The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-10

merry. The people III the sLaIes naHleO above are devoting themselves heart and soul to the development of the same, and the south, already strong competitor with the north in many lines of industry, will, from year to year, become dangerous rival. Many wide awake men of the north are be- ginning to comprehend this and are moving their establishments to the south. Whether it is the old south or the new south is matter of no conse- quence. One thing is certain, these southern states have a great future, and should be called the Great South.'"
 Any country in order to be pros- porous must contain the materials for manufactories, such as timber, iron, coal, clays, etc. A purely agricultu- ral region never has or ever can be- come prosperous; there are too many producers and too few consumers. An entire or partial failure of crops brings depression, while an abundant harvest makes low prices, in many in- stances less than the cost of produc- tion, so it is seldom that 0 wholly agricultural region has a period of any duration of general prosperity, while in country favored with plenty of raw material, such as Is used in the manufacture of textile goods and all articles into which metals and woods enter largely, there wealth is accumu- lated and enterprise reigns. Arkansas produces every textile fibre used in the arts-has more valuable timber than any other state, with large de- posits of iron, coal and other minerals. She has soil that produces the best cotton grown in the Union, having taken first premiums at all the worlds fairs held in the United States for the last fifteen years, and at the meeting of the American Genealogical Society held at Boston last September, and at the fruit exhibit held at Riverside, Cal, February 7th, Sth and 9th, made the largest display of apples ever shown on the Pacific coast. Every farm crop known to the American husbandman grows here, and as stock country has no superior.
 Arkansas has no booms. She is moving right along improving and increasing in population and wealth every day. She takes no steps back wards. She offers more inducement for the home seeker than any state on the continent, and she will continue to grow in wealth and farms until every acre of land is improved and her many natural resources utilized.
 No northern man need be deterred from coming to the south from fear that its climate is unhealthy. The facts and the testimony of thousands of northern .nen show that in point of healthfulness the south loses noth- ing in comparison with the north. The south is not only better adapted to white labor than black, but 1t is better adapted to white labor than the north is. Our climate is less rigorous in the winter, and it is not so hot in the summer. It is the experience of northern men, now farming in the south, that owing to our cool nights, labor in the south during the summer is less exhaustive than it is in the north. As to the healthfulness ot the south, the figures of the census will show that it compares favorably with that of the north. Thousands of northern men who have immigrated to the south have had no fault to find with 1t on this score. We have many whose health has been restored, and who could not be induced to return to their former homes.