WILL SPEND MILLIONS
ON KEYSTONE DITCHES
Mississippi, Craighead and Poin
sett Counties Included.
Drainage on a colossal scale is
to be undertaken in the Keystone
Drainage District of Arkansas in
which 280,000 acres of land in
Poinsett, Craighead and Missis
sippi counties is to be reclaimed.
Plans for the system of 300
miles of canals, which will con
stitute the second largest drain
age system in the United States,
is being prepared by the Morgan
Engineering Company of Mem
phis. They will be filed with the
commissioners of the drainage
district at Blytheville, Ark., with
in 30 days.
Cost of improvement likely
will run into the millions.
Located in extreme Northeast
Arkansas, the Keystone District
is immediately south of the Little
River District in Missouri, the
largest drainage system in the
United States. Though part of
the water from the Little River
District is carried into the Missis
sippi River, a large portion of it
flows south into Arkansas
through Little River.
This very fact almost necessi
tates action on the part of resi
dents of Mississippi, Craighead
and Poinsett counties, as a mat
ter of self-protection from the
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water dumped on them by the
Missouri district.
WILL RECLAIM LARGE AREA.
An enormous fertile area of
l^nd between the St. Francis and
Little rivers, east of Big Lake,
will be opened up by this drain
age project. In recent months
tremendous demands have been
experienced for lands in North
east Arkansas, and such is the
condition that little doubt is felt
that the drained lands will be
cleared up and converted into
profitable farms as they become
fit for cultivation.
In addition to construction of
more than 300 miles of canals
and ditches, plans for the district
| contemplate utilization of exist
! ing channels of Little River and
1 Right Hand Chute, as far as
1 possible. In order to do this to
* the best advantage, it will be
' necessary to divert part of the
.flow of Little River into Right
i Hand Chute and part into the
outlet channel of Drainage Dis
trict No. 9, of Mississippi County.
| Approximately 30,000,000 cubic
yards of dirt will have to be
moved in digging the ditches and
constructing the levees planned
for the district. Floating dipper
dredges and hydraulic dredges
both will be needed on the pro
ject.—Commercial Appeal.
1 Mayor Barber spent Sunday in
Memphis.
Picture frames, glass and
moulding at H. T. Raney’s.
Mr. Harry Musgrove returned
Wednesday from Memphis.
Cashier H. W. Jernigan was a
Little Rock visitor Monday.
“Uncle” Davy Taylor, an old
negro citizen died Wednesday.
Mr. H. Arnof was in Little
| Rock Tuesday and Wednesday.
Miss Ruth Hailey went to
Memphis Monday to visit friends.
j Just received, a new line of(
picture moulding. H. T. Raney.!
Mr. T. C. Bull spent the first |
of the week in Brinkley on busi
ness.
Shipment of new picture mould
ing just received. H. T. Raney,
undertaker.
The biggest and best line of
cigars and box candies at The
Smoke House. Adv.
We are glad to state the fact
that Grand-mother Patterson is
greatly improved.
Mrs. Claude Crail and baby of
Bald Knob were guests of Mrs.
Winnie Crail last Friday and
Saturday.
Have H. T. Raney frame that
picture vou like so well in some
of the new moulding which he
has just received.
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Mr. Hansford Rhodes has ac
cepted a position as clerk with
the Iron Mountain Ry.
Mr. C. Blair, pumper for the
Cotton Belt Ry. Co. at Fair Oaks,
was here on business Wednesday.
We are glad to note that Esq,
L. B. Winfree is improving after
a week’s severe illness.
Messrs Elmo Marsh and Pete
James motored to Newport Sun
day in the former’s Ford.
Telephone Unpreparedness
WAIT a minute, Central, I’ll get the
number.” That means delay which,
when it occurs often, will slow up the
whole service.
To avoid such delays, the telephone user should
always look up the number wanted before taking
the receiver from the hook.
By this sort of telephone preparedness the tele
phone user gets quicker connections, the switcn
board operator’s work is lightened and good tele
phone service is greatly facilitated.
Every Bell Telephone ia a Long Distance Station
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company