Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-06

months work. the results that could be obtained by your good self ana conferees in a few days sustained effort. .~.-.
 'It seems to the writer that with the cessation of war all thinking busi- ness men in any community must take up the problem reconstruc- tion with the same. enthusiastic and co-ordinater efort. that they have ap- piled for the last year and half to the national problem of war fin- ance and conservation.
 "You, and, every other community in the mid west have this situation to face; the great munitian plants and varied war industries of the east that have been engaged in the production of war materials will un- deubtedly be taken over by holding companies, which will convert them into textile plants, and for the manu facture of fabricated steel and allied products, and thus centralizing still more in the east and on the Atlantic seaboard the manufacturing and in dustrial wealth of this country, leav- HE liJG Iulu- WCOC OIlll HUI uCpCuu- ent upon its natural resources, which is nothing more than the raw pro- ducts necessary to supply the vast commercial organizations above re- ferred to. s2
 For the above reasons any indus try which promises to take care of the products of the farm, and to fur nish a continued and ready market ought to have the instant support of every man interested ill the commer cial success of his community.
 Larger Unit Planned.
 Since we first took up the project of the plant at Pine Bluff we have decided, as you are aware, to put in a larger unit. Where we first contemplated a 200-ton mill we are now determined to put in a 600-ton mill. This means double the initial expenditure which we first anticipa- ted. It has also been determined by our Board of Directors, that we shall add departments to the plant to manufacture peanut butter and other peanut products, to can sweet pota- toes, and possibly corn and tomatoes; also a department for preserving fruits and berries.
 All of these varied departments will build up one of the largest food product plants in the West, whose market has already been established, and whose brands are household words.
 Surely if your good people have any vision of the future whatever foi1 fn uIhof portunity they are passing up if they permit this plant to go elsewhere. As you are aware, it is a persona, matter with the writer, as he recom- mended Pine Bluff on account of it's undoutted climatic and soil advanu- ages, and he feels that he is placing his company in the position of medioant when the proposition that they offer is one that spells a larg- CT return on more varied crop, and such large measure of commercial success to Pine Bluff that it should be sponsored without further effort on our part
 I've wish to take this opportunity to thank you and your associates in the Chamber of Commerce for their efficient cooperation, but we wish that you would inject a little more 'pe' into those gentlemen whose per sonal effort among the planters and farmers are absolutely necessary to secure the acreage. The acreage is about the only thing which now stands in the way of getting this plant located, and when you are req dy for us to come in we want to feel that we are among friends who Will talk sorghum and write sorghum unu boost sorghum and willing to give up little of their personaI trnle to make this a final and successful campaign. You are at liberty to say that this company contemplates and intends to put in the departments above referred to, and also that the minimum acreage that we must have for this larger plant is 5000 acres. If we can't get this in Jefferson, Grant and Lincoln counties it must not be the result of any neglect of effort on either your part or ours.
 The future will prove to every man who backs this enterprise, by giving his time and personal efforts, that Pine Bluff has put one over on all other cities of its size in the midwest, when it located the Fort