Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-26

week witnesses the completion of ! some new structure These asst,- [ ticns are applicable alike to the busi- | ess districts of the ct : 2s well as to | the residence sections. New bus:ness ] blt oks Lave becorae so common that l Pine Bluff people no longer pay much l at r!'tlon to the na:tct when work begins upon some gigantic new brick structure in the nGsiEcss di:,tiic's r have become 50 accuStom. q to il now that they pass and repass with cut, in many instances, knowing even the owner of tho p.'a oertv or fer what pr oses the buil.iny is going up.
 Such is the grow s.-the renarila. lle growth--of the cit of Pine Bluff at the present time. Ttcra are nc evidences of tais efsw-h ceaSIng at any time in the near future; but on the other hand there are ample evi- dences that the .g1oi tl1 will continue indefinitely Perha s there is h9t :: ty in all the state which is ul..7i. going greater building boom at the present time than thls city. Ii is 3 anod indication, sh ". F, as it 1ocs, the great faith the ievei headad busi- mess men have III tha towns fliure. Pine Bluff, unlike many another city in Arkansas. has back of il tha te- sources that go to mai1ss foH progress on any one thing f;,.' t; growth, aut upon score of things It is T coned- ed fact that this secti if of the saat5 is without rival as q farming c0nn- try. The most cotton to the acre can be grown here than ean be grown al
 most anywhere on tho globe, condi- tions being favorab'e--anI thav are almost always favor eble The soil IS likewise adapted 10 ne lrly every variety of agricultural products, corn and other grain. and to truck farming, which. by the way, is leconng no r:ean factor in the new order of things agricultural that is now transforming tEe state of Arkansas, as well as the whole southwest, into a country of diversified interests. But the country ls not even dependent upon her agri- cultural interests. for it contains the finest timber in the south. A few years ago, this was a pine country. It was Believed that that variety of timber was the only thing that would pay. Today it is a hardwood country, and capitalists from all parts of the United States are turning their eyes toward cur timber resources. Inquiries are Icing received daily relative to the hardwood timber, to gum, and oak, and cottonwood, and other classes of tmber. Factories are coming here, and others are contemplating the mat ter of coming. Just now the board of trade is in communication with sev- eral big concerns that would like to erect box factories and basket fact ories and other kinds of factories in Pine Bluff in order that they may have easy access to the great timber resources of the surrounding country. With the additional railroad, or trans rortation. facilities afforded by the building of the new lines now in con- temptation, these factories will come.
 Rich as it is in the varied and un- developed resources of the surround ing country, Pine Bluff is bound to forge forward; and the pred 'ction is made that the time is soon coming when it will stand second to no city in the state either in point of size or wealth of resources.
 The time is ripe for that 5O,O00 club Whether the 50,000 club is organized or not, however, Pine Bluff is going forward. It has already received the impetus; nothing can stop it.