Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-09-07
R|G REAL ESTATE
 DEAL MADE HERE Cotton Belt Buys Thirty Acres of Land From Pack
 ing Town Company.
BRINGS FANCY PRICE
Deal Made Through F.. E. and F. K. Bloom. May Establish Big ln-
 duStriai Plant On Site

One of the highest priced If not the highest priced. suburban real estate deal eyer made in this city was clos ed late Saturday afternoon, when the Cotton Belt railroad purchased thirty five acres of land in the eastern part Of the city. The purchase is part of the lands owned by the Packing Town Realty Co.,, Jno IL Ezell and Nj chol Brothers, of this city, and Ash ley Cockrill of Little Rock. The deal comprises a strip of land about five hundred feet wide running north from the present main line of the Cotton Belt railroad to the new road just opened by the county, known as BarraQue street, extended. and run ming parallel with that street from the present east line of the Cotton Belt shop property, through the Cock Till. Ezell Nichol and Packing Town Realty Company property to the pack ing house site
 E. B. Bloom, when interviewed by a Graphic reporter yesterday, stated that he did not feel authorized at this time to state what the purchase price of the property is but that it was the highest price ever paid for that much suburban land in. the history of the city, the amount being almost as many thousand dollars as there were acres.
 Mr. Bloom stated that during Presi- dent r. H. Brittons visit to this city several weeks ago he was sent for by that official and commissioned to make the purchase, being cautioned at the same time to give the matter as little publicity as possible pending the completion of the deal which has now consumed about two months time.
 Mr. Bloom stated that the abstracts of title were now being examined by the company's attorneys, Bridges and Woodbridge, of this city, and that then the deeds would be filed and perhaps the exact price of the lands made pub lie. Mir. Bloom stated that he did not know for what purpose the land was acquired by the Cotton Belt but from conversations had with different of- ficials of the road it is presumed that the company will use a part of 1t for additional shop buildings and term inals, with a reservation of part of the land for very large manufactur- ing plant which the company IS try ing to locate at Pine Bluff and to whom it would no doubt convey long time lease.
 For the past several months it has been rumored that the Cotton Belt had it's eye on Pine Bluff with view to making it it's largest terminal station. They now have their largest general shops here, covering about forty acres of land adjacent to this purchase and employing from seven hundred to a thousand men per day, included in which is their immense car shop de- partment, where many passenger and freight cars are annually built. The company has also built new, 'n it's i'm mense machine shop, some of the best locomotives on it's system. It is not generally known, but it is never the less true that the old LangfOrd place about 300 acres adjoining the packing plant on the east, and the Capus Will liams' place, about 200 acres, adjoin ing that plant on the north, were re gently purchased by parties closel. identified with the Cotton Belt sys tenn, all of which goes to show tn confidence these experienced gentle men have in Pine Bluffs future, am is a strong indication that the railroa contemplates doing some big things il this vicinity.
 It will also be recalled that durin the recent meeting of the real estat men on the Cotton Belt lines whic was held in the Chamber Of Commerc rooms here, Industrial Commissions Beattie. in his splendid address, sta
 ed that the Cotton Belt contemplate ] having 3 model city somewhere on i,
 line, city to which all of it's indui l trial agents and freight and passent