The spectator., 1922-03-21

blind or afflicted child and to pro vide through legislative appropriation for the maintenance of this found ling in an Eastern hospital.
 Arkansas produces high grade O tripoli
 Silver mines were operated exten sively in Arkansas by the ancients These mines are now being re-opened An Arkansas farmer averaged % bushels of oats per acre this year
 Two native Arkansans participat There mines are now being reopened ed in the 1921 World Series-Aaror Ward, second baseman of the New York Americans. and Earl Smith catcher of the New York Nationals
 An Arkansan, James P. Clarke was President Pro Tenn of the United States Senate, and his statue is in the Hall of Fame.
 Two Arkansas counties, Benton and Washington, rank first in apple production in the world These coun ties have 5,000,000 apple trees.
 One Arkansas town, Rogers, ship ped 150 cars of evaporated apples in 1919.
 An Arkansas physician, Dr. J. T. Clegg. Jr., of Siloam Springs, was the first to isolate leprosy bacilli. thereby making possible control or cure of this dreaded disease
 The Ancient Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoo, national fraternal organi. zation of lumbermen, was founded in Arkansas.
 Arkansas is mountainous in the western portion. The eastern portion is vast alluvial plain, as fertile as the valley of the Nile The valleys between the mountains are equally as fertile. The plateaus and mountain tops produce wonderful crops, and the hillsides are favored for Arkan. sas unexcelled orchards
 Arkansas returned 40,567 barrels of flour to the government-more than the other 47 states combined, when requested to do so by military authorities.
 Arkansas turned back to the gov ernment in September. 1918, 1,OOO,- 900 pounds of sugar, or one-forth of it's monthly allotment, that the soldiers might have more sweets. This was more than any other nine states turned back in response to the call. The government converted this suE- ar into candy. thereby increasing it to 2,0o0,000 pounds. and gave Arkansas credit on the printed label of each package distributed overseas.
 Siloam Springs ships an express car of cream every day.
 Black walnut for gunstocks and fur niture is plentiful in Arkansas.
 All railroads operating in Arkansas serve pure spring water on their trains.
 Arkansas has the largest sorghum factory in the world at Fort Smith.
 Arkansas has artesian water in many sections of the state, the wells often being less than 300 feet in depth.
 Arkansas produces yellow ochre of the finest quality in commercial quan- titles.
 Arkansas has, in Garland. Montgom- cry and Pike counties, deposits of manganese oxides sufficient to manu- facture half the dry paints used in the United States.
 Arkansas has a distinctive advan- tage over other truck growing com monwealths due to it's proximity to market. It is less than "A hours from Chicago. Detroit, Cincinnati. Louis vile, Kansas City. Omaha and St. Louis, and most of these cities are reached in an overnight run by ex. press trains.
 Arkansas ships radishes. lettuce beans, cucumbers, tomatoes and other early vegetables by the carload.
 Arkansas has rare earth that when ground and applied to heated irons causes it to ease harden" so hard that the best file will not cut it.. What is it?
 Arkansas has a large deposit of red marble in Marion county
 Arkansas has Autograph stone in Newton and Searcy counties, that is superior in quality to any other in the United States and equal of the imported stone,
 Arkansas has large deposits of soapstone in Pulaski county classed as the best in the world.
 Arkansas has an immense deposit of gypsum.
 Arkansas deposits of tale are equal in quality to those of France.
 Arkansas has in Faulkner county a deposit of almost pure epson salts.
 Arkansas has produced some of the most successful evangelists in the world.
 Arkansas has many cold springs which have radioactive water, par ticularly those of Benton county.
 Arkansas has more springs whose waters have medicinal properties than