Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-05-25
Arkansas Resources Unlimited.

Al httllooS 1o loue1y pIe-eullllGHLlt the land of opportunity. She is rich in natural resources, in ores and metals, in forests and streams, n fruitful hills and fertile valleys. Many of these gifts of nature, bestowed with such a lavish hand, are as yet but little developed and none have been seriously impaired The land of opportunity for the young man and the young woman is tha land that has natural resources worth developing 3 which have not already been devel- oped.
 I do not mean to claim for Arkan sas that she surpasses all the world in every kind of natural riches, but l do claim for her that she is a state Of balanced resources such as is not equalled by any other land beneath i the shining sun. She is not limited l to cotton or corn or coal or copper or cattle, to manufacturing or min, ing or merchandising: but she has all of these sources Of wealth ana many more besides.
 The balance and poise of Arkansas are foreshadowed in her very topos- raphy. She is neither mountain nor plain, and yet she has mountains and hills and prairies and fertile valleys If one seeks altitude, she has the highest elevation between the Ale ghanies and the Rockies, without any waste space of barren rocks. If h." seeks mountain scener., he can flint! it in the Ozarks and Ouachitas un- surpassed in beauty b. any other re
 zion. If he seeks ores or minerals let him but dig into the nearest hill side and nature will, perhaps, reward him with zinc or lead or coal or bauX, ] ite or any one of hundred other hid ] den treasures of equal value. If he seeks agriculture, let him go to the 1 uplands here and there over the stat and he will find them yielding a rich harvest of corn and grains and pc tatoes and melons and fruits, or t" the prairies where five million bush els of rice each year bring that many dollars to their owners, or to thf valleys of the Arkansas, the Missis sippi, the Rcd and other rivers whert thousands of acres of cotton and corr and alfalfa are luXuriently growing
 Finally, if he seeks adornment fo' himself. there are for him in our rivers the finest pearls, and in ou' hills diamonds both imitation anf real. This great state of ours car supply not only all of mans necessi ties, but most of his luxuries.
 No Waste Places.
 In Arkansas, there are no waste places. There are sand hills, it < true, but they grow the most luscious 1 Elbertas and Watermelons and sWee' potatoes worthy to be set before 2 l king. There are stony hills, too. bu; from them come the Arkansas Blacks the Mammoth Black Twigs and th'
 Ben Davises which have taken thc first prize time and time again ir competition with the whole WOrlC 1 The so-called swamps of Arkansaf are natures method of making fe" tile these lands and preparing theI'
 for the coming of the Tlanter. Levee;
 and drainage ditches are fast gettin rid of the surplus water, and in 2 few more years these swamp-landf | will be made to blossom by the magic
 touch of the farmer. A short time
 ago, if you had travelled througl
 Desha county, for instance, you would
 probably have said, 'qHere are thous
 ands of acres of land which will b
 ;nl ever a hopeless waste; but ttda'
 they are building an immense levee
 more than three hundred feet wide
 across the mouth of Cypress creeH
 closing up the last gap through whicl
 the flood waters of the Mississipp
 can come in, and they are diggin;
 three great canals to drain that land
 which will be all the richer for hay
 ing been overflowed for hundreds o
 years. So, say, there are no vast
 places in Arkansas. What appear |
 be such are but opportunities to tn
 young men and young women of AT
 kansas, and. for those who engage il
 the work of reclamation, nature of
 fefs "a reward more than commensu
 rate with the undertaking.
 ] Nanm0th Industries in State.
 The fact that Arkansas has pe1