Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-26
THREE PLANTS HERE
Demands HeiDg Made For lee Frou, Cities in This State. Tennessee and LOuisiana--fW0 Hundred and Eff. ty Tons Manufactured Daily.

tie IsoGh, large part or Arkansas
 Memphis and Western Tennessee has
 assumed a rather serious aspect in
 the past few days on account of the
 scarcity of that summer necessity, &C.,
 codring to the opinions of local ice dealers there need be no fear of any ice famine in this city during the present summer, or for many sum- mers to come. The amount of ice manufactured in this city daily ex- ceeds greatly the amount put out by Little Rock, and though there is a larger amount of territory dependent on this city for ice during the warm weather, the ice plants of this city seem to be equal to the demand, ac- cording to the reports from local ice dealers.
 Messages are received in this city daily asking for ice from the nearby towns, and in many cases it has been expressed to them. Ice is sent reg ularly by the Pine Bluff ice plants to large number of nearby stations
 and this city at present supplies a far greater amount of ice to out-of- town customers than do the plants in the capital city. Calls for ice have l been received in this city for ice from Monroe, Louisiana Helena, Lit | tie Rock, and many other towns 1 which could not be filled on account city, and in the territory regularly supplied by this city. At inte 'vals, whenever the supply is little bit ahead, few cars are shipped to firms in each of these places, thoug.! most of it is shipped to our neighbo. city, Little Rock, Hot Springs or phis has hitherto furnished Little Rock was shut off yesterday, and ti.e efforts of one local retail firm to get artificial ice from St. Louis failed aid finally arrangements were made to get supply of natural ice from a St. Louis company.
 The output of the Consumers ice plant of this city is at present 100 tons daily, and of the two other plants, owned by the Arkansas and Texas Consolidated Ice and Coal Company. 150 tons. Ice has been refused firms in the capital city by both companle: in this city, and it seems that it will be some time at the present rate be- fore anything can be done to assist them.
 Jeff Hicks, president of the Arkan- sas and Texas Consolidated Ice and Coal Company, when seen this after noon, stated that there could possibly be no danger of an ice famine here unless one or more of the factories in this city should break down, which is very unlikely to happen "Of course,'' he continued, "in clse this should happen, it would mean that some of the towns tributary to this city would have to beScut down '' in their ice supply, for we would con- sider it our duty first to look after the needs of the home people" It is thought that when the peach
 movement is over, the situation over the state will be greatly improved. The cause of the supply of ice be- ing too small to supply the wants , of the customers, is the exceed i, ingly warm weather which has visit ,, ed other parts of the state as we'll as Pine Bluff recently. Of course , the fruit shipments, the increased , population, with no additional facll- n ities for manufacturing, and the ln- 1 crease in the use of ice cream ana soda water are some of the reasons 6 for the excessive demand.
 Whatever happens in the ice sit 9 nation over the state or in adJoln- G ine states in the next few days or
 weeks the people in this city neeo = not entertain fears about their apll-
 itv for procuring ice, for President y. 1aff Hicks. of the Arkansas and Tex
 as Consolidated Ice and Coal com A' many. and Manager Bringman, or q. the Consumers Ice and Coal com
 pany, are authority for the state
 ment that whatever may arise'lh the
 ire situation in this city and the
 surrounding country, it is not at
 nroQont the intention of either com ,t rav to raise their prices to retail 5 1 customers,