The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1885-08-22
MISS.
,e 81 the LiVest and Most Pro-
uressive Towns Of Its Size
IN the State.
'olnsthi1g About Its Natural
Re6curcss and Advantages.
What it Has Accomplished
Within ITSELF Without Outside
AG- Push and Enterprise Of
It's Psople-lts Railroad
Facilities.

} ITS People-lts Railroad
Facilities.
special Correspondence Memphis Appeal
GRENADA, MISS, August 10.-1t is a
little strange, if not phenomenal, that the
South, which has been SO long set down
byl other parts of a common country as
afiti- progressive and fossiliferous in her
idehs of material advancement, should
though this whole year,in all Of her geo
qfaphical divisions, have produced incon-
ta1fible evidences Of an onward spirit.
These have not come on the crest OF
boom, that rolls like the billows of the
Ise& but have silently arisen with no
manifestation Of general acclaim. While
stagnation has marked the universal
course of business throughout the civilized
world, and has been felt here with fearful
Emphasis, it has not extingnished, though
~ has stifed the spirit of progress. Judg-
Ind from the reportf of The Baltimore
ManufacturersRecord, here and there have
cropped out developments that prov
ed that capital If not plenty, still exists.
Manufactures have been built, mines
have been opened, industries have sprung
up, and other evidences of wide awake
feeling have marked the course Of events
ID the South. which 60 to show that with
ali of our general inertness there still re-
mains some forces, silent, but powerful,
awaiting the touch Of some modern Frank
lin to ignite the hidden fires slumbering
III the undeveloped resources Of the couu,
try. 1t is unnecessary to travel over our
own tatherland, and mention them in de-
tail, when we can start on the spot where
We write, and show to an i1credulous
public that nowhere can be found more
Of this reactionary law than in the a
TOWN AND COUNTY OF. G3ENADA .ss,a
% While money was plentiful in all the
commercial and financial centers of Eu>
rope at per cent, while capital has laid
Dormant in all the chiet cities of this
country, while money could not be bor-
lowed here at twenty 90 per cent this
town has gone on, from the very embers
Of conhagration from the very debris of
financial bankruptcy in her corporate in.
stitutIons Of money; from the very wall
of poverty and distress at the loss of the
widows mite, the orphans patrimony, and
sthe hard earnings Of the laborers' toll, the
slowly accumulated dollars of the farm~
ers economy and to-day presents one of
finest towns in tie South of its size.
There must something peculiar in the
people or in the geographical position that
we occupy to rise superior to these advan.
a tages, and when we say that these combi-
ned make the present and future re.
sources of Grenada, we speak the truth
The advantages Of position as to com.
merce and travel have been apparent in
all ages and countries from the time of
\ Tadmor in the Persian wilderness, when
carayansaries of Ishmaelites and other
Arab tribes of the desert exchanged CONS
modities of Western and Oriental COM
merce, down to the time that Occidental
and Eastern civilization of modern times
exchanged the fruits of commerce through
the golden gates OF San Francisco on the
Pacific. There is something in our loca-
ton, as a favorable point in the highway
II Western and Southwestern commerce
LuaC we uluSt aCkuOWlcuRc.
LOOK AT THE MAP
and it will be found that our town lies
between the thirty.fourth and thirty,
eighth parallels Of latitude. between the
Tombigbee on the east and the Mississ>
ippi on the west, with the rich alluvials
Of the delta on the one side and the rich
praiaries on the other, right at the south
terminus OF the Mississippi and Tennes-
see railroad, and directly on the great
trunk line of the Illinois Central, begins
ming at New Orleans, and tapping .ll the
great cities and lakes of the west, and
running through the corn beef and pork
regions of Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Ohio
and on until we reach the far west on the
Pacific. When a line froad crosses from
the east and west of our state running
through Grenada, we will have opportu>
mites of expansion that would make this
town prolific with all the offerings of in
dustry and commerce. When the road |
that is now chartered and mapped out |
from Pensacola, via Meridian to this |
place, connecting with the Mississippi |
and Tennessee road, we will be bound |
in immediate connection with all out of
doors, centering in land.locked harbor
in the Gulf Of Mexico capable of shelter>
ing the navies of the world. All the pre-,
liminary questions of this great railroad |
scheme, from Florida to Grenada, have |
been settled, and the details of the work |
are now being mooted by capitalists of
oJ intelligence and ambition. What
future does this open up for the
FUTURE OF GRENADA
But let us look for a moment at our
own resources on onr own grounds. We
alluded in the beginning in general terms
to Grenada and the difficulties under
which she has labored, and now we pros
pose to present them more explicitly,
Take the population Of $500 in this town