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PINE BLUFF

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 625 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PINE See also:BLUFF , a See also:city and the See also:county-scat of See also:Jefferson county, See also:Arkansas, U.S.A., situated at an See also:altitude of about 200 ft. in the alluvial bottoms of the Arkansas See also:river, about 107 m. from itsmouth, and about 42 M. S. by E. of Little See also:Rock. Pop. (1910), 15,102, It has an active river See also:trade with St See also:Louis, See also:Memphis and New See also:Orleans, and five railway outlets—the See also:Missouri Pacific and its See also:branch, the Pine Bluff & Western, and the St Louis See also:South-Western and its two branches, the Pine Bluff & Arkansas River and the Altheimer. The city has many See also:schools, and a business See also:college, the See also:state normal school for negroes, and See also:Merrill See also:institute, endowed by See also:Joseph Merrill of Pine Bluff with $roo,000. Large quantities of See also:cotton and See also:lumber are shipped from the city. Among the manufactures are cotton-See also:seed oil, lumber and staves, and See also:furniture. Pine Bluff has shops of the St Louis South-Western railway. The city's factory products were valued at.' $2,989,242 in 1905, an increase of 94% over their value in 1900. Pine Bluff was laid out in 1832 and chartered as a city in 1885. Pine-See also:apple (Ananas sativus) much reduced.

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