Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-05-12
ARKANSAS PACKING co

Absolutely bewildering is the array of possibilities which tine State Of Arkansas contains ill the way of wealth product on. In many attempts to size up the full import of even pre- sent day activities one is well nigh baffled by the variety and extent or the operations going on, palpabiy mere beginnings as they are. Cotton, lumber, fruits and vegetables, oil, coal. lead, marble. zinc, etc., are the immediate great sources of wealth production there and either one of them in the quantity found there would make wonderful prosperous community. Taken altogether, and Ill the extent to which they exist. the mind is fairly staggered by the efforts to calculate how rich State Arkan- sas will become when anything like full mtilization of these resources shaH 
 have been secured. No one can com pletely comprehend the situation or hand, if at all and it's entirely, ana with due reference to the enhanced values which must prevail with Il more universal Appreciation of the re- sources of the State. Arkansas de- yelopment must unquestionably be- come one of the most remarka"!e movements in magnitude and profi- table endeavor, that the world has ever seen.
 An undertaking to which it IS pro- per to refer in this connection Is that of the Arkansas Packing Company, or Pine Bluff, Arkansas. some interest ing details in regard to which are now at hand.
 This is company which was re- cenfly incorporated under the laws aof Arkansas, with capital stock of s25O.OO0, in shares of the par value of $25 each. the selling price beihg' however, $50 per share, the $5 pre- mium going towards organization eN- nanses and the creation of 3 surplus. The company is organized under the jaws of Arkansas, for the purpose of buying and slaughtering live stock for curing and rehandl'ng. pack'hs and manufacturing into all forms known to commerce.; to market the snrplus ice from the refrigeratiHe department, and to deal in such farm nroducts. i. e.. poultry, eggs, etc., as can be handled with profit.
 Tha nlant will be erected in the city of Pine Bluff, on tract of aoon' 10 1-2 acres of, land, owned by the company. The packing house IS te he erected at the junction of the S' Louis Southwestern Railroad anu ths Iron Mountain. where conditions aFf ,,ost favorable, bsiug situated on t.e Arkansas River, below Pine Blum with splendid water and magnificent drainage.
 There will also be established a' this place the Arkansas Stock faros with all the modern stock yard con veniances and advantages, together tn exchange building, auditorium sales barns, quarantine yards ant dinping pens, with constant suppl, of blooded stock for show purposes
 The advantage of being located ii the heart of the country, from which the plant will draw its material, IS annarsnt. The saving of double freight, and the decreased cost of la Dor alone will more than pay for the small cost of putting the product or tba sArkansas market, not to mentor the numerous other items of expense sovpd fo the company by beng io' rated outside of a big city i'll the x heart of the great stock raising sec tion. Pine Bluff, the Arkansas River ths new Railroads and bridge open ing up its resources. K The plant will be equipped with >tw' aixty-ton ice refrigeratng machines 5 two -one hnndred and twenty-fis' < h.,rss power bailers. two one hundrst A