Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-29
ARKANSAS IS IDEAL
 INVESTMENT PLACE
COMMISSIONER SLOAN PREPARES INTERESTING ARTICLE FOR
 REAL ESTATE MEN.
Money Gan Be Loaned Anywhere In the State or Good Real Estate
 Security at s and 10 Per Cent

Arkansas as place of invest- ment' is the subject of bulletin we- gently prepared by Commissioner oi Mines, Manufactures and Agr culture Clay Sloan. The article was written as material to go in pamplet which is being sent cut all over the United States by number of real estate men of Northeastern Arkansas.
 The article follows and speaks for itself:
 Arkansas is an ideal place for in vestment because of the vast amount of development to be done and which is now being rapidly done in the State. No citizen of the State but what is alive to the advancement of the State. No former effort for the bet termen5 of tue school, agricultural, and other material interests of the State, heretofore made, apLToXimates that being made today in Arkansas along these lines. Money can be loaned anywhere in the State on good real estate security at to 10 per cent, and much is needed and all will be profitably used in drainage, clearing the home building; a-1Will go right back on to the land securing the loan. Money is desired also by ha <rr1a ter draipooa nroiootc for which certificates and bonds binding the lands in the drainage distr, ct will be used. No better security to be found. Money is wanted in the con- struction of 'arger and better school houses, an increasing interest in the building of which is manifested in every section of the State, and the whole property of the school dis trict will be obligated for it's prompt repayment
 While most of the larger oak, hickory and other hardwoods have been cut and consumed, wasted in fact, millions of hardwood in smaller trees and millions of the finest and virtually untouched gum, maple, elm, and soft woods still stand, and money with great prof | to the investor is needed for the consumption of this approximately unbroken forest of tim Der. Bring the money and small woodworking machines that will work the timber into tho finished product such as boxes, laths and excelsior, and find years Of remunerative em- ployment Arkansas wants it's tim Der worked off so that it can develop itself into that stock and farm eoun- try to which it is especially and es- sentialiy adapted. No land in the State so rough but that its fine limestone sCil makes it ideal for fruit, where shipping facilities will make fruits profitable, CT but that it's springs and never-failing rum ming screams and short winters make 1t profitable for grazing and stock raising, where it IS more remote from the railroads. No land in the State so low bu that it may be cheaply drain- ed into tue river along which it lies, and when >wained have fertility that has made famous the Mssiss 'ppi valley. On this land, cotton, corn, rice, me eadows, may be raised in good yields ard at good returns for the investment. Arkansas needs and of fers unusual offortunities and pros perity to the man who will come and put his money and brains and labor into her soil. She needs Doth the man and the money. but when the man cant come, he will find that great returns may be had by sending in his money. Prices are advancing, but there is opportunity all over Ark ansas for investments made now to bring handsome lTofits by selling later. The market has been rapid ly tising one in Arkansas especially fer the lastStsn years ,Bringss your money if you can, but if not, send it for investment in Arkansas.
 CLAY SLOAN,
 Commissioner I