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(and numerous exceptions to this rule, however, in ber less than 300 acres each, 1,582; assessed value

which colored men are wealthy and employ white per acre. alluvial lands, exclusive of improvements,

men, the most marked instance being Mr. Wiley i various distances from river anti rail, $15 to $25;

Jones, a colored citizen of Pine Bluff, who is the i wooded or wild alluvial, $1 to $5; uplands in culti-

only colored owner of a street railway in the world, vation, $5 to $10 per acre; wooded or wild up-

and whose aid in public enterprises makes him one lands, $1; all of which may usually be taken as

of the leading factors of the county among both about half of its real value. Acre8 of land taxed,

white ~tndcolored. The peaceable relations of the 466,143; assessed value, $2,478,017; assessed

two races is probably more marked that^ in any value of city property, $1,306,760; total value of

other part of the South, and they an,characterized j city reality, 83,785,377; numher of horses, 2,019
by the feeling that mutual safetv lies in the real i -value, $79,179; number of mules, 3,113--value.

'and industrial education of the colored race, by $106,195; number of cattle, 8,522-value, $55,742;

,themselves and by the co-operation of the white number of sheep, 1,005-value, $1,220; nnmber

people. A marked movement in this direction will ' of hogs, 5,076-value, $0,862; uumber of wagons,

be noticed in the proper place. 1,327-value, $37,001; all other personal prop-

The mineral springs are f hite Snlphnr, Can- erty, 81,027,421; total personal property, $1,373,-

trell's, Lee's and Ginrmnn's. The largest lakes are 110; total real and personal, $5,547,747; county

Noble's, Dick and Horseshoe. tax, 840,898.60; State tax, $21,617.73; total,

The lands am: Bottom, about 363,000 acres; . $&2,516.33; number miles of r a i l l n d in the

upland, 175,000 acres; ci~ltivated,90,000; nuim- county, 1 3 6 St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas, 43

proved land, cultivable, 350,000 acres ; vacant * miles; Little Rock. Missisoippi River & Texas, 47)
national land, 15,000 acres; milwap land, 10,000; miles; Pine Blnff & Swau Lake, 26 miles; the

acres in cotton in 1888, 07,450: number of bales Altheimer branch of the St. Louis, Arkansas &

in 1886, 55,120. Average yields per acre: Seed I Texas Railway, 14t miles; stations on St. Louis,
cotton on bottoms, 1,400 pounds: upland, 800 Arkansas & Texas Railway, 10; stations of Little
pounds; corn on bottoms, 3; bnshels; upland, 16 Rock, Mississippi River & Texas Railway, 17;
bnshels; wheat on bottoms, 30 bushels; upland, stations of Pine Blutf & Swau Lake Railway, 11;
12) bushels; oata on bottoms, 40 bndels: tipland, number miles of navigable river front, 102; land-

20 bushels; y e on bottoms, 40 bushels; npland. ings between Pine Bluff and month of river, 27;
20 bushels; field peas, 50 bushels; sorghnm, 100 landings between Pine Blnff and Little Rock, 18.
gallons; millet on bottoms, I ) tons; timothy, l a There has been increase in nearly all items since
tons; red top, 2 tons; clover, 1%tons; Irish pota- 1887; but, all things considered, the greatest

toes, 50 bushels; sweet potatoes, 1bO bushels; tur- growth has been in the last decade, greater than in
nips, 250 bushels; while water-nirluns,musk-melons rrny other in the career of the county.

and pumpkins are of noted riw. Estimated tim- The county seat has always bee11 on the site of

ber distribution: Pine, n37,iH~,000 feet; satin the <'City rbf Pines," even before the commission-

wood, oak, cypress, cottonwood, ash aud hickory, ers had chosen the site, as directed in the a d of

abont 1,913,205,000 feet; shipment annually, the General Assembly, and named it frnm two
75,000,000 feet lumber and 10,000,000 shingles; natural characteristics-Pine Bluff. The house
of Joseph Bonne was on land between Chestnut and
'mills, about twenty-eight, eqnally distributed on Walnut Streets, now caved into the river, and

the railways in 1887. Estates, total, exclusiveof

railway lands, 1,797; nomborover 2,000 acres each, served as the first court house just ten years after

40; number between 1,000 and 2,0G0 acres each, ' he located there. After that court was held

44; number between 500 and 1,000 acres each, 78; in various rented log houses, but particularly in

number between 300 and 500 acres each, 54; num- one on Bnrraque Street, nnder an oak tree which
-.. was destroyed in the great fire of 1877, and under
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