Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-04-29
SIXTY.FIVE PARTICIPATE IN FIRST
 "KNOW OURSELVES BETTER" TRIP

of the firm explained, we sell here there or anywhere and deliver tn. goods"
 A New Industry.
 The Morgan veneer plant, near thu Mcintyre mill, receiveod a call iron the "see Pine Bluff first brigade This plant is not complete, but tho one of the big industries of the city as well as an entirely new industry At the present rate of progress, al machinery will be installed and the plant ready for operation by June 1 when it will begin rendering gun timber into veneer at the rate of 30, 900 feet per day. The plant will rep resent an investment of $100,0O0 an( has arranged for securing between 60,000,000 and S0,000,000 feet of gum sufficient to operate it for some years w. B. Morgan is the president ant manager of this new industry, which will supply furniture companies companies throughout the nation witt a Pine Bluff product. MT. Morgan is referred to as "an Arkansas boy who has made good and is helping devN op this section"
 Where 1000 Work.
 The hardwood mill of the Saline River Hardwood company and the hardwood floor manufacturing plant of the same concern were the next to be inspected. These plants are part of the equipment of the Arkansas Short Leaf Lumber company, which also operates one of the biggest pine mills in the United States, and has on its payroll more than 1000 men Seven hundred of these are employed in the pine, hardwood and floor mills and more than 300 in the woods anC logging crews. The hardwood mil cuts 60,O00 feet a day, and the pine mill 165,OO0 feet. At the floor plant 25,OOO feet of hardwood flooring is turned out each day by fifty-five men w. M. Walker and J. R. Austin, i'll charge of this factory, keep close watch to insure that every piece o1 flooring is as it should be. Each piece is grade as it leaves the ma chine, then sent by conveyors to the packing room where it is tied into bundles with eleven other pieces From the floor plant, the excursion, ists went to the office of the Arkaan- sas Short Leaf Lumber company where they received a cordial well come.
 A Growing Business.
 After posing for a photograph, the business men drove to the factory o1 the Turner Bedding company, which is turning out from seventy-five tC 100 mattresses each day, and employ ing in this work from fifteen to twen- ty people. The making of mattresses at this place proved no less attract i've than the refreshments served, ano there were not few of the party tC express surprise that such an exten- sive bedding business was being oper- ated here. The reduction of cotton wood timber to excelsior and the ac- tual building of fine cotton mattresses was watched with absorption by men few of whom had knowledge of how these common household comforts were made. MT. Turner says his busi- ness has grown in four years from $15.OOO to $45,OOO and that he is now shipping goods to all parts of Arkan sas, as we'll as to Louisiana, Okla homa, Missouri, Texas and Kansas.
 Leaving the Turner bedding factory all the excursionists were invited b, w. c. Mcbride, a merchant nearby to accept cigars of Pine Bluff inanu fracture, a courtesy accepted with ap preciation.
 P. B. Bottled Goods.
 The "Know Ourselves Better" tril was scheduled to end here, but a the invitation of the officials of thu Pine Bluff company, who telephonet they had "something cold" waiting the autos were headed down Mail street and to the bottling establish ment, where Mayor Simon Bloon joined in welcoming the travellers The Pine Bluff Bottling company | operating one of the biggest establish ments of the kind in the South, ant is sending it's products to points owe a great territory. It's Coke" is il demand throughout the country, ant the demand for it's extracts and othe products is increasing as the quallt! of these goods becomes better known
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