The Brookhaven leader., 1885-11-05
Things Needtur.

While TuE LEADER earnestly desires
the prosperity Of Brookhavcu above every
other place and has cast its lot with her
pcoplc fer veal or voc, IL Is we'll known
that we have no respect for the silly
twa,ldle 10 industrionsly pcddled about
our streets by few misguided or design
iuy neu TO the effect that our commercial
prosperity is dependent upon the survival
of the liquor traffic. So far from ibis be-
| ing an advantage, il has been conclusive
| liz demonstrated in these columns to all
unpreindiced minds that the reverse is
true. In lieu OF tho liquor traffic, we
have from time 10 time in the past sug-
gcsted what we think are the rcal essen
tails to Brookhaven's prosperity. She al
ready sells goods as cheap as any
town in Mississippi, and cheaper
| than most Of them, but she needs
other inducements of no loss import
auce. She needs a public ware
house for cotton public cotton weigher
and commodious stock yards and
sheds for the accommodation of traders
from distance. These things, coupled
with the full value Of cotton which our
merchants are always ready to pay, will
'draw" trade. Then again, along with
these, Brookhaven needs o cotton conf
press. Five years ago Jackson did not
ship annually exceeding nine or ten thou
sand bales of cotton. This season, with
her cotton compress and all the advantage
es Ii combines tn cotton buyers and sell
lers, she expects to ship sixty thousand
bales.
Appropos these reflections we print below
an address issued by tho merchants of
Winona, A PROHIBITION TOWN, by which
IL will be seen that the policy which has
been advocated by THE LEADER IN fully
borne out by their experience. Let our
merchants and business men fully awake
to their true interests and work together
in harmony for those things which
will make our fair little city what she
ought to be aud can be tho most popular
and fiourishiRg place in South Mississip-
ri:
Winona to-day is moro prosperous than
she has ever been. She has surged for
ward like the waves of the sea in build
ing houses, establishing new business
firms, and in adding TO her already large
stock of DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, &C.
Tho farmers, after comparing prices, have
seen that Winona out bids all competitors
in the price of cotton and sells goods as
cheap rs any market in Mississippi.
There is no little city in the State where
there is so much money conferred as here,
and consequently there are more large
busiRess firms with larger capital aud
more enterprise than any other place near
it's size ia the country. WinOna this sea-
son il In better shape to do still better
for the farmer in high prices for their
cotton and low prices for goods than ever
before, for the reason that she has u brick
COTTON WARE HOUSE that covers an
acre to store the cotton in, which enables
the foreign cotton buyers to give from l
to I of n cent per pound more for it than
has heretofore been realized for 1t. She
has four foreign buyers who want q thou
sand bales per day if they can get it be-
sides at least fifteen of the largest mer-
chants in the town buy all they can get
hold Of This active competition forces
the price of cotton up Highland in buy
Jug SoOds Oi All uoNCIitsI"hS, Hcro arc
fifty different merchants of every descrip-
ton each of whom tries to sell cheapest,
10 you sec the farmer has very fine
chance to do well here, both in buying
and selling. We have splendid banking
facilities, money pOurs into the town
every day sufficient to buy more cotton
than we can get. We have splendid
houses and stables aud wagon yards for
the accommodation of several hundred
teams at very small charges. we have
ten or dozen wells of elegant crystal
water, the supply for both man and beast,
being abundant for many hundred each
day. Just put it down for IL fact that
WinOna will not he over bid for cotton or
under bid on goods by any town in the
State.
THE MERCHANTS OF WINoNA.