The Springdale news., 1898-08-12

THE geographical location of North
 west Arkansas is such as to secure to if climate. the most equabe agreeable, healthy and desira ble of any perhaps on the continent of America The nndulat- inc surface of the country serve to pro tect us from blzzards that sweep the un. protected prairies of the North and West, while the hIgh altitude guards us against the heat and malaria of other regions. The mercury seldom reaches zero III winter and remains there but short time while 95 degrees IS phenomenhiiV hot in summer. The cool breezes from the south produce a temperature so low comparatively that sunstruke IS un- known The summers, though long, are pleasant Ihe nights are invariably cool The rainfall is always sufficient to produce good crops. total failure Tn crops has never been known here. We have railroad connection with the out side world, being within few hours ride ce st. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago Gal weston and Little Rock. and are thus afr fordcd d ready market for the products Ot our country.
 The country as a whole is all right; its resources are boundless its possibilities and capa abilities beyond estimate Its greatest need is an increased population, an influx of honest, sober, industrious immgrants--at least ten families to oc- cupv the place now occupied by one. To such a people no country on earth can of fer better Inducements; a more generous soll a more certain return for the labor and money expended: better educational facilities better society; and greater regard for the laws of God and man.
 WASHINGTON COUNTY.
 The first county South of the North west county of the State, Area 915 square miles. Population about 10000 Elevation 1900 feet, Surface is diversified hy hill, valley and mountain, resembling many of the richer parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. Water is as good as any other par. of the world
 Our soil will produce in satisfactory quantity any crop grown between the sugar plantations Of Louisiana on the south and British America on the North.
 But above and beyond every other con sideration is that of the apple and berry We shipped from this station some thing over 50 car loads of strawberries last season. each car netting from $500 to $500 We have tributary to this town about 1000 acres of straw ber ries, which net our growers from S5O to S15 per acre while some get 500 to SIO0 per acre Raspberries, black and red carly haskest black berries. oSeberries, and, in vt
 
 There was been shipped from Springdae last season between 400 and 300 car loads of green apples each car containing from l50 to lS0 barrels of bushels each bringing the grower from S1.00 to g.. co per barrel; also about 30 to B cars of eyaporated fruit. This is the home of the apple, but the industry is yet in it's infancy The apples from this section took first premium at the Worlds Fair at the New Orleans Exposition, at the Bos- ton Horticultural Fair, Riverside, Cali fornia, at the Atlanta Exposition. and in fact wherever exhibited. The grape seems to have found its home in this sec ton. as they bring unnaturallv large crops and never fail, the size and flavor being excellent,
 The peach crop here last year was the greatest ever known, and will do much toward making the peach one of the fla Norite fruits for this section in the fu- ture The peach shipments from this section for last season from the lst of August to the l2th amounted to about 2S car loads and there has ben put out around this town during the past season about l2,000 peach trees which will soon double or treble the present crop Peach orchards here are getting to be numer- ous, and no orchard looks pretter than a peach orchard when the fruit is i4st of the right tint of red and yellow for ship plHp- Last season AfkdnSdS ana New Jer- sey shipped more peaches than any other two States in the Union, each shipping 5000, GOO half bushel baskets
 Here are few reasons why this is natural fruit growing region: There are conditions which are an absolute necessi- ty to fruit growing, and one of the most important is attitude. Altitude deter mines atmospheric conditions. Tn the at mosphere of the South slope of the Ozarks much ozone is known to exist, and it is one of the active principles that con- tribute to fruit growing. We have, then, Tn this especial section both the soil, and the atmospheric food, without which the best results can never be ob- tained That portion of the plant or tree food which is taken from the soil is called ash, and it consists of phosphates, sulphates, silicates, carbonates of potash. soda, lime and magnesia, with small quantities of oxide of iron and man. ganese and alkaline chorides That which is received from the atmosphere is denomlnated gases and 1t consists prln- cipally of oXygene or ozone, nitrogen and