The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-11-10
ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT.
The Wonderland.
Globe Democrat.


Arkansas, with her unrivaled pro-
auctions, continues to be the central
attraction at the exposition. The re-
sources of this state are revelation to
almost every one. The great variety
and quality she exhibits have never
peen excelled-particularly her fruits,
which, for size, flavor and color, no
locality in the United States, or the
world, has ever surpassed. She not
only shows the standard apples, pears
and peaches of superior quality, but
is the acknowledged seeding ground of
the United States, and 80 was pro-
nounced at the New Orleans, Boston
and California fruit exhibits. Gold,
silver medals and money premiums
have been given her until it has come
to be understood among fruit exhib-
itors, that when Arkansas enters for a
premium for apples, pears, peaches
and grapes, it is useless for any other
state to contend-and, in some In
stances, she has been refused space to
exhibit against them. The climate,
soil and other conditions combine to
make the introduced fruits Of this
favored region, if anything, superior
to where they had their origin. Ar
kansas now has on exhibit number
of new Seeding apples which fruited
this season for the first time, and they
promise to be better than many of our
highly priced standards.
We have not space to notice the
many horticultural wonders of this
almost undeveloped and unknown land,
as we wish to call attention to her
cereals, grasses, timber and minerals.
OF these she makes a showing wholly
unexpected; and we we are informed
by w. s. Thomas, who is in charge of
the exhibit and who grew and collect
ed many of the specimens, that he
shows nothing which cannot be pro-
duced in quantity and of equal quality.
He claims, Arkansas has more raw
material for manufacture, let 1t be in
the textile fiber line, woods or min
erals, than in the same number OF
square miles on our continent, and
that they are all accessible-though at
the present time they have but little
commercial value; that all farm crops
yield well, both in quantity and quail
ity, and on wild land that can be had
for from nothing (homesteads) to $5 per
acre, according to condition and local
ity.
Arkansas has the advantage of q
mild climate, and it Is not necessary
to feed stoak nine months out of
A 80 nnw1 n<
wood will go as far as three times the
same amount of fuel in Iowa or ILL.,
nois, to say nothing of Montana and
Dakota. The price of wood is as moth
ing compared with what 1t Is in the
prairie states. Outside the towns and
cities in Arkansas, wood for fuel has
almost no value, while the price of
coal does not differ materially from
what 1t is in the states Of the west.
Outdoor labor can be carried on here
ten or eleven months in the year. The
farmer is not compelled to "hibernate"
In enforced idleness Ave or six months
In the year, as he does In the blizzard
stricken regions of the northwest. If
his land In Arkansas is not 80 fertile
as 1t is In the great prairie states, he
does not require half the fuel, half the
clothing or half the provender for his
stock. These advantages, taken in
consideration with cheap lands, GER
tainty in crops and the fact that he
can work outdoors almost the year
round, show how easy 1t Is for an
energetic, Industrious farmer to get
on in the world, as compared with one
who has to contend with long win
tiers, droughts, billiards., high priced
lands, high taxes, etc. Without exag-
geration, Arkansas presents q great
many advantages to the honest and In
dustrious home seeker, whether he
comes from the blizzard stricken re-
gion of the north or the old, worn-out
and dilapidated fields of the older
southern states.--Arkansas Democrat,
The Baxter Springs Nesos, Baxter
Springs, Kansas, under date Of Oct
tober IS, says: at Is astonishing to
see the number ofemigrants In wagons
who pass through here nearly every
day on their way to Arkansas. They
come from Minnesota, Michigan, Wis
consn, Iowa, Nebraska, and many from
western Kansas"
For full and complete information
In regard to railroad lands In the state
OF Arkansas, write Hon. Thos. Essex
or Hon. Thos. M. Gibson, Little Rock,
Ark, and 1t will be furnished free.
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