Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-08-12
Something About Its Natural Resources
and Advantages-What 1t Has
Accomplished
Within Itself Without Oatside Aid
Push and Enterprise Of Its People
Its Railroad Facilities.
Ioon.rsronnrnor ~ sur .p-r,r

the civilized world, and has been felt here
with fearfpl emphasis, it has not extin.
grisho6, though it has stifed, the spirit of
progress. Judging from the reports of the
Baltimore Oh Manufacturer Record, here
and there have cropped out Developments
that proved 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 in the South which 90 to show that
with all OF our general inertnee5 there
still remains some forces, silent, not pow
erful, awaiting The touch of some modern
Franklin to ignite the hidden fires slum-
bering IN the undeveloped resources of the
country. 1t is unnecessaryto travel over our
own fatherland, and mention them in de-
tail, when we can start on the spot where
we write, and show to an incredulous
public that nowhere can be found more of
this reactionary law than in the
TOWN AND COUNTY OF GRENADA.
Waj le money was plentiful in all the
commercial and financial centers of Eu-
rope ct z per cent, while capital has laid
dormant in all the chief cities of this
country, while money could not be bor-
rowed here at 20 per cent, this town has
gone on, from the very enters of conha-
grafton, from the very debris of financial
bankruptcy in her corporate institutions
of money; from the very wall of poverty
and distress at the loss of the widows
mite, the orphans patrimony, and the
hard earnings of the laborers' toll, the
slowly accumulated dollars of the farmers
economy, and to-day presents the finest
town In the South of its size. There
must be something peculiar in the people,
or In the geographical position that we oc-
". tO
tages, and when we say that these COM
blned make thes present and future re-
sources OF Grenada, we speak the truth
The advantages of position as to Commerce
and travel have been apparent in all ages
and countries from the time of Tadmor,
in the Per ian wilderness, when caravan
saries of Ishmselites and other Arab tribes
OF the desert exchanged the commodities
of Western and Oriental commerce, down
to the time that Occidental Eastern civili-
cation and modern times exchanged the
fruits Of commerce through the golden
gates of San Francisco on the Pacific.
There is something in our location, as
favorable point in the highway of West
ern and Southwestern commerce, that we
must acknowledge.
LOOK AT THE MAP
and it will be found that our town lies be-
tween the thirty-fouIth and thirty-eighth
parallels of latitude. between the Tombig-
bee on the east and the Mississippi on the
west, with the rich alluvials of the delta
on one side and rich prairies on the other,
right at the south terminus oil the Missis-
sippi and Tennessee railroad, and directly
on the great trunk line of the Illinois
Central, beginning at New Orleans, tap
ping all the great cities and lakes of the
west, and running through the corn, pork
and beet regions of Missouri, Kansas, Hi
nois, Ohio and On until we reach the far
west on the Pacific. When a iine of road
crosses from the east and west of our
State, running through Grenada, We will
have opportunities of expansion that
would make this town prolific with all the
offerings of industry and com nerce.
When the road that is now chartered and
mapped out from Pensacola, via Meridian,
to this place, connecting with the Missis-
sippi and Tennessee road, we will be COM
pleted in immediate connection with all
out of doors, ,centering in land-locked har-
Dor in the Gulf of Mexico capable of shell
terlpg the navies of the world. Ali the pre-
| iiminary 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 intel
| ligence 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 Our own grounds. We al
| luded in the beginning in general terms to
| Grenada and the difficulties under which
she has labored, and now we propose to
| present them more explicitly. Take the
| population of 2500 in this town and COM
| pare them with any other in the State, OF
anywhere else, and for business, morals
| and intelligence, we fear not the closest
scrutiny. In church facilities we have
religious orders in active operation with
| regular attendants, and pastoratss of edu'
cation and highest personal character
We have schools, chartered and free. The
former, under the potent il fluence of 6
large Methodist district, is in fine state
OF organization, under the head of an eI-
perienced teacher, seconded by corps oi
able assistants. The professions OF Law
] ara medicine are represented by men
talent ard stable Individual character
Our merchants are men who he bee,
tied in the crucibls of fi1aucial disasters
and have passed the test in safety. Ever
during the present dull summer two larg
brick structures for business purposes
which would ornament any town, hav,
been erected and are almost ready for use
With large oil-mill in operation, and
co,aprecs that will be at work in a fe,
weeks; with two well-kept hotels; with
large grist-mill and cotton gin combined
and every other convenience of pre-
gressive people, Grenada presents nu
L IMPROVEMENT GAN CONCENTRATE.
Take the people of the county of Gre
nada-they constitute as intelligent, indus
triou- and moral a set of farmers ascan b
found in the State. They own and occup,
the greater part OF the lands, and are nov
rejoicing in the prospect Of an abundan
crop OF corn and cotton. The lands con
stitute every variety of soil, and presen
every Typographical feature of hills an,
vslleys, creek and river bottoms, most @
them remarkable for fertility and easil
yielding to the manipulations of the plow
the sunshine and the rain. With ever
variety of timber for milling and wood, vi
are surrounded in these particulars witt
all the proffered advantages of nature TO
large increase CT population in pleasan
and happy homes. The people stand read
with open arms to welcome settlers from
anywhere, who come with industriou
habits or capital. With good water an,
plenty of it, from peaTly streamlets, flow
| ing rivers (Iallobusha and Bogne), ex
haustless wells, natures necessary lioui
is in abundance. With fine pasturing il
native grasses in summer and cane j.
winter, cattle, sheep and hogs are easil
raised With healthy climate, genel
GUS soil and a plenty of industrious farm
ers, We could present one of the best an
MOST COMPACT COMMUNITIES IN THE STAT
Therefore, in the name of the people, W
invite immigration from any quarter
| come and settle amongst us. North
Grenada eight miles is the pleasant littl
town of Hardy, on the Mississippi an
Tennessee Railroad, and ten miles soutl
ON the Illinois Central, is the village {
Elliot, and east fifteen miles, on the YALE
busha, is the quiet little town of Gray
port.
These are come of the advantage
which the town and county of Grenad
, | offer for the intended railroad line frol
here to Pensacola. a line passing throug
Montgomery, Webster, Choctaw, NewtoI
i Ne.hoba and Lauderdae in this Stat
aud Choctaw, Meringo, Clarke, Monro
|, | and Escambia in Alabama, to Pensacola i
| Florida on the Gulf. N.Y..