Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-05
MORE DIRECT
 WAY TO HELENA
Important Action Taken By LittIe Rock Board of Trade Transpor. tatiOn COmmittee-COttOn Belt Requested to Operate Ar. genta-Stuttgart Train to
 Helena.

ant meeting of the Board of Trade Transportation Committee was held yesterday afternooe at 1 o'clock .G. Hollenbeck, chairman, and assist 'o 1t General Passenger Agent of the Iron Mountain Railway Co.,, presided The other members of the committee present were W. c. Faucette of Ar genta, Edwin Stewart, Division Freight Agent Of the Cotton Belt route; Chas B. Sloat, assistant gener- al passenger agent of the Rock Island lines, E. l.. Rodgers and Dan Daniel.
 MT. Fauette stated that the meeting has been called at his request and that he thought the time had arrived when Little Rock and Argenta should take action looking to closer business relations with East Central Arkansas. He for one wanted the committee to urge train service through to Helena, opening up the entire country via England, Stuttgart and Clarendon. He pointed out that it would not be long until the England Stuttgart cut off would be completed and that the distance would not exceed one hun dred and twelve miles from Little Rock to Helena. That entire country is difficult of access from this city, while it should be very close in every ,arsia111o, Enj1nu-ipo rIy Mir. Fauette presented the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:
 Resolved, That the transportation committee of the Board of Trade re- quests the secretary to at once ad- dress proper communications to the officials of the St. Louis Southwest ern and St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railways, relative to more direct communication between Little Rock and Argenta and East Central Arkansas and the City of Helena
 Resolved, That We edvise the citi- zens of Eastern Arkansas and gener- ally of Stuttgart. Clarendon and Helena particularly, that this move ment on OUT part is made in the in- terest Of the general improvement of the entire territory affected and not of any single section or city.
 Resolved, That the St. Louis Southwestern Railway be requested to operate is Argenta-Stuttgart train through to Helena and the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway be reouested to operate it's Helena Clarendon train through to Little Rock. each company to use it's own equipment for the through service.
 Resolved, That this committee re- quest the railroad companies to grant conference with a subcommittee from this transportation committee with a view to presenting petitions and business statements bearing on 1 the propositions, naming date Ill the near future that would be agree able for joint meeting of the sub- committee and the officials of both railroads.
 George R. Brown, secretary of the Board of Trade, stated to the com mitte that he had but just returned from Clarendon, and that without eX- ception he found the people not only friendly~to Little Rock, but anxious to assist in establishing closer rela- tions and that they would cooperate in every way possible. He said that Judge Frank Milwee, Judge J. S. Thomas and other leading citizens generally, approved the proposition
 On motion vote of thanks was ordered rendered to the citizens ol Clarendon.
 A subcommittee will visit St. Lotus to take up the matter with the rall- roads at any time they may designate