Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-23

ed conditions in this section believe both plans will be operated next spring, summer and fall, to good ad vantage to the farmers and the com munity generally.
 The old ma;nstay crop of cotton promises better this season than for number of years. The corn crop, though damaged in some communities by lack of rain, will be a money maker, considered as whole. Never before has there been SO great production of hogs and livestock Oil the farms in the counties comprising what is known as the Pine Bluff ter ritory The farmers of this section have practiced well the Live at Home" propaganda, ra sing their own feedstuffs. The wives and daughters of thousands of farmers are active and enthusiastic members of the can ming clubs and the home demonstra- ton clubs, md the boys on the farms are hustling members of the pig and corn clubs. Maybe, in years past, Arkansas, in some minor measure, was herself responsible for the jokes cracked at her expense, but in the Pine Bluff territory the visitors find today hundreds of mics of modern hard-surfac roads, modern drainage systems, comfortable homes equipped l iii many instances with running water, home cenners, fireless cookers and home lighting plants; a prosper ous, energetic, up-to-date citizenship, good churches and schools. and plenty of them. Banks in their official state l with loans and discounts in normal proportionate amount; money is not hard to get, for enterprises built on substantial basis; surplus funds and reserves are drge, ard home money is being used at home, in geater ratio than ever before although an enormous amount of foreign capital is coming into this section, to assist in the great work of building up.
 Prospects are Great.
 Two big things that promise all most inconceiyaple benefits and that are right at hand, are the building of the Hot Springs, Pine Bluff and Mis- sissippi railway, and the maintenance of navigable channel throughout the year in the Arkansas river be- tween Pine Bluff and the Mississippi river
 The new railroad will give Pine Bluff a new and direct line to the Mississippi through country which it is now difficult fo" local merch- ants to reach, because of lack of close transpo2tation facilities. The road has already obtained its charter and franchise. and it is understood that the final surveys likewise have been completed and that material for construction work is now being ordered, with actual work of con
 struction to be started within a very few months. The road, according to it's franchise = to be in operation within the next two years.
 The work on the Arkansas river, by the federal engineering depart ment, is considered generally the most important thing that is now on the "books." There is no doubt that with river navigation at hand throughout the year. ! inc Bluff will get the advantage of the low water rates and combination river and rail rates, which will materially re- duce freight clarges in and out of this city on slmost every article transported. This vii mean sav- ing of Hundreds of thousands of dol lars each year to shippers and in the end, to the consumers.
 | Expect Oil Gusher.
 Work of drilling an oil we'll On the Rutherford plantation, about eight milos southeast of Pine Bluff. has reached such ! stage that the hole Is now about 1.70O feet deep, and tha drillers anticipate gusher will be brought in with 200 more feet.
 I The Hog" If the well is said by those in touch with the work to have followed electrically the logs of other wells recorded by the United States geological survey. and experienced oil men who rave no interests here but who have watched the work at the
 we'll. express the opinion there is no doubt whatever oil will be found :, in paying quantities.
 : Definite announcement was made a few days eyo that the Csrter Oil ! company. a subsidiary of the stan lA,J n;l cnro oanv hod rlocad con.