Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-02-13
Pine Bluff Live Stock Go. Buys 40- Acre Tract Ad-
 joining Packing Plant.
DOYLE TO MANAGE.
Pine BIui Will Be Made Big Live Stock Center-Bain Buys Big
 Block of Stock.

When it was announced yesterday afternoon. following a largely attend ed meeting of the directors of the Pine Bluff Stock Yards Company that the offer of owners to sell forty acre tract adjoining the packing plant. had been accepted plans for the establishment of the enterprise took on tangible shape. From now on there will be a steady grind of work and endeavor to have the stock yards ready for operations by April 1.
 In the meantime there will be a deal is concluded with the transac- tions necessary for legal transfer of property, work of erecting the neces sary buildings and pens will be com menced.
 Location Is Ideal.
 There was a full meeting of the beard of directors and while the new ness of the enterprise has caused them to have to work slowly up to the present time, in order to be sure of success crowning their efforts, they got down to business with vim.
 That the location secured is ideal goes without question. The fact that the stock yards are to adjoin the packing plant is considered very es- sential. Again, spur tracks from both the Cotton Belt and Iron Moun- tain reach the yards, affording ample transportation facilities for handling live stock.
 The location of the stock yards ill Pine Bluff is considered if anything, moreso important than the mere physical location of the plant itself. A central or dividing point between St. Joe, Missouri, and Fort Worth, Texas, the two nearest and largest live stock centers at present, unless St. Louis be considered as one of the pionts. this city has wide territory to draw from. There is little doubt on the part of those who have and are going to still further back the enterprise with their dollars that live stock will in the course of few years be to Pine Bluff as equally an important factor as cotton.
 Plan Good Move.
 Once the stock yards are in opera ton. there is another move which can be mad. which will be of material benefit. Large quantities of live stock pass through here en route from southern points to the north ern and middle western markets. Under the United States government laws. there is a regulation that live stock shall not be in transit only for SO many hours withou: :Je.ns tsXeE from the cars and fed. It will be the plan to have stock trains unloaded Tn this city and fed at the yards, and as large consignments are frequentiy not sold until reaching the final polnt of destination, there would neces- sarily be good market at this pom. Cattle lose weight in transit ana the shippers would be able to secure better price, weight considered than at points further north. Again. it is held that in the event thls IS made feeding point for stock trains' that the large packing concerns will keep buyers constantly on hand here' and this will further add to fne Bluff as a live stock center. Doyle Made Manager. By a unanimous vote, w. J. Qoyle was made manager of the stock I wards, and was placed in full charge of affairs. Henry Roberts, secretary of the stock yards company, was in- structed to issue certificates of stock