The Van Buren press., 1895-01-12
Arkansas Items.

In his biennial report from the
Bureau of Mines, Manufactures
and Agriculture, Commissioner
w. G. Vincenheller declares that
never in the history of the State
were there SO many h0me.seekers
from other states i'll one year as
III 1894. Mr.. Vincenheller points
with pride to the advantages
possessed by Arkansas, which be
enumeiates as follows:
/. Arkansas has PIG square
miles of zinc, which has recently
taken the premium at the Worlds
Fair as the best in the world, aud
is more easily mined than any
other yet discovered.
2. Ali around the zinc are 2, 199
square miles Of marble OF the
same quality rs the Tennessee
marble--th- pink and black
marbles being superior to any
known.
3. She has 2,347 square miles OF
Goals, which for some purposes
are superior to most Goals. Ten
years ago We mined 5000 tons;
now We mine 100000 tons.
4. She las extensive antimony
deposits, in the vicinity of these
mari and gypsum deposits.
8. She has the only chalk bluh
in the United States which will
make Portland cement, aud the
gentleman who started the first
Portland cement factory in Europe
pr0nounces ours the best in the
world.
6. She has the only beauxite
deposit there being but two) YET
discovered in the United States
Z. She has extensive deposits
Of kaolin, and about 13 counties
underlaid with clays, rich il
aluminium, and many adapted to
all the purposes of the ceramic
art, HIS also to making fire brick.
s. She has three deposits ol
manganese. each of immense
quantities, and excellent quality
Its area is 1925 square miles.
8. She has several slate
deposits, one recently discovered
bluff being equal to any this side
of Scotland, and Of three colors
black, blue and red.
10. She has q recently dis
covered ledge Of mica.
II. She has magnetic and Other
iron ores scattered throughout the
mountain region of the State, and
the most extensive novaculitt
deposits in the United States, Oh
800 square miles of it, and ofsucf
superior quality that they are
sought for all over the world.
II. She has valuable granite
fblue and gray, and flag and Other
building stone in enormous
quantities scattered over the
greater part of the State, besides
1000 square miles of limestone.
l3. She has natural gas and Goa
oil, but not yet developed.
IA. She has enough shale, out
of which vitrihed brick are made
to pave every city in the United
States. She is paving several
Its quality is unexcelled.
10. She has water power enough
to manufacture all the cotton il
the world, and nearly 1000 miles
of nayigable waters, which will
proper attention by our nationa
Government could be made
navigable the year round.
16. She has timber which, az
estimated by those who know, il
cut and sold, would purchase
every acre of land in Kansas ant
Nebraska ut their assessed values
II. When you have cut off the
timber you leave soil so fertile
and SO adapted to all kinds o
crops grown in the temperate
zone, that according to the census
of 1880 the cash value per acre o
her farm products exceeded tba
of any other state in the Unior
except Louisiana. l have no
consulted the census of 1890, fol
the reason that l know from
personal experience that in thil
respect il is utterly worthless &c
far as the South is concerned.
1S. Her fruits, and especially
her apples, have taken of the frs
premiums in all the great exposi
tions, and all her prize apples are
seedlings, showing that it is hel
soil and climate which product
them.
10. Her cotton, both long ant
short staple, carried off thu
premium at the Worlds Fair over
the whole world.
20. / do not see how hel
climate could be improved in tht
greater portion of the State.
81. She has established ont
church nearly every other day fol
the past 10 years. until she has
one church for every 325 inhabi
tants, and still the good work