Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-10-20

terurban company will pay the usual toll to cross it. No ordinary donat- ion is expected from the people of
 Pine Bluff by the interurban con- pany, but the company, if the line is built to this city, does expect to get terminals and depot site and will en- deavor to get stock subscriptions ill this city. Stock has already been subscribed for to the amount of $750,- 900 and it would remain for Little Rock, Argenta, intermediate points and Pine Bluff to subscribe for the additional $25O,OOO worth of stock. He emphasized the fact that the building of the interurban rests entirely with the construction of the bridge over the Arkansas here. An enterprise Gf such magniture, he said, must be built, either by public enterprise or by some mammoth corporation His company, he said, would undertake to build the bridge, if the Commission cannot secure others to build it. He said the bridge would cost about $650,000 and that the interurban com pany would accept per cent thirty year bonds in the transaction. Two factors always enter into proposi- tion of such magnitude, declared Mr Reid. No man who has money will invest it over the heads of an unwill- ing community. Another fact is that the desired capital to accomplish it cannot always be secured. If this county follows the examples set by other progressive communities declar- ed the speaker, the interunban people desire to take advantage of the enter prise. The tolls from railroads and other sources would largely meet the demands of the taxpayers.
 George Russ Brown, of the Little Rock Board of Trade, reviewed the many benefits that have come to Lit tie Rock through the building of for it in 1895, he said Previous to that time the people of Little Rock were paying the Goulds $S0,000 year to cross their bridges. The building of the Free Bridge at the capital, he said, had increased the trade there $250,000 a year. It has enabled Argenta to grow to a city Of 0,000 people. The Cotton Belt rail- road, he said, as a result has spent 5fne million dollars in building depots and terminals On the Argenta side. The Little Rock bridge cost $377,- 257.63. MT. Brown declared that. it was the best investment the people of Pulaski county have ever made. If the same propositions to build an in terurban and a steam railroad as are made Pine Bluff at this time were made to Little Rock, declared My Brown, his people would be ready to build another bridge. He urged the people of this county to build the bridge and lay aside any opposition.
 Carl J. Baer, the new Million Dollar secretary of the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce, made one of the most enthusiastic speeches of the evening, He reviewed the great benefits that have derived in years past and ill various cities and towns throughout the country. He spoke from an un prejud:ced standpoint. He said he did not know any of the interested rail- road men up to last evening, when he came down on the train with them. He had been invited to come here and speak and accepted because he felt that it would aid in the upbuilding of Jefferson county, Pine Bluff and the State generally. He told how the pur- chase of men at $40 head. would be paying investment for Arkansas cit
 ies. His speech was roundly ap- plauded and the young Chamber of Commerce official created a most fav- orable impression and enthused his hearers with his fine argument in fa- vor of development.
 lC. c. Kavanaugh, when introduced, declared that he had not had the op- portunity of appearing before Pine Bluff audience since the people of the state made that horrible mistake and defeated him for governor little more than a year ago. He stated that Attorney Reid had told all that he would have cared to say.
 MT Kavanaugh was followed by B. l.. Robert, F. w. Gibb and F. H. Pet CTS, who spoke briefly. Senator H. K. Toney also addressed the meeting, declaring that there was something wrong with Jefferson county and that the trouble ought to be remed,ed. He could not understand why other cit ies in the state were increasing their population faster than Pine Bluff. He was willing, he said, to do all he could to aid in the upbuilding of th.s city and county.
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