Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-18
TO HAVE
 \ NEW ROAD.
Line to Ola Practically Completed H. der Goldman. Who Now Look,
 Toward Little Rock.

Dardanelle, Oct. 1S.-'in thirty days + the Ola and Dardanelle railroad will be completed, ," said Colonel C. C. God man today. Only mile and half oi steel is to be laid and few bridges are yet to be completed. Colonel l Goldman has about 1J0 men now push ing the work 10 completion.
 The work was started March F. I9oG. and il would have been finished, he safs, if there had net been SD much rain and such q scarcity Of labor TAoFa is oHa thirty-foot fill and two cut Of about twenty feet. The slopes O tWo mountains were cut through one about thirty feet deep for nearly one hundred wards, and the ethe4 about half as Ions and ten feet deep. There are iiTe bridges in the seventeen miles and one trestie oyer Petit Jean bottom is at least one half mile long.
 Cclonel Goldman, in speaking of Dardanelle, says it is one of the finest business points in the state having much fine farming country to back the town.
 Paris Extension Probable. Colonel Goldman, in speaking of the extension of the Arkansas Cetnral from Paris, Logan county, to Darda- nelle, says the road is sure to be eX- tended in the course of time.
 T would like to see it built" said he for two or three reasons. l built the Arkansas Central to Paris and have always thought there was fine field for the road to pass through some of the most valuable coal and timber country in the world from here to Paris, which is about forty five miles. I may build it myself, but am not sure, as I have two or three other propositions for railroad build ing in this state and in Missouri. l will know, however, within sixty days what am going to do.
 ''I may go back to Little Rock and build the Arkansas Northern from Little Rock to Quitman and on to Leslie I have not abandoned the Wilson Hill and the Arkansas North ern, and I have letter here now from Little Rock man saying he wanted me to return there and take up an- other proposition with the Little Rock board of trade and the business men there and build the road for them. I will get around that Wilson Hill pro- position, too and I think it the best thing for Little Rock to have ar out let to the north where she can com pete with other points. 1 would rather build that north and south road from Little Rock than any road I ever figured on"
 Colonel Goldman will leave for Kansas City and St. Louis tomorrow morning and will know within sixty days what new construction he will undertake by that time.
 New Life In Dardanelle.
 J. s. Thompson, who is editor of 1 the Dardanelle Post-Dispatch, and a former travelling insurance agent, says is already taking on new life and number of new residences and brick stores are being built and | a new opera house is being talked l of
 The o. and D. depot will be only | five blocks from the main business street new telegraph office will be put in by the Western Union soon.
 Dardanelle is one {. the landmarks )f the Arkansas river so far as a trad ng center is concerned and most of he stores are brick.
 The Plass hotel has put on two story annex at cost of $2,000 and added several other improvements.