The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-17
East mississippi.
n, Maj Z. q. Wall:

Yours Of the 18th to hand and contents
GnIy noted First, let me congratulate the
state Of Mississippi in having a Legislature
.ftb foresight to provide for her primal in
+.r..t, and also, in selecting the man it has
In carry out this progressive reform Of de
,.a1.uiug our vast resources. May we not
fasE for better future.
wish that / was competent to do justice
4, East Nissi-sippi but being only prac-
+,csI farmer for the last twenty five years.
Ibeviur spent the best of my manhood in
tbe mechanic arts) | certainly feel my ina
hIitv 10 write up our section Of the State.
Rut rs the world is III part carried on by mus
cIe as well rs brain power, perhaps, what |
1oavsav will meet the demand, of some like
myself who have won their way by stern
effort. / with much hesitancy undertake to
comply with your request, well knowing
that charity is one Of your cardinal virtues.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF LANDS.
Ia BEGIN with nature as my textbook
tbr,uob life. East Mississippi, or what is
kaown by that name, lies geologically in the
.Focrue' formation consequently our lands
and soil are mostly sandy and called by
biologists the Orange Sand. The sub-strata
not being very tenacious, affords fine drain
gge. or filtration on uplands, while our
creek and river bottoms are more tenacious
and being level require ditchng, to some
extent. to make them effective. The up
lands abound in long leaf pine hickory all
fine different varieties of oak, sweet gum
4 dogwood. blackjack, holly, &c. While the
bottoms are covered with heavy growth of
N oak. hickory, ash gum, beech immense
pines, magnolia, cypress, &c.
CROPS OF COTTON AND CORN.
The uplands are rolling and easily cult
waited and under judiciOus management
81 will Weld half a bale of cotton per acre,
Z ~ Al. T /, 4
over bale of cotton per acre, by care and
II labor. with fertilizers. Our average uplands
may be- put down at from II to - bushels
of corn. without manure, though our bot
toms and ''Reed- brakes will yield from 20
to so bushels per acre. ] have known over
100 bushels per acre gathered from Creed
brake land, my own averages about 40
bushels.
FRUITS, AND GARDEN VEGETABLES.
All this region is well adapted to gardens
and orchards, producing the very best vege-
Il tables and fruits Of every variety, adapted
toour climate. Along the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad which runs through this section
great many early vegetables of various
kinds and peaches, pears, apples. strawber-
ries blackberres, and plums are shipped to
the Western markets, and to Mobile over
4 this road. This truck farming and fruit
4 culture could be indefinitely extended
along the lines ofour railroads
STOCK RAISING AND SHEEP HUsBANDRY.
great deal of our lands that are not
well adapted to farming purposes, being
hlly and sometimes rocky; afford fine
spring, summer and fall pasture, {range)
for sheep, cattle, goats and hogs and
serve very well for mares and colts. Our
reed-brakes and creek bottoms, to a large
extent are covered with switch cane, afford
ing am excellent winter range, requiring but
little other food for stock during our hard
est winters, and consequently we have "A
hue stock country.
FOREST TREES FOR LUMBER.
Our forests abound in the finest yellow
(heart pine trees for saw mills an abun-
dance of oak for tanning and wagon making,
the hickory is not surpassed, and the sweet
gum, poplar and magnolia are well adapted
% the manufacturing of furniture and gin
stands.
WATER POWER AND MILL SITES
The main attractions to capitalists are the
facilities for manufacturing purposes.
will here say any water power may be had
from 10 up to 800 horse power. | know
of "a fall of 30 feet that runs nothing but a
krlst mill and its custom requires but one
day In a week The town of Enterprise in
where the Chunky and Oktibbeha unite and
form the Chickasahay, a point where a
southern Lowell might be built, by skill
and capital. Indeed, sites for small and
large factories can be purchased at nominal
prices, in Lauderdale Clarke, Wayne,
Newton and other counties in this section
of the State
TOWNS IN EAST MISSISSIPPI.
Meridian, Enterprise, Shubuta, State Line,
La9derdule and Scooba on the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad, Hickory, Newton, Lake and
Forest, on the Nicksburg and Meridian
Railroad; Meridian is our railroad center
here terminate the V. q NJ. Il. R., the
Alabama 4 Chattanooga and the Alabama
Central, with the Mobile and Ohio passing
through from Mobile 10 St Louis. In Me
ridiau we have an Iron Foundry, SASH
Door, Blind and Furniture Factory; tive
I2uneTIes, Cotton Factory, Merchant Mill
and Cotton Seed Oil Mill She purchased
the past season 10000 bales of cotton. Be
sides, the cotton factory at Meridian, there
are several others in successful operation IN
this section, two of which l will mention,
the Wanita and Stonewall Mills, near En-
terprise.
THE MARLs OF EAST MISSISSIPPI.
In the outset of this communication,
stated that East Mississippi embraced part
of the Eocene" formation, and that you
may know my object, l will here state thai
II was to inform 1.-The world and the rest OF
mankind" that we possess the best facilities
Tor making perfect plant food, i. E., fertill
zer See L. Harper's Geoio gical Report o.
the State mississippi. This region abound'
IN mari of almost every variety, accessl
bic to the Vicksburg and Meridian, and the
Mobile and Ohio Railroads, and also, on the
Chlckasahay, Buckatunna rivers, and many
other creeks. The commercial value OF the
best varieties, is set down by Mr.. Harper a
SIG A. per ton, equal if not superior IL
value to California gold bearing quartz, anc
not half the expense to prepare It. I'M
mari when mixed with cotton seed mea
tunder a patent issued in 1882 and witt
ashes, atfording potash, gives one of the very
best fertilizers, which will enable this sec
ton to become the Eden of the South ii no
the nation
From the fact, that we have the health
the water, the timber, pasturage, fair farm
ing lands, every facility for transportation
with this cheap fertilizer to answer GU
domestic purposes. You can in truth an'
soberness call aloud and spare rot for indus
try, energy, intelligence Mpd capital to conn
among u.s. for all viii find goodly heritage
that will use the means that the God 0
nature and grace has laid within GU
reach.
Very respectfully your friend,
EDWARD j. REV.
Meridian, Mss, april, 1878.
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