The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24

/ Look at the numb4rleSs water-power in
our State. Consider our raw material in
cotton alone. that ought to be turned into
faorics on our own soil, instead OF paying
the toll il does before Ii reaches the consum-
err See our vast forests of timber for
| wooden ware. furniture, carriages and
| wagons. How many clear water streams
and ragS-of which no one takes any
are millions of acres of oak, a great hide
/ emporium near, and yet We bring almost all
/ our boots aud shoes from the East! What
! hne wool can we raise-we took the preml-
um against the world at the NV Grid air" IN
| London, and our shetp we can shear twice
year. How lneXpenslvely are sheep raised.
/ With what fecandity do they increase
| How beautiful they are! Ponder what q
vast field there is for one branch of industry
raising lam s for the early markets. All
the nation north. east and west is before you
tor market, with no possible competition
from any of them. You can have your
lambs ready for market here before they
are dropped there.
See what another field there is as vet I'M
touched, IN making butter and cheese in the
South for the North and EaSti From the
10th OF November to April, We can give
them the most delicious Jersey butter, fresh
with the flavor of blue grass and clover. |
VIII not pursue the thought, but, as there is
profound enjoy ment in being laughed at
for u fool, when one is sure he is wise, | de-
sire 10 predict that. by another quarter of
century, the southwest will be the great
butter-making and cheese manufacturing
section OF the country. What sight il
will be to see our fertile prairie lands teem-
log with Jerseys, browsing in mid-wnter
on clover and blue grass knee high, and
trains laundering over the Mobile and OHIO
Railroad on fast time laden with butter for
the North and East and known as "the
Butter Express!' - Here is our Southern
coast between Mobile and New Orleans
Ii ought to be the hither Florida. Here is
fine sailing; either safe in the shallow bays,
or more daring in the sound and gulf The
finest fishing is to be found. Hunting can
be had near at hand. The climate is as mild
as need be, and less facilitating, think than
Florida. Ii shopping and gayety be desira-
Bile, New Orleans and Mobile are near. Then
it is so accessible.
The day will come when our pine-woods
will be dotted thick with people seeking
health tor pulmonary affections. | never
fall to relterate this; and the forerunnerS
have already come In few years, beauti
ful residences, and grounds, where the flow
ers are redolent all winter, will spring up
like magic. They will bring both beauty to
the country and health to the resident.
Climate cure will be popular in few years
and the pinewoods will be the great SANTA
rom.
When it shall be known that our State
owes nothing, that our taxes are lighter
than almost any State in the Union, that it
has been demonstrated that Northern people
the climate, even when plunged into it in
midsummer that so far from being a vast
morass, reeking with malaria and harrassed
with mosquitoes and fees, that much of our
country is very healthy, high, rolling and
breezy and almost entirely exempt from
these pests; that our lands are cheap, fertile |
producing such wide range of valuable
products that we are splendidly furnished !
with railroad facilities in parts of the State
with improvements constantly progressing
that we are but day or two from the great
markets of Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati,
etc, and near the sea for all tie diversified
products of the field and loom possible to
our brighter day so certain to follow that
we welcome immigration as it never was
welcomed beiore-with sincere yearning
hearts and longing, open arms when these
things shall be better known, we shall have
large immigration here. say it most rev.
erently, may God, the giver of every good
thing, hasten that happy day!
NJ. B. HILLYARD.
The above article is from the able pen OF
Col. NJ. B. Hillyard, who has been living in
Mississippi for more than six years Col.
Hillyard is native of Delaware and made
his home i'll our State soon after the sur
render.