Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-26

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 ttqrerliu4 ta eha foregoing sfd.s- aa.aa=by M.= stebbjnss w,sie= =ia. ?sai.. tlc following statements II ta- t1i4=o of myself.
 Aa substantially all ti,a facts con ta.4ea uD tae article relative te tae construction of 'llc bridge appearing in the isYta 0f the Daily Graphic of oate ol Jun" 2z, '@pG, ao14naled from Nr. siebbing5
 That ] never stated IL hat article tA41 Nr. StebbiH&S said titai it 1onld pat i. f"asii'lr to eonsjruct the l>eldse, within tl3e city limii; of Pine .slafj ba, tha was the Impression c..inud from hi& statement Of he hor- ilas au,t tcsts ha had cad" UT fo 1 s',a. dat"
 That thp reference h Texas street IS ttle jnos> !,ui'aD location for th@ bridge ~as simply an error on the 1 raYt of myself. ;, sbonid have Stait3d Gcorgia street
 That Mr. St,abhings ti;d refer t0 the bend iu is,t. river north of this city, l stating that the Georgia street ioea tion would place the bridge out of l dauger Of thai bend. Tue reference ta the beautiful view afforded at this 1 spof was my own. and was moi attrlb- uted to Mfr Stebbings in inc article { referred to.
 That Mr. Stehhings was never al geged to have supernatrrai vision 1 fhaf enabled him to gaze into fhc 1 bowels Of the earth and tbus perceive
 suitable location for the bridge without boring for # and such a sta.aucni was nUt even hinted al in the aforesaid article. That eii moi stat" in my article 1 tl.a; My. Stehhnes bad made any Dor 1 ines ont side the city limits What 1 did SHY vas that hc had made severn? tests. so he stated.
 That MT Stchbings certainly did say to me that he had made these OK { aminations. and that he referred io : Mcifadden's landing as being q sn' able place, he was sure. for the con strHciion Of the bridge. stating that 1 his examinations had shown that il ! would be 8 suitable place for a bridge.
 That did tell Mr Stebbings that | would like to be good civil engi- ncer, which is no disgrace. also informed him that was reporter ! for the newspaper, and he was thor nuellla ronversant with this fact while taking to me.
 That AIr Stebbings said the river banks would have to be protected if 1 The Georgia street location were { selected, as the river had cut in the
 bank north of Pine Bluff lS5 feet since January 1.
 That Mir Stebbings stated that the { piers would have to be sunk 100 feet 1 at this point That 100 feet was pret- 1 ty deep for piers to be sunk. That 1 he hardly eyer sunk piers that deep That all his borngs so far made 1 i1, the city limits. he said, had reveal 1 ed the same troublc~-quicksand That this required the piers to be sunk too deep. That he had not completed his borings. he said. however,
 That it would require thousands of dollars, he said. to sink stone pier to the depths required at the most 1 snt able location he had yet discover ! cd
 That nowhere in my article did ! state that it would not be feasible l." ] construct the bridge within the city 1 limits of Pine Bluff, but my impres sion. gained from my personal talk with Mir Stebbings, led me to the be able locat ion up to the time of my lief that he had found no really suii- able location up to the time of my l interview.
 l fSignpd> JOHN G. PTPKfN