Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-05
FrOIH Vh6 Nagt OI NOntlcel The State of Arkansas.

There are many people in the Carolinas, Geor- gia, Mississippi, Tennessee, and in fact in all that broad region of country lying between the Atlantic ocean and the Mississippi river, who have concluded to remove their lots further west, in newer states and in more sparsev popu- lated regions, where competition in commerce, agriculture and the mechanic arts is less lnteUse than in the older states in which they reside at present. The attention of such persons we would respectfully and earnestly call the state ment of facts following in this article. The state of Arkansas, having been admitted iuto the Uninn in the year 1856, is only twenty two years old-one of the youngest states h our re- publican confeleracy, yet in all that constitutes proud and prosperous commonwealth, justi- flying the complimentary assertion that she is one of the most radiant of the thirty-two with celestial symbols on the emblazoned banner of the Union. Her area, including territory cov- cred by rivers lakes and irreclamable swamps (and we are indebted to the Little Rock True Democrat for the informatton) is at least 35,- GOO square miles-excluding such territory, 52.198 square miles, or 33 406, 72O acres of land, equal to any similar scope of soil in any Of the cirGumjaGen states in arabiity and pro ductiveness. Agriculture, the noblest pursuit that ever engaged the mental and physical en- ergies eff man, will here find broad fields of the richest loam in the great west, and ere long, the wilderness spots of Arkansas, reclaimed, with glebe uptorn by the blow and "tckled by the hoe will laugh with harvest" It is a fact known by every observant resident of the state, that such of the swamps as are reclaima- ble (and large portion of them are) when pro- perly ditched and drained, turn cut the most productive and lasting grounds in the state; while the high grounds are fully equal to the cotton lands of Tennessee. Mississippi, Georgia, or South Carolina Eastern Arkansas, as has been fully and fairly tested within the last three seasons, in Mississippi, Philips, St. Fran cls, Monroe and other counties in that sec- tion, is equal to the best portions of Indiana or Kentucky for the production of cereals, such as corn, wheat oats. and even fer tobacco, equal to southern Kentucky and western Tennessee. It is due to truth to say, that no great amount of small grain has yet been planted in any part of the state, but sufficient quantity has been raised to prove the capacity of the eastern section. The south western part of Arkansas is almost equal to the celebrated blue grass region of Ken lucky or the Hooking and Muskingam valleys, of Ohio, for the raising of stock. We are cre- dibly informed that much attention is now to be turned in that part, to the raising of cattle, for breeders find purchashers at their very doors for all they can raise. Arkansas cattle have found their way to the beef markets of cities on the southern sea and gulf coasts. and even to marts in California on the Pacific shore.
 Immigrants who would thrive, and obtain an adequate and sure reward for their labors, can- not in our opinion, find more favored OF moro pleasant spot for the successful conduct of en- terprise, agricultural, mechanical or professional, or for an agreeable residence, than the young and prosperous state of Arkansas state but twenty-two years in the UnioD-having already within the borders of fifty -four counties, po- pulaton, on the first day of January, 1858, of 244,3lO white people and 8l, 119 negroes-cul- tlvating, in 1857. BIT ,68O acres in cotton, ga- thering 172.692 bales: planting 970,254 acres in grain. gathering 16, $40, 952 bushels of wheat and 2O35,73O bushels of oats; young state whose geological resources, though undoub- tedly great, have never been surveved,- with debt whose principal is only $6l6, 900, and that remaining undue for more than nine years!
 No other state in the Union, of similar age, has developed greater wealth of natural resour- ces in so short time, or has fairer record than that laid down in the recent message of Elias N. Conway, Governor of Arkansas, from which able document we took the figures in tho prece dingparagraph.
 According to the most reliable information l.287, ,934 acres were cultivated iu 1857, little more than one-thrtieth of the superficial area of the state. Let us calculate. Use of slate and pencil for moment will convince any one thatethe 1,283, ,934 acres now in state of til- lage. if planted in cotton, would produce as least bale to the acre, and the whole crop in seasons when the demand is equal to that of the present would bring the handsome sum of $63, ,1O8, ,766. If the tillage of a little moro than one thirtieth of the soil of the state would produce so much cotton and bring so much mo. ney in her infancy what will be the product of her 52,l96 square miles of fertile plantations when she shall have attained the gaint ProPof- sou of full growth and maturity