Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-08-08
TODAYS GRAPHIC.

THE GRAPHIC today presents I
public with its Special Edition, CO.
sistine of three parts and u page
setting forth in a summary mannt
the resources, advantages, indu
tries and business enterprises
Pine Bluff and Jefferson county
This special edition does no
partake of the elaboratenes
required Of Trade Edition, but il
its three parts will be found a re-
sumo of the city and county, thei
industries, business interests an,
enterprises, and the opportunities
and advantages they jointly effer thu
homeseekers and capitalists for de
sirable homes and profitable invest
ments. IN its columns are also pre-
sented the "men who are making
Pine Bluff and Jefferson county, -
men who in the battle of life have
fought SO successfully for their in
dividual interests, and whose efforts
in their own behalf have also re-
bounded to the general welfare and
apbuilding Of the community in
general. Counties. cities and com
munities, after all, are only what
the individuals composing the com
munity make it, and it is by their
combined successes that the gen
eral prosperity thereof is measured.
Applying this test, the people of
Pine Bluff and Jefferson county are
as thrifty, prosperous and happy as
any people on the face of the globe.
We have neither extreme wealth
nor poverty in this county ;ueither
millionaires nor paupers, but all of
our people, from the humblest to
the highest, are at least well-to do
and the very poorest enjoy the or
binary comforts of life, incident to
our modern high degree of eiviliza-
ton. Take any similar area under
the face Of the shining sun, and we
believe we can assert it as an in
controvertible fact, that no people
enjoy greater general prosperity
and chat no people enjoy greater
and more equitable distribution of
all elements that combine to make
life comfortable and happy, than do
the people of Jefferson county
Blessed with a genial and salub-
rious climate eight months out of
the year, with fields as fertile as
the famed valleys of the Nile: with
a soil and climate that produces all
the products of the temperate zone;
with fields white with cotton or
ripe with golden corn; with green
meadows and pleasing savannas:
with vineyards green with the vine
and orchards yellow with the mel
tow peach or apple; with rivers or
streams winding their wormicular
way through green valleys redolent
with the fragrance of the rose; with
forests of tall pine and cypress from
whose shade the hooking bird sings
his glad songs during the day and
whose bowers sing a sad requiem to
the skies by night, blessed with
all these, rich gifts of nature, soil
and climate, who could want or ask
more?
The Almighty has poured out the
e@rnueopia of plenty aud abundance
upen this people-His children--sons
and daughters of Arkansas, and as
a whole they are as happy, prosper
,ous and contented as the inhabi-
tants of any part of this terrestrial
sphere.
The GRAPHIC, in a modest and un-
pretentious way, has endeavored in
these columns to point out the rich
gifts of nature, the natural re
sources, and the achievements of
men who have ayailed themselves of
their opportunities in this section
of the great State Of Arkansas.
In the great work and haste nee
essary to the issuance of such an
edition as this, it is but natural
shat errors should have crept there
dn, but such as they are-if any
there be-will be found of an unim-
.portant and insignificant nature as
compared with the whole of the
work.