Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-20
Building of Stuttgart and Rice Belt Line Begins
 Next Monday.
DALHOFF CONTRACTOR
D. \. Maccrea 0i Little Rock Chiei Engineer-22 Miles to be
 Completed Nov. 22

Little Rock, Ark. Aug. 19.-The biggest Independent railroad building contract in Arkansas for the past three years has been signed in Little Rock. George C. Lewis, president of the Stuttgart and Rice Belt Railroad, has awarded the construction of the tWenty-tWO miles of the line to H. Dalhoff, the famous contractor of this city, for $25o,000.
 The contract calls for the building of the road from Mesa Chile SS OH the Rock Island two miles this side of DeVall's Bluff), twenty one miles clue south and one mile west to Stutt- sart. H. Dalboff will begin work Mon day and will complete the line entire- ly and turn it over for operation oil or before November 20 He is to do the grading, track laying, bridge building, fencing, erect the telegraph line, furnishing all materials. Four depots are to be built by him, brick station costing about $10,000 at Stutt- gart and three others to be. located in the trio of new towns to be establish ed and developed between Mesa and Stuttgart.
 ID. A. McCrea of Little Rock is chief engineer of construction and will be in the field directing the road building.
 Trains in Ninety Days.
 Contractor Dalhoff has sublet sev- eral parts of the work to subcGntrac- tors. About 1000 men and many teams will be thrown on the big job next week and will rush it to completion It will be finished within ninety days and trains will be running by that time unless unprecedented rains or floods interfere.
 Contractor Dalhoff and President Lewis left today for Stuttgart to at tend to some details there.
 This road is the second link /l a vast railroad project. The Searcy and Des Arc, forty miles long. and already in operation, runs into Mesa, where the new road is to begin and go tWenty-two miles south to Stutt- gart. President Lewis stated yester- day that it is the intention later to build the line thirty-eight miles fur ther south through rich virgin tim- Der forest to the Arkansas river, and this will make a line 100 miles south from Searcy to the Arkansas river, the nucleus of line which may be largely extended north and south, giv- ing Arkansas another great trunk line in the future.
 Rock Island Project.
 Wise ones say it is Rock Island proposition or will be in the future, for the Rock Island owns the Searcy and DesArc, and M. Schulter of Chi cago, formerly industrial agent of the Rock Island and Frisco, is announced as the new president of the Stuttgart and Rice Belt railroad. The final plans were also consummated in Chi cago several weeks ago, where the financial and construction det1ls were negotiated in conference with the powers higher up.
 New President Chosen.
 President Lewis has resigned as the chief executive of the project and an- nounces that at meeting of the board of directors the following officials will have charge of the Stuttgart and Rice Belt:
 President, M. Schulter, of Chicago, Ill.,, formerly industrial commission CT of the Rock Island and Frisco lines; vice president, Geo. c. Lewis, secretary and treasurer, J. w. Under- wood president of the Bank of Con- merce of Stuttgart, Ark. It's direc- tors are: Geo. w. Pagan, cashier of the German-American Bank, Stutt- gart, Ark; J. I. Porter, vice presi- dent of the German-American Bank, Stuttgart, Ark; Dr. l.. H. Morphew, physician and druggist, Stuttgart, Ark, and w. M. Price. real estate dealer, Stuttgart. Ak.
 It is said that the financing of the new road is greatly due to the ef-