Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-01-13
ADVANTAGES OF ARKANSAS.
Home Seekers, Come to the sunny Chimes of Our State Where You Can Be
 Happy.

There are always conditions in he life of communities, especially when States are regarded as communities, which invites attention for adyersity er prosperity. We want to place Arkansas strictly on this standard. We want to place her on the pros peritY column. On this column we claim the following for her:
 More allHvial lands than any other State
 More valuable Yellow Pine area than any other State.
 More cotton lands, adjusted by nature for cotton culture, than any other equal territory on the face Of the earth.
 Better natural locations for cotton mills in cotton fields, than any coun- try in the world.
 The finest lands for the growth of hay to be found under the sun.
 The best natural cattle pasturage that has yet been found.
 l itG LiOSC tIuttOic ilpCl b1ult which can be found between the two extreme zones.
 The finest soil and climate for the production and fruitage of apples the world ever saw, apples which have taken first premiums wherever exhibited.
 Crops of peaches not surpassed anywhere in the United States.
 Garden vegetables coming from the garden every month in the year
 Strawberries, raspberries and cul- tivated blackberries, in the greatest abundance with thecheapest culture.
 The finest cattle, on the shortest feed, the world ever saw.
 The very essence of health among all her people.
 A country prosperity unknown ill any Northern latitude.
 A country prosperity keeping pace with city prosperity.
 The fincsG free or common school system. for both black and white. the world ever saw.
 As good general and local govern ment to be found anywhere
 Churches of all denominations in easy reach of worshipcrs.
 A soil rarely found in the world.
 Water at a depth of not more than thirty feet eqi al to the springs of the Allegliany or Rocky mountains.
 A natural poultry yard
 A place where hogs have no cholera and sheep do not bear the afilietions of the rot, or kindred diseases. which usually atfiict them elsewhere.
 We can have u garden all the year containing the incest variety of vege- tables. Our Statc is the ono in which sweet vioets and the magnolia flourish and laden tue balmy air with l the sweetest fragrance.
 This is not half, but space will not admit of enumerating more of our natural and acquired advantages. 1 But, we started out to say that while we know these to be facts, the world does not Wewant the world | to know it. We want the people in l frozen Dakotah and blizzard stricken Nebraska Co know it. We want all men seeking comfortable homes. where they can live and prosper with but little labor to know it. The l resources 0f our magnificent State arc not properly advertised abroad. \ few thousand dollars expended in this manner would bring thousands upon thousands of the very best class of immigrants into our borders. Note the wonderful growth of Ark ansas county, due almost entirely to the enterprise of three or four citi- zens The work just begun by Judge Bocage and Father Lacey, in the management of the Jefferson county Exposition. is q move in in the right direction, and they should beassisted more liberalsy with funds hy the county.
 The General Assembly will also do well to make an appropriation fol the purpose of advertising Arkansas. Now it the time to do this, and We would soon have an era of unpre- nn otl trtf1 |, sa ,.J