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 river. and continue it through the counties of Greene. Poinsett, Randolph, Lawrence, Jack son Independence, Izard, Fulton, Marion, Scar cv Van Buren, Newton, Carroll, Madison, Ben ton. Washington, and the northern portions of Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and Pope. These counties will constitute the field of his labors for the present. For his report we shall look with the deepest interest.
 This section of our State presents field for the exploration of the Geologist, for richness and variety of mineral and mineral waters, for it's diversity and fertility of soils, unsurpassed, we doubt not by the same extent of country any where else to be found in the United States.
 By the examination of large portion of this tract of country by Prof. Shell, of New Orleans. in the summer of 1851, we were made ac- quainted with many interesting facts. Both gold and silver, he informed us, were found in extensive mines They were found incased in sulphuret of iron; the silver clothed in butter milk ore," or chloride of silver, yielding eighty per cent. Lapis ldzuh, the base of ultra marine, the richest color in the world, and worth in Paris 25O franks per ounce, was discovered in great abundance It has never been found be- fore in the United States.
 The brown hydrous oxide of iron, very rich and of the finest quality, exists in this State, and as for quantity, there are whole mountains of it. Argentiferous lead ore also exists in great belt, extending over the whole State, from north to south, and out west into the Choctaw Nation, Texas and Mexico. Prot Shell supposed that it is the same great vein where, in Mexico, the mines are worked for the silver, the lead being thrown away. Thls mineral yields, we learn from direct analysis, from one to five per cent. Zinc, now esteemed of great value as substitute for lead in the manufacture of paint is also blended with it in the greatest abundance.
 Of the black oxide and carbonate of manga nese there have been discovered whole moun- tains, and there are, in the State, several ex- tensive beds of gipsum, or sulphate of lime. Ia various localities are to be found large beds of roofing slate, of good quality, and some of it equal to the Welsh slate. Immense beds of soap stone have also been discovered.
 In Arkansas there exists the greatest variety of bitumous coal, equal to the Pttsburg coal. Prof. Shell, while he was in Little Rock, had in his possession, number of specimens of anthracite coa of his own collection. It has been doubted whether there was any onthracte coal in Arkansas, but Prof. Shells ex plorations have put to flight all such doubts.
 We have also large and numerous quarries of marble, and beds of mari in abundance. - Potter's clay, and clay for making fire brick also to be found in this State. In fact, we have gold, silver, iron, lead zine, copper, manganese, lapis lazuli, gipsum or suphatc of lime, pot ters clay, marble, mari, slate and coal, in the greatest profuson. There has been discovered also, mountain of emery or cmendam, equal if not superior, to the Russian emery. It is an article scarce and hard to procure, as well as very costly. There is but little in the United States. Its qualities are hard, pure and abso. lutely brilliant. In the Russian emery there are rubies found, and this is of the same com ponents.
 Besides their great mineral wealth. north and west Arkansas have other attractions These regions of the State abound in mineral springs of every variety. For the sick and the afflicted there are healing waters in nearly every county.
 In addition, too, the northern and western portions of the State stand unrivalled in the water power afforded for milling and manufac- turing purposes. For instance, Spring river alone, taking its rise in Fulton county, near the Missouri line, gushing from the earth in a stream which, at its very source, is wide and deep enough to float keel boat, supplies a water-power sufficient to drive as much machi- nery, and as many spindles, as there are in Lowell, as extensive as the manufactories of Lowell are. Spring river, near its source, never freezes, pre- serving, in winter and summer, a uniform temperature. As location for future extensive manufactories, when in the course of events, not long to be put off, it is placed in communication with the commercial world, this stream presents inducements and facilities for the manufacturer almost unlivalled.
 Spring river is but one Q the numerous streams in the region north of the Arkansas river. The tributaries of White, Black, St. Francis and the Arkansas rivers, intersectng and meandering through the rich and fertile lands of the northern and western counties of Arkansas, afford an abundance of water power Indeed, these counties have within their own limits every element of wealth and greatness
 The geological survey now about 10 be com menced under such favorable auspices by a geologist whose fame is world wide and whose integrity and honor are above reproach, will develop the hidden treasures of north and west Arkansas While the rich cotton lands of the south and east are sought after with avidity by the wealthy cotton planter, the north and west rich in low and uplands, will attract both the agriculturist and the manufacturer. A better or a more productive grain-growing and stock raising country does not exist than the northern half of Arkansas. Rich in the quality, quan- tity and variety of its minerals, and in the ex- tent, fertility and productveness of its soils it is destined at an early day, to be densely popu- lated, reticulated with plank and railroads and teaming with wealth. It will be the home of the agricuturst, the horticulturist the stock raiser, the manufacturer, the miner and the rail- road director-all, all classes and professions, will find a lucrative trade and business in her wide and extended limits. The wealthy plea- sure-seeker, from other States, too will here find summer retreat, where pure water and a bracng atmosphere, Gods fairest gifts, are la- wished with an unsparing hand.
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