The Green Forest tribune., 1893-10-12
'RAH FOR ARKANSAS.!
MORE GOOD NEWS CONCERNING OUR GREAT
FRUIT SHOW AT TIE EXPOSITION.
Another Large Shipment Arrives at ihe Fair-The
Press Has Done It's Work Quite Ncbly.

A special from the Worlds Fair to
the Little Rock Democrat, of recent
date, says:
Commissioner Yincenheller re-
turned to the Fair Wednesday morning
just ahead of the car load of apples
which arrived soon after. He is ac-'
companied ky his daughter, Jean, his
son, Ashton, and Mrs. M. Lewis Of
Little Rock. He will stay until Arkan-
sas captures all the prizes. He was
gone three weeks this time and did
splendid work for the State, as shown
by the fact that he visited Green Forest,
Berryville, Eureka Springs, Rogers
Springdale, Prairie Grove, and Van
Buren,, besides attending the fruit fair
at Clarksville, the district fair at Har-
rison, and sending his Deputy to the
Missouri and Arkansas Horticultural
Fair at Mammoth Springs, and at all of
these places he collected the very best
specimens that could be found. A full
car load arrived Wednesday, consisting
of 157 barrels and thirty boxes, of
which fifty-seven barrels and the boxes
contain show fruit and the 100 barrels
are designed to be given away, to prove
that our fruit is unexcelled in flavor as
we'll as in appearance. MI. Vincen-
heller does not remember the number
of varieties, but it is very large. In
one barrel there are forty varieties.
There are twenty-five barrels Of the
famous Mammoth Black Twig, of which
ten barrels were grown by an orchardist
near Fayetteville. Other contributors
were Sam Cole of Crane Hill; w. r,
Wallace, James Baggett, James Mock,
and Frank P. Hall of Prairie Grove;
Capt Kuykendall, Jacob Schlaiai,
Collins, and Norwood of Rhea's Mill.
The pears and peaches will come from
the central and southern portions Of
the State.
Mr.. Vincenheller says he was we'll
received wherever he went, because
the State press had treated him so well
that the people were always ready to
give him any assistance in their power.
4 have only been reaping where the
press has sown,' said he. mo one
could have been better treated by the
newspapers than l have been, and 1t is
to them as much as to any class that
we owe our present position as State
He believes that the future of North
Arkansas is assured, and that is a
bright future. Among the first to con,
gratulate him upon securing the award
on zinc carbonate was the Receiver Of
the Land Office at Garden City, Kas.,
who wrote that he was so we'll i'm
pressed with the prospects of the
country that he has purchased eighty
acres of land there and will 60 to it
about November 1.
1t has been known for some time that
Missouri has been sailing under false
colors and that her best fruits at the
Worlds Fair were grown in Arkansas
orchards. Mr.. Vincenheller has proof
positive of the fact, obtaining his in
formation not only from Arkansas fruit
growers, but from Missouri men as
we'll. 1t is known that representatives
of Missouri secured the best specimens
at the fruit fair held at Mammoth
Springs, getting twenty-seven plates OF
four apples each, representing as many
varieties, which were sent to Chicago
and put in cold storage, and are now
being exhibited as Missouri fruit. And
even during the recent fair at the same
place certain Missouri horticulturists
offered fifty cents apiece for the prize
Gloria Mundis, but they We're told that
$40 each would not get them. for Ar
kansas must have the credit for what
her orchards produce. One thing is
apparent, Missourians know where to
go to secure the best fruit.
F. M. Goar, Vincenheller's assistant,
shipped six boxes from Mammoth
Springs. There were in the lot some
choice Pippins and Gloria Mundis. The
one that took the blue ribbon at the
Mammoth Springs fair is of the latter
variety and weighs twenty-five ounces.
It was grown by I. 0. Wilson on tree
eleven years old. The same tree has
produced forty-ounce apple. The
fruit industry is in its infancy in Fulton
county, but the samples sent bespeak