He was a valuable citizen and contributed largely towards the development of the city and county.

The tax rate in Clarksville today is only $1.35. The insurance key rate is $0.33. Building sites, beautifully located, may be obtained at a reasonable cost. The city and county are now served by one newspaper, the semi-weekly Clarksville Times, one of the oldest business institutions of the city of today.

In the early days, Clarksville was the trading center of a vast territory reaching from east to west, a distance of over one hundred and fifty miles, and from north to south, from 80 to 100 miles. Today it is the trading center of more than 35,000 people, the people having today all-weather access to the county seat by reason of well improved roads.

Clarksville has one of the largest pecan cracking plants in northeast Texas and one of the largest sawmills, with a capacity of thousands of feet of lumber per day. It is located close to immense deposits of limestone and clay which offer a strategic location for cement and lime manufacture as well as the manufacture of a fine grade of brick.

The utilities furnish services at a reasonable rate for residential, commercial, and industrial consumers. The City of Clarksville, as heretofore stated, is older than the State of Texas, having been located and chartered the county seat of Red River County or Red River Valley by popular vote in 1835. The City of Clarksville superseded the town of Jonesboro on Red