PINE

See also:

• BLUFF (a word of uncertain origin; possibly connected with an obsolete Dutch word, blaf, broad)

BLUFF  , a city and the county-scat of Jefferson county, Arkansas, U.S.A., situated at an altitude of about 200 ft. in the alluvial bottoms of the Arkansas river, about 107 m. from itsmouth, and about 42 M . S. by E. of Little Rock . Pop . (1910), 15,102, It has an active river trade with St Louis, Memphis and New Orleans, and five railway outlets—the Missouri Pacific and its branch, the Pine Bluff & Western, and the St Louis South-Western and its two branches, the Pine Bluff & Arkansas River and the Altheimer . The city has many schools, and a business college, the state normal school for negroes, and Merrill institute, endowed by Joseph Merrill of Pine Bluff with $roo,000 . Large quantities of cotton and lumber are shipped from the city . Among the manufactures are cotton-seed oil, lumber and staves, and 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-apple (Ananas sativus) much reduced .