ARKANSAS 



ARLINGTON 



EDUCATION 



Arkansas, University of 



HISTORY 



Carpet-baggers 

 Louisiana Purchase 



Quapaw 

 Reconstruction 



Ozark 



Apple 



Corn 



Cotton 



MOUNTAINS 

 LEADING PRODUCTS 



Hone 



Lumber 



Rice 



i:ivn:s 



Washita 

 White 



Arkansas 



Mississippi 



Red 



Consult Monette's Discovery and Settlement of 

 the Valley of the Mississippi; Reynold's Makers 

 of Arkansas History. 



ARKANSAS, a river of the United States, 

 which is. excepting the Missouri, the largest 

 tributary of the Mississippi. Its drainage basin, 

 which has an area of 188,000 square miles, 

 includes parts of Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, 

 Missouri, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. 

 Rising on the east slope of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains in the central part of Colorado, it first 

 flows with rapid current through rocky canyons, 

 one of which, the Royal Gorge, is nine miles 

 long and one of the deepest and most beauti- 

 ful canyons in North America. In its upper 

 course much of its water is used for irrigation, 

 i in I in its lower course, below Fort Smith, Ark., 

 at high water it is navigable for small steam 

 vessels. The total length of the river is about 

 2,100 miles; its general direction is to the south- 

 east, thouuh it makes one pronounced north- 

 1 bend in Central Kansas. See ROYAL 



ARKANSAS, a tribe of Indians of the Sioux 

 family. They aiv p-m-mlly known as Qua- 

 paws, under which name they arc described in 

 these volumes. 



ARKANSAS, UM\ .a state in-titn- 



tion established in 1871. Colleges of It! 

 arts and sciences, enuineerinu. auric-nltm- 

 school of education and an agricultin 

 11:1- nt station are all located at ;lle. 



in th. heart of the < ' 



medic. d roll.-L'i- is at Little Kck. :itid the 



branrh normal roll. -u- > students IS 



I 'me HlufT. All the divisions of the uni- 



tieville i- :<>ur- 



liiuh school course for entra 



: <S(K), and the mr 



of professors and instructors about mhty. 



income is appr< $2.50,000, 



derived chieily El tin- 



legislature and from funds received from the 

 United States government under the Morrill 

 Act of 1862 and later acts of smiilar purpose. 



The university has also an extension divi- 

 sion for extension work in agriculture and 

 home economics. In 1916 this division em- 

 ployed 114 persons, and expended for the year 

 1915-1916 more than $150,000. The extension 

 work is done under a cooperative agreement 

 with the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



The University of Arkansas attempts to 

 impress upon its students the importance of 

 thoroughness in scholarship. It also empha- 

 sizes the fact that graduates of the university 

 should attempt to make some return to the 

 people of the state for the educational facil- 

 ities furnished them, by taking part in some 

 form of public or community service. j .C.F. 



ARKWRIGHT, ark' rite, SIR RICHARD (1732- 

 1792), an English inventor of cotton-spinning 

 machinery, who is rightly regarded as the 

 founder of the modern factory system. As 

 he was one of thirteen children of poor par- 

 ents, he received little education, and at the 

 age of thirteen was apprenticed to a barber. 

 Having lived in a place where cotton-spinning 

 was the chief industry, he early became inter- 

 ested in the processes used in cotton manu- 

 facture, and determined to better them. At 

 that time cloth was made with a linen warp, 

 as no way had been found to spin cotton fit 

 for a warp, but Arkwright invented a spinning- 

 frame that drew out the cotton from the card- 

 ing machine into fine, hard-twisted thread, 

 suitable for warp. 



His first machine was set up at Preston, but 

 he was forced to leave because of the rage of t he 

 work men airainst a machine which they thought 

 would take their work from them, and he 

 > Nottingham, where h< asso- 



ciated in partnership with two turn who helped 

 him to secure a pat. nt for his invention. In 

 1769 he set up mill, and later built a 



Manufacturers tried to deprive 

 him of his patent-, and aiiirry workmen de- 

 stroyed hi* nulls, but in the end he was 

 entirely successful. John Halifax Drives an 

 l.-nt account of the opposition which the 



M led np in 1 

 ;N MNO; FACTORY AND FACTOBT 



AR'LINGTON, MASS., an attract! 



-ton. with a population of 

 I1.1S7 in 1910, which in. -reased to 14,889 in 

 1915. It is situated in Middlesex Count \ 



