The Huttig news., 1911-07-29
VIEW EASTERN ARKANSAS.
Arkansas Press Association Complete Most
 Successful Annual Excursion Last Week.

The third annual See Arkansas First" tour of Arkansas Press As sociation which left Little Rock at z:50 Tuesday morning, July 19 and returned Sunday morning. July 25, was by far the most attractive yet taken within the borders of our grand state. On the trip the edit ors saw growing rice that is not equalled in Louisiana or Texas; corn that cannot be exeelled in Illinois, Iowa or Nebraska; cotton that is as fine as that grown in the Mississippi delta country; peacl S that rival those of Georgia and hay crops that compete with those of Colorado. Kansas and Oklahoma. We might also insert just here that if the present prospects for a bumper crop of everything we raise in Arkansas continues until harv- est time that there will be more Wall Street dollars find their way into our state than ever before in a single year.
 The peculiar feature of all this too, is the fact that much of the land on which these magnificent crops are being raised this year could have been purchased ten years ago at from $l to $1O per acre while now it is selling at from $1O to $1OO per acre. The men who had the foresight to realize what was destined for the eastern part of the state have made for tunes on farm property and city real estate in the large number of growing towns which the party visited and were given one ovation after another. each community try ing to out rival the other in their hospitality.
 The excursionists passed through nineteen counties on the trip and visited the county seat of twelve of them where they were accorded the best of treatment and shown every courtesy that could be grant ed. At Lonoke and Carlisle they were shown through the rice mills. creameries and the big milk con- denSing establishment; at Hagen they were shown the electric pumping plants by which the rice fields in that locality are watered; at DeVall's Bluff they were shown through the large button factory and the largest boat oar factory in the world at Brinkley, Forest City and Mariana they were shown over the town and the various manufacturing industries they had in operation in each; at Helena they were entertained at the Country Club and Beech Crest Park, both as fine as can be found in the country; at McGehee they were shown over the town and at Arkansas City the big drainage ca nal which reclaimed one hundred and twenty thousand acres of the richest land in the state; at Lake Village they were given a fourteen mile boat ride On Lake Chieot, the most beautiful lake in the South. and fish fry: at Crossett a ban quet and shown one of the most modern mill towns in the South: at Hamburg they were shown over the city and it's industries; at Mon ticello over the city of beautiful  homes, as it is properly called, through the only cotton mill west of the Mississippi river, through the Baptist Orphanage and the Fourth District Agricultural School; at Warren they were shown three large saw mills which ship more yellow pine lumber than from any one point in the world; at For dyce a reception and drive over the city and at Hot Springs the freedom of the city and a banquet.
 In this part of the state the country is improving very rapidly in the way of agricultural develop oaon. htit the raople If the prO