Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-10-08
). [. KING AND
 OTHERS COMING w. H. Langfor6 Invites Party of Visitors to Visit Bayou Meto District on Special Train
TO BE HERE NOV. 2
In the Interest of the Drainage Edu- cational Campaign-Will Stay Over Sunday in Pine Blunff-Letter Announcing Date Received.

Honorable w. H. Langford, presi- dent of the Citizens Bank, today re- ceived letter from D. E. King, in- dustrial commissioner for the Agri- cultural Department of the Missouri
 'Pacific-1ron Mountain railroad, in which he announces his date of con- ing to Pine Bluff MT. King and sev eral representatives of the United States Agricultural Department will come to this city Saturday, November 2, to discuss drainage and other im- portant matters that will be of un- usual interest to farmers, planters and property owners in this section Mir. King will tour this section in the interest of the irrigation educational campaign, which has been on for sev- eral years under his supervision and which means much to the South and especially this section. The letter is explanatory and follows in full:
 St. Louis, Mo-, Oct. ?, 1907. MT. W. H.. Langford, Piue Bluff,
 Ark.
 My Dear Sir: In connect on with recent correspondence relative to proposed Drainage Educational Cam paign to be made throughout a DOT ton of Arkansas and eastern Louis jana, we herewith enclose copy of itinerary prepared for the trip, from which you will observe that we are to leave Saint Louis Sunday, October 27, making twenty-one stops at coun- ty and parish seats, returning to Saint Louis Monday, November Is.
 MT. c. G. Elliott, Chief Drainage Engineer of United States Depart ment of Agriculture, has consented to accompany us on the entire trip and he will practically carry with him travelling drainage school, to be used at each of the towns visited. Also we are receiving the hearty support and cooperation of your Congres- sional representative, who it is ex- pected will honor us with his pres ence. l ,.., We believe this movement to be of the highest importance to- all of the localities to be visited and we shall be glad to have you cooperate with us to the fullest extent.
 It will be pleasure to furnish any further particulars upon receipt of re- quest. Yours respectfully,
 D. E. KING.
 From this city the party will go to McGehee where they will address farmers the following Monday. As the party will probably remain here over Sunday, MT. Langford has written MT. King inviting he and party to be his guests on special train, which will take them into the Bayou Meto district, along the Pine Bluff. Arkansas River Railway, in which are some of the richest and i best cotton and corn producing plan tations to be found in the South. There are at least two hundred thousand acres of fine farm lands in ] this immediate neighborhood which would be benefited by prop.r irriga tion and in the event that Mr.-kin:s accepts the invitation of the enter prising local capitalist, party of ] Pine Bluffians will be invited to 1 accompany the party on the tour. The rich, alluvial, bottom lands would doubtless cause the visitors to open their eyes and it would do them goood to look into the interior farm regions of Jefferson county. Their visit here would in all proba- bility mean much for the irrigation movement here.
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