Excerpt from Resources of the State of Arkansas: With Description of Counties, Rail Roads, Mines, and the City of Little Rock, the Commercial, Manufacturing, Political and Rail Road Center of the StateOf Arkansas little has been written, and little is known outside its bor ders. The State of Arkansas-the least known but most inviting to immi grants, because presenting a climate the most lovely in the Union, a soil the most reproductive in all the fruits of the earth, mineral resources second to none in richness and extent, timber, the most useful in all the mechanical arts, and farms, of one hundred and sixty areas, to be had simply for the asking - a State containing all the elements of an empire within itself, the City of Little Rock, the future great city of the southwest, located on the world's highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, on the national high way from the north to the south, in the center of a State that can furnish happy homes for of people, on the chief river of Arkansas, sur rounded by a country the most lovely of Uncle Sam's domain, located on a hill, receiving the full benefit of the health-inspiring breezes, the city of rail roads, and the city that is destined to outstrip all her rivals, this work, de voted to the advancement and development of the material resources of.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.