The Sentinel=record., 1912-05-25

Iery county of the state of Arkansas and can truthfuly state the room for future development is so great that it's magnitude is appalling. Our state Is hidden behind veil which when once torn away will appall the world ! by the vastness of our hidden re- sources. A few of the vast resources IS yet undeveloped of which I am going to remind you are the folio " ing:
 Tn the counties of Polk, Montgom- cry, Pike and Garland there are thousands of acres of slate lands whose quarres when opened will SUD- ply the world. During the past year they have been discovered in Saline county vast bodies of glass sand which assays 90 per cent pure silica and with natural gas as now exists through this field we can manufacture I glassware as cheap as they do in any of the glass producing states In Gar land county we have the only quar- ries of whetstone rock known in the world. these however. are being worked.
 Tn the counties of Saline and Pu- lash the largest industry in the state has been developed, being it's beaux- ite lands, out of which practically all the aluminium ware manufactured in this country is being made. The profits reputed to be made out of these mines according to statistics are something like $6,OOO,OOO per year. This company is owned and controlled by Pittsburg capitalists.
 Tn this same county also exists vast bodies of Fuller's earth of the finest grade, but only partially de- veloped. In the state there are vast bodies of kaolin and potters' clay, out of which crockery and earthen ware are manufactured, as yet practically untouched. In north Arkansas we have vast bodies of zinc ore that only need capital to put us in the foremos. zine producing state in the union. In this same region there are vast bod : Ides of marble of all kinds, the guar ries of which have only been started. "The counties of Benton, Washing ton, Crawford, Sebastian and Johnson raise the finest apples in America there being more trees in the first three named counties than in any other counties in the United States The fruit from those counties has foi years taken the first premium at all national and international expositions
 '1n Sevier county there is a noun tain of white chalk and Portland ce- ment whose grade is as good as the best, yet we are shipping in hundreds of cars of Portland cement each year. l In north central Arkansas are the only known semi anthracite coal mines west of the Mississippi river. Tn eastern Arkansas the rice fields are fast being developed, the grade of rice raised Is second to none. our cotton lands produce as fine staple cotton as any other state and great deal better than most states. The farms that are being put in al falfa have proven very fertile which proves concmsiyely that we do not have to import hay, but by half try ing we can produce plenty for our own use and have some left over to ship to other markets. Our lands, both bottom and upland, raise as fine grade of corn and oats and in as great profusion as the best lands If the middle west, which are selling at from $75 to $15O per acre.
 North Arkansas has in the last few years demonstrated beyond a shadow of doubt that we can raise | just as good grade of wheat and rye and other cereals as any state in the union. The grade of our cattle and hogs, in fact all live stock has i'm proved 50 per cent in the past few ly ears, due largely to the influence of the Arkansas State Fair.
 "Right at your door Is the largest peach orchard in the state and one nf aha Iarpesf in inc limited States