Iuka reporter., 1888-06-28
TIE STATES PROGRESS.
New Enterprises Reported in
Mississippi, the astiMonth.

NeW 1HlcTCTiSoSf ASpOEt9Q t{l
Mississippi the Last Month.
The Baltimore Manufacturer's Rec.
ord of June has the following list Of new
industrial enterprises in the State Of
AlLIsissippl: -
,e,There is talk Of building en- ice Fac
, ,lory at Tupeo! -"
'Jhon 0, Rlaekwood contempla'es
starting Canning Factory at Osceola:- :
Joseph Wall, Of, ,Gfeenville, will short
ly erect large foundry in that city.
S.andford g. Sons will start the mans
ufacture Of cotton presses at Meridian.
The Rodney Saw aud Gil Mills, re-
ported last week as burned, viii be rer
puilt.
a S50,090 Land Improvement and
Immigration Association has beeh
formed at jackson.
The shipments of lumber from Boone-
vile in Prentiss county, arc constantly
increasing.
Duran, in Holmes county is making
heavy Shipments Of straw berries to the
North and West.
Capt. VIM. A. West, of Lafayette
county expects to seL 100 Ions of'cover
hay from his meadows this season. :
The Saw mills are doing lively busi-
ness in New Venice, Jackson county !,
and the Ship yard is well empoyed. :
Large shipments of corn are being
m ade from Bonneville. in Prentlss coun-
ty, this season chiefly to the pineries.
Parties 10 Washington a now rece;y
ing their butter by express fiom the
Jersey dairy farms of east Mississippi.
The Refuge oil mills, OF Vicksburg
have just added to their plant four
wooden tanks Of a capacity Of 1000 gal.
looms each.
The Georgia Pacific Railroad will
complete its Valley Division between
Greenviile apd Winona BY the 1st Of
November.
Certervllle, Wilkinson county made
its first shipment of peaches for this sea-
son on the 23d Of May. They went to
Kansss City, Mo.
A Save factory at BALDWIN, on the
line of Lee ana Prentiss counties, is do.
ing brisk business, and last week was
filling orders for Joliet. I'll.
The shipment Of lumber by sea from
the port Of Pascagoula, in Jackson
county. for the week ending May 9th.
amount to nearly 5000. 900 feet.
Toe town pf Enterprise Clark county,
has y salaried immigration agent in It's
employ canyassing the West and North
vast, and the venture is proving highly
su ocessful
The Atlanta Bridge Company, of AT
lauta Ca, have been awarded the con
tract to build an iron drawbridgs
across the Sunsower RIVER for the exten,
sion of the Georgia Pacific Railroad.
|. l, Barber A. b. Wagner, j. l.
Hughes, i A. Lloyd and others have
chartered the Southwestern Machinery
Company, at Meridian, capital stock
S50,O00 to manufacture and sell ma
cl inery etc.
! The contract to build the iron draw
bridge oyer the Yazoo river for the ex.
tension of the Georgia Pacific Rarilroad
previously mentioned, had been received
by the new Jersey Steel and Iron com
rany of Trenton N. j.
The receipts of cottun at Greenville
this season. up to May .S, amounted to
53,269 bales, Of the shipments all but
! 5,25S bales were compressed at Green .
vile, whereas in former seasons The
COMPRISING was done in port.
/ The receipts Of cotton at Aberdeen for
the season up to May 9Th. amounted 10
26,4 4l5 bales, almost all Of which was
| sold in that market, compressed there
and delivered direct from her depols BY
rail to "ship. side"
| The Yazoo Immigration land and i'm.
4, provemeut company, capital stocs $50,
| 900, has been chartered hy r.. A. Pick.
EFT, j. NJ. Chisolm, Il. q. Thompson
$. M. pyer and others 70 deal ii lGhds,
encourage ftitnlgtatioN. etc.