The Prescott daily news., 1914-07-25

our state an exhibit unsurpassed by that of any other state or country at the coming worlds fair.
 Tn furtherance of this, let me call attention to some pertinent facts, which need only an allusion to impress upon us their importance to our state and our people:
 At no stage in the worlds history has competition for trade and com merce been more keen than today. The state, like the individual businc ss man, must need meet this competitor by advertisement-by letting the world and it's hundreds of millions of ro0- pie know what it has to offer. The state or country that fails to do this is a party conspirator against the best interests and the prosperity of it's own people.
 The Southern states. by virtue of their strategic location. will be the greatest beneficiaries of the worlds fair. They will be in the very p9th of the human tide that will set in toward the exposition, and by proper advertising at the fair, will be in posi- tion to reap the greatest harvest of investment and enterprising citizen ship after the great fair closes and at the crucial point when the influences at work at the fair will be most ef- fectively felt
 Arkansas lies at the very heart of the great Mississippi Valley and in a key position for unrivaled benefits from the exposition. It has upsur- passed opportunities to offer and ad. vantages to bestow, but the world must be made acquainted with these things. Through a great exhibit at the fair, our people can demonstrate to the world such great industrial facts as these:
 More miles of navigable river than any other state.
 An average rainfall of 90 inches, distributed throughout the year
 That during the past decade Ar kansas farm lands have increased l33 per cent, a standard hardly reached by any other state or country,
 That, according to the greatest corn expert in the world, Arkansas :noula raise more corn to the aci. than Iowa, because of it's favorable seasons.
 That crop failure, through drouth. is practically unknown.
 That Arkansas is the land of dou- ble crops.
 That Arkansas cuts one-twentieth of the entire output Of lumber for the Onite6 States annually, and ranks first in hardwoods, having the great est oak and gum forests in the world.
 That the undeyeloped water-pow- CT of the state, if harnessed. woull drive the wheels of every factory in the state.
 That lands can be bought for one fourth what they will cost in the more northern states, yet will yield as gen. erous havests and under conditions of climate that make farming a dis tinct pleasure.
 That the state produces a grade of
 
 state, supplies the larger part of the commercial aluminium of the world. has rich and ineXhaustible deposits of kaolin from which the finest china is made, has by government test the most powerful steam coal in the world. furnishes zinc, slate, phosphate and other commercial minerals, and has the only diamond mines in America.
 That Northwest Arkansas is the banner fruit belt of the South. and has taken first prizes at nine national and international expositions, and that 90 of the 75 counties of the state are adapted to profitable fruit growing.
 That in Southwest Arkansas is the greatest peach orchard in the world. and that the varieties rival anything produced on the Pacific coast.
 That there are over 300,0 acres of government lands subject to home stead