The Mena star., 1899-05-11
ADvERTIsINu-DoEs IT PAY7
An Appeal For All to Join In Helping
 The Immigration Association

Communicated.
 This is a question that everyone is ready to answer Tn the affirmative, and every wide-awake, up-to-date bus mess man openes up a new business with an announcement to the public that he is now ready to serve them, and make it to their interest, etc
 The Polk county Immigration As soclation organized in Mena May lst., proposes by an associated system of advertising to build up Polk county and the city of Mens To bring people here who have experience in growing all kinds of fruit and vegitables, who will buy our cheap lands. and make such industries in time take the place of the timber business, that will sooner or later be a thing of the past. There are no reasons why this in few years should not be known all over the world as the finest fruit country in the United States. An Ideal home spot for rich and poor. No finer climate, purer water or better wood to be found under the sun. No more beautiful country, when the noun tain sides and valleys are all cleared of the snarly oak and thickets, and tine stately pine replaced by an Ar kansas Black or Crawfords Early, and if our whole county was an apple orchard from border to border, we have the best market in the world at our door and that is the state of Texas.
 One important item will save the fruit planters thousands of dollars and that is contract low uniform price on nursery stock with a responsi- ble company, and have them sell to our people. Advertise for people with money and experience, and induce them to start first class nursery at Mena, it is big industry, and after the people realize what they can do, then canning factory, fruit evapo rator and other industries will follow. We can establish Saturday auction stock sales that will be of great bene. fit to farmers The association will make it study and donate valuable time to this end Who are they in Mena that will not say this IS good thing to do? Who will allow his friends and neighbors to work and pay for good thing, and he take no part in it? Who is going to wait for the members of this association to bear all expenses, to advertise this country and improve his business, and enhance the value of his property, and he not help? Don't wait for the secretary and members to spend months in present. ing plain business propositions, sub. scribe for stock at once and lets get to business. Every one in Mena. and in fact many in Polk county who are more or less interested in this good work Business men, property owners, professional men, mechanics and laborers, farmers and mill men all should give this careful consideration and subscribe some stock. United efforts will make this success. If all hold back for few to bear the expense, it will be failure; if all help the in- dividual expense will be very light and where you put in dimes you will pull out dollars. For those who may not take an interest in Polk county no faith in the mining and slate quarries, don't tie strings to those wide awake Austlers who are prospecting for gold. We need such men in Polk county, if you have no good words for such enterprises button up you mouths and don't say word. SECRETARY.