The Springdale news., 1898-08-05

THE ceorra bhaa loca sion of North
 west Arkansas is such to secure to it climate, the most equable agreed oie' Eaalthv and desira ble of any perhaps on inc continent of America. The undulat- inc surface of the country serve to pro tect us from blizzards that sweep the nn- protected prairies of the North and West, while the hIgh altitude guards ns against the heat and malaria of other regions. The mercury seldom reaches zero Tn winter and remains there bat short time while 9 degrees is phenomenaliy hot in sumner. The cool breezes from the South produce a temperature so low eomparatiyelv that sunStroke IS an known The summers, tbongh long, are pleasant The nights are inyarlab bly cool The rainfall is always sufieIent to produce good crops. total failure lh crops has never been known here. We have railroad connection with the ont side world being within d few honrS ride # St LouiS Kansas City, Chicago, Gal- weston and Little Rock. and are thus af- fordcd ready market for inc products ot our country,
 The country as whole is all right: its resources are boundess. it's possibilities and capa blities beyond estimate It's greatest need is an increased population, an influx of honest, sober, industrious mmi grants-at least ten families to oc- cupy the place now occupied by one, lo such people no country on earth can or fer better inducements: d more generous soll a more certain return for the labor and money expended: better educa tlonal facilities: better society: and q greater regard for the laws of God and man.
 WASHINGTON COUNTY.
 The first county south of the North west county of the State, Area 913 ,hn 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 part 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 stanon some thing over 90 ear loads Of strawberries last season, each car netting from $500 to $500. We have tributary to this town about 1000 acres of strawbel ries> which net our growers from S.,O to S15 per acre, while some get 500 to Sl0O per acre. Raspberries, black and red, carly harvest black berries Goose berries, and. in fact, all kinds of berries do equally as well.
 
 last season between 400 and 300 car loads of green apples each car containing from 150 to iS0 barrels of bushels each, bringing the grower from S1 % to S2. % per barrel; also about 30 to 5 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 EXposihon 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. they bring unnaturally 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 fa- vorite fruits for this section in the flu ture. The peach shipments from this section for last season from the lSt If August to the l2th amounted to about 2s ear loads. and there has b en put out around this town during the past season about l 2 GOO 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 iust of the right tint of red and yellow for ship ping. last season Arkansas and New ,er- 7ey shipped more peaches than any other two states in the Union, each shipping 5, 1000, O0G half bnshel baskets
 Here are few reasons hv this is q natural fruit growing region: There are conditions which are an absolute necessi- ty to fruit growing and one of the most important is altitude. Altitude deter mines atmospheric conditions. In the at- mosphere of the south slope of the OzarIs much ozone is known to exist. and 1t is one of the active principles that con 1,.ih 10 to Fr1it 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 phosplates, suphates, silicates, carbonates 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 atmosphere is denomnated gases and It consists prln- cipally of oXygene or ozone, nitrogen and