The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-08-22


reason for congratulati0n in that the
south is taking part in the forward
movement of the national prosperity
and will share in the benefits prom.
ised in the profits of farmers and
cattle rasers
The drawbacks to which the south
has been subjected seem destined to
become of added advantage to it. The
years in which it lay fallow from the
industrial standpoint did not DESTROY
any of its immense natural resources
for manufacturing, nor did they in
Jure materially its natural oapabiii-
ties. On the other hand. it gave il
the benefit Of experience of other
parts of the country in many lines.
and the opportunity. when energies
were renewed, to start fresh with the
modern and best machinery.
Some of the results appear in the
textile industry. some in the econom-
ical handling of mineral deposits and
some in the widespread interest in
scientific numbering from Tennessee
to Texas
Typical of some other portions OF
the south is Arkansas. The state has
already shown what it can do in agri-
culture and horticulture, and its min
eral properties, especially lead and
zinc, have attracted practical atten-
ton during the past year. Special
correspondence of the Manufacturers
Record, dealing with the development
which is general throughout the state.
says:
1T is exceedingly well for the coun-
try at large that Arkansas has been
a trif1e backward. for now her mag
nificent forests of hardwood and
pine will not be ruthlessly wasted, as
were those of Indiana and Ohio. to
make clearing for patch of corn
Giant oaks will not be felled, rolled
into vast heaps and burned to get
them out of the way and oak and
hickory and walnut trees will not be
split up into rails for fences.
The hardwoods of Arkansas form
timber left standing in the United
States, because the settler has largely
gone by on the other side and now,
when the people have learned to un-
derstand that one big tree may be
worth more than the price Of a small
farm. the wooded wealth Of Arkansas
will be used in a way TO benefit the
whole people as we'll as the owner.
While large portion of the tim
Der being cut goes out of the state to
be worked up, yet industries are in
creasing which turn out the finished
eral factories in Little Rock. as well
as in other cities out of the state,
which sell their entire output in one
city of the north-St. Louis taking all
the doors, sash and blinds, yellow
pine and cypress, made by one Little
Rock factory and a handle factory
also marketing its entire output in
st. Louis as we'll.
The furniture industry is grow
ing, and it is regarded as inevitable
that some day there will be one or
more southern centers of furniture
making, and that wagons and car
riages will be made in the state in
stead of in places where there is no
raw material"
Slate quarrying, brickmaking and
development of deposits of phosphates,
asphaltum and bauXite are also occu-
pying the interests of investors. These
changes have come about with the
construction of railroads. and will be
accelerated by one of the latest ex-
tensions of the Missouri Pacific, that
proposed between Mariana. Ark. and
Trippe Junction, with portions of ex.
isting lines giving direct route to the
Missouri Pacific from Memphis to
New Orleans, and running through
some of the best and richest soil with
virgin timber in parts of Arkansas
and Louisiana.