Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-11-01
they ALL WANT It
PROMINENT BUSINESS MEN
SPEAK RIGHT OUT FOR
COT ION MILL.
Commercial League Will Only Take
Hold of 1t, the Mill Can
Be Secured
INTERVIEWS WITH CITIZENS

n Pine Bluff has attracted much ia
1orable comment on all sides. and
prominent citizens are becoming ac-
i've in pushing the matter through.
The proposition for the building of
such mill is this:
The Graphic can place the people
If this city in touch with a gentle
man who is a practical cotton mill
man, who has $4,000 to invest in a
cotton mill and he wants to invest it
in some southern city in the cotton
belt. where a fine grade Of cotton In
large quantities may be had He
agrees to invest that sum in cotton
mill in city SO situated if the peo-
pie Of the city in which the mill shal!
be built will take stock to the amount
of $125,O00, making capital stock Of
100000.
Pine Bluff is in the best section OF
the cotton belt. and the best cotton in
the world is raised right here in .Iof.
ferson county. It was jefferson ceun-
ty cotton which took the first awards
at the worlds fair at Chicago, Pan
ia exposition and the exposition OF
Paris. No cotton is SO eagerly sought
by the eastern. norther AMI fol eign
millers as that grow. in Jefferson
county, Ark, and it IS t.5'av bringing
the highest market prices
The ~-''erial Of the ye"x best
quality IS here in abundance shipping
facilities are unsurpassed an every
thing else necessary for the .eeossfut
operation Of a cotton Mil a1e to be
had, even to the capital necessary il
only the proper effort is pEt forth.
The Graphic has opened its columns
to all such proposed enterprises that
will benefit the city, and in this con-
nection has obtained t',o fe''owirg eX
presions from local business .nel:
w. H. Langford, president CI'iz:ns'
to Arkansas in the course OF tine
and this city offers more advantages
than any other portion Of the state.
l favor the proposition mentioned in
your paper and can be depended up
on to do my part.
Maj. H. A. Mccoy, Peoples Savings
bank: 81 am willing to take stock in
such a mill under competent manage
ment, for think it would be {. paying
institution from the first, AMI Of last
ing benefit to the city, know Of
mills of this kind all over the south.
and every one Of them is successful.
Pine Bluff ought by all means get the
first mill in the state'
L. O. Knox. merchant: CTS great
scheme and I am glad to see the
Graphic come forward in such mat.
ters. Push it along and am here to
help you'
D. G. Bell. Pine Bluff Trust com
pdHs H6 luIll Will DIluS SHt''cl Id
Dor to the city and be the means cf
helping many people gain Il livel1-
hood. We have the finest market in
the world. The ecotton crop is gath
cred on 50-cent labor, whila such
mill would finish the product al from
So to IS per day and bring mUch mon
ey into trade"
g. A Rosenberg, merchant "6est'
thing that could come ,n the cily
and would help all ,;nes Of trade. If
Pine Bluff is to take rank as the sec
ond city in Arkansas, the cotton mill
should be secured by ali means
Emmett Wilson. c. .. Taylor ex-
change: Fine scheme and I favor
it,"
". H, Ragland cott5n buver: with
the fine specimens of staple cotton
that are being bronught to the city
every dag Pine Bluff voull make an
excellen location for such mill
J.B. Spees, Jr.: eff practical mill
man is behind the scheme I am in ia
vor of it; otherwise not. l think
cotton mill one OF the greatest needs
Of the city,
" D. Hearn. banIo1 "Of course, I