Iuka reporter., 1888-07-05

road, IN fact nearly all over the State,
showing that the thrifty Immigrant from
the North and Northwest has determ-
ined to settle in our State, and that all
that is necessary is for our people, all
over the State, to organize and advertise
our unsurpassed advantages, and wei.
come this most desirable class of immi-
grants, who have means to purchase
what they want and ''add their capital,
labor and enterprise to swell the tide of
returning prosperity of our great state"
No State can be more Benefited by
immigration than Mississippi. Our pop
ulation is sparsely settled over large
areas, making it almost impossible to
have efficient schools in the rural dis.
tricts, and with many other disadyan.
tages incident to thinly Settled sections.
We lave 3o,l79,s4O acres OF land in
the State. OF this only $4,000, 600 is
divided into farms, while really of this
amount only about 5,O66,oOO acres are
in actual cultivation. There remains
about 100000 acres in the State yet
to be developed. We see from this that
one half. in fact nearly two thirds, of
the State, could really be developed
and put in cultivation, and of as good
land as that already under cultivation.
We are really land poor, and If the
greater part of the land we do not use is
sold to thrifty immigrants who have
capital and who will iSin in with us IN
It's development, it will add untold
wealth 70 our State, and then it will
furnish the capital we need SO much,
will relieve us of all possible individual
Indebtedness decrease our taxes; build
up our waste places; give the condi-
tiona to make our PUBLIC school system
as effective as any other State in the
union, and in every respect add to the
material development Of the State.
Mississippi is an agricultural State.
and agricplturalists are the class mainly
deslrcd to settle in our midst. Our
TO vegetable growth are un.
surpassed and Mississippi to-day pres
sents more uniform adaptability for
great diversity of crops, than any other
Southern State. This is determined by
The conditions which fix her climate and
easons. Rainfall and temperature are
the two factors deciding this. The av
erage rainfall in the State is fifty. seven
inches-a little more In the Southern
portion, a little less ln tbe Northern.
la is uniformly distributed throughout
the year, making the State less liable TO
excessive drouths or rains than any
other secticn. No other. part of the
United States has so much rainfall, ex>
cepting smah area in Oregon, Florida,
and Eastern North CarcTna. The av-
erage temperature IS sky three de-
grees Farenheit. Coupled with this,
the geological conditIons of the State
give every possible varsity Of soil.
The Yazvo Del,a ehei bluff lands
bordering the Mississlrpi the yellow
loam lands; the TWO prairie belts, the
fiat woods lands. fis.ing the State for all
crops that grow in the warm temperate
zone. Prof. Hilgard, in discussing
some statistics on tho largest COTTON
crop ralsed in the Stste, sums Up the
soil of Mississippi in this language ~.
thus appears that tEeilatgc produclIon
Of Mississippi is dte TO- the fact that
quite one halt of its tetrltory'is is occupied
by soils d exceptional fertility" Thus
we see no Southern State has more
fertile soiI-more equable seasons-the
ice scarcely forming ah inch thick In the
Northe-n portions Ct the State, and
only frosts on the sea coast. Our poo
pie can labor every month m the year,
stock can Craze RON eight to ten
months, need only to be fed in, winter
from one and one half to four months.
There is scarcely i crop, vegetable or
fruit, that can not be raised in the
State. Late yesrs have. shown that i, is
emineutly stocs and grass State. The
products. OF the Worth and South meet
and grow in harmony. To this Stats.
tlcs add hat it is the sixth State in the
Union in point Of health.
Our resources in lumber are unsur-
passed by spy other Southern State and
the State is well adapted in the manu-
featuring Of almost any kind.
Our aavantages are such that we only
have to let them beEnovn to secure our
fa!l share Of the many Immigrants now
looking Southwark, and who will IN .
few years enable us 10 make our State
equal III prosperity tc. any OTHER in the
Uniona
! How shall this bo done' ire fmmi..
grafton Convention il, jackson at the
recent meeting ~
| The following report II the eommit-
tee on Resolutions was adopted