Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1878 — Northern Jasper and the State of Arkansas. [ARTICLE]

Northern Jasper and the State of Arkansas.

MnCbaiie* Mt yen, of Wheat field township, writ** trader date of November 17th that th* local errata of that neighborhood ar* barren of special interest to th* geaoral public. Duok shooting, however, was tumble goad. Ira Diekiaesn, es ley. •*ld», had killed aa many a* fowy-on* and forty-tw* mmhrd* in half a day. John Meyer* had killed forty-tw* io half a day Worth* started to Arkaaaaa. Th* latter, •■<l Mr. W. C. Nicholson, es Crew* Point, ■n now ia Arkaasas hunting. In a latter dated -la eamp fifteen mil** from Judsoaia, Arkansas, Norember 10th, 1878," John Meyer* aayr. «<Onr party oensist* of Mr. Nieholson, Myron Clark, a young fellow resident here, and myself. W* wet* out to-day and saw (font deer, wounded two but tailed to get them, a* w* had no dog. Shot three wild tarkey*. 1 never saw finer timl.er in my life—gum, oak and eypreee. Fruit doca well, especially pesebes. Cattle li»* th* year round without feeding; running on the upland* in spring and rum tn or and ia th* cane break* on the bottoms ia winter. Th* anna grow* from six to thirty feet high. Freni twenty te forty bushel* of corn per aero is raised on th* uplands, sad from forty to eighty bushel* per acre <m the bottoms; only on* Walk grown ia a hill. Have act had maah chance to study the society here, and ceWnot express an •pinion of it, haring been in eamp all the time we are not hunting. What people we have met were very clever.