Emmett, Arkansas 1885

This article was printed in the March 17, 1885 issue of The Nevada County Picayune.
(See Map I for the location of Emmet)

     As we are awakened with the song of the spring birds, and the rising of a bright sun, and
looking upon our farms, where our means for support of life rests, and beholding the bright
prospects before us for good crops of all kinds of grain, fruits, and vegetables and the promise of
a brighter administration before us, gives us great encouragement, and infuses new life into our
people.  They once more feel like they are in luck, because the "dark" clouds that have so long
overshadowed them are passing away.  Now let us go to work to build up our county by setting
forth, and exhibiting all the inducements we can, to get the tide of immigration to come and cast
their lots here and settle among us, and help us to open out farms where now is the forest, just
like it was when the Indians left it.

     Here we have the best of lands, the purest waters, the bluest skies, and the fairest babies
that can be found on the Western Hemisphere.  Come here, weary home seekers, why longer
remain?  Good lands, black and sandy lands, raises all you can eat and wear, and you can market
the surplus at home.  Good schools and churches are all over our land.  Society second to none no
where.  Our people are clever, hospitable, and generous, honest and accomodating.  Come while
there is room.  Come to our garden spot, and look, before going into waterless and timberless
regions of a bleak and dreary northwest.  We want farmers and millers by the car load.  For the
present, we have an unlimited supply of newspapers and book agents and a sufficient number of
chromo office seekers to supply the demand of all west of the Mississippi River, plenty of lawyers
and doctors to do the professional business for half a century.  More labor and less businessmen is
what the country needs, laboring men to develop resources of this vast area of the country, and as
the Legislature did not give away quite all of our land, we have several hundred acres of state
lands, which can be bought from the state, and can be made into good farms if but some settler
would enter it up. 

     The Hon. Thos. C. McRae is in the lead for Congress here, though some favor Judge
Bearden, yet if Mr. McRae be nominated, he will command the full strength of the party.   So
hurrah for Cleveland, Hendricks, McRae,and Reform, four of the best men living.   (Signed by J.
W. N.)