Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-12-31
ID IMPROVE
 ALL WATERWAYS John A. Fox, Special Direc- tor of National River and
 Harbor Congress, Here to Arouse Local Interest.
ONLY ASKS FOR $1,ooo
All the States Are to Lend Financial Aid to 4he Mo'ement-Fox Touring the Country to Enlighten the Masses.

John A, Fox, special director of the Board of Directors of the Ma tional River and Harbor Congress, organized to bring about the ex- penditure of s5O,OOO,0O0 annually by Congress for improving the waterways of the nation, is in Pine Bluff today in the interest of the movement.
 Mir. Fox lives at Blytheyille, Ark. and was one ol the originators of the idea. He was recently elected special director by the board and is touring the United States in be-
 half of the waterway movement
 He is beginning his work in Ar
 kansas. his home state, that Arkan-
 sas might gain prestige in being
 one of the first states in the
 Union to lend it's encouragement.
 MT. Fox is enthusiastic over the
 bright prospects for the success of
 the undertaking and upol his ar
 rival here he called on Walter N.
 Trulock, president, and Doctor J. l..
 Caldwell, secretary of the Pine
 Bluff Board of Trade to secure their
 assistance and cooperation .n plac-
 ing the project before the local
 business men. meeting will be
 call4d for Wedneday night to dis cussl river sit-ation generally and
 it's local appfftatleH zto- lRine Bluff
 and adjacent territory. The Board
 of Trade officials urge all mem
 bers and business men generally to
 attend
 In discussing the subject. Mir Fox said:
 This question of waterway inn
 provement is one which is assuming
 ma magnificent proportion at the pres ent time, and there never was more suspicious moment for urging Congress to spend liberal sums upon the development of her waterways and the improvement of her har- bors than now. Because of the con gested condition of our freights, the unsettled rate question, the opening of the Panama canal and the establish ment of new relations with South America. According to James J. Hill. of railroad; .fame, al though We have now more, than 223,oOO miles Of railway traversing every part of this country still, so rapidly has the output.Hof the conn- try increased during the past ten years, that it has exceeded railroad
 building and freight handling. facili- ties 90 per cent: V. 'It would cost, according to MT. Hill 5,000,ooo. 900. to construct and equip sufficient railroad to take care of the commerce as exists to- day. While $500. .ooe. 900 would thoroughly and *adequately canal ize and improve. our .43,0OO miles O1 udCUId HlEA ways SO that they could care for :" the. low class freight.
 Arkansas should be particularly , interested in this move, from the fact that we have more miles of /. navagable waterways than any ' other state in the union, except ,, Louisiana. It will perhaps cost $5O. 100000 to make Arkansas , waterways navigable and this money will be expended within the next ten years if We can get the proper support of the nations ' masses through this system of edu- cation as to the value of the water way It will require a little more than s25 100000 to make the Ar
 kansas river nayigable at all sea
 sons of the year from it's mouth. to Muskogee, I. T., a distsance of 470
 miles.
 But, so valuable would be this
 Improvement to the shippers along
 this rOUtp that if the savings in