The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-12-17
- NEWS OF -
ARKANSAS
Cotton Committee Reports.

The Board of Directors of the Ma
uonal Farmers Union and the mem
hers of the Union Cotton Committee
closed a two days meeting at Beebe
Saturday, the sessions being held in
the office of r. H. Mccullough of Bee
be- the national secretary. The direc-
TORS present were: c. S. Barrett, I'm
ion City, Ca; S. l.. Wilson, Van Vleet,
Miss; l. N. McCallister, Many, La.
W. A. Morris, Sulligent, Ala, and w.
A. Loudermill, Commanche, Tex. The
members of the Cotton Committee
were: j. w. Boyett, Jr., New Orleans,
La; G. r. Hightower, Oxford Miss;
lahan, Enid, Okla, and J. D. Newton,
Jackson, Tenn.
The Cotton Committee, which was
appointed at New Orleans November
~ last, reported The report, which
is addressed TO members of the union
throughout the United States, ap-
proves the federation of warehouses"
plan. The report, which the directors
approved Saturday, is as follows:
"Our effort to hold 100000 bales
of cotton off the market has met with
much favor among the members of
our union, and we have received
hedges for thousands of bales of cot
ton to be held. Many nonunion plant
ers have also signed pledges to hold
their cotton and to assist us in our
efforts to raise the price. Our cor
respondence shows the people general
ly are in sympathy with our work
The financial world stands ready to
give us assistance in every material
way We come to you with confidence
and believe that the price of cot
ton will advance until it will become
remunerative We believe that if the
owners of cotton will remain loyal
and hold their cotton our labors will
result in much good. We urge every
farmer who has cotton on hand to
hold it off the market and thus make
sure the result of our labors. With
loyal, determined and united action
On the part of the members, success
is ours and we do not expect less of
each member.
I'VE have perfected a plan by which
the next crop can be handled through
union channels, that is the federation
of warehouses; which plan has been
in operation in Mississippi during the
past year and embodies the feature
of the new plan. 1t was outlined by
j. l.. Callahan and was endorsed by
the Fort Worth convention. The state
union of Tennessee at its recent meet
ing added two essential features and
is now putting the plan into practical
operation.
THE details of this plan will be pre-
scented at an early date, when state
mass meetings will be called in the
various states for the purpose of
adopting the plan and putting the
same into operation, because of the
fact that the work necessary TO be
done will have to be done not later
than March in order to enable the plan
to be most effective"
President Barrett has called the
state meetings and they will be held
as follows:
Oklahoma, January 9; Mississippi,
January IL; Arkansas, January -;
Texs, December 81; Alabama, January
16: Georgia, January IS; Louisiana.
January IS: South Carolina, January
20; North Carolina. December 16;
Florida. January %; Missouri, Jan
uary %; Illinois, January 81; Kansas
January 20; Colorado, February l;
California, February 8; Oregon, Feb
ruary 5; Washington, February Z;
Kentucky, February 3.