, " are miserable msirepresentations of the truth, and cal- 
 culated to do the state harm, but honest, thinking people, will place 
 them in the same category with "The Arkansas Traveler," and pass 
 them by. Now read this booklet, as a truthful statement, and compare 
 it with these books, as fiction of the LOWEST order, and you will have 
 a true, but very short, historical sketch of Arkansas, Benton County, 
 
 and Siloam Springs. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 
 Geo. R- Chaney. 
 
SILOAM SPRINGS PUBLIC PARK 
 
Arkansas, Benton Qounty 
 and Siloam Springs, 
 
 Arkansas as a State is truly "the land of the free, and the 
 home of the brave." It is a land of prosperity and contentment. There 
 is no place on earth where the people are so happy and contented, as 
 the j'eople of Arkansas. There is no stale in the Union, nor any country 
 on earth, where the climate is so mild, uniform and pleasant; the water 
 so abundant, pure and healthful; the fruit so varied, sweet and delicious, 
 and the fuel so plentiful and cheap, as in Arkans;is. No spot on earth 
 offers better inducements. We have no excessively rich men here, and 
 NO body in the poor house. No multi-millionaires, aud few, if any 
 paupers. No wonder the people of Arkansas are so happy and con- 
 tented. 
 
 This great State, named after a tribe of Indians that formerly lived 
 along^ the Mississippi liver near the Arkansas River, lies in the central 
 southern portion of the Mississippi Valley, and is a most important part 
 of the "garden and granary of the world." 
 
 
 ARKANSAS BUILDIXG AT WORLD\s FAIR. 
 
6 ARKANSAS, BENTON COUNTY 
 
 Washed along: its entire easteren border by the "rather of Waters,' ' 
 its northern boundary lying through the heart of the Ozarks, its west- 
 ern line separating it through mountains and plain from the land of the 
 red man and the Lone Star State, and its southern demarkation extend- 
 ing eastward to the Mississippi, through rich, level lands and magnifi- 
 cent forests. Arkansas lies beneath the sunny skies with her broad 
 domain of 53,045 square miles, or 33,824,800 acres. 
 
 Within her borders are found almost every variety of land 
 and climate. In the north are the Ozark mountains with their rugged, 
 rock-clad hills; in the central western .section, the rough topography in- 
 cident to the foot hills of a mountain range; from the nortneast corner 
 of the Stale to the -siouthwest corner lies a belt of rolling land, while 
 along the eastern border and in the southeast section it is generally 
 level. In mineral wealth she is won lerfully rich, only enough having 
 been as yet dev^eloped to show that no state in the Union is more richly 
 endowed in this particular than she is Ker wide* reaching forests of 
 almost every variety of timber are a veritable treasure house for the 
 thousands of lumbermen who are already within her borders, and there 
 is yet room for thousands more. 
 
 Her diversity of climate is great In the northwest winter wheat 
 and the apples grow as though indigenous to the land. In the south 
 are found the cotton and sugar cane in all their luxuriance and produc- 
 tiveness. Between these extremes and through various gradations 
 flourish almost every kind of flowers, fruit, grain and grass known in 
 the United States, and they grow in all their perfection. 
 
 It has been said, and truly so \~je think, that if Arkansas was walled 
 in, and cut off from all communication with the outside world, she 
 could in a greater degree than any other state, suppl3' herself froiu her 
 own resources with every thing that grows, is dug from the earth, 
 gathered in the air, or caught in the waters. Her resources are simplv 
 boundless and unlimited Ordinary energy is all that is required. 
 
 Arkansas In Her Youth. 
 
 The first settlement made in Arkansas, was by the French ni 16S5, 
 at Arkansas Post which was the capilal of the territory, until 1820. 
 when it was chmged to Little Ruck:, where it uoa' is, but, 
 "Arkansas ha passed the day of her sorest trial. The dark days 
 of the civil war and reconstruction, followed by later years of misunder- 
 
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 standing and prejudice, aroused bv underpaid newspaper writers and 
 story tellers, with their attenant moral and material desolation, have re- 
 tarded her progress and development while the immigrant that should 
 have been her own swept across her borders to build up splendid civiliza- 
 tion in less inviting regions beyond. But the gloom and the shadow 
 have passed, and with its passing has come the dawning of a full and 
 perfect day. These things that have so long been the burden and dis- 
 comfort of the state, have at last returned to prosper and to bless. They 
 have served only to lock up within the great womb of nature her stu- 
 pendous resources through all these years, that they might burst forth 
 at this later and better day, and be poured into the lap of the world's 
 commerce when material wealth and industrial energy are reaping their 
 highest reward. 
 
 The intelligent, earnest and honest judgment with which you are 
 wont to view and measure all things, gives me deep assurance that while 
 you may have smiled with us forfifty years over the ridiculous story of 
 "The Arkansas Traveler'" you have all the while doubted that such a 
 character ever existed anywhere, and if he did, you knew full well that 
 he was no type of the sturdy citizenship of your sister state. But it has 
 only been a few j'ears since a resident of Philadelphia asked a citizen of 
 Arkansas "if the Mexicans and Indians trouble us much now?" He 
 was assured that we never had any Mexicans in Arkansas and that the 
 Indians was a matter of ancient history, and mi^hthave been wt-ll asked 
 in turn, if the streets of that "City of Brotherly Lovr" were entirely 
 free from the harassing presence f)f the British and the Hessian. It 
 might b" well to add that the "squatter" in the Arkansas Valley with 
 his coonskin cap and squeaky old fiddle, left us with the Mexican and 
 the Indian in tlie ages gone by, and his leaky old cabin which could 
 not be repaired when it rained and not needing repair when the weather 
 was good, continued open to rain and lo sunshine alike, has also been 
 swt-pt away. That on the spot where u sto')d, a farmer of thrift and 
 energy has founded liis home, and w,.ile his surplus crop whitens across 
 his broad fields in autumn, in the fullness of wisdom he is eating the 
 bread and the meat from his own fields and herds, and sits amid his 
 ripening orchards and teeming gard-ns, his smokehouse full, his corn 
 crib crowded, his barnyard vocal with the music of flocks and herds. 
 
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 untroubled by debt, undisturbed by extremes of climate or season, hap- 
 pier in a surer and fuller independence than feudal baron upon the 
 banks of the Rhine." (*) 
 
 Her Size and Growth. 
 
 Arkansas was organized as a territorj' in 1819, and was admitted 
 as a state into the Union in 1836, and is divided into 75 counties. She 
 has an area c f 33,824,000 acres of land, of which 4,000,000 acres are 
 yet government land subject to homestead entry. Less than 36 per 
 cent of the tillable land is in cultivation. 'At five national and world 
 expositions the fruit ot Arkansas, has taken first premium. Her 
 growth has been continuous and permanent. 
 
 In 1820 she had a population of 14-273 
 
 In 1830 " " 30,388 
 
 In 1840 " " 97,574 
 
 In 1850 " " 209897 
 
 In i860 " " 435,450 
 
 In 1 870 " " 484, 1 7 1 
 
 In 1880 " " 802,525 
 
 In 1890 " " 1,128,179 
 
 In 1900 " " 131 1,564 
 
 From i860 to 1870, was the war and reconstruction period, during 
 which time, no state made any considerable growth, and especially in 
 the south. From 1870 to 1880 the tide of emigration was to Iowa, 
 Kansas and Nebraska and the northwest to obtain free homes under the 
 new homestead law, yet Arkansas grew to the extent of 318,354. A 
 most remarkable growth, considering the circum.stances and conditions. 
 The tide of emigration has now changed, and thousands of people are 
 coranig from the north, east and west, into Arkansas, attracted bere,b3' 
 the mild climate, pure water, splendid fruit, and lovely timlier The 
 country is developing very rapidly, and prices steadily coining up Now 
 is the time to come to the orchard of the world, the land of the l)ig red 
 apple. 
 
 (*) The articles in quotations are taken from the speech of Congressman Reid, 
 delivered before the Trans-Mississippi congress at St. Louis last October. 
 
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 Her First Newspaper, 
 
 The "Arkansas Gazette" was the first newspaper published in Ar- 
 kansas. Its first issue appeared November 20th, 1819, soon after 
 Arkansas became a separate territory. It was edited by William E. 
 Woodruff. When the capitol was changed to Little Rock, the Gazette 
 followed the capitol, where it has been published ever since, and now is. 
 
 There are now 282 newspapers published in this state, of which 23 
 are daily, 3 semi-weekly, 245 weeklys, 2 semi-monthly and 9 monthly 
 so that her people are now provided with plenty of first-class reading. 
 As the state grows, more will come, and the Gazette will still live as 
 the oldest paper in the state. 
 
 Her Railroad Construction. 
 
 "Arkansa is beginning to get credit for what she is worth. There 
 is no better evidence of the awakening of capital the resources of the 
 state than recent investments in the building of railroads. There is no 
 investment of capital made with more caution and circumspection. The 
 enormous amount of money employed, the character of construction, all 
 require tliat when it is made it be made for all time. Rail- 
 roads go only where there will always be an abundance of .something 
 that it pays to transp.^rt. And yet, within the last five years there has 
 been constructt-d and in actual process of construction across the hills 
 and valle s of Arkansas over a thousand miles of railroad. The cost of 
 this mileage with the reconstruction work done within that period, will 
 amount to more than $30,000,000. 
 
 Along the lines of these railroads are rapidly springing up hundreds 
 of tliriving towns and cities, a strikine evidence indeed of the awaken- 
 ing of capital to the rt-sources of the state." 
 
 The Refinement and Culture of Her People. 
 
 "We have lost nothing of the refinement of the earlj' settler of Ar- 
 kansas, who was of the best blood of that nationa'ity renowned in his- 
 tory for its polish and gentility, who were first pleased to find on the 
 sunny and picturesque banks of the Arkansas a place, fit .setting in 
 natural beauty and material excellence for the home of elegance and 
 culture. I shall not therefore assume that it is necessary to confute 
 
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 the silly and absurd stories circulated in yellowback literature about 
 Arkansas and her people. Aside from their untruthfulness and absur- 
 dity, they have never risen to the dignity of ordinary wit or humor and 
 are not widely read by that class of people whose esteem and good-will 
 Arkansas is most especially concerned to deserve. In the councils of 
 state; in the forum, upon the marts of trade; in the realm of letters 
 and upon field of battle for his country, the world has found the Arkan- 
 san a living refutation of these unjust aspersions against the good name 
 of his state. 
 
 Her good people need no encomium. You know that they are 
 justly entitled to share with you all that is great in your past or that 
 promises most in your future. They ate your brothers, brothers in 
 blood, brothers in destiny. Like you, they are the descendants of that 
 sturdy old stock that crossed the Mississippi in the early days, and 
 braving the dangers of the wilderness, caived out their homes and built 
 up their states. 
 
 Those who have done Arkansas the justice to look into her early 
 history, know that even then, scant as was her population, wide apart 
 as were her settlements, not sloth and ignorance, l)i]t culture and refine- 
 ment found early growth and took deep root upon her soil. 
 
 A writer of ability and note has truly said, "that in her territorial 
 dpys a more brilliant array of scholarly and cultured men and v^'omen 
 could not be found in proportion to population anywiiere on earth." 
 
 Her Climate and Temperature. 
 
 The climate is temperate, and mild, both in winter and summer 
 It is a happy medium between the extreme cold of the north, and the 
 excessive heat of the south. The northwestern portion, is especially 
 favored in this respect, as the Ozark. mountains furnish ample protection 
 from the cold piercing winds of the north, and the elevation, relieves 
 from the excessive heat of the southern sun. There is no state that has 
 a finer climate than Arkansas Here you can sit under your vine and 
 apple tree, free from the withering blizzards of the north, and the hot 
 burning winds of the far south, and where Ihe death-dealing cyclone 
 
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 will not molest you or make you afraid, and where health-giving waters 
 are bursting forth from every mountain side, and where the latch string 
 hangs on the otitside, and where you are made welcome to the most 
 beautiful sister in the galaxy of the statehood and the grandest country 
 in the world. The annual mean temperature at Little Rock is about 
 one degree less than it is at Los Angeles, California. The nights are, 
 as a rule, cool and pleasant, and the climate, upon the whole, is as mild 
 and pleasant as that of Italy. Her rainfall is regular and plentiful. 
 During the months of June, July and August, the rainfall was sixteen 
 inches. An observation covering fifteen years shows an average of 
 seventy five rainy days during the year. Violent wind storms and 
 tornadoes seldom occur. Out of 134 destructive storms reported from 
 23 states, only four were in Arkansas. Here is the place to come for 
 safety. 
 
 Health Conditions. 
 
 "What are the health conditions of the state? Well, people some- 
 times die of old age in Arkansas as they do everywhere, but my obser- 
 vation is that it takes them much longer to do it. There are people in 
 Arkansas, as there are everywhere who suffer from diseases for which 
 they are alone responsible, and which are chargeable to neither soil nor 
 climate. But for every saffron-faced child you find in Arkansas I will 
 find you a school uouse full of stout and sturdy lads and lassies with eyes 
 as bright as the morning and cheeks as red as the apples that clusier on 
 the native hills. There are no prevailing diseases. We have every 
 condition for perfect hc-alth. W'e have no extremes in climate, the air 
 and tlie water is as pure as nature can make them. Old men do farm 
 work'in the open field every month in the year and retain health and vigor. 
 The women never grow old, and are always able to be up and about. 
 But wh>' talk of the health of Arkansas, when every nook and corner 
 of the civilized world has sent its invalids to be restored to health bv its 
 mountain air and healing waters. Arkansas is a health resort both 
 winter and .-iimmer, and no pen or tongue can do justice to her wonder- 
 ful sanitariums of nature's own providing. The curative properties of 
 the sparkling waters, both hot and cold, are known to the civilized 
 
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 world. Men have gone from all over this country seeking the skill of 
 celebrated physicians in other lands, only to be told that the remedy 
 lay in the medical springs of Arkansas 
 
 Tradition hath it that Ponce deL,eon, the great Spanish adventurer, 
 hesitated long at these springs in the belief that he had discovered his 
 fabled foun*^ain of perpetual y )uth, and certain it is that French and 
 Spanish adventurers found health and recuperation there a century ago. 
 Hot Springs, the Carlsbad of Ameiica, Eureka Springs and Siloam 
 Springs, almost as well and favorably known throughout the world, 
 Sugar Loaf, Potash Sulphur and the Lithia Springs are but a few of 
 her healing waters, and the common springs, innumerable all over the 
 state, furnish water in abundance pure and >-ealthful. Mammoth 
 Spring in Fulton county, perhaps the largest single spring in the known 
 world, boils up from an opening a hundred and twenty feet in circum- 
 ference in a continuous flow of 9,000 barrels per minute. 
 
 Health as well as wealth abounds in Arkansas, and remembering 
 the teaching of science that human capacity may attain its utmost, only 
 where a sound mind dwells in a sound body. 
 
 The Healthfulness of The Oxark Region, To estab 
 lish that this is a healthy region, requires us to show the existence of 
 certain favorable conditions. This we can do. 
 
 It is healthful, because its altitude renders it proof against malaria, 
 and the pestiful infecting mcjsquito does not exist here and there is no 
 malarial fever. This, of itself, is a boon of health, and assures pure 
 air, containing oxyo^en in its active state. 
 
 It is healthful, because the water is free from all alicali, pure and 
 soft, which is evidence of its continued contact with the iron of the 
 soil, and the ozone of the air. It is healthful, because of its fruit pro- 
 duction. The fruit of the Ozark region, is the best, and mo.st health- 
 ful fruit that grows. In the first place, it contains the proper amount 
 of iron, which exist in the soil, and is taken up by the roots. 
 
 In the seconl place, the altitude of this rtgion fills the air with ozone, 
 and makes it pure and healthful. Then, this is the home of the "Big 
 Red Apple," which i?,the most healthful of all fruits. 
 
 It not only contains most of the acids found in other fruits, but it 
 contains a larger percentage of phosporus, that any other fruit. Phos- 
 
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 phorus is admirably adapted to renewing the essential nerve tissues of 
 the brain. The malic acid of the ripe apple whether raw or cooked, 
 neutralizes anj' excess or chalky matter engendered into the system, and 
 leaves the bod}^ free from its injurious effects. There is no fruit so 
 beneficial and harmless as the apple. Children should be permitted to 
 eat all the apples they want. It is healthful, because of its surround- 
 ings. From the broad open prairies of Iowa and Missouri come the 
 fresh bracing winds of the north. From the Rocky .Mountains, across 
 the prairies of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory, come the winds 
 from the far off west, while from the south, come the ocean breezes, 
 laden with their salt refreshing acid, from the gulf, so that we never 
 lack for pure invigorating air, which renders any stction of the country 
 healthful. The Ozark region, is the place to come for health, comfort 
 and happiness. 
 
 Her Uducational Interests. 
 
 "We have placed education ab;)ve everything else and pledged it in 
 organic law. The maintenance of a suitable system of public schools 
 whereby all persons between the ages of 6 and 21 ma}' receive gratuitous 
 instruction, is provided in our constitution. Under this provision we 
 t'stablishfcd a system of public schools that has no superior in the land, 
 and under it we are educating white and black with an impartiality that 
 should challenge the admiration of our philanthropic friends at the 
 north. We ha\e placed the public school within reach of every man's 
 door, and have scattered colleges and academics throughout the limils 
 of tlie state, and builded a >tate universit> \\herel)y the >outh may re- 
 ceive an education that measures up to the highest demands. 
 
 And education is bearing early and luU fruitage here. We are find- 
 ing "tongues in trees, books in running brooks, .sermons in stones, and 
 good in everything." Fvery pursuit of industry is carried on with 
 more kill and success. It helps us to di.scover and to use the wealth 
 of nature about tis. The young farmer is reading the agrictilUtral re- 
 ports of the government and in s' ientific wisdom is sowing his .seed, 
 breeding his stock and grafting his trees. He has learned also that the 
 first mosi costly step in transportation is from the farmyard to the rail- 
 
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 STATE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS, 
 Eayextkville, Ark. 
 
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 road statiou; hns joined in earnest in the general movement for the im- 
 provement of rural roads and highways, and the turnpike is rapidly 
 winding its way through the valleys and over the mountains. They 
 have learned also that the honesty and industry of an emigrant is of far 
 greater concern to the communitv where he settles than his politics or 
 the land where be hails from, and they have smoothed out the path that 
 leads to the house and hung the latch string on the outside of the door. 
 They have found that security and contentment in the home goes only 
 with honesty and integrity in the state, and are enforcing the laws with 
 purity, promptness and justice. 
 
 The education of coming generations is essential to steady and sub- 
 stantial improvement. This fact has been fully appreciated and no 
 small part of work has been devoted to purely educational work." 
 
 Her Laws and Their Enforcements. 
 
 "I can attest it by the records of every courl in this state that the 
 laws of Arkansas are enforced as fairly and prompty and as justly be- 
 tween rich and poor, black and white alike, as anywhere else on earth. 
 No fair-minded inan need err in this. There are only two classes of in- 
 dividupls who still find excuse to persist otherwise, the simpleton and 
 the man blinded by prejudice The prejudice we hope some day to be 
 able to remove, but in the wisdom of Soloman, we leave the fool to his 
 folly. Sometime ago a voung man in a distant state, troubled about a 
 location, wrote to a friend down in Arkansas and asked if he thought 
 his lite would be safe down there, and if there wa- an opening in the 
 state for a capable and absolutely honest young lawyer. His friend 
 wrote him that he thought the game law would protect him the greater 
 portion t f the year, and that if he was an absolutely honest young 
 lawyer, he would be utterly without competition." 
 
 Her Conimerci2il Morality. 
 
 "The Dry Goodsman; a trade journal of recognized authority, said 
 in its September ibsue: 
 
 "Arkansas can give nearly all of us lessons in commercial morality. 
 There are mighty few failures in Arkansas, and when a man does fail 
 
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 he usually squares up when he ^ets on his feet again. Credits are safe 
 down there, and heads of houses sell goods to Arkansas and sleep peace- 
 fully while the bills are maturing. A bus'ness of a million dollars a 
 5'ear for five years without a dollar's loss is what one St. Louis house 
 has done with Arkansas, and there are other houses right here and else 
 where that can show similar records. Arkansas has much to contend 
 with. The underpaid newspaper paragrapher and the picturesque story 
 writer have cost the state millions of dollars, but there are precious few 
 dollars that the merchants of Arkansas have cost any one else. It is 
 about time Arkansas were getting her due." ..s;: 
 
 Her CitieSf Rivers aud Mouutmus, 
 
 Gities, Little Rock is the capitol of the state. It was founded 
 
 in 1820, and is the largest city in the State. Ij'islocated on a comman- 
 ding bluff on the Arkansas river, 300 miles above its junction with ihe 
 Mississippi and now has a populcfti^n of 6^)&:>(>. Helena. Fort Sn)!th, 
 Pine Bluff, Hot Springs. and''Fay"ttevill'e are the next cities in size, 
 and all are good thriving cities ■ ' ; 
 
 Rivers. Arkansas has nj,(^r^^ ^j,;^f'yi gable -trfams than any state 
 
 west of phip. Her navig:.ab.l^ -.j-rivers are; the Mississippi, which 
 flows along her entire ;e.aste.;5u,w„b()rder. The Arkansas river, flows 
 through the state from west-.tpvt^as:t, and is navigable through the en- 
 tire state. The Red river i;ise,s jfi>,, New Mexico, and runs through the 
 southwest corner, and is navig:able through the state. The St. Francis 
 river form.>j part of the boundary between Arkansas and Missouri. It is 
 450 miles. Lopg gind is navigable^jfor 150 miles The White river rises 
 in the northwest corner of the state, and after running into Mi'-sonri 
 returns into Arkansas and runs into the Mi.ssissippi. It is navigable 
 as far northwest as Batesville. 
 
 "The:e is not an area of land in the world unsurronnded In' an ocean 
 that has the amount of natural commercial wavs enjoyed by Arkansas. 
 Ttiere are few counties in the slate that are not in reach of a navigable 
 stream. An inland state, she is bounded on theea^t by the Missis.sippi 
 travensed diagonally by the great Arkansas river, and is m easy touch 
 •with the gulf. 
 
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 17 
 
 Henry S. Hartzog, President 
 State University 
 
 If we continue the policy of making the harbors for the ships, I ven- 
 ture the assertion that the great seagoing vessels will some day weigh 
 anchor along the banks of the Arkansas And when I speak of her 
 great riv'ers, the Mississippi, the Red, the White, the St. Francis, the 
 Arkansas, remember that it means not only the natural arteries of trade 
 but it bespeaks also the broad alluvial lands along the course ot these 
 rivers, surpassing the Valley of the Nile in richne<-s and fertility. We 
 have enough of these lands in Arkansas to make a respectable state of 
 this Union, every acre of which will produce a bale of cotton every 
 year the sun shines or the ram falls, and will produce in proportion 
 every product of the temperate zone." 
 
 JMountains The Ozark and Boston mountains are the only 
 
 mountains in the state, but they are as beautiful and picturesque as the 
 famous Rockies, only not so high. They do not reach much over 2000 
 feet above sea level, and are covered with timber of various kinds. In 
 some places. pin?r and cedar are quite plentiful. The surface of the 
 
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 country, aside from the mountain range, is level, and in the Mississippi 
 valley is swampy in places, which is covered with a dense growth of 
 heavy timber. 
 
 The Loveliness of A Summer Day In The Ozarks, 
 
 As you stand entranced on the top of one of these mountains, and 
 look down upon the valley below, a scene so tranquil to the eye. you 
 behold, as far as the eye can reach a forest robe, flowing in all the 
 varieties of graceful undulations, over declivity after declivity, as 
 though the fabulous river of the skies were ponring its azure waves over 
 all the landscape. Moving down the side of the mountain, and reclin- 
 ing, in a pensive mood, on the hill-side, you see beneath you, all the 
 luxuriant, beauties of field and meadow, and the winding stream, so 
 clear and bright at the foot of the mountain. Here the stillness of the 
 dense thick woods which surround you is only broken by the sweet 
 songs of the birds, "building towns in the populous trees, with hanging 
 gardens of verdure, peaceful, aerial cities of joy, affection and freedom.' 
 
 Wild flowers blooming on either side fill the air with their sweet 
 perfume, and the soft, gentle glances of the sun stealing through the 
 thick leaves of the trees, renders the scene, over hill and valley, pic- 
 turesque and sublime indeed. 
 
 Now, decending into the valley below, amid waving harvests, ver- 
 dant avenues, and luxuriant orchards, between garden and grass-plot, 
 you see the farm-hou.se, embosomed in cope-wood or "tall ancestral 
 trees." You walk through this valley, fenced in by barrier cliffs, to 
 contemplate, with mild enthusiasm, its scene of pastoral beauty; the 
 cottage and its blossomed arbor, the farmer and his flock, the clump of 
 oaks, and the .solitary chinquapin. The genial c'imate, and transparent 
 atmosphere, delight all those who come from the denser air of the east. 
 Every object in nature is new and wonderful. The loud and frequent 
 Thunder-storms are phenomena that are rarely witnessed in the colder 
 summers of the norrh; the forests, majestic in their growth, and free 
 from underwood, deserve admiration for their unrivalled magnifica.ice. 
 The purling streams flowing between alluvial banks, quicken the ever- 
 pregnant soil into an unwearied fertility. The strongest and most 
 delicate flowers grow abundantlj^ in the fields, the flavor of which im- 
 pregnates the air with their sweetness; the birds with their gay plum 
 
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 age, and varied melodies, inspire delight; every comer expresses his 
 pleasure in listening to the mocking-bird, which caroles a thousand 
 several tunes, imitating and excelling the notes of all its rivals; the 
 humming-bird, hunting about the flowers like a bee gathering honey, 
 rebounding from the blossoms into which it dips its bill, to some other 
 delightful object, is admired as the smallest ai^d most beautiful of the 
 feathered race Such is the scenery of the Ozarks in summer, beauti- 
 ful and sublime beyond description. 
 
 Yet, there is no feature in the Ozark scener}'. more beautiful, than 
 the springs and streamlets, which make every hill-side bright with 
 their sunny sparkle, and musical with their liquid murmur. A fringe 
 of deeply green moss, clusters along their sides, creeping over the rocks 
 to the very edge of the rushing water, with thick tufts of fragile and 
 slender stems, resembling the beautiful conferevae which, like the most 
 delicate floss-silk, float in the clear water, the ripple of which, gives 
 motion and quick play of light and .-hade, to their graceful filaments. 
 The little moss-compion like Alpine moss, enlivens the decomposed 
 rocks in the vicmity, with a cotinuous velvet of the brighest ro.se-red 
 and the most brilliant green. The indescribable loveliness of this 
 beautiful scene, strikes ever}- one who sees it for the first time on the 
 mount^ain side, speechless with admiration. 
 
 It is a rare scene indeed — come and look upon it. It will do you 
 good . 
 
 Her Wild Animals, Fowls and Fish. 
 
 Arkansas has been remarkably well stocked with wild animals, val- 
 uable for their meat, hides, and furs, among which are the deer, elk, 
 beaver, otter, fox, rabbit, squirrel, O'possum, raccoon, wild cat, cat- 
 amount, wolf and bear, but the elk is now entirely extinct, and the 
 deer, bear, wolf, catamount, and wild cat, are very scarce indeed. 
 
 There are still in this state, some wild turkey, quail, phea.sant, while 
 the wild goose and duck visit the ponds and rivers every fall and spring. 
 The rivers and smaller streams, -abound with fish of all kind, and affords 
 abundant pL-asure for the sportsman. The White river and Illinois river, 
 are especially well suplied in the northwest, while the St. Francis, in 
 the east, and the Red river, in the southwest, and the Arkansas in the 
 center all abound in fine fish. 
 
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 Her Mineral 
 
 Arkansas is rich in mineral deposits- While they are not fully de- 
 veloped, enough is known of them to place her in the front rank. 
 GREAT FIELDS OF COAL HA.VE BEEN DEVELOPED, while rich deposits of 
 iron ore, zinc, lead, and copper have been discovered. Then we have 
 great mountains of granite, marble, whetstone, grindstone and flagftone 
 pencil and roofing|slate, and to these may be added manganes, aluminum 
 coriendum, saphire, orientalseeby, topaz and amethysts calcedon of all 
 colors, cornelian, and agates and still the list is not complete. 
 
 Arkansas has according to the latest Geological Survey an area of 
 137,240 acies of zinc, and 1,408,000 acres of marble, the same as the 
 Tennessee marbles, also 182,000 acres of whetstone, famous the world 
 over, and 80,640 acres of manganese, saying nothing of the ores of 
 lower grade. 
 
 "We have seven million acres of mineral land Thousands of square 
 miles underlaid with lead and zinc in mass and richness unsurpassed. 
 Millions of acres of architecural stones and clay, marble of every con- 
 ceivable color and texture, Asphaltum, hydraulic cement, slate, sul- 
 phur, phosphates, aluminum and antimony of highest grades yet 
 known in the world- Five million acres underlaid with a quality of 
 smokeless coal, at least equal and by some considered superior to 
 the hard coal of Pennsylvania. Radium, the latest and perhaps greatest 
 discovery of modern science. I am not speculating upon possibilities. I 
 tell you only that which is demonstrated and known. Arkansas stands 
 today in many of the essentials of material wealth the reserve Supply 
 of this republic." 
 
 Her Agriculture. 
 
 Arkansas is also well up, as an agricultural state. She stands 5th as 
 a cotton and corn state, having raised in 1902, 1,000,000 bales of cotton 
 and 50,655,045 bushels of corn. "We sold to the world last year a 
 million bales of cotton, worth sixty millions of dollars, and the surplus 
 seed, five hundered thousand Ions, that a few years ago lay scattered 
 and wasting about the barnyard. We pressed into oil worth nine mil- 
 lions of dollars, and still had cotton seed enough left to fatten four hun- 
 dred and fifty thousand head of cattle owned by the farmers of Arkan- 
 sas. Some of these lands in extremely high stages of the water, are 
 
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 overflowed, but it has occurred so seldom and has been attendant wiih 
 comparatively such small loss, that until recently farmers have been 
 indifferent to the importance of levees and ditches, We are awake to 
 it now, however, and have demonstrated that tens of thousands of acres 
 in the lands heretofore regarded as not worth the taxes, 
 may be redeemed and thess lands unaffected by 
 drought when protected from flood, challenge the round earth for 
 comparison. 
 
 The table lands and mountains, meadows, gave early and perfect ass- 
 urance that Arkansas was richly fitted by nature for the production of 
 domestic animals for foo4 and for beasts of burden. For a long time 
 stock raising took care of itself in Arkansas. Cattle and hogs turned on 
 the range thrived and increased in such abundance that nobody cared for 
 quality or pedigree, and the country became stocked with a prolific but 
 inferior class. They were so plentiful that the settler in the early days 
 could go out and shoot down a hog or a yearling with little more con- 
 cern as to the ownership than if it had been a wild animal in the woods 
 There was no markets and the surplus was useless." 
 
 Vegetables of every variety grow here through such long seasons that 
 two crops of pea-:, beans, lettuce and radishes can be and often are 
 raised. Arkansas is an all purpose state. Any body can find employ 
 ment here. 
 
 The miner, manufacturer, agriculturist, the fruit grower and stock- 
 man, are all busy at their resp'sc'-ive callings. 
 
 With the building t.f the railroads and the deve'opn.-iit of the 
 great livestock markets with the best prices for the best breeds, our 
 people caught the incentive for improvement, and today every nook 
 and corner of the state points to its herd of cattle and swine from the 
 finest bred strains to be found in the country. The long horns have 
 given place to the Jersey and the Durhams. The razorback h is been 
 supplanted by the Poland China, the Berkshires and Chester While, 
 and they have somehow caught in the climate the haruy hustling qual- 
 ities of thtir primitive brethern and fatal diseases are almost unknown 
 
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 A fair estimate today based upon the census of 1900 will disclose that 
 Arkansas has forty millions of dollars worth of stock upon the farms 
 and ranges exclusive of one hundred and fifty thousand head kept by 
 individuals in cities and towns. 
 
 The farmers slaughtered upon their farms last year for meat over 
 five and one-half millions of dollars worth of cattle, sheep and hogs, 
 and sold a surplus of over four million dollars worth more. One hun- 
 dred and twenty million gallons of milk and twenty-five million pounds 
 of butter are ? few by products of the farm, while thirty million dozen 
 eggs and two and one half million dollars worth of poultry and one 
 half million pounds of honey, and one hundred thousand pounds of wax 
 attest the fact that the song of the heu'shonest industry is heard evtry 
 month of the year in Arkansas, and that the little busy bee improves 
 eacli shining hour These tiling are better and greater than I have 
 told you, but they do not begin to disclose the agricultural possibilities 
 of I his great state. 
 
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 Her Cultivated Fruit and the Ozark Region. 
 
 In speaking of the Ozarks as a fruit region, it become-; necessary 
 to look for a moment, into the nature, formation and character of the 
 soil, as well as the altitude, climatic and atmospheric conditions, which 
 include the degrees of humidity, and the quantity c<nd qualit}' of the 
 food required by the different kinds of fruit grown. 
 
 To do this, requires a glance into the ecological formation of the 
 region, and the condition in which dame nature has placed it for the 
 abode and comfort of man. Our space here, will not permit of a dis- 
 cusssion of a subject, of such magnitude. Suffice it to say, ihat a soil 
 for fruit growing, must contain, with other minerals, phosphate of lime, 
 oxide of iron, cloride of soda, and silicates of potash and soda. All 
 these abound in the soil of the Ozark region. 
 
 The atmospheie consists of three principal gases, Oxygen, Nitro- 
 gen and Carbonic acid, but they are not always distributed in the same 
 proportion. The variations depend more on altitude than anything else. 
 When the proportion varies, then, what they aid in producing, also 
 varies. Atmospheric oxygen is found in two condititions. One is 
 oxygen in its natural state; the other is oxygen in its active state, when 
 it is called ozone. In the atmosphere of the Ozarks, much ozone is 
 known to exist, owing to their altitude, and it is one of the active 
 principles, which contribute so largely to fruit growing in this region. 
 The soil of the Ozarks contains an abundance of iron, which gives the 
 fruit, especially the apple and peach, a superior color and rich flavor, 
 over truit grown by irrigation. The rain fall of the Ozark regic»n is 
 abundant and well distributed. Irrigation water can never take the 
 place of rain water for fruii", any more than bleached clay, can take the 
 place of oxide of iron, in the soil. Irrigation water is alwavs deficient 
 in carbonic acid while rain water holds it in great abundance, and 
 which is so essential to set the plant food free, so it can be easily taken 
 up by the roots. Hence the superiorit}^ of the Ozark fruit, over all 
 other fruit, and especially fruit grown by irrigation. 
 
 As a fruit region this state has been termed by the United States 
 Pomologists, as the seeding ground of America for the reason that it 
 has produced more seeding apples of merit than any other country in 
 the world. In this connection Prof. H. E. Van Deman, U. S. Pomolo- 
 gist at Washington says; "No man living can account for the pro- 
 
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 duction of choice seedling apples in Arkansas." An orchardist in tbe 
 north might plant a bushel of apple seed, and the chances are that he 
 might secure one valuable variety while in Arkansas, if he planted 
 only a quart, twenty or thirty valuable seeding apples would be the re- 
 ult This carries vvith it authority coming as it does, from the highest 
 authority on fruits in the United States, and shows without fer^r of 
 successful contradiction that the soil of Arkansas is better adapted to 
 growing of apples ihan any other state in the Union. 
 
 "The grape, the fruit of poetry and song, is as much at home in Ar- 
 kansas as it is anywhere between Persia and India, and produces a wine 
 equal to that of Italy and France. The wild muscadine and scupper- 
 nong grow to incredible size, and varieties of many kind of frtiit to 
 perfection . 
 
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 "Arkansas is the orchard of the world. It produces more fruit, and 
 yields a greater return per acre, than any country in the world." 
 In the truest sense, it is the home of the "big red apple.' ' and while it 
 is the finest apple country on earth, the peach, apricot, plum, cherry, and 
 grape, as well as the smaller fruits, grow here in great abundanc. 
 
 Her Wild Fruits and Nuts. 
 
 The wild fruits which grow here, are varied and abundant. We have 
 the wild cherry, the mulberry, tht persimmon, the paw paw, the straw- 
 berry, the raspberry, the blackberry, the dewberry, the may apple and 
 the famous huckleberry, all grow here wild, The nuts that grow here 
 wild, are varied and abundant as our wild fruits. We have the wal- 
 nut, the hickorynut, and the hazelnut. Then we have the chesnut, 
 the butternut and the pecan. 
 
 Her Forest and IVs Products. 
 
 Arkansas has a forest area of over 52,600,000 acres. Its forest area 
 alone is greater than the whole state of Indiana, greater than Kentucky 
 equal to Ohio and nearly as great as the state of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Ker saw mills have a daily out-put of 7,000,000 feet. The value of 
 pine products of 1902 was($24,ooo,ooo)twenty four million dolla's, 
 nearly six millions in excess of any other southern slate In addition 
 to this lumber product , there is also turned out annually in thi.s state 
 the following closely related forest products, cedar post and piling 
 1,600,000 pieces; hickorj'^ 1,000,000 feet; cypress shingles, four billion 
 felloes and stames 1,600,000; poplar 8,000,000, ash 20,000,000; spokes 
 2,000,000. The value of these swells the state's forest product to not 
 less than $30,000,000. 
 
 There is enough timber yet standing beyond the echo of the W(iod- 
 mans ax which if manufactured into lumber and sold upon the market 
 today, would produce a sufficient sum to buy a sister State of this Union 
 at its tax book value. As a lumbering section Arkansas stand-^ stcond 
 to none. No state in the Union but Maine appioaches her ni average 
 value per acre of timber growth. 
 
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 What state, aside from Maine, Michigan or Wisconsin; can pro- 
 duce as good a showing? 
 
 Her Finandial Standing. 
 
 Arkansas had in the state treasury at the close of the fiscal year just 
 passed, more than a million dollars to her creait. Her public debt, is 
 only ($31,000,00) thirty one thousand dollars which could be paid any- 
 day if those holding the securities would accept it as it is not yet due- 
 
 Where is the state, that has $1,000,000 in its treasury, and only 
 owes $31,000.00. Let the reader answer. 
 
 Her Pablic Buildings. 
 
 In 1833, work was commenced on the first Capitol bnilditig of the 
 state, which cost $158,397, but it was not fully completed untill 1840, 
 although, the first state legislature met in the njw buildi-ig, in Sept- 
 ember 1836. The first territorial governor of Arkansas, was James 
 Miller, who was appointed, March 3, 1819, soon after the terriory was 
 foimed. These were in all, four territorial governors. 
 
 Tne first governor of the new sta^e, was James C>':ia,iy, w >,o was 
 elected Sept 13, 1836, soon after the territory became 1 state it t-h > 
 Union. Since that time, the state has had thirty eight different gov r- 
 nors. 
 
 The state is now erecting a million dollar Capitul, with granite 
 and marble from its own quarries, and will cover it witli •-late, from 
 her owm slate beds. What other stnie of this utn"on, can build a 
 $1,000 coo capitol, with granite and marble from its own quarries, and 
 cover it with slate, from its owa slate beds, and then pay for it when 
 done, out of the treasury without borrowing a cent? We know of none 
 
 Her University, is a fine, well eqniped building, and in fact, all 
 her public buildings are equal to any in the land. 
 
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 Benton Qounty, 
 
 This is the northwest county of the state, and is the fifth in popu- 
 lation, and is situated on the southern slope of the Ozark mountains. 
 These mountains in this countv. at their highest point, are about 1800 
 feet above sea level, and are covered with timber. 
 
 Beyond these rugged, pathless mountains, that lift their peaks in 
 the distance, there is a charming valley, which drinks the diamond dew 
 of morning, and bathes in the liquid sunbeams, clad in the verdure of 
 everlasting green, and dotted all over with flowers of every hue and 
 shade. Beyond the beaut'ful and rippling stream, which flows hard 
 by, just over the edge of a grassy knoll, there blooms a rare and richly 
 tinted flower. They tell us that it is so beautiful, that it may have 
 blushed into life, at the touch of an angel's kiss and caught it's ros)'- 
 
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 tint from a burning star. Come and see this beautiful valley, and 
 watch this lovely stream, as it flows on its way to the sea, and find, if 
 you can, this rare and richly tinted flower. Come, don't fail to come. 
 
 On the sides of these mountains, and in the lowlands at their feet 
 grow the sturdy oak, the walnut, the hickorynut, the chestnut, the 
 pecan, the wild cherry, the ash, the gum, and all the varieties of timber 
 known to this latitude. 
 
 The scenery of these hills, valleys, streams, flowers and woodlands 
 is picturesque and sublime indeed. 
 
 Among these mountains, in the northern part of this county, is 
 the famous Pea Ridge, where was fought one of the great battles of 
 the late civil war. Here lie, commingled together, the wearers of the 
 blue and the gray. 
 
 "Beneath this labyrinth of mounds asleep, 
 
 The victims of this bloody fray. 
 The wearers of the blue and of the gray, 
 
 Pass back to dust, in many a blended heap." 
 
 It is quite an historic place, and will be famous the world over for 
 all time to come. 
 
 This county is entirelj' out of debt, and has over $5000, in its 
 treasury. Its script is as good as gold, and passes current as money. 
 
 There are 14 newspapers printed and published in this coutitv, one 
 daily, 10 weekly and 3 monthly. The only daily, is the Repul)lic;ii), 
 published at Siloam Springs. The Herald-Democrat is the oldest piper 
 in the county, and has the largest circulation. Of the monthly papers 
 one is published at Sil >am Springs, which is the best niwsjiaper town 
 in the county. It is the best all rounil town in Northwest Arkansas. 
 
 In this county are three cities, besides several towns of considerable 
 size. 
 
 Bentonville is the county seat, where meets four times a year, tlie 
 courts of law and equitv. It has a population of about 3,000. Rogers, 
 seven miles to its east, on the Frisco road, is about the same size. 
 
 Siloam Springs is located in the southwestern portion of the county 
 about one and one half m'les east of the Indian Territory line, anl 
 
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 about six miles north of Washington county, on the main line of the 
 Kansas City Southern Railway, and has a population of 3,500 of as edu- 
 cated, intelligent and refined people as can be found anywhere. 
 
 In this county, five or six miles southeast of Rogers, is the beauti- 
 ful Monte Ne, destined to become a great pleasure resort for wealthy 
 people. 
 
 It is the home of a great club organiz?ition of prominent business 
 men of the Southwest, who are now investing $250,000 in buildings 
 
 Its Club House Hotel, will be the largest and most commodious, of 
 any in the Southwest. 
 
 Then we have Sulphur Springs in the northwest corner of the coun- 
 ty, and coming south on the railroad to Siloam Springs are Gravette, 
 Decatur and Gentry. Maysville is six miles west of Gravette and 
 Bloomfield and Cherokee City are north and west of Gentry. Spring- 
 town, Logan and Lowell, from which a railroad runs to Monte Ne, all 
 lie east of Siloam Springs, in this county. 
 
 There are 140 common school districts, with a school house on each, 
 and six special districts in the county, with two good academies, and 
 one splendid college, so that our educational facilities are first-class, be- 
 sides., the State University, is located at Fayetteville, only thirty miles 
 Irom Siloam Springs. 
 
 This county now has a population of 50,000 happy and contented 
 people, and it is growing in wealth and population very rapidly. It is 
 the greatest apple country in the world The apple crop of this county 
 for 1901 sold for $1,1 15,500.00 besides the amount consumed at home to 
 say nothing of the peach and berry crop which amounted to many 
 thousands of dollars more. 
 
 There are more apple trees in this cotintv than any county in the 
 United States. (See vol 6, pages 623-4, U. S. census leport). In this 
 county, at Bentonville, is the largest apple brandy distillery in the 
 world. The famous white lime kilns are located in this county, besides 
 numerous stone quarries and brick kilns. 
 
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 In The Apple Orchard In October 
 
 In the apple orchard — this 
 Is the time to linger there, 
 
 When the sunshine's good-bye kiss 
 Makes the apples passing fair, 
 
 Red and brown and yellow — see 
 How contentedly they hang, 
 
 Brimming with the cider tang. 
 
 In the apple orchard — Um-m-m! 
 
 Tingling scents waft from each tree 
 Perfumes such as never come 
 
 From the shores of Araby; 
 Glowing reds and russet browns; 
 
 Yellow spheres that sway and cling 
 Where we saw the blossom gowns 
 
 Rustle in the breath of Spring. 
 
 In the apple orchard— see 
 
 What a stumbling, bumping flight 
 Has the drunken honey bee 
 
 Who has quaffed to his delight! 
 See the heavy laden boughs, 
 
 Drooping half way at our feet, 
 Where the wayward bees carouse. 
 
 Coaxing us to come and eat. 
 
 In the apple orchard — this 
 
 Is the time to linger there, 
 When the sunshine's good-by kiss 
 
 Lends the apples blushes rare; 
 When the mingled odors rush 
 
 In a luring perfume wave. 
 Telling that the trees are lush 
 
 With the best that Summer gave. — Stolen. 
 
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 This is thcgbest watered county in the state. The White river and 
 the Illinois river, besides numerous small streams and a thousand 
 springs, from each of which goes a nice clear streamlet, running into a 
 neighboring brook, are all in this county, and water every tract of land 
 of any size in the county. This couuty offers better inducements for all 
 classes of people than any county in the United States or in the world. 
 The farmer can get a tract of tillable land, or land that is strictly for fruit 
 purposes, while the moneyed man can speculate in lands or loan his money 
 on good substantial security at a reasonable rate. Taxes .re low and well 
 distributed, but Arkansas people pay a higher school tax than the peo- 
 of any state in the Union, and yet the whole taxes paid are much lower 
 than in most of the states. Her school fund is ample, and her moral 
 standing is high There is not a saloon in Benton county. 
 
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 Siloam Springs, 
 
 This is the largest and most prosperous town in Benton County, 
 and by common consent has been termed the "Gem of the Ozarks," but 
 I would call her the "Queen of the Ozark." The word "gem" is gen- 
 erally used to designate a precious stone, although, as there are twenty- 
 two springs pouring fourth streams of pure soft water in its limits, it is 
 rightly called the "City of Fountains " The water of these springs 
 contains curative properties, which has been, and daily is, restoring the 
 afflicted to health and vigor. Hundreds of people from the north, 
 south, east and west come her:^ each year to drink of the pure cold 
 water of these springs and bask in the cool pleasant shade of the beauti- 
 ful parks which are located near by Most of *hese people go home 
 either cured or greatly benefitted by the trip. It is the best, the most 
 convenient and the cheapest health resort in the whole country. Its 
 altitude, is about 1200 feet above sea level. It is 229 miles south of 
 Kansas City, on the main line of the Kansas Ciiv Southern railroad, the 
 very best road that runs out of Kansas City. Take this road for Si- 
 loam Springs, the most beautiful city in Arkansas. Come and see us. 
 Besides being a favorable health report it is a place of wonderfully rare 
 and fine scenery. Here wonder treads on beauty's heels and all go 
 tripping hand in hand into the fields of plenty. It is an ideal place for 
 the well to come in winter or in summer, and a most healthful and rest- 
 ful place for the sick to spend their weary days and gather health and 
 strength. Here you realize your ideals, and idealize your reals. It is 
 a grand good place to be in sickness or in health. Come and see tlie 
 plac^ and drink of her health giving waters. 
 
 Religious and Moral, 
 
 She has six churches, whose pulpits ate filled by pious and able 
 men, vi'ho will intertst \ou on Sunday, mary you when ready to marry, 
 baptize your children, when ready for that holy rite. These chmchts 
 are the M. E. and the M. E. Sc nth. The C. P. and the U. P. The 
 Baptist and the Christian. Each has a comfortable edifice of i's own, 
 and each sustains its pastor in a respectable and ccmfortable manner. 
 
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 The moral element of the city cannot be surpassed anywhere. 
 There is not a saloon, gambling den, or a bawdy house within ]|its 
 limits or near its border, and you seldom hear an oath uttered or see 
 disorderly conduct on the street. It is contraiy to law to swear or use 
 boisterous language in public or on the street, and here, either is of rare 
 occurence. 
 
 JEducational. 
 
 At Siloam Springs is the splendid Arkansas Conference College, 
 which is the best and most popular college in the southwest. Rev. 
 Thos. Mason, D. D., of the M. E. church is the president, yet it is 
 strictly non-sectarian, and is as good as can be found anywhere It's 
 faculty, officers and professors are all courteous and aflfable men, and 
 here your children can get as good an education as at any college in 
 the land. Come and investigate it, and then vou will be sure to locate- 
 here, where you can avail yourself of its benefits. Don't fail to come 
 and see it. 
 
 Besides this splendid college, she has a first-class public school, go- 
 ing through the ninth grade, with over 400 pupils enrolled, under the 
 supervision of Prof. R. J. Gregg, and a corps of splendid teachers. 
 For those who desire to go above the ninth grade, the college affords an 
 education up to the Baccalaureate degree, and few if any care to go 
 higher. 
 
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 Siloam Springs has a cold storage and ice plant, which cost about 
 $50,000 and is capable of making 20 tons of ice per day, and storing 
 40,000 barrels of apples, where you can store your fruit for the winter, 
 at reasonable rates. She has a fine system of water-works, the water 
 being taken from a spring one mile north of town, and is as pure autl 
 clear, as water ever is, so that the consumer of city water, gets as good 
 as flows. She has a fir.st-class electric light plant, which lights up the 
 city at night, and a commodius telephone exchange, which enables you 
 to talk all over the country. She has a well equipcd and managed rail- 
 road — the Kansas City Southern— which will carry you to and from the 
 citv. in pleasant and comfortable apartments, and furnish first-class 
 .■service. 
 
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 There has recently been organized, and now exists in this city, an 
 Electric Railroad, Power and Improvement Company, which was created 
 for the purpose of building an electric railroad, from here, to some con- 
 venient point north and east of the city. This road will be built with- 
 in a short time, and will enable farmers who live near its line to come 
 to town, at all convenient times, and bring their produce here by easy 
 and rapid transit. She has three good and substantial banks, any one 
 of which will take and safely keep your money, until wanted, when it 
 will be cheerfully turned over to you. She has three lumber vards, 
 where you can buy lumber of all kinds at lowest prices. One well 
 equiped boot and shoe store, where all such goods are kept, and where 
 you can buy leather or rubber goods at reasonable prices.. Four hard- 
 ware stores, where they keep everything in the hardware line to be 
 found anywhere. Pour up-to-date, and well supplied dry goods stores, 
 where you can get anything in their line. One fine jewelry store, 
 where you can buy a watch or clock, a plain ring or one with a diamond 
 set. Four drug stores, where you can buy medicine of all kinrls in 
 bottle n box. Ten grocery stores, where you can always get oat meal, 
 corn meal, flour and ev^^rything in the grocery line, or feed for the 
 cows and the chicks. Three meat markets, where you can 
 buy beef steak, veal-cutlets, pork or mutton chops and fis^ or 
 oysters every day in the year. Two well kept -poultry yards, where 
 they buy and sell fowls of all kin Is, and cati always furnish you with a 
 nice turkey, duck or goc^e, for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Two pro- 
 duce houses, where they buy all produce brought to market, paving 
 highest prices, and a first-class dairy, which will alwavs.sell vou milk — 
 sweet or sour — and deliver it to you, nisrht or morning She h;is v;ix 
 hotels and six restaurants, besides tiunierous rooming and boarding 
 houses, where you can get good board and lodging l)y the da or veek. 
 
 She has one daily and two weekly newspapers, each of which is 
 well patronized, and does a wonderful amount of job printing. She 
 has a box and barrel factory, which makes boxes from a piano box to a 
 berry box. and barrels from a keg to a hogshead. Slie has a fine flour 
 ing mill, capable of making 200 barrels of flour pt-r dav, and a wood 
 fiber factory which manufactures fiber out of wool for all purposes. 
 She has a cider mill, where you can get a glass of good fresh cider, 
 which, aside from our spring water, is the only beverage you can get 
 here, as we have no saloons, and our druggists, always say "no '" wht-n 
 
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 asked for somethino: stronger, and a first class molasses mill, which can 
 furnish you with the best of "long sweetness." Come and taste it, 
 and see for yourself. vShe has fruit drying and evaporating plants, be- 
 sides many other similar enterprises. 
 
 She has a fine brick yard, where you can get first-class brick for 
 building or side- walk purposes. She has just at the northeast corner 
 of the town a fine stone quarry, where you can get most excellent 
 building stone very cheaply. No better can be found. 
 
 She has seven real estate agencies, any one of whom will gladly 
 locate you in town, or on a farm, and she has three livery barns, either 
 of which will gladly carry you round the city, or into the country. 
 Don't fail to come and take a ride, and see the beauties of our little cit\- 
 She has a fine, well equipcd hospital, under the care of Di . H. H. Can- 
 field, and experienced nurses. In this hospital, is an X-ray, and other 
 electric appliances, for the treatment of the sick, and we have six excellent 
 physicians, who attend all sick calls, night or da}-. She has fi\'e able 
 and experienced lawyers, who attend to all the legal business of the 
 growing city, and surrounding country. If you have anything in their 
 line, give them a trial The^' are men of fidelity. She has three- 
 dentist.;, who will pull or fill your teeth, or make .vou a new set as you 
 like. She has a fine steam laundry, \yhich will wa.sh your clothes, iron 
 them, and make them clean and nice, and she has three barber shops to 
 .shave 3'ou, cut y(jur liair. and fix you up in good shape for church next 
 d ly. She has three furniiure stores, from which you can furnish your 
 house lulnd.somei^' when you move, and two undertaking establishments 
 either of whom will snugly tuck you away in the ground when you die, 
 if die you must, but be sure to come, before you are in a condition to die. 
 
 Frateninl. 
 
 All the fraternal orders of the country, are well represented here. 
 The Masonic order, in dl its branches and degrees, incUiding the order 
 of the Eastern Star. The Odd Fellows, with the order of the Rebekahs. 
 The Knights of Pythias. Tlie A O. U. W. and the Degree of Honor. 
 The G. A. R. and the W. R. C , besid s other fraternal life insurance 
 order , and they are all well patronized. 
 
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 The Pleasures And Amusements OilSiloam Springs. 
 
 There is no city in the country, of the size of this, that can furnish 
 more innocent pleasures and amusements, for young and old, than Si. 
 loam Springs. First, the city holds, on the 24th"day of June each 
 year, a celebration, in honor of its founding, at and around the springs 
 for which it was named. The Chatauqua Assembl}^ of the south west 
 has been permanently located here, and a block of ground dedicated to 
 its use, where it meets annually in July. The A. C. College, treats 
 the public to a series of high class lectures, every winter. The vSecoud 
 Regimental Band, which is located here, gives open air concerts, in 
 some one of the city parks, three times each week during the summer. 
 There are three pubic parks in the city, the Twin Springs, the Siloam 
 Springs and the Iron Springs, where people congregate on mid-sum- 
 mer evenings, to read and chat and visit together, and may take ad- 
 vantage of the beautiful lawns and pleasant shades, to wile away the 
 leisure hours of the day. Just above, and beside the Siloam Springs 
 park, is a beautiful clear lake, where people fish and boat-ride in sum- 
 mer, but it seldom frt-ezes hard enough to skate on, in winter, so that 
 there is a large and commodious skating-rink provided, where the 
 young people and some who are not so young go at night, and skate, 
 atid skate, and skate to their heart's content, when t^hey go arm in arm 
 winding their way homeward. There are two baseball teams, and two 
 foot ball teams here, and t^e former amuses the public two or three 
 times each month during the summer and fall, and the latter, as often 
 during the fall and winter. Then we have two well organized 'po.ssnm 
 clubs, each of which, on bright moon light nights, during the season 
 take to the woods and give the 'possum a chase, often bringing in 
 ■from one to six real live 'possum. All these we have, to say nothinp^ 
 of the squirrel and quail hunters, and the famous fishing parties. 
 
 Heides tliese places of amusements, we have six church organiz- 
 ations hert'. each of which has iis several societies, and regularly 
 holds its church socials, so th;U all, young and old, religious 
 and non-religious, have a place to go, almost every evening in 
 the year. 
 
 The College students too, often give musical and literary eutertain- 
 ments, furnishing the talent themselves, so that Siloam Springs, is ad- 
 
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 mirably well supplied with places of first class instruction, and innocent 
 amusements. Here is the place to come, and bring up your boys and 
 girls. Here is the place to educate them, and rear them, without the 
 temptation or the saloon, or other immoral influences. 
 
 Come and be one of us, drink of our pure health giving- water, eat of 
 our finely flavored and delicious fruit, set by the fire mad" with our 
 splendid wood, and read from "the library of the worlds best literature" 
 (or the bible) to your wife and children, and go on Sunday to the 
 church of your choice, and hear an able and eloquent sermon Come 
 and be happy, that your children may be happy after j^ou. Dont fail 
 to come. All vSiloam Springs say come. Come and drink of the 
 best water on earth, freely. Come and drink, without money and 
 without price. 
 
 Lastly, but not least, she has a population of 3500, of the happiest 
 best and most contented people that live any where. 
 
 No well educated person is proud, and no pro id person is happy. 
 The people of Siloam are not proud, because they are educated, refined 
 and prosperous, but stand with extended hands to welcome good 
 people, from every s^ate in the Union. Here is the place to come and 
 be h-ppy. 
 
 The Beauty Of The Early Morn. 
 
 In this latitude, tho.se who are out early enough, on a clear mid- 
 summer morning, to behold the glories of the dawning da\-, when the 
 moon is in her last quarter, and has just risen, with Jupiter two hours 
 high, the herald of the coming day; Pleiades just above the horizon 
 shed their sweet influence in the east; Lyra sparkling near the Zenith, 
 and the steady pointers, far beneath the pole, look meekly up from their 
 depths in the north, to their soverign, will see the timid approach of 
 twilight becoming more perceptible, the inlense blue of the sky begin- 
 iug to soften, the smaller stars, like children, going to rest, and the 
 sister-beams of Pleiades soon melting logethcr, while the bright con. 
 stellations of the north and west remain unchanged. 
 
 Yet, steadily the wonderful transfer .nation goes on. Hands of 
 angels, hidden from mc>rtal eyes, seem to shift the .scenery of the heavens. 
 The glories of the night dissolve into the glories of the dawning day. 
 The blue sky turns more softly gray. The great watch-stars shut up 
 
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 their holv eyes. The east begins to kindle, the faint streaks of purple 
 soon blush along the sky, and the whole celestial concave is filled with 
 the iri-flowing tide of morning light, comes pouring down from above in 
 one great ocean of radiance; till at length, a flash of purple fire blazes 
 from above the horizon, and turns the dewey tear drops of flower and 
 leaf, into rubies and diamonds. In a few seconds, the everlasting gates 
 of morning are thrown wide open, and the lord of day, arrayed in 
 glories too severe for the gaze of man, begins his reign. Come and be- 
 hold these beauties. They are not so lovely any where else, as here. 
 Do not fail to come. 
 
 Howe Sweet Home. 
 
 There is an old, old sonj.i;, "Home Sweet Home," written many 
 \ears ago l)y Henry Payne, and it applies with all its totce and loveliness 
 to Siloam Springs. No one who has a home in Siloam Springs, would 
 exchange it for any other home, even if the other were more costly and 
 magnificent in appearance. The sntiet\', the climate, the water, the 
 delicious Irnil and dehs^httnl scenery, would be missing, and it would 
 not br the home, the sweet, sv\eet home of Siloitn Si)rings. 
 
 Here is the ])l;u-e loniake a home in the truest sens'- of the woitl. 
 Home sweet home, tlurt- is no ),ila' r like Siloam Splines iDi a home. 
 
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 While we do not claim to lie able to sell all tin's in a bulk, we do 
 have for sale 100,000 acres of it, 20,000 of which is iu Arkansas, 40,000 
 acres in Louisiana, 10,000 acres in Tennessee, 10,000 acres in Texas, 
 5,000 acres in Kansas, 7,000 in Nebraska, 4,000 acres in Iowa and 6,000 
 acres in Missouri. If you doubt this statement, come in and we will 
 show you our list. 
 
 Here Are a Few of Our Choicest Burgnins 
 
 No. 3, 2'} acres 4 room house 1 No, 7, 3 room house 4 lots 
 and barn, -^ome fruit, . . .#;i25o' . ,- •, .^ 
 
 No. 4, Hrick store building. J7X 
 
 60, two stories hi^h, (^ rooni'^ 
 above, i§'22oo 
 
 No. 5, 5 room hou'^e, r lot good 
 barn, citv water $1000 
 
 No. 11, 136 acres, bollfjiii laud, 
 5 miles out, s room lioiisr, w,ll 
 and barn, 65 acres in ctdtivatiou, 
 5 acres I eariiij.; orchanl $3100 
 
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 No. 19, 79 acres 3<| mile out, 8 
 room house, barn and well mostly 
 in orchard, $8000 
 
 No. 20, 6"^ acres % mile out 3 
 room house, good well, all in or- 
 chard $1200 
 
 No. 22, 10 acres % mile out, 3 
 room house good well 4 acres in 
 orchard S1200 
 
 No 27, 5 '2 acres '/{mile out, 9 
 room house, Bath room and good 
 closets $3100 
 
 No. 29, 6 room house i lot good 
 well $550 
 
 No. 30, 10 acres i mile out, 5 
 room house, good well and 5 acres 
 bearing orchard $2500 
 
 No. 31, 22^/2 acr.;s, 5 miles out 
 5 room house, good well and barn 
 and 10 acres in orchard, $1200 
 
 No. 34, 89 acres 2 miles out, 
 good 6 room house, barn and well 
 40 acres in young orchard . .$5000 
 
 No. 38, 40 acres 2 miles out 2 
 room house, 14 acres of bearing 
 orchard $1600 
 
 No. 40, 240 acres 6 miles out, 6 
 room house, l)arn and well, out 
 buildings. 100 acres in cultivation 
 2ud bottom land, 7 a-^r>s bearing 
 orchard $4000 
 
 No. 42,65 acre tracts close ui, each 
 $500; also brick store 25x100 two 
 story $2500 
 
 No 46, 4 room house i lof good 
 well $475 
 
 No. 47, 80 acres 3 miles out, 5 
 room house, barn good .spring, 25 
 acres bearing orchard, $5800 
 
 No. 48, 220 acres 8 miles out, 6 
 room house, large barn, good well, 
 180 acres in cultivation, 10 acres 
 b ariug orchard, 20 acres young or- 
 rchard, 20 acres in grass, all under 
 fence, all good sinoth land, price 
 per acre $25 
 
 No. 49, 40 acres 5 miles out, 4 
 room house, barn and well, part 
 in fruit, smoothe land $2500 
 
 No. 57, 7 room house, 6 lots 
 good well, all in fruit, fSoor also 
 stone store building 23x60. .5^1000 
 
 No. 61, 25 acres i< mile out 5 
 room house, barn, good well, 5 
 acres beaeing orchard, 10 acres in 
 young orchard $3500 
 
 No. 63, 30 acres 3^2 miles out 6 
 room hou.^e, barn and well 20 
 acres in fruit $2300 
 
 No. 77, 20 acres i mile out, 6 
 room house, bath room, good barn 
 good well with windmill, water in 
 kitchen, 8 acres in cultivation, 8 
 acres in bearing apple orchard 
 $3500 
 
 No. 7"^, 7 room house, 4 lots, 
 city water, all kinds of fruit good 
 cellar . .$2000 
 
 No. 79, Good 3 room liouse i '/•> 
 lo s $61 "O 
 
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 No. Sr, 40, acres 4 miles out, 5 
 room house, haru and well, 12 
 acres in young apple orchard, 5 
 acres in stravvl)erries, 2 acres 
 blackberries price 5f>250o 
 
 No. 84, 220 acres 12 miles out, 
 gnod house and barn, 20 acres 
 bearing apple orchard. 40 acrss in 
 young orch ird balance in cultiva 
 lion, $55(^0 
 
 No. 85, 50 acres 2 ^:( miles out, 
 S room house, cellar, good wed and 
 barn, tenent hou -e of 5 rooms, 5 
 acres l^earing apple orchanl, 23 
 acres young apple orchard, 10 acres 
 bearing peach orchard, 4 acres ber- 
 ries of different varieties price $4500. 
 
 No 87, 6 room house, t lot, city 
 water, $500; also store building 
 two story trame $1500 
 
 No. 89, 8 room house, 2 lots, 
 good barn $2600 
 
 No 92, 2 room house 3 lots, 
 price $575 
 
 No. 93, 20 acres i 4^ niile^ out, 
 all in bearing peach orchard, $1300 
 
 No 94, 7 acres 3^ miles out, 3 
 room house, good well and barn, 
 coldstorage an«I all in fruit $2100 
 
 No. 96, 20 acres i mile out, 7 
 room house, well and batn, mostly 
 in fruit $3500 
 
 No. 97, I acre 'v mile out, 5 
 room house, good well aud barn, 
 wood shed, brick storage aud some 
 fruit $1400 
 
 No 99, 20 acres i mile out, 6 
 room house, wtll, barn and out- 
 buildings, mostly all in fruit, 
 price $3750 
 
 No, 145, 40 acres 7 miles north- 
 ea.^t of town, all in timber with a 
 good spring, about '.2 in fine 
 building stone quarry, price, $2000 
 
 No 169, 740 acres 3 mile.-!) out 7 
 room house, well, barn aud cellar, 
 15 acres bearing orchard 35 acres 
 in cultivation, mostly ni clover and 
 alfalfa, l)alance rough, good timber, 
 all under fence .separated into 4 
 partners, 4 good springs per 
 acre $8.50 
 
 No. 171, 30 acres 2 blocks from 
 depot, brick house, 6 rooms, hall, 
 pantry and closetts, good barn aud 
 well, 28 acres in fruit, consisting of 
 peaches, apples, and berries, $5500 or 
 will sell in 10 acre tiacts $3000 for 
 ten acres and buildings and $1450 
 for tracts without buildiuffs. 
 
 A good first-cla.ss restaurant, well 
 located, aud good trade, furniture 
 and stock all goes. Reasou iov 
 selling, party wishes to go south. 
 We also have 10,000 acres of tim- 
 ber aud mineral lands, .south and 
 east of here, ni this state. 
 
 Loviisiaina. 
 
 Of our Louisiana land 30,000 
 acres, lie in the great Louisiana 
 Delta, south of the eastern portion 
 of thi.-' state, and io,o.)0 acres in 
 the wonderfully rich rice region, 
 almost directly south of here. 
 
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 ARKANSAS. BENTON COUNTY 
 
 Missouri, 
 
 Most of our Missouri laud, lies 
 north and east of here, ra( stly in 
 counties joining this state, while 
 some of it lies further north. 
 
 Kansas, 
 
 Our Kansas land is nearly all 
 level prairie, with l>ut little, except 
 in the eastern portion, there along 
 the streams. 
 
 Iowa. 
 
 Our Iowa land is pretty much 
 like the Kansas land, but i?eneraily 
 better improved, and higher in 
 price. 
 
 Nebra^ska. 
 
 Our Nebraska land lies in differ- 
 ent parts of the state, but mostly 
 in Adams, Clay, Nuckolls, Thayer, 
 Buffalo, Kearney, Phelps, Harlan, 
 Franklin and Webster counties, 
 and is first-class farming land, and 
 the prices are reasonable. If \'ou 
 want Nebraska land call on us. 
 
 Texas. 
 
 Ou( Texas hinds lie in Baxter 
 and adjoining counties. The 
 prices vary, but are all (juite rea- 
 sonable. 
 
 Tennessee 
 
 Our Tenne.ssee lands are in tracts 
 ranging from lo to 320 acres and 
 are principally located near the 
 
 line of the Nashville, Chattanooga 
 & St. Louis railroad, and the prices 
 are very low. Any one desiring 
 lands in any of these states, will do 
 well to confer wi':h us in the first 
 instance, as we can procure trans- 
 portation for them over some of 
 the roads, which will enable them 
 to see the lands at a minimum cost. 
 
 Don't fail t(.) call on us ot write 
 us for full particulars. Siloam 
 Springs, however, is the place to 
 come, as it is the best watered city 
 in the state, and the home of the 
 "Big Red Apj)le." 
 
 This is "Rtother Jonathan" of 
 
 The 
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 Fruit C .rowers vSt. Joseph, 
 
 He is now in our emploj\ and a 
 fine fellow. Come in and make 
 his acquaintance, and he will show 
 you round without ch.vrgk. 
 
 J. A. Petty <& Co. 
 

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 For the Latest, Newest and 
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 goods, silks and notions. 
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 3f] to the best interests of the studeuts. A conservatory of uiusic \^ 
 
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 Oldest Bank in Northwest Arkansas. Does a 
 General Banking Business; also has a Sav- 
 ings Department. We solicit your account 
 and promise in return courteous and accom- 
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 Organieed Sept. 5, 1904 
 
 Capital Stock Paid in, $15,000 
 
 Does a general Banking and Exchange Business. Your ac- 
 count respectfully solicited whether large or small. 
 
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 W. N. Butler, Vice Pres. J. S. Dill, General Agent. 
 
 Northwest Arkansas Realty and Development (o., 
 
 ^LOCATED AT 
 
 PRAIRIE GROVE. ARK. 
 
 A beautiful little city, situated in Washington County, Arkansas. 
 A county which has been favored with the Great State University. 
 Our town has only recently had a railroad, and now that it has railway 
 facilities and an oil prospect that is creating great excitement, an ex- 
 tensive lot sale that is being scattered throughout the United States, 
 which will bring thousands of people to our great Opening Sale and the 
 fact that we are surrounded by as good fruit growing, and the most 
 fertile, large and level valley of agricultnrial and in the state. Our 
 population is soon to be swelled to many times its present size. We do 
 a general Real Estate business, town lots a specialty. Write us, see 
 our traveling agents or come to see us for we are sure to have what 
 you want. 
 
 ^ « Che Williams Brick Vard « « 
 
 Is two blocks south of the Kan 
 sas City Southern Depot. Wi\ 
 manufacture first-class buildinjj: 
 brick. Call and examine our 
 stock :: :: :: 
 
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 RESTf\i)ltnNT i\m LUN6H COUNTER 
 
 Fruits, Confectionery, Fresh Bread, Fresh 
 Oysters, Fish and Game, Short Orders 
 a specially. Choice Cigars and Tobaccos 
 
 W 11 WIKOFF. PROP. 
 
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 The Rogers Baking Company, of Rogers, Arkansas, are 
 putting a model bakery in .t Siloam Sprmgs 
 under the management of A. J. Harris, who /s ^ fi'^^^^" 
 class baker, and who will make a healthful bread. 
 
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 'he 0- K^^uPP^y Company 
 
 Siloam Springs, Arkansas 
 
 Keeps for wholesale and retail a standard remedy for all 
 ommon diseases, and will meet the prices of any firm with 
 emedies of same merit. Cash with order. 
 
 ,. K. Supply Co. J.jG^^^k^^> ^^"^^^^ 
 
 ?laa\ters Mutuad Insurance Co. 
 
 Of Little R-ock, Ark. 
 
 rhe Oldest Fire Insurance Comp:.ny Located in the St^te 
 
 I. N. Allen, Agent 
 
 Arkansas 
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 Chris Real 
 
 paper Ranger and painter 
 
 AllWork Guaranteed 
 
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 ^ TIae largest and best Grocdry house in Ben- 
 
 il) ton County. We handle nothing but the 
 
 ^ pure and wholesome. We sell Staple and 
 
 ^ Fancy Groceries, Flour and Feed of all kinds^ 
 
 (J Our stock is large and always fresh and 
 
 i^ good. When you need groceries or feed call 
 
 l[|^ and try our goods. •:- 
 
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 W/ 208— 210-212 St. Nicholas Ave. m 
 
 ^ Ph°°e 31 Siloam Springs Ark, ^ 
 
 Siloam Springs Gold Storage 
 and Ice Company 
 
 Manufactusers of 
 
 PURE SPRING WATEF( ICE 
 
 Storeage Room For Sale at Very reasonable Rates 
 
 D. ZIMERMAN, Mgr. 
 Siloam Springs, - - - Arkansas 
 
Running at a High Speed, Ail 
 Doors Wide Open 
 
 Heating Stoves, all kinds lined up on our floor priced 
 to sell not to keep. We have also added to our mammouth 
 stock a neat line of Harness and Saddles. We have just 
 opened one of the finest lines in Farming Implements that 
 has ever been put on exhibition in this city. We are also 
 in line when it comes to making prices on Buggies and 
 Wagons, Don't forget to see us — we are yours, 
 
 R. C. HENRY, 
 
 144 MAIN STREET 
 
 SII.OAM SPRINGS -:- :. -:- ARKANSAS 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 I^ixmitnre a^iid ]>Iilliiiery 
 
 ^.^Our Stock and Prices Speak for Them5elves_^>' 
 
 DR. AXTELL, 
 
 DENTIST 
 
 Crown ane Bridge Work a Specialty, Office in Opera 
 House Block. Phone 163 
 
 SII.OAM SPRINGS, -:- -:- -:- ARKANSAS 
 
(00l[Y MIlllNG COMPANY 
 
 Manufacturers of Flower 
 
 Meal, Chop, Bran, Etc. 
 
 Capacity 125 bbls of Flour 
 
 Per Day. 
 
 THE V LATEST ■: SIETER •:■ SYSTEM 
 
 Siloam Spriitds 
 
 Jlrkansas 
 
 GOOD LUCK 
 GROCERY 
 
 STAPLE AND FANCY GROC- 
 ERIES, HAY, BRAN, MEAL, 
 FEOUR, CHOP AND PRODUCE 
 
 We claim to have the cleanest 
 and freshest grocery stock in town. 
 Give us a call and we will give 
 you, prompt peliveay 
 
 m. «, Price, Prop, 
 
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 DR. H. E. THOMASON 
 
 PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 
 
 Office in GuYnrna Opbka House Block 
 
 SiLOAM Springs, Ark. 
 
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 DK. E. A. NEEL, Dentist 
 
 IN NEW BANK BUILDING 
 SiLOAM Springs. -:- Arkansas 
 

 
 HARDWARE DEALER 
 
 If you wont a Plow, Harrow 
 Mower, Binder, Stove, Range 
 Wagon or one pound of Nails 
 Come and see me on jeast side 
 
 S1L0A.M Springs Arkansas 
 
 F.L.MAIN. 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 GROCERIES. 
 
 CLEANEST AND BEST STOCK IN TOWN 
 
 ALSO FEED^ PROMPT DELIVERY 
 
 TELEPHONE 27 
 
 Enterprise Steam Laundry 
 
 Mrs. Tom Gravens, Prop, 
 
 On the Bluff Above the Twin Springs 
 
 The Fr\iit Grower 
 
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 America's Handsomest farm Paper Published monthly at 50c 
 per year. Three years for $1,00. Send at once for sample copies 
 
 The Fr\iit Grower 
 
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REFERENCES: Bank of Siloam 
 
 Siloam Springs Cold Storage and Tee Co, 
 
 SPENCER PRODUCE COMPANY 
 
 WHOLESALE 
 
 POULTRY, EGGS BUTTER, HIDES, FURS, WOOL, FANCY 
 
 FRUIT AND EVAPORATED APPLES 
 
 B. J. SPENCER, Matnatger 
 
 SILOAM SPRINGS ARKANSAS 
 
 The Citizens Meact Matrket 
 
 G S, HANSARD. PROPR.IETOR- 
 
 Keeps on hand the choicest of Fresh and 
 Cured Meats, Etc Oysters and fish every 
 Friday, First door north of The Right Place 
 
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 UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 
 Services every Sunday morning at ii a, m. and evening at 7:30 p 
 Sunday School at 9:45. Seats Free and all are Welcome. 
 
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 Perrine Printing Go. 
 
 Everything in 
 
 Printing and the Tklied Arts. 
 
 REV- ALVIN S. VINCENT, Pastor U. P. Church 
 
DR. H- H- CAN FIELD- 
 
 NEW BANK BUILDING 
 
 Hours:- 1 to 4 p. m. Tel. 35. 
 
 No Calls Made During: Office Hours 
 
 Residence 'Phone 46. 
 Siloam Springs, - - Arkansas 
 
 J. W. WEBSTER. 
 
 Physical! and Surgeon,' 
 
 Office Hours 2 to 5 p. m. Tel' Office S3, Res. .=>] 
 
 Office 316, St. Nicholas avenue. 
 SiloamSpinos. — " — Arkansas 
 
 Fire. Lightning, Tornado, Life and 
 Accident Insurance. 
 
 I have the best Insurance Companies. I insure your property .^t 
 the regular rates. I have the best Insurance that can be had for the 
 money. 
 
 Call And See Me 
 
 ^^XJncle'' TToixi Harris. 
 
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 Makes a specialty of up-to-date photography. They also make 
 views of Siloam Springs and vicinity. Their work and frames are 
 "the latest." 
 
 Ca^ll on TKem. They Will Please You 
 
 PRI VA TE BOA RD 
 
 First house on the hill above the Siloam Springs. 
 Will treat you right. Call on us if in need 
 of first-class board or lodging. Prices reasonable. 
 
 J. HI. CARDIN, Proprietor 
 
 \ 
 
R. B. Pegues <a Son 
 Druggists 
 
 20 years in business in Siloam 
 Springs. Both are Registered 
 Pharmacists. We do the bulk of 
 the Prescription business. Carry 
 a complete line of Drugs, Chemi- 
 cals and patent Medicines, drug- 
 gists sundries, Paints Oils, Window 
 Glass, Etc. 
 
 IN MORRIS BLOCK 
 Slloam Springs Arkansas 
 
 SiLOAM SPRINGS, 
 
 ARKANSAS 
 
 R. F. FORREST, 
 
 ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR 
 AT LAW 
 
 CITY ATTORNEY 
 
 NOTARY PURLIC 
 
 Dr. Jeannette Miller, 
 Osteopath 
 
 Diseases of Women a Specialty. Also Nervous 
 Diseases Consultation and Examination free. 
 
 Office Hours 9 to 12 a. m. 1 to 4 p. m. 
 
 HOTEL MORRIS 
 
 ADVICE FREE 
 
 TERMS CASH 
 
 La Fiesta Shoe Shop» 
 
 J. Q. A. CRAWFORD, Shoe Doctor 
 
 REPAIRING NEATLY DONE 
 
 St, Nlcholjis Ave, 
 
 SHodm Springs, Arkansas 
 
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 Farmers 8ank ot Siloam Springs 
 
 With ample capital and an established, profitable and growing 
 business, offers and performs every service for its customers and friends 
 that their business requires and their responsibility and account with 
 us warrents. This bank owns the best banking bouse in this section 
 of the state and has every modern equipment for doing a general bank- 
 ing business. Our correspondents include the strongest and best banks 
 in the country. Our customers include not only the strongest firms in 
 Siloam Springs but also many of the best merchants and farmers in the 
 country for many miles in every direction from Siloam Springs. These 
 are friends of the bank and of its officers who have helped to build 
 up this large and ^prosperous business. We idvite new business. We 
 loan money on short notice with approved security. We pay interest 
 on time deposits. We care for our customers wants first. 
 
 OFFICERS 
 
 T A, MARSHALL, Pres. 
 
 JOE I. WILSON, Vice Pres, 
 
 CONNELLY HARRINGTON, Cashier j BERT RfpARMER, [ Assistants 
 
 
 Jiio. M. Andrews will 
 Insure your Life your 
 Time or your Property 
 
Siloam Springs Luiiiber Go. 
 
 V DEALER IN v 
 
 ALL KINDS OF BUILDING MATERIAL 
 
 Paints, Oils, Turpentine, Brushes, Cement, Lime, Coal and Sand. 
 We handle the Wood Fiber Plaster Cement, the best on the market. 
 We are agents for Sherman- Williams Paints and Varnishes, the best 
 goods manufactured. Let us figure with you, we will save you money. 
 We want your bvsiness and will treat ycu right. 
 
 H. F. KINDERDICK, Prop., 
 
 Siloam Spring, Ai A) Arkansas 
 
 J AS. L. McCOY, 
 
 DEALER ll\ 
 
 Lumber, Sash and Doors 
 
 There are two reasons why we sell more lumber 
 than any other company in Siloam Springs; 
 
 first; 
 
 We make our lumber and thus save the middleman's profit 
 
 Second: 
 
 We handle only first-class material. The yard is just west of 
 the K. C. S. depot. Come and see us and be convinced. 
 
 W, H, WHEATON. Manager 
 
Twin Springs Barber Shop 
 
 As you read in this booklet about the 
 fine fruit, the generous people, the pure 
 water, please remember there is a Bar- 
 ber shop just above the Twin Springs 
 where shaving and hair cutting is done 
 right. When you come to visit our city 
 drop in and see us : : : : : ; 
 
 F. CCUSICK ;^ rC :X :X Proprietor 
 
 ~ T. CHAPMAN. 
 
 ATTTORNEY AT LAW 
 
 Attends all courts, both State and fedral. All business promptly 
 attended to. Office , first block north of Twin Springs. 
 
 SILOAM SPRINGS -:- -;- -:- -:- ARKANSAS 
 
 CHAS. COOLEY. 
 FIRE INSURANCE 
 
 Aetna, Hartford, Connetticut Atlas, Agricul- 
 tural, United State, Sun, Southern, German, 
 London and Lancasshore 
 
THE COMMERCIAL HOTEL 
 
 MRS. M K, HADAWAY, Proprietress, 
 
 UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT 
 FIRST- CLASS THROUGHOUT 
 
 Rates $100 Per Day 
 Near the Famous Twin Springs 
 
 SILOAM SPRINGS - ARKANSAS 
 
 THE HADWAY ^ 
 
 LIVERY. FEED AND SALE DARN 
 
 The best turnouts in the city. Commercial 
 service a specialty. Call on us when you 
 visit the city, 
 
 R^a^tes R^easonable 
 F. M, HADAWAY, Proprietor 
 
 'PHONE 20 
 Siloam Springs Arkansa.s 
 
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