The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1912-10-17
SLOAN ISSUES
REPORT TO GOV.
MECCA FOR HOMESEEKERS
SAYS ARKANSAS NEEDS PEO-
PIE OF GOOD STANDING, IN
DUSTRY AND THRIFT.
(BY CLIO HARPER. J

Little Rock, Oct. 15.-"Arkansas
needs all the people of good moral
standing, industry and thrift it can
get, to develop its conceded wonderful
natural resources. 1t needs as much
or more capital tina nthe immigrant
brings.
This is an emphatic declaration by
Hon. Clay Sloan, agricultural commits
sioner, in his biennial report to the
governor. And he further asserts that
"Arkansas has within the last five
years become the mecca for many peo-
pie seeking better lands and more rain
fail than is found in the arid west and
better climate than is found in the
crowded and completed east"
The necessity of appealing to this
better class Of immigrants is accentu-
ated by the commissioner, who advises
that the state should undertake a more
thorough system of exploitation. He
recommends the periodical gathering
of agricultural, social and industrial
statistics by the county assessors, to be
taoulated and published, and sent out
- answer to questions from those seek
~ homes in Arkansas.
He also recommends that more sys-
tematic effort be made to collect rep
resentative exhibits for state, district
and county fairs. He recommends
that an exhibit hall be provided on the
first floor of the new capitol, sufficient
ly large to give each county five to 10
feet of wall space and an equal floor
space. Here should be shown a topo-
graphical map of the county, with ex-
hibits of its mineral, agricultural and
industrial products. and supply of
descriptive literature.
II take it" says he, that many more
men would come to Arkansas and in
spect this display with its full, detail
ed information as to each county than
now come when their only plan of in
specting the state is to travel over it.,
visiting the locality that would suit
them best" He thinks that if the
state will furnish the hall, county pride
will make and keep the display.
Commissioner Sloan estimates that
the farmers annually lose a tremend-
Gus amount through the infestation of
the Texas fever tick. 1--WE must drive
the tick out of Arkansas" he said,
land get the whole state north of the
quarantine line. Sections Of the state
that have no tick, if south Of the line,
are harmed to no little degree. When
cattle are shipped to market from
south of the line, even though they
never knew the bite of the tick, they
are counted as tick cattle and sell from
one-haE to one cent less per pound on
that account, an average of about S4
per head. If we were to ship to St.
Louis or Chicago the 100000 head of
cattle now in Arkansas below the quar-
antine line, We would realize $4,000, 900
less for them than if they had been
shipped from any point above the line.
The S2.000,00O would kill every tick
in Arkansas and create some conster-
nation among the chiggers. Ten per
cent of that amount would put US
above the line
you don't have to have the tick
really, and in fact. to be harmed by it.
You only have to be south of the line
You can't sell your cattle while they
are fat on the cheap feed of summer
and fall grasses, they can be shipped
only in late winter, when they are poor,
after the quarantine is raised. Let's
move up above the line, where every
day is a sale day, and We will have
BUYERS for the calf as well as for the
big beef steer.
The L. s. department Of agricul-