The Little River news., 1922-10-28
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
 VISITS WHITE CLIFFS
Chamber of Commerce Makes Tour Through Country to Cement
 PIaEt.-50 Persons Go.

Some fifty members of the Chamber Of Commerce went to White Cliffs Thursday to see the large plant there and to get acquainted with the people of that place and all along the route
 The start was made at Ashdown at S:30, ten or twelve Ford cars being loaded with people. The Ford car was the only "brand" of a car that was to be used on the trip, on ac- count of the rough road through the bottoms, however, H. L. Toland came slipping along in his Dodge about dinner time
 The first stop or the tour was made
 at Wilton, when all unloaded and stopped to shake hands with the Viii ton folks. The first place visited was the handsome brick store of s. s. F. Mills & Son. and MT Mills and Miss Mills gave the visitors a welcome; then the other stores were visited and all welcomed the tourists
 At Ben Lomond short stop was made, giving time to shake hands with the citizens of that place. Ben Lom- ond is a beautiful little town, and one of the oldest in this section of the country. As soon as the Ashdown to the river road is completed it will be only a thirty minute ride for us to drop over and call on our neighbors in that village. And while we are on that subject. we will say that the con- tractors are rushing the grading work on the road from Wilton to the river, | the section ill the bottom is nearing completion with the exception of grav- cling. This road when completed will connect up with the Mineral Springs highway, giving the southern section of Sevier county an outlet to market their crops. This road crosses some of the most beautiful and fertile country in Southwest Arkansas, a country thickly populated with the very best of people
 After leaving Ben Lomond we trav- eled over the Mineral Springs high way for several miles, then leaving this traveling south when we were forced to stop and do some repair work on the leading Thigh powered" Ford being driven by w. l.. Phillips. After using a little bailing wire on the machine, the job was called com- complete, and we travelled on to Brownstown where only short stop was made.
 We reached White Cliffs at II o'clock, and then the inspection of the large plant was made. We found perhaps 150 men at work in the plant and on the cliff mining the lime rock The plant was not running which was great disappointment The Krip- pendorf- Company have quite bit of machinery ready for operation. The power plant is composed of three large boilers, and three engines, each engine being 250 horse power, all of the Corliss type. They have large crusher that will crush many tons of the rock day, and three mills that pulverized the rock, making it ready for shipment. They have some stock on hands but the mill has not yet been operated at it's full capacity. The product that they are now making is called whiting, used in the manufac- ture of automobile castings and many other similar products. After the inspection all lined up and a group picture was made by the local pho tographer, c. c. Thompson.
 Dinner was served the crowd by Mrs. J. F. Schirmer, and it was a is noted for her good meals and she did extra well on this occasion con- sidering the fact that she was expect ing twenty people instead of fifty.
 Chamber of Commerce Lost.
 The trip home was made through | the bottoms, crossing the river at | Browns Wash Place. This was where the ball up started. The leaders of the crowd had decided to go squirrel hunting and left forgetting to give directions. The News man was lead ing the way, and travelled perhaps about a mile when We came to the end of our road, We then took the back track and found another road which soon ended the same way. After trying out every road in that part of the bottoms We found the old road and kept straight ahead regardless of tree tops, slCughs and all other small ob- jects like that, until we came into the White Cliffs and Wilton road. then we hit the trail for home, reaching