Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-10-29
HARVESTER COMBINED
BIG TRUST ENTERS STATE or
ARKANSAS TO DO
BUSINESS.
Agencies of Five Individual Corn
panies Will Be Cancelled on First
OF Decr.nosr.

individual companies throughout the
state will be Cancelled by December 1,
but one agency being located in each
county and handling ali five makes OF
the concerns which so IT. make up tie
trust, says the Little Rock Gazette.
The International Horvester company
of the so-called harvester trust, and
its articles Of Incorporation were filed
Monday with Secretary of State Crock.
EFT, naming Geo. B. Rose of this city
as state agent on whom service could
be had in case of suits. The location
of the principal place Of business was
given as Weona Poin5et. county. Cy.
rus f. Mccormick is president of the
company.
1t is stated on authority that an Of
fice will shortly be stabtshed in Lit
tie Rock, which will be used as a
cenral depot for the receiving in car
load lots of all five makes of the bind
ers and mowers and the shipments In
smaller lots to all parts of the state.
Ne gotiations have been in progress
for several months and at one time it
looked like a deal had been made for
the lease of part of the What estate
on East Markham street between Main
and Scott 1t is said that this deal fell
through because ,Ae council refused to
grant the franchise for the railroad
switch to be built west on Elm street
from Scott to Main. Then the trust
got after other localities, but so far as
is known they have not yet definitely
settled on site for their Offices.
There are four representatives OF
\ the manufacturers of harvesting ma
Shines in Little Rock, as follows:
N Deering Harvester company, Wood
Carriage company. 112 East Markham
street,.
Dickinson Hardware company, 4lS
East Markham street.
Milwaukee, -Har4ester- company c
H. Ross, 4O4 East Markham street.
Champion Harvester company. b.
Craig and company, 523 East Mark.
ham street.
The Piano company is not represent
ed in Little Rock
The Deering company has state
agency here in charge of Mr.. Walters
Of the Wood Carriage company. Mr..
Ross is local agent for the Milwaukee.
Mr.. Craig state agent for the Charnpl-
on. The Dickinson Hardware COM
pany are not agents for the McCor-
mick, as they have contract with
the Polk Transfer company to unload
and reship carload lots shipped into
Little Rock.
The International Harvester COM
pany has been represented in Little
Rock for a year by H. P. Alexander.
The sou.nern offices OF ali but the
Milwaukee company are in Memphis,
that being in St. Louis.
The plan is to merge the southern
agencies at Memphis into one office,
with a general manager, who it Is
said will be A. l. Dougherty. present
general agent of the Mccormick COM
paly there. This will knock out the
other four general agents in Memphis.
Each of these companies, through the
Memphis Southern agency, handles the
Arkansas business trough large corps
OF aalesmen. This force, it is said, will
beScut down.
The territory of the Memphis offices
Is Arkansas, Wes, Tennessee, North
Mississippi, Alabama and a part OF
Kentucky. There will no longer be
c0mpetition for the men who travel
fort one Memphis agency will sell
talLyfive makes, though possibly push
the make they previously handled.
TN& will mean a reduction of the
FORE TO one-fifth. One eduction has
alrAdy been made in other parts OF
th4country. The number of agencies
WA4 cut to 11S from 460.
"A assigning territory to the respec-