Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-05-31

a person by one days journey may go from the heat of summer, and en- joy the cool, refreshming mountain breezes. No other state in the union has as many mineral springs as has Arkansas. Her climate is the same as that of Los Angeles.
 Our state is noted for She richness of it's soil and the many varieties of it's products. It has "a greater variety of soils and grows greater variety of products than any other state. She has strip of land on her eastern border that will if properly drained, rival the valley of the Nile in it's fertility. Just this small strip of land alone is capable of producing enough to support millions of people. Also Arkansas has the name of growing al most all kinds of products known to man and growing them successfully. You could build wall around Ar kansas thus shutting her off from the outside world, and she could get along just the same, and would live like an empire. No other state or no other country even can boast of being able to do this. Arkansas is on the
 
 Garden of Eden and may we'll be designated the Garden Spot of Amer ica."
 Arkansas products have taken prizes every time they have been exs hibited. Her apples have always secured first premium at the world s fair expositions. The King of Eng land demands them for his special use on account of their fine flavor. We also have some of the finest and the largest peach orchards in the world. there being some that haven't failed in the life of a man. The rice produced in this state is superior in quality, and a greater yield per acre is produced than in any other state Arkansas ranks fifth as a cotton pro- ducing state, and produces the finest staple grown. She has the largest cotton plantation in the world. She also ranks high in the production of many other products. With these ad- vantages, what can Arkansas do along agricultural lines when she gets the people, and develops her farming land.
 But Arkansas being a great agrcul- tural state, does not say that she is not great in her mineral resources She has seven million acres of va,l,. able minerals. She has coal, silver ! marble, slats. oil stones, and clays l of every description, and she has a l three million dollar capital Euildne | the material of which was gotten from l her own stone quarries. The smoke 1 less coal uSed in the J1nited States l Navy comes from Arkansas. Shc has 1 the finest asphalt and cement bed: in the world, her bauXite mines furn. ish 90 per cent of all the aluminium ir the world, and she has the onl, diamond mine outside of Africa. Sl.t has more pearls than any state ant many of them sell for as much as S1O,0O0 each. Also We have gas well. furnishing some of our cities witt natural gas, and geological reports state that We have vast are whicI will produce oil.
 | Arkansas also has great amour of wealth in her timber lands. On,y the strate surpass Arkansas in tlit | total number of feet of lumber pro l duced annually, and she has tn, largest hardwood forests in lh world. She has almost all species o timber that is of commercial import aace. She has the largest saw mil in the world.
 I Arkans has vast amount of wate power if it was only put to use. I it were only harnessed, she has wate Il power enough to furnish electr!cit,