ARKANSAS. 



murrer to the bill, alleging as grounds, among 

 others, that the present owners of the road are 

 not liable for the payment of the State aid 

 bonds, because they are purchasers without 

 notice ; and that the act of 1868 is void, under 

 which the bonds were issued. 



STATISTICS. The mileage of completed rail- 

 roads in the State at the close of the year 

 was stated as follows: 

 Gauge, four feet eight and a half inches standard. 



St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Rnilroad. .. 

 Little Rock, Mississippi River, and Texas Railway. . 



Little Rock and Fort Smith Railway 



Memphis and Little Eock Railway 



Kansas City, Springfield, and Memphis Railroad . 



St. Louis and San Francisco Railway, about 



Arkansas and Louisiana Railway 



Iron Mountain and Helena Railroad 



Total 1,202* 



"With narrow (or three feet and three feet six 

 inches) gauge, there are the 



Milei. 



Texas and St. Louis Railway 416 



Arkansas and Midland Eailway 50 



Hot Springs Eailroad 25 



Cotton-Plant and Brinkley Railroad 11 



Searcy and West Point Eailroad SI 



More than one fourth of this mileage is 

 owned by the Gould syndicate. It is estimated 

 that between three and four hundred miles ad- 

 ditional will be completed in 1883. The Iron 

 Mountain road enters the State near its north- 

 east corner and passes out at the southwest. 

 From this line the following branches have 

 been projected : the White River Branch, 

 starting two miles north of Newport, and run- 

 ning northwest through the White River Val- 

 ley ; the Memphis Branch, from Newport 

 through Jackson, Cross, and Critteaden Coun- 

 ties ; the Crowley Ridge Branch, to be ex- 

 tended south from Forest Chy, its present ter- 

 minus, to Alexandria, La. ; the Arkansas Val- 

 ley Branch, one hundred and sixty miles long, 

 from Beebe, White County, west to Fort Smith, 

 crossing the Little Rock and Fort Smith road 

 at Con way, Faulkner County; the Louisiana 

 Branch, from Gurdon, Clark County, south- 

 easterly, now in operation to Camden, the 

 principal town of Southeastern Arkansas ; 

 another branch farther to the southwest, from 

 Hope to Magnolia, Columbia County, thirty- 

 five miles, to be extended into Louisiana. 



The following table gives the population of 

 the State by counties and race, according to the 

 census of 1880 : 



Included in the aggregate are 183 Chinese 383,622 white and 137,118 colored. Of per- 



and 195 Indians; 416,279 were males and sons ten years of age and upward, 153,229, or 



386,246 females, 792,175 natives and 10,380 28*8 per cent, were unable to read, and 202,- 



of foreign birth. There were living in the 015, or 38 per cent, were unable to write, of 



United States, 520,740 natives of Arkansas, whom 97,990, or 25'5 per cent of that class, 



