Arkansas Intelligencer Saturday, September 16, 1848 Van Buren, Arkansas, Crawford County PUBLIC MEETING A public meeting will be held in Van Buren on next Saturday to take into consideration the utlility of a road from this point to California and Oregon. The importance and advantage of such a road are apparent to all who have taken the matter into consideration. The advantages to emigrants from Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri, who desire to make an early start in the spring are immense. The distance from this point is much shorter that the usual one from Independence, and parties can start near a month earlier, the grass being that much ahead in the prairies of Arkansas and Texas. There are many other advantages that can be set forth , by our citizens in their memorial to Congress. Fran Alverson Warren