The Mena weekly star., 1920-11-11
LOCATE BIC STILL NEAR H0T SPRINGS
Officers Seize Second sOO-Gallon Plant within Two Months-Found 100 Empty Sugar Sacks-No Ar
 rests Made.

Hot Springs, Nov. 7,--The second 300- gallon still found in Garland county within the past two months was located this morning by Sheriff Brad o. Smith and Deputies Billy 'Cockell and Roy Cooper, and Federal Officer Roy Stegall It was found Tn the heart of Cedar mountain, close to the bank of Cedar Brook creek. IA miles northeast of Hot Springs.
 The latter part of September Sher- fir Smith and government officers vis- tied the same locality and took posses sion of what was considered the big i gest illicit distillery ever operated Tn the south since the nation went dry. The plant they destroyed today, how ever, surpassed in many essentials the former find. Furthermore, those who erected the second distillery were in- dustriou enough to use the same bricks that formed the foundation for the first plant. They procured an other 300-gallon copper kettle, four new oil burners. the same kind of solid copper utensil that characterized the embellishments of previous opera tions. and, according to Sheriff Smith, had plant that was capable ot turn ing out a gallon of excellent mountain dewn every eight minutes.
 There is something in the name of Cedar Brook, and it must have been the memory of whiskey formerly on the market that bore that label, that prompted those who operated these giant stills to place their second plant close to Cedar Brook creek Their second still was about 300 yards removed from the first. They went only a little further into the deep recesses of the mountain.
 Much Sugar Used.
 Four hundred empty sugar sacks each of 100 pounds capacity, provided mute evidence that 10000 pounds of sugar had already been used. A few hundred pounds of sugar was found but some one had carelessly spilled oil over the sacks. The sugar was de stroyed. as the officers found it worth less. The some careful arrangements for operating the still that were feat ures of the first plant were also con spicuous in the one seized today Twenty-six barrels of mash were seized
 "We thought the first giant stil ,, was the best that had ever been sci up in the south," said Sheriff Smith
 but the one we destroyed today eclipses it in every way. It was 2 peach in every respect. Those who put it up did not overlook single de tail. They had gathered up the bricks
 used in the foundation of the other biz
 still. carted them 100 yards farther in. to the mountain, to make the founda'
 tion. Those bricks, however, won't bt | used again, for that kind of an in.
 dustry."
 The reports sthat another giant stil
 had been seized soon spread over the 5 city, and when the truck with the
 paraphenalia drove down Park anC 7 Central avenues, and out Ouachits 2 avenue to the courthouse the wreck
 age was viewed with interest. What 5 had not been destroyed at the scene . was smashed when the still reached
 the county jail.
 I Sheriff Smith said no arrests had t been made in connection with his l second big find, which like the first
 was erected about IA miles northeast
 of this city and a short distance of
 the new Hot Springs-Little Rock way. in Union township No one was prosecuted in connection with the operator of the first giant still. Mel win Lockett was arrested after it was destroyed, but later the state author jged his discharge and dismissed the complaint against him, claiming he had no evidence that he was n any way