Fort Smith Ark

Author : Fort Smith
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ISBN 13 : 9781332129119
Total Pages : 34 pages
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Download or read book Fort Smith, Ark written by Fort Smith and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fort Smith, Ark: Its History, Its Commerce, Its Location, Itself Fort Smith struggled along as a frontier trading-post for many years, gaining importance during the Mexican War when many of the troops and Government supplies were sent to the front by this route, being brought up the Arkansas River by boat to Fort Smith. In 1871 the garrison was removed further west to Fort Gibson, but Fort Smith, the town, was then firmly established, and with overland stage routes to the far west, large steamboats plying regularly between Cincinnati, St. Louis, New Orleans and Fort Smith, she continued to grow slowly, until in 1880 the census reports show her to have had 3,000 population. First Railroads. The Little Rock & Fort Smith Railway was the first railroad connection, being completed to Fort Smith in 1876. It was followed soon after by the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway, which gave a decided impetus to Fort Smith trade, and from 1880 to 1884 her population was more than doubled. Meanwhile, the Government having removed its fort and having no further use for the reservation purchased from John Rogers (except that small portion upon which the Federal Court having jurisdiction over the Indian Territory was located, and the jail in which the prisoners were confined), donated this 360 acres of land to the city of Fort Smith for public school purposes. The value of this gift may be appreciated when it is stated that less than half of the land has been sold for over $350,000, and is fairly well covered with handsome residences, public buildings and large factories. This is mentioned as one of the causes leading to the large influx of population which has occurred since 1884, giving Fort Smith in 1893 about 15,000 souls. Other causes which have contributed to the same have been the building of railroads to Paris, Tex., Coflfeyville, Kan., Greenwood, Ark., and Mansfield, Ark.; the opening of the mammoth semi-anthracite coal fields of which Fort Smith is the center; the partial development of a few of the many lines of profitable manufacturing that Fort Smith has peculiar advantages for, and the constantly increasing agricultural population in Western Arkansas and the Indian Territory, which is almost exclusively tributary to the wholesale trade of Fort Smith. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.