The Springdale news., 1898-08-19

THE geographical location of North
 west Arkansas is such as to secure to it a climate the most equable agreeable, healthy and desirable of any perhaps on the continent of America The undulat- ing surface of the country serve To pro tect us from blZZards that sweep the nn- protected prairics of the North and West, while the hlgh altitude guards us aEalnSt the heat and malaria of other reglonS T he mercury seldom reaches zero m winter and remains there but short tine while % degrees is phenomenillv hot in summer The cool breezes from the South produce q temperature so low comparatively that sunstroke ls un- known. The summers, th"ngh long, are are cool The rainfall is always sufficient to produce good crops. total failure m crops has never been known here We have railroad connection with the out side world, being within q few hours ride q: st. Louis. Kansas City, Chicago, Gal weston and Little Rock, and are thus af- fordcd d ready market Tor inc prodnctS ot our country.
 The country as a whole is ali right; its resources are boundlcss, it's possibilities and capa bilites beyond estimate. Its greatest need is ap increased popuation, an influx of honest, sober, industrious immiprantS-at least ten families to oc- 
 such people no country on earth can of fer better Inducements: Il more generous soll. more certain return for the labor and money expended: better educa tional 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 975 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 any other parv 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 ear loads of strawberries last season. each ear netting from S6tN to $500. We have tributary to this town about 1000 acres of strawb ries which net our growers from $50 to S75 per acre, while some get 500 to SI0O per acre. Raspberrics. black and red early harvest black berries. Goose berries, and, in fact, all kinds of berries do equally as well. There been shipped from Springdale last season between 400 and 900 car loads of green apples, each car containing from l5O to lS0 barrels of 3 bushels each, bringing the grower from LOO to S2. % per barrel; also about 30 to 5 cars of cvaporated 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 it's home in this sec tion. as they bring unnaturally large crops and never fail, the size and flavor being excellent,
 The peach crop here last year the greatest ever known, and will do much toward making the peach one of the fa yorite fruits for this section in the fu ture. The peach shipments from this section for last season from the lst If 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 nnmer- onS, and no orchard looks prettier than a peach orchard when the fruit is iLst of the right tint of red and yellow for ship ping. Last season Arkansas and New Ier- Sey shipped more peaches than any other two States in the Union, each shipping 3,00O 900 balf- bushel baskets
 Here are few reasons why this is q natural fruit growing region: There are conditions which are an absolute necess- ty to fruit growing, and one of the .rnost important is altitude. Altitude deter mines atmospheric conditions. In the at mosphere of the south slope of the Ozarks much ozone is known to exist, and 1t 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 De 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, arbonates of potash soda, lime and magnesa, with small quantities of oxide of iron and man ganese and alkaline chlorides That which is received from the atmos phere is denomlnated gases, and 1t consists prin- clpally Of oxygene or ozone, nitrogen and
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