The Monticellonian., 1894-12-14
FACTS ABOUT ARKANSAS.
The Biennial Report from the Bureau o

The Biennial Report from the Bureau of Mines, Manufactures and Agriculture by GommissinnerNincenh Many Home seekers-Adsantages Possessed by Arisan- sas.
 The biennial report from the bureau of mines, manufactures and agrieul- ture by Commissioner w. q. Vincen- heller, contains vast deal of informa- ton for homoSookefs and a royoiw of the work accomplished by the bureau since its inauguration.
 The commissioner reports that never in the history of the state were there 20 many h0meseekers from other states V one year as in isg4 The commis- sioncr refers with pride to the advan- tages possessed by Arkansas, which he enumerates:
 Arkansas has PIG square miles of zine, which has recently taken the premium at the Worlds fair as the best in the world, and is more easily mined than any other yet discovered
 All around the zine are 9, ,199 square miles of marble of the same quality as the Tennessee marbles-thc pink and black marbles being superior to any known.
 She has 2,347 square miles of eoals which for some purposes arc superior to most coals. Ten years ago we mined 5.000 tons; now we mine GOO tons.
 She has extensive antimony deposits in the vicinity of these mari and gyp- sum deposits.
 She has the only chalk bluff in the United States which will make Port land cement, and the gentleman who started the first Portland cement fac tory in Europe pronounces ours the best in the world
 She has the only hauxitc deposit there being but two) yet discovered in the United States
 She has extensive deposits of kaolin, and about thirteen counties underaid with elays, rich in aluminium, and many adapted to all the purposes of the ceramic art, as also to making fire brick
 She has three deposits of manganese, each of immense quantities and excel lent quality. It's area is l26 square miles.
 She has several slate deposits; one rceentlY-discovered bluff being equal to any this side of Scotland. and of three colors, black, blue and red
 She has q recently discovered ledge of mica
 She has magnetic, and other iron ores scattered throughout the moun- tain region of the state, and the most extensive novaculite deposits in the | tnited States, or 305 square miles of it, and of such superior quality that they are sought for all over the world
 She has valuable granite, blue and gray, and flag and other building stone in enormous quantities scattered over the greater part of the state besides 7,000 square miles of limestone.
 She has natural gas and coal oil, but not yet developed.
 She has enough shale, out of which vitrifed brick are made, to pave every city in the United States. She is paving several. It's quality is uneXccled.
 She has water power enough to man. ufaeture all the cotton in the world, and nearly 1000 miles of navigable wa ters, which with proper attention by our national government could be made navigable the year round.
 s'he has timber which. as estimated by those who know, if cut and sold. would purchase every acre of land in Kansas and Nebraska at their assessed values
 When you have cut off the timber you leave a soil so fertile, and so adapted to all kinds of crops grown in the temperate zone, that according to the census of 1880 the cash value per acre of her farm products exceeded that of any other state in the Union except Louisiana q have not consulted the census of 1890, for the reason that l know from personal experience that in this respect it is utterly worthless so far as the south is conccrned
 Her fruits, and especially her apples, have taken off ths first premiums in all the great eXpositions, and all her prize apples are seedlings, showing that it is her soil and climate which produce them.
 Her cotton, both long and short staple, carried of the premium at the Worlds fair, over the whole world.
 do not see how her climate could be improved in the greater portion of the state.
 She has established one church near ly every other day for the past ten years, until she has one church for every 325 inhabitants, and still the good work goes on.
 She has one public school to every 291 people, and one college or seminary to every 70, GOO people.
 The average death rate per ,000is | 23 less than that of the United States, and t95 less than that of the northern states, by the census of 1890, and grow ing less as our state develops.
 If we contine the comparison to our hill lands it is believed to be less than in any state in the Union; while our birth rate beats all creation.
 The social condition of Arkansas will compare favorably with that of the best communities in the United States.
 State Ceilings.
 Rogers will be illuminated with elec- trieity.
 The Philadelphia cotton mills are running double time.
 The well for the military post at Little Rock will cost S7 800.
 John Graham. a tramp, was killed by train ar Nettleton.
 Forest res in Arkansas have been checked K Necent rains
 A list of 545 civil cases remain on the trial docket of the Pnlaski circuit