Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-19
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 COMING HERE Arkansas River Packet Company Arranging New Schedule and Many I'm provenents Here.
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Captain E. w. B. Rowland Sr ot Memphis, a we'll known member of the Arkansas River Packet company, was in the city yesterday and while here he visited Secre- tary J. L. Caldwell of the Pine Bluff Board of Trade, announced that it was the intention of the Packet company to run the large Mississ- 1pp1 river boats up to this point on the Arkansas river during the nigh water while service will be maintained between Little Rock and Memphis and Pine Bluff will get the benefit of that also. This will be done so that freight can be transferred to the Mississippi river boats at the mouth of the river, and better service will be given the pa irons of the Packet company.
 Captain Rowland said that he thought that except during the ex- tremely low water, that the largest of the Mississippi boats could be run up the river with ease, since the dredge boat has done so much good in clearing all snags from the channel of the river. Cap tain Rowland said that he consider ed the work which the dredge boat has done on the Arkansas river a success, and that at the present time there is a better chan nel under and near the Rob Roy bridge than has ever been since his first visit to the Arkansas river.
 This dredging, which was done by boat borrowed off the Mississ- ippi river and through means of an appropriation by congress, Captain Rowland thinks, will do more to open up this river to large steam boats than anything has ever done before. He says and Dr. Caldwell agrees with him in his opinion, that this new service, which the Packet company VII establish on the Arkansas river, will result in an in crease in cotton shipments. Here tofore most of the cotton shipped on the boats has gone direct to Memphis, but with the increased facilities for shipping it will be more profitable for planters to dispose of it in this city. Where the new wharf is to be built, the Arkansas River Packet company will also erect large cotton warehouse here so that there will be plenty of room to take care of all the cotton that can be possibly shipped here.
 The details of the plans of the Board of Trade in regard to the se- lection of place for a wharf, which alone remains to render much more efficient the service of the boats on the river here, depend entirely on the steps which are taken on the paving of East Second avenue. If it is decided to pave this thoroughfare it is very probable that the site of the present wharf will be used, and that the street leading from it to East Second avenue will be paw ed, so that paved way will be open leading to the business part of the city. If this step is not taken, the Public Works committee of the Board of Trade, in whose hands the matter has been placed, will be obliged to select some other practi- cal place. The members of this committee are, E. B. Bloom, Will Nichol, w. J. Parkes. w. l.: Toney and J. T. Boyce.
 By maintaining the special boat service between here and the mouth of the river, freight can be easily transferred to boats bound for