Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-02
Concentration of Cotton Business Here
To Add $4,000 Bales To Yearly Receipts;
City Leads in New Efficiency Move

Pine Bluffs cotton receipts are ex-
pected to be increased by about 25,-
900 bales annually, bringing the to-
tai to $4,000 bales, by plans to be
executed this month, and which have
been under way for some time. This
provides for the concentration of the
Pine Bluff Cotton Exchange, the Of
fees and display rooms of the COM
presses and growers association, and
the offices of practically all cotton
buyers in the buildings on West Sec
ond, just east of the postoffice. This
arrangement, with the compress and
warehouse facilities, low insurance
hates, and favorable freight rates,
will enable growers and holders of
cotton in South Arkansas to obtain
better returns from their cotton by
concentrating it in Pine Bluff than
by shipping to any other place.
The Pine Bluff Cotton exchange
will remove about the middle Of this
month from it's present quarters on
Second and Chestnut, into the quar-
tiers now occupied by the Davis Floral
company. This apartment is to be
entirely remodeled, and the exchange
quarters will be equipped with the
best facilities and furniture. The
second floor of this building, and the
second floors of the two adjourning,
have been in the hands of carpen-
tiers, painters and decorators for sew
eral weeks. On these floors will be
located the offices and display rooms
Of the Pine Bluff Compress and
Warehouse company, the St. Louis
Compress company, the Jefferson
Lincoln Cotton Growers Association,
and the offices of practically all cot
ton buyers.
Best Price to Seller.
One of the big advantages to the
seller of cotton-be he grower, sup
ply man or factor-will come from
the facilities to be offered by the
compress companies to the public,
and by the Cotton Growers Assoc
citation to its members. These faci-
lities will enable the man with cot
ton to obtain the very best price for
his staple, the free service extend
ed permitting him to display sam
Piles Of his staple where all buyers
will feel free to inspect it, and the
one most in need of that particular
class of cotton brought in touch with
the owner It will be selling in the
open market, instead Of under re-
strictions as obtain in most places.
Here's the way it will work out
Growers with cotton to sell will send
samples to the sample rooms. Each
morning there will be posted the
names of those having cotton to sell
the quantity, and the date to be sold
All buyers will feel free to inspect
the cotton, and the one desiring it
most is likely to make the best Of
fersto the holder.
Just how great an advantage this
will prove to the owner Of cotton fol-
sale can be appreciated best when it
is. realized that frequently grower
gets several dcents less per- pour
selling to a man who may not have
immediate need for that particular
kind Of cotton, the buyer shortly
afterward-the same day, perhaps
making a good profit by getting II
touch with another buyer who is
combing the market for that kind Oh
cotton.
store bV,VVO bdieS.
There is capacity for storing co.,
600 bales OF cotton in Pine Bluff
under the most favorable insurance
and Comprising in transit" trans
portation rate The Pine Bluff com
press has a capacity of 10000 bales
and the st. Louis compress a capa
city Of $4,000. Other warehouses
can easily care for 5000 bales. Al
a cost of $4,000, the Pine Bluff
Compress and Warehouse company
has constructed this year a new
warehouse, with capacity of 5000
bales. This warehouse is the --latest
thing in cotton warehouse construc
ton. It is absolutely fireproof, ane
is granted the lowest insurance rate
of any cotton warehouse in the state
probably in the South. The cost
for 500 of insurance on cotton here
is just 39.8c per year. The next low.
est rate is enjoyed by warehouse
at Helena, which must pay SIS cents
per 500 insurance year. Cotton
men who have paid insurance costs
will be quick to appreciate the ad
vantage Pine Bluff offers in this res
pect.
The investments and improvements
are expected to bring to Pine Bluff