Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-05-25

haps the largest saw mill the largest peach orchard and the largest cotton ;lantation in the world are but in deXes 10 the richness of her natural loSOurceS.
 In this age of aluminium, it is inter- esting to know that four -fifths of tho bauXite ore mined in the United States comes from Arkansas, and l more than one-third of the entire output of the world Four hundred thousand tons of bauxite are beilc hauled annually to the Mississippi river on its journey to the aluminium company's reduction plant at East St. Louis. And it is wholly within the range of possibility that Arkan~ sas limestone may be found in suffi- cient quantities near Arkansas coa, fields to justify the :ocatins of the reducing plant on Arkansas soil, and that Arkansas water power will gen. I crate the electricity u operate the l mills, so that Arkansas bauxite may go out to the world, not as raw orc. but as Arkansas aluminium. The zinc fields of Marion Stone ] and Baxter counties are rivallng in importance just now tlo bauXite of :" line and Pulaski
 Arkansas Doing Ter 'sBii.'' Arkansas is contributing to tho l preparedness program of the nation %cr famous smckeless coal for the 'ise of the navy. A few years ago
 wiie I happened to be in the EAs
 1 W,nt to the BrooklyIl navy yard ,t1 s.'c the great battleshjp which bca"s | tln Of of Ac I c1,- i,, ,>. ! .Ee strength and grace of that gia di 'aenaught my heart swelled wi n ide that this magnificent lefen1,'. l f cur nations honor should haa1 | t1e ra1ne of "Arkansas," but I fa'i
 ] greater pride when thought th,,t as iris great ship and the other shi, | If the navy steam forth on missio,is ot pecce or war their power comes 1 cr'm Arkansas.
 l In the great war for democracy and | human rights which we are preparing ! 70 wage, the battleship "Arkansas' l will be in tje first line, if there s ] fighting at sea, carrying the Stars end Stripes to the aid Of humanity l 'gainst the ruthlessness of autoc- l 'acy, and we will have the satisfac- | ton of knowing that we have con- | 'ributed something more tha:l a mere | 'ame-that we have contributed ma ! terial aid to the victory
 ! Of the 129 native species of trees T Arkansas, fully one-half. have 2 commercial value. With her wealth
 # pine, oak, cypress gum, hic0ry. sh, cottonwood, sycamore and other l 'mber, Arkansas is surpassed by only l hree states of the union in lumber ! production.
 From the novaculitcs Of Arkansas
 ire made the finest oi]stcnes aDl
 vhetstones in the wor3u.
 | Arkansas Cleanse: Beats Dutch. | Probably the most famil." fign"o
 n the advertising secticn of the mag
 azines today Is the Old Dutch Clean
 ser chasing dirt. But do you know
 hat there is in Montgomery and Pike
 1ounties deposit of t'ipoli srne"io"
 n quality to anything imported fron,
 Europe and from it an Arkansas com
 1any is manufacturing cleanser
 that is chasing Old Dutch?
 | Arkansas has a abundance of | zaolin for the manufacture of DOT
 eelain and china-ware- brick -clav
 cement, stone and malble for buili-
 ng purposes, asphalt for paving the
 7treets of her cities, phosphate, man 1 yanese. soapstones. tale. chalk an | ! hundred ether minerals. In fact
 Prof. John C. Branner. than w'i0al
 there is no greater geological author
 'ty, is quoted as having said that Ar kansas is the richest state in miner
 Il reources of commercial value n
 he American union, Pennsylvania
 not excepted.
 The committee of statistics and standards of the chamber of con-
 nerce Of the United States which re-
 ,ently studied the meat supply ques-
 ion after careful investigation, re- ported that the section of the south
 west including Arkansas must soor l ,ecome the chief cattle raising coun
 try.
 The resources of Arkansas art . ------- ~---~- -