FORT SMITH

a city of Arkansas, in Sebastian co., of which it is one of the county seats. It is on the St. Louis and San Francisco, the Arkansas Central, the Midland Valley, the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railroads, and is at the junction of the Arkansas and Poteau rivers. The city is the center of a large wholesale jobbing trade for the surrounding country, and it has large industries including saw and _ planing mills, iron and steel mills, and plants for the making of brooms, stoves, overalls, refrigerators, etc. Within the city limits the river is spanned by four steel bridges. There is a Federal building, post-office, high school, public library, park, hospitals, and a National cemetery. Pop. 1920, 28,811.