The Grenada gazette., 1888-04-14
GRENADA
As Seen by tho Travelling Correspondent
of the Great Detroit Free Press.

ger feels at home. The people grasp
him by the hand and give him u
hearty welcome, They have enough
Of the hospitality and frirndliness Of
the 'sold South to make their town
. "haven Of restn to the visitor, and
enough Of the energy and ''go-ahead-
Rtiveness' Of the new South to
make 1t one Of the liyeljest and most
progressive places in all Mis-
sissipp,. Grenada is the principal
town IN the copnty Of the same
nams. This county stands third in
territory Of the sighty-seven coun-
ties Of the State and can boast Of
some Of the best farms and most in
telligept farmers in Mississippi. It
u almost exclusively an agricultu.
ral county, a. seven out Of ten Of its
white people are farmers, and even a
greater proportion Of the blacks. The
Roil Is good upland, interspersed with
fertile loan and clay lands and pro-
duetivs creek bottoms. Cation and
corn have heretofore besnethe princi-
pal crops and the average annual
production il one-haIf bale of the
former and fifty bushels of the latter
for each acre under cultivation.
Oats, sweet ana Irish potatoes, vege-
tahlGs and fruits are cultivated with
success. There is nothing necessary
for the sustenapce of man or the graf
jhcation of his appetite that the soil
Of this portion Of Mississippi will not
produce,
On either side of the Yallobusha
River, which flows by the town and
extending 100 miles northward, are
virgin forests which have never been
touched hy the iun.Lernian $ AK. An
Aetllnl rn,int Of trees on six acres of
thess forests shows 30i that could be
sawh i,to Iu.nher such as ash, hick-
ory, birch, maple poplar, white ,ak
and rea-gum3, averaging from forty
to fifty fact IN length, and from TWEEN
ty to forty inches in diameter There
is plenty Of pine that could be util-
lied in floating this timber down to
Grenada, and 1t is Il matter of sur
prise that there Is not here siagte
sawrMll. There is an excellent
opening for such an enterprise, and
the '.i,.tjs an1 ;iHiber can be purchas-
ed iar i n.-ge SONG
Greu,tda ls OH the main line of the
famous Illinois Central Railroad,
which IL the grea. direct route from
Chicago to New Orleans, and Is con-
nected with Memphis by the Missis-
ippi 4 Tennessee Branch of the same
road. The just and liberal policy of
this corporation gives to Grenada
every facility Of transportation.
1t is hardly necessary to say that
Grenada Is a most inviting field for
the establishment of a factory for the
manufacture of cotton goods. The
cotton is right here at hand, fuel
Rbounds, and labor is cheap. From
other enterprises handsome profit
would be realized--such as fruit and
vegetable canning establishments,
foundry and machine shops, hub,
spoke aud handle factories, and 9TH
ers Of that character. The people of
the community stand ready to aid
any such enterprises.
1t IL worthy Of mention that Gren-
ads's business il conducted by men
who are in the prime Of life. In no
town have ! noticed SO great a pro-
portion OF the positions Of honor and
responsibility filed by young men.
This Mayor is . yopng man, as are
the county officials and bankers and
many Of the lawyer and merchants.
Grenada Is we'll supplied with
schools and churches. All denomi-
nations have good church buildings
which are we'll attended and liberal
" sustained. There are several ex-
cellent schools, both public and pri-
vate, where the white childred are
thoroughly instructed. The colored
people have also an excellent school.
The tSwn has suffered from fire and
psstil~nce hut has come through the
,ae1eal with increased vigor and new
siisrgy. The great yellow fever epi-
demic Of 1878 gave her notoriety all
over the country. It was imported
from New Orleans, and obtained a
foOthOld before its nature was sus-
pected. It cannot originate here,
and with the present quarantine reg
ulati0ns and improved sanitary con-
ditions there Is no reason to antici-
pate its reoccurence. There Is no
healthier place than Grenada of to-
tlsy, In evidence Of which fact 1t may
he stated that in u female college To-
Gated here, with an average attend
ance OF $50 pupils, there was not q
single case Of sickness during the
pasl year, and no death since the
opening 0f the institution five years
Ago.
IN 1884 nearly all Of the business
portion OF Grenada was destroyed by
H., hs,t tha h, rnk hutIdiuCs were