CROWLEY'S RIDGE

This section lies immediately West of the St. Francis Valley, and is from one to two hundred feet higher than the level lands upon either side. Paragould, the county seat of Greene County, occupies a high point on the ridge. It is a rolling country, with a clay loam soil of good depth, free from the rocks. It is one of the finest fruit, truck, live stock and general farming counties in the State, and the soil is particularly adapted to the growing of small fruits. To the East lies the far-famed St. Francis Valley, the Wonderland of Arkansas, and to the West the Cache River bottoms.

FARM PRODUCTS

COTTON: Cotton is the great staple crop of this section, yielding from three-quarters to a bale per acre. The crop is profitable and  easily handled.
CORN: A wonderful showing has been made in Arkansas during the past few years in corn culture. This section is destined to be one of the premier corn counties of the Union.
WHEAT: A close fourth and rapidly coming to the front among the local products is the winter wheat. The average yield is 15 to 30 bushels per acre.
ALFALFA: Alfalfa is becoming one of the important crops, having increased during the past few years more than 50 percent. The Valley of the St. Francis is especially adapted to the growing of this profitable crop, producing from four to five cuttings yearly.

THE ST. FRANCIS VALLEY OF ARKANSAS

This is the level country with deep brown alluvial soil, lying between Crowley's Ridge and the Mississippi River, and extending through the eastern section of Greene and several counties in Northeast Arkansas. This valley takes it's name from the St. Francis River, which flows through it parallel with the Mississippi River. The maximum width of the valley is 60 miles. It contains millions of acres of the richest soil in the world. The leading crops are cotton, corn, wheat, alfalfa, sorghum, sweet and Irish potatoes, cabbage, onions, in fact, all truck, forage and grain crops.

BRIEF HISTORY OF ARKANSAS

The active history of Arkansas dates really from the year of 1819, a period now of nearly a country. In that time it has grown from a wilderness of a few thousand inhabitants, widely scattered, to a rapidly growing commonwealth, with between a million and a half and two million people. In the year of 1799 the population of what was then Arkansas, embracing a larger area than the present state was returned at 368 people and in 1785 was returned at 196. In 1810 it was 1,062; in 1820, 14,255; in 1830, 30,338; in 1840, 97,574; in 1850, 209,897; in 1860, 435,450; in 1870, 487,471; in 1880, 802,527. At the present time it has population of approximately a million and three quarters, which shows a steady increase from the very beginning up to the present date. Arkansas' resources and advantage are every year becoming more and more apparent. In the growth timber her forest tracks are limitless, producing every kind of wood useful for service or manufacture. She has within her confines vast coal fields, producing an abundant supply of coal of excellent quality. Her mineral resources are abundant and yield largely of valuable ore. Arkansas probably has a greater variety of natural resources than any any other state in the Union. Her mineral resources comprise everything from lead; zinc and silver to diamonds. Pike county is noted for her diamond fields, which rank with the diamond fields in Africa. In mineral and medicinal springs and curative waters she stands unrivaled, and these have become widely become known as health resorts, visited annually by thousands of people from all parts of the civilized world. In agricultural products Arkansas has achieved enviable fame. The variety of soil within her boundaries enables her to produce with remarkable excellence all that is grown in this particular latitude and which, when brought into competition with the products of other countries, compare favorable with the best.