Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-08-21
FRUITS OF THEIR LABORS
WILL BE A RAILROAD FROM PINE
 BLUFF TO MALVERN.
The Splendid Work That Has Been Done by Number of Enterprising Pine
 Bluff Business Men.

It is now almost an assured fact that before the close of another year there will be railroad built from this city to Malvern, or some point on the Iron Mountain road south of Malvern.
 The question of building the road has, for nearly year, been agitated by several entcrprising business men of Pine Bluff, and their labors and liberality is about to bare fruit and the people of Pine Bluff and the country through which the road will run. will reap d rich harvest.
 The proposed road will be known as the Pine Bluff and Western, and will be about fifty miles in length to where it crosses the Iron Mountain railroad, and will run through the finest timbered section to efOund in the south.
 A surveying party composed of thirteen men, and headed by Sur yeyors John J. Martin and Samuel Massey, will start out from Pine Bluff tomorrow morning to locate the route of the proposed road. Two lines will be run. The first from here to Malvern and the other to direct point on the Iron Noun tain railroad, south of Malvern. The survey is expected to be com pleted in the next thirty days.
 The road will be of great benefit to the trade of Pine Bluff, us it will open up territory that has never, heretofore, been reached by our mer- chants, and as it will be a purely local affairand built in the interest of Pine Bluff and the country through which it will pass, our people, and those along the line, should give every encouragement possible to- wards having if built, and assist those broad minded and liberal hearted men who have, thus far borne the burden and expense Ol getting the enterprise under head. way, and with such a tlatterine prospect of having the road built.
 Knowing that Messrs. John O'Con- nell and A. Brewster were the lead. CTS in this enterprise and that they have contributed largely of theil money and labor in the cause, q GRAPHIC reporter sought an inter view, this morning, with Mir. 0'Con. nell on the subject of the new road when he said:
 "Yes, I believe that the road will be built. A party of thirteen men headed by Surveyors Martin and Massey will, this morning, begin the survey of the road, which will be known as the Pine Bluff and West. ern. Mir. Brewster and l have been agitating the question of building this road since last September, and assisted by several other gentlemen of Pine Bluff, we raised.money to bring to Pine Bluff and carry over the route of the proposed road, a representative of Boston capital ists, who assured LIS that if the country and facts were as we repre- sented them to be. they would furn- ish the money to build and equip the road. The representative has been over the line with us and found rything just as represented. 1t then only remained necessary for us to have the road located that char ter could be obtained and the road incorporated. This will be completed within the next thirty days, and then everything will be in readiness for the work of con struction, as the necessary money is an assured fact. The west ern terminus? Why, that is not to be made public just yet. 1t is esti- mated that it will cost $12,0OO per mile to build and equip this road, but then it will be paying one from the time the first train runs over it; and it will also be grand thing for Pine Bluff and the country through which it will run.'