The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-02-08
Questions and Answers 1 N Regard
TO Aberdeen and Monroe
county.

regard 10 our city and county, with
the probable purpose of locating a
Cotton Factory and Cotton Seed Oil
Mill at this point. We append some
of the question together with our
answers:
"What is the character of cotton
raised in your section ?"
Nearly all the cotton marketed in
Aberdeen classes middling and much
of it takes rank in the fancy grades.
There is little inferior or dirty cotton
offered here, unless the picking season
is very unfavorable and rainy.
els your land red land or sandy;
and what is the character of soil as to
cotton growing ?"
Monroe county possesses quite a
diversity of soils. We have prairie,
black hammock, sandy loam,post oak,
red clay, and sandy lands,a all of which
produce fine crops of cotton when
properly cultivated, especially the
prairie, hammock and sandy loan,
and with fair picking seasons the
cotton sample is almost universally of
the middling class, Or better.
"What kind of timber does your
county produce ?"
Hickory, white oak, red oak, post
oak, willow Tor water) oak, black wal
nut, ash, poplar, beach, yellow pine,
gum, birch, cedar, etc.
"What facilities for making brick;
have you the clay and is it conve-
niently situated, and at what cost can
the brick be made ?"
We have an abundance of the very
best clay inside and outside the city
limits for making brick, and have
made all required to rebuilt our city
after several disastrous fires, as we'll
as for new buildings that are con-
stantly being erected. With improved
machinery they can be made as cheap
ly in Aberdeen as anywhere else in
America.
"Have you building stone; and
what character and how near ?"
No building stone can be obtained
in Mississippi, of any character. The
nearest is in the State Of Tennessee.
"What lines of railroad is Aberdeen
situated on ?'
The railroad facilities of Aberdeen
in the near future will be more perfect
than those of any point in the State,
with probably one exception. Aber-
deem is the terminus of nine-mile
branch of the Mobile & Ohio which
the city built and paid for in 1863, at
a cost of $12S.000. The Canton,
Aberdeen g. Nashville, is under con-
tract and in course of construction
from its junction with the Illinois
Central to this point, and will be
completed by the first of November,
opening direct communication with
New Orleans. The Memphis, Selma
& Brunswick road is also in course of
construction from Memphis to this
point and will probably be in operation
by this date next year. The surveys
and a portion of the grading of the
Georgia .Pacific--from Atlanta to the
Mississippi river-have been executed
in this county, but the work is not
progressing at present.
sHow near is water course that
is navigable p
The Tombigbee river flows within
less than a quarter Of a mile and in
full view of the Gordon House, our
principal hotel. 1t is navigable five
months in the year, and before the
building Of our branch railroad small
fleets of steamers could be seen at the
wharf nearly every day during the
cotton season. Small steamers fire..
quently run as far as Fulton, one
hundred and forty miles by river,
north of Aberdeen.
"How near are you to one having
water power ?"
There are numerous rivers and
streams in the county that will afford
excellent water power by "making it,
as is often done up in the East, and
several whose water power features
are natural. The Buttahatchie river,
which flows through the eastern por,
ton of the county, ten miles from the
city, cannot be surpassed anywhere
as water power. 1t is not navigable
and is very swift-running. The Sip
sey, few miles to the west Of it is a
large stream, sometimes called river
1t is never failing and affords excel
lent water power Besides the Tom
bigbee river there are two very
considerable steams within one mile
of Aberdeen-one on the north the
other on the south-one of which
dries out in the summer season, while
there are several other creeks in the
county of smaller Importance. In
addition to these we have a consider.
able number of artesian wells in the