Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-17
Pine Bluffs Schools and r.
Public improvements Equal
Those of City of ESQ, 900
trial Enterprises Distribute Millions in Wages
Adding to Wealth Derived from Valuable Products
of Profitable Farms

African Methodist Episcopal church has school where
girls and boys being taught to farm cook and to do other
work that will make them better citizens and better producers
Pine Bluff has good streets and serving 80
cent of the city, efficient fire department. and good
lice service Except for disturbances of the and minor
he few attractions of the law in the city country
Pine Bluff has street lines serving portion of the city,
and further extensions contemplated The water electric
light telephone and natural lines all the territory in
the city and considerable outside the municipality
Wealth Is Prodiguous.
In commercial way Pine Bluff weahiest little city
in the land It's six banking institutions have deposits aggega
than six mions there 81 wholesale manufac
turing plants including which handle 100000
bales annually; three cotton oil mills putting each year
Quest worth $1300000 lumber manufacturing plants and
dwong factories producing staves spok
SASH doors, and other mwork There two
ice manufactures packing plant canning factory
facory working to capacity and increasing their trade and
facilities In addition the shops of the St. Louis Southwestern
railroad located here The shops alone employ about 800
who paid between 100000 and $4,000 month in
Many of Pine Bluffs factories and mills running night
and day. and this adds the wealth brought the best
and most valuable cotton crops Jefferson the
big yields of grain hay and other produced in Jefferson
county and contiguous territory
All Good Roads Lead to Pine Bluff.
More than 100 miles of concrete and macadam roads lead out
OF Pine Bluff all directions the northern part of the county be-
ing reached bridge costing $75O00 the of which
free to all traffic.
And Pine Bluff progressing steadily increased
prosperity and greatness offers the investor the manufacturer
the arsana good people with ambition energy and determ
natonreaer opportunities to attain their ambition and ideals
than city the country To these cordial welcome
liberal will be accorded by the alert
kindly Southern people, acting through efficient chamber Of
Judgment of Pioneers indicated
Nearly 100 have slipped into the since the Puens
began the exploitation of Pine Bluff by promoting the
of lots but the constant development of the cyfrst
small settlement to village then town. and from into
commercial and industrial ctyhas fully indicated the judy
ment of the Puens and those other venuesome one wsen
their day and generation and whom be mentioned
Greed Taylor John Seen Roane VIM Knkhead Peter German
W. H. Lindsay Dardenne j. Hammet Joseph Fugate
Doris Thomas Greenfield Nmroad Kay John Walker Ambrose
Hudgens James Pike Johnson and Wright who helped launch
city destined to become the greatest little cotton
industrial and commercial center in this section of the South
The civil stunned Pine Bluff for awhe-no long Many
of the who with the blue flag full of WISDOM
They they appreciated and remained live in the town
which waved the Stars and Bars Former foes became
fast friends and these veterans of the federal forces have found
happiness and prosperity while working with Southern peo
pie to upbud county and city.
Judging the future by the past is perfectly safe conclude
that the remarkable development has but commenced and
that those who their lot with Pine Bluff will have only
reQret-that thew did not do so before s