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1919 - Blytheville
Mississippi County, Arkansas |
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Blytheville, Arkansas
Northern County Seat of Mississippi County
Makes Big Claims and Proves Them
It is the fastest growing town in Arkansas. This is conceded. It has
the brightest future of any town in Arkansas, and this is proven.
It is 20 years old, having grown from 203 people in 1900 to over
8,000 in 1919. The percentage of increase in the first ten years of
its history, according to Uncle Sam's Census, was 1, 174. No other
town in Arkansas or the middle west showed any such percentage of
gain.
The city is emergin from her swaddling clothes in her 20th year with
the most substantial improvements and public utilities which has
characterized her existence.
Plans are approved for a $150,000 courthouse which will grace the
county's property of the Chickaswaba district, the northern section
of the county.
More than five miles of reinforced concrete paving was started in
the early part of the present season, and includes the business
section of the city. Dove-tailing into this is the sanitary sewer
which covers the entire town, while storm sewers cover the paving
district.
Centering in this city are four concrete roads, extending north and
south from state line on the north to county line, and from the
extreme northeastern corner of the state and county, another hard
road leads to Blytheville and on to the Craighead county line.
A main street one and half miles long is improving with the erection
of business houses, modern and of brick in either direction, and the
slogan is Build Blytheville.
The Farmers Bank and Trust Co. have plans for a new home to cost
$100,000, a modern two-story office building in connection. The Bank
of Blytheville has plans for an eight-story bank building and hotel
combined, which will be a monument if the plans are matured.
Enterprising business men have promoted a sweet potato dry house
which will store 150,000 bushels of sweet potatoes, making an
inducement for the nearby farmers to grow potatoes in what is
conceded to be superior soil.
Typhoid fever is almost unknown, and the city has never had an
epidemic worthy of the name. With sanitary sewers and good surface
drainage, its health will improve over the past. The county has in
course of construction huge canals draining every portion of the
land not already reclaimed. This project costs two and half million
dollars and among other things will bring under the plow 40,000
acres of what is known as government land in Big Lake on Little
River which will contain a home on every quarter section.
If the reader is looking for a foothold in a land of plenty, where
each man is the peer of every other, Blytheville extends a hearty
welcome, and invites a visit, or a letter to the Chamber of
Commerce, which will bring a booklet containing more details.
Many of the traveling men register "from the best town in Arkansas,"
and everybody knows he is from Blytheville. The town is not overdone
in any line of business, nor is there a crying demand for anything
except more business houses and residences. There is not an empty of
either within the corporation.
Come to Blytheville after the Centennial or before, and write the
Chamber of Commerce in between. |
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