Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-11
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subject upon which YOU so NndiN
invited ne to prepare an article for
your Christmas number. in itsef
most worthy exponent Of home enter
prise
An Eastern capitalist. some years
ego, visited this section to loo, ove~
the country in which he and his asSo-
ciates had placed hundreds Of thous-
ands of dollars in the nature Of
loans. After remaining a week or
more the writer was fortunate enough
to meet him with other gentlemen
in the lobby of Hotel Trulock
When asked what he thought OF our
county, he replied:
"Gentlemen, in all sincerity. Jeffer-
son county is the garden spot of the
world and Pine Bluff is the most glo-
rious part of that spot Your city is
surrounded by the most fertile country
it has eve. been my good fortune, in
a wide and varied experience to see,
and the very lands upon which, at this
time myself and associates have
loaned possibly 81 or So per acre, VIII
in less than ten years be worth
one hundred dollars per acre. our
mortgages satisfied and the yield to
their owners will be SO great and prof
liable that doubt not that we Will
be asked TO take their surplus funds
at rates to suit ourselves. Then will
come the opportunity for the creation
of home enterprises. which, | am sure,
your good business men will not fail
to see.
How very true this good Fasteners
Judgment was Even the most pessl-
must acknowledge. Since that time
the writer has seen the establishment
and building up of several home enter
prises that would reflect credit on
cities much larger than Pine Blum.
Take for example, our many Whole
sale houses owned and managed eX.
clusivell our own home people
In the grocery and cotton factor lines
we will take the Hammett Grocer com
pany. the Southern Grocery company
J. b. Speers Company. Russell Grocery
company. Hutt ana Sons. Gillespie
and Bro. Grocery company, Sewe.E
Holmes. Fowler Marsh and Riley
with stocks aggrogating hundreds Of
thousands OF dollars and sales running
into the millions Of dollars annn-
ally. ~preaam@ in their wake over
The fields of Arkansas, Louisiana
ana parts of Texas the
famousness of Pine Fluff AZ a market
while St Louis. Memphis. New Or.
leans a44 ethes great cities reee&nize
it as their hardest hni far r9mpet.-
tor: whose horp oat@r9l -: '.'e'te
it known and esteemed thron@han1
the commercial world.
Another home enterprise the Wfitef
noted with pleasure was the estap-
lishment few months ago which he
had been expecting and hoping for
fer years. is our first and only
Wholesale dry goods establish.
ment. owned, controlled. and ii
nanced by our own people, OF
rather by orc man-Mr. Isaac DreytHs
Tn" ~riees knows it to be a fact that
within thirty DAYS after this wholesale
house WIS established Mr.. Dre>fus
was crowded for room and looking
about and arranging for additional
floor space. This house though
scarcely six moths old. is known and
is actually selling its goods all over
Southeast Arkansas and Northern
louisiana its salesmen meeting thlef
competitors from the larger cities,
and more than holding their
own at every point. h'Sh'
here point might be given in faNof
of home enterprises. The writer me-
a friend of his in the city a few WeeAs
since, and knowing the gentleman 10
be a large dealer in dry goods, no
tions. etc, invited the gentleman 10
ioin him in visiting some OF our nome
enterprises We spent the mofnihs
in this pleasure, finally reaching tue
wholesale dry goods house, and after
looking around a While this gentleman
said:
81 want you to come and see me
when your route takes you my way
In the meantime my buyer will Visl.
Won once or twice monthly. Your stock
is nice and clean, prices the same as
ST. Louis and Memphis. and freight
rates cheaper | shall politely INFORM