A Thriving City

Little llocV city is built on a high rolling patean on thosouthside of the Arkansas ri ver. It is the cnpital of the state, and is laiil out in broad avenue and substantially bui t. Most of the state institutions are located liere. also the United States court housa and potoftlce, which is a One buildu, having cost $285,000. There is also a I nited sutes arsenal located in the city. The public buildings are vnlued at $2,0(S,000. i'lie public and private schools are admirnbly conducted and have 8,0(K) pupils enrol'erl. The school luildings are valued at $ 4'ï,955. All religious denominations j are prettv well represented in the churches of the citv. 'hnrch property is valued at j $: 57.OL.0. The benevolent associations ara repre entert by twenty lodces with property va.ued ut $110,000. The merthants' ezchango building was built at a cost of $7.00). Banks capital and surplus, (718,OU0, bonds to Feonre ciroulation, $380,000. I.oans and discounts, $L,67Í.888, individual deposito, 2,8f0,003. Capitaliatiou citv corporations. $ 1,208,000. Tho Lit.tla Foei( oil nnd compresa company is the largo' t i-otton oil mili in the South, and is capitalicd at $ï,()K).00(); and it compressed this season a'out 100 (XX) bale of cotton. The busines? oE this city will .MURi-pgate $!4(XJ;),O0i) for the year 1SS6. i The postofHce business for the voar lï'fi in ! letters and postal cards delivered 1,288,566, j rereivad 1.707,171, stamps sold 8.51S4.6; mouey orders, $1,250,OUD. Newspaper officos in the city 18; valueof printing establishinonts in the city, $M:i,:iü0. Cotton reI c ived lo date, W,0U0 bales. The i opulation oC the city proper is 8 i.OOtl. with about 4,W!0 in Argenta ond the suburbs. Manufacturing is represented by cooparnge conipanios. furniture fncturies, planing mili-, machinery, gin factories, foundries, wagon and other diversiüel i ifs. 'l'he Boathero oil company, is now ; ere ting new milis. Thereare ton miles of l ' street railway in operati-n: seven j miles of water mains and sixteen miles of i ! gas pipes laid in the i-trrets of the city. ! Thore m-e also e'.eitric light, telegraph and telephone OOmpaslea." The eiy ■will soon be paved with pranite, and enjoys tho luxury of beinp free from a heavy debt, its entire indebt.-duess being ÍS5,000, with an as es ed real estnte valué of i"),0!X).üs2; personal property assessment, $3,071,053. There are two flne railroad bridges across the Arkansas river at Little Koek, with a draw spnn of 850 feet. The railroads diverge froin this city in (ivo directions. with several more in courso of constructen, towards the city. Information in regard to Little Rock nnd Arkansas will be cheerfully furni.shed to all app'ioants addiessing tho Little Real Estáte Exchange.