The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-12-17
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We have frequently heard persons on Wis
iting Yazoo City, express much disappoint-
ment and surprise when first landing here,
At the smallness and general appearance Of
the town. Our commerce gives to this place
q considerable name abroad, and those per-
sons having business to transact here who
never before have paid US visit, are apt to
indulge IN estimating TOO largely as to the
size and general aspect of this young and
fOurishing town.-They picture to them
selves a city: whereas if they would but re-
fleet for a moment, it would convince them
that they need not expect to behold a
city, where, but few years since, stood a
primitive wilderness in the midst of the then
almost interminable YazoO Swamp. The
fire of December the 9th, 1889, destroyed the
most compact part of the town where stood
many of its largest and best buildings, and
such has been the general hardness of the
times since the conhagaion, that as yet, but
three buildings have been erected toward the
filling up of the large vacancy which it occa-
stoned. Within the last FIVE or six months,
dwelling houses, stores and large buildings
for the storage of cotton, in different sections
Of the town, have beer going up with great
rapidly, and at the present time, the i'm
provements on hand afford employment to a
larger number of mechanics than probably
this place could have enumerated heretofore
at any given period.--Let this but continue
two or three years, and we have every reason
to believe such will be the case, then Yazoo
City will more than recover from the disas-
trous effects OF the fire. There are now
some twenty-five or upwards O. Produce,
Grocery, and Dry Goods stores in the full
tide of business-all well filled, and all con-
stantly receiving and dispatching to the in
terror their respective articles of merchan-
die. The principal part of these establish.
ments are more or less engaged in cotton
transactions. The cotton crop of the sur
rounding plantations in this and the adjoin-
ing counties, has been quite short this sea-
son; Notwithstanding which there has been
brought in somewhere between twelve and
fifteen thousand bales, which, we fear, will
prove to be more than half the whole amount
that will be received here this winter. Las
year the number of bales shipped was about
thirty-fve thousand. The season of 1899
thirty-seven thousand FIVE hundred bales
according to our best recollectiOn) were ship
ped at this place. The Yazoo river is in good
boating order, and there are several fine boats
plying its waters,-the Joan of Arc, Walnut
Hills, Maid of Kentucky, Algonquin, VOlant
Belmont, &C., &c. The town has been inn
proved very much of late by grading it:
streets, paving its side walks, erecting acorn
modiOus and substantial bridge across the
bayou, &C.; 10: nearly all of which advanta,
ges our citizens are indebted to the energy o
the present Board Of Selectmen, who, since
they have been chosen by the people to hole
such office, have, we believe, used every ex
ertion to provide for such Improvements a.
was deemed actually necessary should bt
made. A few years of enterprise such as now
exists among our citizens, and our town viii
not only wear the appearance Of, but viii lit
orally be--a city.