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JEFFERSON COUNTY, ARK.
year round navigation of the Arkansas River, and the
numerous railways afford facilities for transportation.
N'jw enterprises meet with the approval of, and receive
material assistance from, local capitalists. Nothing
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now is so much needed as the establishment of manu-
factories.
The following are some of the factories now success-
fully established:
Pine Bluff Mill and Elevator Co.; has a daily capacity
of 650 barrels of bolted meal and coresponding quanti-
ties of chops, etc.
Riggins' Planing Mills; makes shingles, doors, win-
dews, mouldings, brackets, counters, shelving for drug
stores and bars. Deals in all kinds of rough and
dressed lumber.
Bluff City Lumber Co., of which an engraving and
description appears elsewhere.
The St. Louis Stave and Lumber Co. are operating a