Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-06-25
RUssUM.
How the L., N. o. g. T. r.. r. ls Build
Ing Up the State.

How the L., N. O. at. r. r. is Build
Ing Up the State.
Mr.. Editor: While 10 many indiVid.
uals who are interested in building up
themselves in their business at the ex
pense of newspaper proprietors, who
gr%atuitously insert their reading ad-
v%ertisements under the guise Of "com.
%municated," might not my candor off,
set, in a measure, the presumptuous
request for space in your popular pa.
per to blow" this part of the country
y little.
Russum is on the line of the L., N.
o. & t. II. r., thiIty-seven miles south
of Vicksburg, and is located on nearly
level ground. Although it has only
had existence for a little over a year,
yet the railroad books show a ship
ment of nearly 1900 bales of COTTON
for the first season.
The surrounding country is as fer
tile as any of the walnut and poplar
uplands of Mississippi. There has
been for the past few years quite an
influx of native white people, and as a
general thing these people are intelli-
gent, thrifty farmers, who diversity
their crops and introduce new methods
of culture with new implements.
The cold, backward Spring retarded
the first growth of the crops, but they
are fast catching up. The corr as a
general thing, has received its fnai
working and looks very promising at
this time. A much larger per centage
of corn and peas have been planted
than for years. There vas more small
grain sown this season and more
meadow land prepared than usual.
Cotton is about all scraped, with much
further advanced stands comparative
ly good. But for eleven days past WE
have had from two to four rains daily,
add yesterday evening a very hard
rain, which did much damage to crops
and fences in the bottoms. Grass and
tie vines are luxuriating in such
weather, and the grower will have to
redouble bis energies to get them again
under control, as it rained again to-
day.
Every industrious farmer who con
templates a move, is cordially invited
to visit this part of the country before
locating elsewhere. If he is in search
of fertile fields, luxurient pastures,
good water, healthy climate, best mar
ket facilities, churches, schools and to
live in the midst of an open-hearted
h%ospitable people, such he will find
contiguous to Russum.
One reason for the prosperity here
is largely due to our local and your
Vicksblrg merchants, and if you will
indulge a little more advertise sing l will
tell you how it is. You see, after the
railroad was bull many of u farm
ers went to your city to buy supplies,
and the reduced figures they had to
pay enabled them to get so much more
for a dollar than formerly, t1at most
of our farmers will be able after this
year TO discard the eli cFedi, system.
Our local merchants were quic1 to
recognize the "nimble sixpenct" sys-
TEN of business, hence the justly earn
ed reputation that better and cheaper
purchases can be made from them
than anywhere between Vic&sburg
and Baton Rouge. Those of our mer-
chants who have bought of Messrs.
Geo. Irving & Co., H. B. Bruser, W.
II. Andrews & Bro, Fox e Co. and
others, were the first to mark their
goods at the lowest cash price. In
every instance of a comparison of iD-
voice pic, IS with those from other Cit
lis the result has been largely in ia.
vor of your city merchants.
In the Lway of enterprise Russum
has two steam gins, q blacksmith
and wagon shop, one blacksmith and
carriage shop, the proprietor of the
lat 'r coming here from Vicksburg.
The first meeting Of the board of
mayor and aldermen of Russum was
held last Saturday night, with DR.. j.
w. Davenport, as mayor, appointed
We venture a wager that the mayor of
Russum holds more State and United
States, RAILROAD, official and unofficial
positions than any other man in south
Mississippi.
The new Methodist Church here is
unfinished, and to raise che necessary
funds for ITS completion there will be
a grand picnic given on the first
p:oxiuo, at the quarry in the suburbs
of the town, to which six hundred or
more of your citizens are cordially and
earnestly Invited, and they cIn feel
assured If they will come, that they
will get a better dinner, more pleasure
and enjoyment, for less money, than
they VIII get at any similar place this
Summer. The gifted and talented Col,
G. E. Hooker will be here that day, and
will deliver n of his elegant speeches