The Pulaskian., 1920-07-22
MAGNET BOOSTS
 OLD ARKANSAS
ARTICLE SHOWING RESOURCES OF STATE APPEARS IN CUR RENT ISSUE OF THE
 MAGAZINE.

the Magnet" the house organ of the Central Supply Company, does. In the current issue of this publication, which has large circulation outside of the state, appears an article written by request in the office of the Con- missioner of Mines, Manufacturing and Agriculture. As it is so complete and concise a statement of Arkansas resources, we reproduce it. The article is as follows:
 Arkansas is approximately 240 miles square, centrally located in the heart of the Mississippi Valley and midway between the Great Lakes and the Gulf. It is neither tout west" nor back east" "up north" nor down south" and persons from anywhere in the United States find here a congen- ial climate and people; the crops are familiar, the southerner finding his cotton and cane, sweet potatoes and bermuda grass, the northerner his wheat and clover, blue grass and tim othy; the westerner his alfalfa and kafir, and the customer his apples and tobacco. Arkansas is in close touch by waterways and trunk lines of rail- road with the great markets and in dustrial centers of the mid-continent, finding a ready outlet for her farm products, timber and minerals. Ar kansas touches elbows with Missouri Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky nine of the richest and most resource full states in the Union. Geographic ally and climatically she is in good company. No state is more adyan- tageously located for future develop ment The stream of westward i'm migration is receding and almost as many new settlers are coming to Ar kansas from the western as from the eastern states.
 In wealth production Arkansas is one state in the Union that annually reproduees it's invested capital, the value of it's products being greater than the combined value of it's fertile soils, it's rich mineral fields, and it's thousands of industries.
 The states sources of wealth are varied and evenly distributed. Agri- culture is foremost in every county. The greater part of the state is tim bered and lumber industries are well scattered geographically.
 In the prairie regions the lumber mills have substitutes in the great
 rice mills. In districts where the timber harvest is nearing completion cotton fields have sprung up in the path of the timber cutters and these give grist to the great cotton oil mills where more than 5O0,0OO tons of seed are converted annually into oil, meal and feed products.
 While the great Mississippi delta lands in the eastern part of the state challenge the world in fertility and
 produce enormous crops of corn, cot ton and forage, the western section of the state produces vast tonnages of the finest grade of coal found in the midcontinent and gives fuel for her industries from one of the largest stores of natural gas that has yet been developed. The southern coun- ties of the state border on the great
 oil and gas fields of Louisiana and the northern counties, extending into the heart of the Ozarks, yield great quan- titles of zinc, lead, manganese and building stone"
 It will not be our pleasure to dwell at length, in this article, upon the wonderful agricultural products of Ar kansas soil. Suffice to say three crops of fruit annually are worth bet ter than a million dollars apples, peaches and strawberries. The oat crop avrages over one million dollars per annum. Alfalfa is grown in every county of the state. Bermuda grass is premier of all the summer pasture grasses. It is the blue grass of the South. Two crops of irish potatoes can be grown in Arkansas the same season, on the same land They are big-money crops. Cantaloupes are fast
 forging to the front, the net returns ! averaging over $700 per acre
 Poultry products add 10000, 900 an nually to our wealth and Arkansas ! with Missouri, ranks among the lead ! ing states in production of these products. We had considerable to say last month about rice growing in
 Arkansas and the value of that won \ derful cron The cotton and corn