Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-13
bNG OUR BUSINESS INTERESTS
Et to the Big Buiness Centers Shows that
 siness is at Its Best---Every Plant Run- hing at Full Capacity---No One Idle.

from Main to the Cotton Belt railroad. about two miles; on Second we Dassed a crowd removing the old street car tracks and laying in place the very best slXty-pound steel rail; on Sixth. on Main and on Cherry street we find the same condition.
 Fifteenth avenue we find has inst Eeen treated to a heavy coat of crude oil, for which all credit is due the City Beautiful club, composed Of the ladies of the city. This work has been done at cost to them of some thing like - - dollars, and l great credit is due them for this work.
 Residences we see on every hand in course of construction, old resi- dences being re-painted. and not an idle man in the town, but what there IS work of some kind waiting tor him if he wants it. To sum up all th4 wages that are being earned and spent in this city at this time would make string of figures something like that necessary to total up the cotton crop Of the United States this season. And it is all spent in the city of Pine Bluff.
 We visit the several additions to the city and here we find workmen by the score building houses, grading streets and sidewalks, building fences and laying sidewalks, the spirit of prosperity already having found it's way here. All the money spent here i for improvements comes back into the merchants cash register for his goods and merchandise.
 Here we find the big mill and lum- Der yards of the Arkansas Short Leaf Lumber Co.,, giving employment the year round to over five hundred men, The pay roll of this company runs up to several thousand dollars each week, and this also goes to the var ious business houses of our city.
 Just couple of blocks from here we find the Imperial Wheel Works and here we find pay roll of few thousand dollars each month to be divided among our business houses. Quite little sum when you put all these big pay rolls together, isn't it?
 Almost within a stones throw of this mammoth plant we come to two large cotton congresses, where many 1 thousands of bales of cotton are now i being compressed for foreign ship nlent, and were it not for lack ot time it would be most interesting to give an account of the rapidity wlth which the big bales are reduced to a small compact form by the hundreds of men employed and the mammoth machinery used. But time is limit ed, for the business q Pine Bluff ci> not all be seen in one day, nor in one week.
 1 But we arc not through yet.
 Only a few blocks farmer north and we come to the mammoth plant of the Pine Bluff Corporation. Here is one of the finest water works plants west of New York city. Mark this, west of New York city Tn connection with this is one of the largest electric light and power plants in existence. Here is another army of men em- ployed, and from here the entire city i is supplied with the purest water Ill abundance that Mother Earth can yield, for every ounce of water used here is pumped from wells at depth of nine hundred feet, and from this plant this city is supplied with light fer it's streets and homes, and from here power is supplied to run tie entire street railway system and for driving the machinery in many of the manufacturing plants distributed ovel ] the city. The pay roll of this com pany is about $5,000 each month and this is practically all spent al home.
 T It is impossible to do justice te this company here, but we canno' leave without calling attention to few of the good things being dont and the large--allnost incredible sums ) of money being spent by this com pany in the improvements being made , in it's various departments. MT. 5. C , Fowles, the efficient manager Whs : has been in charge for seven yeasr : and who has made his nome her' l during, all these years, is we'll knowl to our peopie as a business man Q the highest type, and it is to hls gooe , management, and the interest ne ieei : in the welfare of our city that thes' great and valuable improvements nav 7 been brought about.