The Springdale news., 1906-05-18

IndU iS HOW GnfeF uOf bI tllE Sbd te. am goiLg / to make you do Same think. ing whoitiS l will just ttve you this pointer: he was the boy yeu and use to mention as being StudiouS. Dot an idIer, and did hot uSa tob4cc0 in any form. Now he sees the fruits of his early life, He iS reaping as he soWed. l found the school building all nicely kept and upon the grounds l see they have many amusementS for the children They all work In har- m6ny and l think a great deal of 1t is due to the school board appointing each month five mothers to visit the schools and eporJ to them l do not see why they did not take up this method in the old days. It would have been much better if they had :. But better late than never.
 My next tour was in the factory district There is where rests in part the foundation of the city. l inspect. ed the new canning, pickling and pre- serving factories, the products from these factories having worldwide reputation. Of course 1 was unusual ly interested in this plant. They have all the latest improved machin- cry, still they give employment to hundred Then came the Ice plant, which had large capacity. l next visited the wool factory You remem- Der we read so much few years back about the wonderful discovery of the manufacture of wool from fliut rock, and It has proven d success. So all the old hint rocks are put to good use. It looks funny t0 See loads If rocks waiting 10 be unloaded before the factory. Of course the cold storage buildings cover acres of ground. and this plant has proved of profit to the stock company as we'll as being of endless value to the fruit growers. counted nineteen other factories so you see l cannot tell you about all of them.
 My next trip was to the country l took an automobile and 0n my way out l noticed the roads were all free from rocks. Since they became of value suppose that became the in- centive to pick them up. Have you forgotten the morning we took the train from Springdale, how We lodged the rocks in the streets near the South Methodist church: It all comes back to me now. Why could they not see them then even if they have no money value? 1 wish now that wool factory had been started twenty years ago. l saw as we footed along the streets, three opera houses, beautiful churches, mostly Greek ar chitecture, and 1 noticed that they all have rooms that they keep open day and night in connection with the church, so the stranger and Outcast know they can always ind place to rest and receive word of advice and brotherly love. The new city hall IS d beauty indeed Sprinedale may well feel proud of it. 1 was about t0 forget to tell you the Chautaugqu still holds forth and is better than ever, so they tell me. It now holds two months sessions so one can attend off and on as they desire. It is d success ln every way, and the city would not think of giving it up.
 When we left the city behind l could not believe my eyes. At first l thought what l beheld Was something of mirage, but upon describing what l saw to the chauffeur he told me my eyes did not deceive me, that what lay before me was verita ble Garden Of Euen Alightlng before beautiful villa l asked an intelligent looking young man who was working on the lawn in front, to give me the secret of all this wonderful agricultural pros- perity. He told me to look about and l would notice that all the farms were divided Into ten and twenty acre tracts. He said that is one Of our secrets. We do not try to cultivate nro ri attention. We all have had our soil chemically analysed, therefore know just what is best suited for us to pro- duce as the sollS vary. There is no danger of over- production, and you know many products grow well Tn the same soil, so we produce great VarltleS. Each man usually turns hlS entire at tention t0 two or three products at most, and he has learned to scientit- callY cultivate and feftilize. and he reaps wonderful results.
 Say, Mary, do you remember pack years ago when they ased to brush in oats hefe3 l am glad tu say it k ln the dim past
 Oh, the orchards. they are certainly dreams of beauty l ind upon inveSu gation that they have new taritieS of fruit that have been produced by Burbanks, and they are peculiarly adapted to the climate. They still nave the apple orchards, but by spray ing ana feeding the trees instead of starving them they bear wonderful crops every year, and they are perfect apples too. l guess the people have awakened to the fact that they can not expect something for nothing, in fact, they now realize what lnteln- gent labor can co. The prices for all fruits are good for there is such demand in Europe for apples. There is no danger of glutting the market. There IS always demand for the best quality and that is only what ths country deals in now.
 They raise as much on one acre of strawberries. raSpberrles and black. berries now as they used t0 on i've. Nearly all these small fruits are con- sumed Tn our own factories for lellies, preserves, etc. Cherries are now a big industry here. You would be surprised at the variety of vegetables that grow here to a perfection and there is good money in them, too. After fooiing about and talking to many, l grew tired and returned to the city.
 l decided l would not have time to