Excerpt from Arkansas: Statistics and Information Showing Its Agricultural and Mineral Resources Perhaps no State in the country is better adapted by nature to all the industries and varieties of living from the land than Arkansas. The rich valleys are capable of producing cotton, corn, wheat, oats, and all varieties of grain. The genial warmth of the climate and rich soil make fruit-raising one of the most successful and agreeable occupa tions. The magnificent apples grown in the State have taken the prizes at all the National pomological exhibits of recent years, includ ing the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, in 1893. As a peach grow ing State, Arkansas is equal to Delaware. Its peach products have already made St. Louis the earliest and cheapest peach market in the country. The small fruits, strawberries and others, are grown with surprising ease and success. Stock-raising, for obvious reasons, is most successful, and can be made one of the great industries of the State. The uplands and hill country furnish most excellent grazing, and water, the important feature of stock-raising, is abundant every where. This, in addition to the short winters, during which very little feeding is necessary, the proximity to markets, shipping facili ties, and cheap lands, makes stock-raising one of the most desirable industries that can be engaged in. Unlimited opportunities for the investment of capital in mines of iron, manganese, antimony, zinc, copper, lead, nickel, gypsum, coal, granite, mineral paints and ochres, marls, aluminum, kaolin, potters' and fire clays, fertilizing marls, soap stone, fine marbles, mineral oils, natural gas, and probably other valuable metals and minerals, are offered. The water power of Arkansas is unsurpassed. The streams can be dotted with saw mills and fiouring mills, and why should they not be with cotton mills? Here is an opportunity for live capitalists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
