The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-03
The Great mississippi Basin.

MAJ. Il. q. Wall:
DEAR SIR-There is no section of the
South which extends more invitations to
the migrant, who is seeking a permanent
home where every product can be grown,
and stock of every kind raised with little
labor, than CoahOma county, and the other
counties of the Mississippi basin. Having
been within the last twenty years reclaimed
from the annual foundations of the Missis-
sippi river, which drowned out, and de-
stroyed the crops and stock, it is as yet
comparatively new country, not more than
one-siXth OF its lands being in a state of
cultivation, and at least one half of the same
can now be purchased at a mere nominal
sum.
CoAHoMA:CoUNrY
| lies on the bank of the Mississippi river
about seventy miles south of Memphis,
Tennessee, and is on the upper border OF
| the famous cotton belt, which is decidedly
| this best portion of said belt for raising
cotton, for while it is too far north for the
| boll-worm and other insects which prey
| upon the plant in its growing state, it is far
| enough south to escape the early frosts
which so frequently play sad havoc with
| the more northern cotton regions. The
land produces upon an average about
| bale of cotton to the acre-trom thirty to
| sixty bushels of corn-from twenty-five to
| forty bushels of wheat or oats, and the
experience of the last few years has demon
! strated that wheat can be raised here with
| as little danger of failure from rust and
blight as any where else.
| FRUITS OF EVERY CHARACTER
grow to perfection here-and are easily
| kept during winter, and in raising fruit the
| country is rapidly improving, for within
! the last two years, nearly every farmer and
planter under the inspiration of the Grange
| have set out an orchard upon which they
are bestowing great care and skill, and in
| another year we will have an abundance of
| fine fruit.
The river is accessible from every portion
l = zs1fI r
direct communication with the entire world
The country is interlaced with number
of small streams, which abound IN flsh OF
every kind known to the southwestern wa
streams have been stocked with shad by the
| United States Commissioners. 1t is no un-
usual thing to catch from forty to fifty
pounds of fish a day with the hook and
line.
Game of every kind from the bear to the
squirrel are in abundance.
While it is objected by those, who take
mere superficial view of the country, that
our cleared lands are generally IN large
bodies-the objection Is untenable; ior
nearly all of our large plantations can De
easily divided into several small farms with
suitable dwelling spot and a su1hcleney OF
wood and water for each. THESE lands can
be purchashed at from twenty to one nun
dre1 dollars per acre, according 10 Inc
condition of the owner.
STOCK RAISING.
There is no country in the world oetIer
adanted to raising cattle and hogs- Inc
grass supplies grazing sufficient TO keep
them fat during the summer anu lall' Witt nt
the dense cane brakes, furnish the hnest
winter feeding in the world. Hogs lVe
and keen fat upon the Wild aeorns ana
necans and the writer now has more Chah
a hundred, to which be has never leu Liore
than ten bushels of corn and ne can cite
number of droveS of cattle that nave cost
their owners nothing to raise them, except
\ few handsful OF salt once or tW!ce
week. and what is true of cattle In TINS re,
snect is also the case with horses anu
mules.
GRASSES OF EVERY KIND,
how GROW to perfection, but the Bermu-
40 clone does well for grazing. rms grass
crows without cultivation, ana aIter ing
once sodded will afford greater annoy annoy = ~
Grazing than any grass III the WorIu, anu ,nr
9th tits for the summer and the cane LOT
WI Maen 1, int, horses, mules and cattle keep
fat during the entire year.
TIMBER.
o,r country is studded with cypress
80 and oak forests, with from one nun
I'D fo two hundred trees TO the acLe, ano
now that the country mas Degu UNI ~ U,anl with
a', nood mill. could easily coin them lueo
fort1 fagr of our people have exPerimented
in the cultivation OF the g la Ip',c.c es
grape Su,. bnt few public Improvements
we nav .hoso which we have l will mention
the N Mobile and It. ka nancy
which. although as yet, Is IN ~ I1;ssissinni
ll;s mon the east bank of the MlsslsslpP
begins upI noint opposite Helena, Arkansas,
river IN a. south easterly direction through
.Se county i, Is officers Capt ns Lyea 1 1s
stonse and l Mr. l Fyn gea ar Saye
and WIFI. .l,aIve miles Of the road, and oy the
about sT teI will have It completed as far Of
cClarhesdaie in the southeastern p pr'iCsi CLARK
fl .e county. AZ this place MIL nil Near this
las erected ee, Iaocsted the Clarkesdale Grange
places al bV corps Of large planters a and
eheir elegant ladies' all Of WHOM ssirned to
interest In the movements aa.,,,,eon brother
unite the farmers into . colh"O-
nOou. rIsIAR's POINT,
.he county site which i perhaps pS Ess 81 the