The Little River news., 1916-09-16
PARTY VISITS
 WHITE CLIFFS Trip Thursday Was In Interest Of Cheaper | mestone for the
 Arkansas Farmers.

A party of men interested in i'm proved farming conditions in Arkansas visited White Cliffs Thursday morning and inspected the plant of the White Cliffs Chalk and Marl Company at tha, place. The party from Little RCck was joined by others at Hope and Nashville. They were brought over from the latter place on a Memphis Dallas x Gulf special After visiting the Cliffs the party came to Ashdown and visited the business men. The party included John H. Page, State Commissioner of Mines, Manufacturing and Agriculture; F. B. Lane, owner of the chalk deposits D. C. Welty, agrf- cultural commissioner of the Iro.. Mountain railroad; C. O. Carpenter, assistant commissioner; E J. Bodman, secretary of the Union Trust Com pany, and chairman of the Arkansas Profitable Farming Bureau; B. C. Pow ell of Camden, chairman of the Ark ansas Bankers Association committee On agriculture; J. Y. Foster, president of the White Cliffs Company; C. L. Dew, assistant city editor of the Ark ansas Gazette; Ed McCorkle, editor of the Star cf Hope; N F. O'Neal of the Hope Brick Co.,; Rev. LeRoy, R. IT Etheridge and others
 Agricultural experts have said that much of the soil of Arkansas needs ground limestone as fertilizer Espec ially is it necessary for raising clover and other legumes. In the past, tine price of ground limestone has been prohibitive. Now, however. both the White Cliffs company and the Arkan- sas Limestone Company. which con trols vast deposits of limestone at t2uddells, in the White river country Of northern Arkansas, have promised to make price of a dollar ton pre- vldeG that sufficient demand is as- sured. satisfactory rate on crush ed limestone already has been secured from the railroads and it is believed that this fertilizer now will be placed within the reach of every Arkansas farmer
 Commissioner Page has been at work a long time on the project of securing cheaper limestone. It was due to his efforts that the satisfactory rate was obtained from the railroads, New that reasonable price is assur- ed, he and the Arkansas Profitable Farming Bureau and the Arkansas Bankers Association will cooperate in building up a demand.
 As The Gazette Saw It.
 staff representative of the Ark ansas Gazette, who was With the par ty, had the following to say in his re- port of the tr.p:
 Were White Cliffs better known it would be one of the show places Of Arkansas Going up Little River from the Memphis, Dallas and Gulf railroad bridge the north bank of the river gradually grows higher, until suddenly the green wooded heights break into gleaming, dazzling white Sheer up from the river bank a wall of white limestone arise 75 feet Prof essor Branner, former state geologis; once said that if this bed of solf lime> stone were distributed over the soil of Arkansas it would be of moro %'Glue to the state than all the geld of Cali fornia has produced.
 Certainly if Hines .one has half the virtue that agricultural experts say il has in building up the soil, this state ment must be accepted. Here arc 90j acres of soft limestone rock averaging 150 feet deep. It is this great field, the only one of it's kind in the United States, that it is proposed to convert into fertilizer for Arkansas farms.