The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-02-15

WATER YALhEY, Mlss.--Y esterday even
ing one week agoy ye local. IN company
with no less than a parsonage than our dis
tinguished fellow-eitizen, W " McCarley,
departed for Water Valley. the headquar-
ters Of the reliable Mississippi Central Rail
road Company, and was very fortunate in
falling under the care Of the attentive.and
polite Russell, one of the most 8atchful and
safe conductors to be mes with in the long
list Of excellent employees that the Central
can boast Of. Way stations, sidings and
tanks were passed ia rapid succession5 and
a. s o'clock p n we landed safe and sound
aEthe growing city, where. we met Generals
West and Nicely. Captain 2. D. Frost, Nc
Connico, an 1.otaers, are basily. engaged ad-
vancing the various du les especially en-
trusted to them Water Valley is, beyond
doubt, the iyeliess and most prosperous
place in the State of Mississippi and is
destined to be one Of tie most populous F.;
her citizens are industrious and energetic.
Every month the M g. r. r. Co. disburses
to employees az least 1000 at the Office in
Water Valley which, as a matter of course,
eirculates freely. Ia company with Captain
Frost the slEeieut superintendent Of the
road We visited the various machine shops,
and for over an hour were shown the many
improvements erected for the benefit Of the
company, who have wisely chosen to use
only the best and most improved machinery.
The whirring of air fans, the whiz of pull
lies, the clink of metal, and the sound Of
iRnumerable hammers, told plainly that the
machine shops, with their force Of hundreds
of skilled mechanics, were fully able to
turn out not only all work needed by the
company, but competent to fill orders from
abroad. Henry Gibbons, the master ma
chinist, is the right man in the right place
and moves everything with a concert o.
action that stamps him master Of his pro
fession. We are pleased to state that he Is
a Southern mechanic as skillful and com.
petent as any to be found, north or east
Leaving the buz and hum of the monster
machinery, we next visited the capaeious
car shopssi in which, when fully completed
the company viii not only repair but build
new cars, both freight and passenger. This
NJ. c. Company should feel proud of its en-
ergetic and per5evoring officers, for they ar,
making giant strides towards economy anC
Independence, and ere long, will be able :
master the situation, with the help Of thos
interested and place the road over which
they have charge in the front rank of in
ternal Improvements.
While in the Valley we met with Ed
Garland formerly editor of the Courier,
of that place, but now an attachee of tn
Eagle" an able and interesting paper
which rega1es the citizens of Water Vale,
each Saturday with all the current topics o
the day.
D. Carottei universally known as Joe,
proprietor of the NJ. c. r. r. Eating House
at Holly Springs, has our thanks for tn
only respectable meals furnished while W
were sojourning in the now degraded terri
tory, but once proud State Of Mississippi
We stopped at the Collins House when 10
were in Water Valley "Joe," we learn, /
to take charge Of the eating house at YaiJ en-
Stop and see him when you can, for hi
knows how to feed the hungry.
Below, and this side of Holly SPRING., v,
noticed several fields of cotton that had cnlz
been partially picked, owing, we suppose
to the laziness of the freedmen. Water
Valley, three years ago, only contained ,
population of two or three hundred-nov
she can boast Of over three thousand, ant
is growing rapidly.
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