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Dierks
Howard County, Arkansas |
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The Why of a Town
If every little hamlet grew to the proportions desired by its
enthusiastic sponsors, the now remote villages would soon find
themselves in Germany's recent plight - warring for extended
boundaries.
A town, in the first place, has to have a reason for existence - a
fundamental base on which to construct - a logical axis from which
to radiate - or it soon becomes an excursive apology.
And yet there are towns with logical reasons for existence and
unusual advantages and opportunities for growth, whose beginnings
date back to the birth of Arkansas, that were dwarfed through the
petulance and bickerings of their founders.
And again there are towns with no seeming or real excuse for being
that, through the aggrandizing efforts of over- zealous visionaries,
flourish for a season.
But the day of the boom town has about passed. The public has too
often been caught in the meshes of reaction.
This page is to tell of a spot where nature has been generous, and
mankind a comparative stranger; where a thriving little city has
displaced the chaos of densely wooded hills and vales with sparing
effort, in almost magic time.
Town of Dierks, Howard County, in southwest Arkansas, was
incorporated eleven years ago with 250 people, and the federal
census two years later recorded a gain of only 22. The town drifted
along for six more years with only a trifling growth, but the
foundation was being laid, and the light of progress was bursting
out of the woods. In the next three years the town has grown to a
city of 2,500 and has:
A modern electric light and power plant with capacity for supplying
a city of 15,000 people.
A water system, and extensions are being made for ample domestic use
and fire protection.
Graded streets, and an abundance of gravel of highest quality within
the city limits for all improvement purposes.
A forty thousand dollar high school building in course of
construction.
Churches of practically all denominations.
Rich agricultural and fruit lands for twenty miles in every
direction.
A million dollar lumber mill employing 500 men, with timber lands
acquired to insure full operation for twenty years.
Two big highways traversing the county in both directions and
crossing here.
Gained more population and built more homes in the last two years
than any three towns in Arkansas of less than 5,000 population.
A live real estate market.
Elevated location that affords superb drainage.
Ideal health conditions.
Mild climate.
No mosquitoes.
If exigency has brought us thus far, we who have been practically
forced to a realization of our resources, without exaggeration,
proclaim a new town with logical reason for existence - with united,
harmonious and progressive citizenship - with room for expansion
over fertile fields, and opportunity beckons to almost every line of
endeavor.
For more detailed information, write Chamber of Commerce
Dierks, Arkansas |
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Howard County |
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