The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1889-02-16
Delta Progress-rhe Geeat Sky Lake
Section.
SHAKE RAG, Feb. 10th, 's9.


Section.
SHAKE RAG, Feb. 10th, 'S9.
MIR. EDITOR Please cash this little
draft on your valuable time and space.
The planters and farmers are moving
along with high heads as though they
never heard of a short crop. We are
having fine weather for all kinds of
business and the planters are making
good use of the same. Flowing, build
ing houses, clearing land, ditching and
a thousand and one things pertaining
to the plantation; the planters are de-
termined to wipe-out the little shortage
of last year if energy and industry will
do it. The me rchants are renting many
plantations and taking large leases in
the woods and improving them. | sup
pose this is done to control the trade
in the country. The Improvement and
development of this great Delta coun-
try is a settled fact. All observing mon
can see that 1t is only in infancy al this
day. Take Washington county for an
example; there is Greenvillc the central
city and capital of six million Of acres
of the best cotton, corn, fruit, grass and
garden land in any portion Of the civ
ilized world. There Is no doubt but the
city of Greenville will in the next ten
years TIP the beam with her twenty
five thousand inhabitants. Some
doubling back slider may laugh at the
idea but let HIM think of what has
been done in that city IN the last year
or two. The fact is the city has just
began to walk. When the Georgia Pa
cifc railroad is completed she will be-
gin to trot. Then you will see machine
shops, foundries, cotton mills, bagging
mills and thousand and one things not
thought of at present. But neverthe-
less whilst Greenville is trottingi IL must
be remembered that the development
and Improvement throughout the
country is keeping pace with her en-
terprising beautiful capitol city, If not
outdoing ber. There is Arcola with
its dozen or more business houses do
ing a good business, Hollendalc about
the same, Leland about equal to Arcola
(only it is the proud possessor of one
of the finest hotels IN the State) where
ever you go you will find the clerks all
busy and besides all this there is a
store every four miles of railroad and
they all claim to be doinga good busi-
ness. This all shows that the country
is being opened and improved beyond
all calculation. Then we hear the low
rumblings of the Arcola and Silver City
branch, of the Georgia Pacific; which
the Arcola capitalists are going to use
every effort TO induce the company to
build. The road will start at Arcolo
rnnning on the township line through
a highly improved country to the Sun
flower river, then continue on the
township line TO the great Sky Lake
country. The land bordering on this
great lake is said to be by good judges
as fine and high as the Lake Washing
ton country, if not better. The tim
Der is the finest in the Delta. All that Is
required is railroad to develop that
splendid country. The great Sky Lake
is about twenty miles long, with high
sandy banks and in many places mile
wide One can see the bottom where
the water is twenty feet deep and the
sandy bottom is as white as snow, only
clouded now and then with thousands
of fine trout and other game fish. AT
ter the road is built what splendid
place this great lake will be for th'
! over-worked business men of Green
vile TO visit and haul in the sever
mound trout, and bathe their bon,
: frames in its sun kissed waves and III
. crystal depth that reflects a hcavei
above and heaven below. Thi
great SKY Lake country is settling VI
very fast and will in the near futur'
become as famous as the Lake Washing
ton country, The railroad after leaving
u the lake will run due south through
= splendid country and touch the lazo'
D. river at Burlonia; thence down the riv
+ er through a highly improved countr'
II TO Silver City, then down the Yazo
II river or Silver Greek as the compaD,
L. NAV select The distance from Arcol
i TO Silver City by this route is abou
e twenty-three miles and the best rout
q between Johnsonyille and the mout
N of the Yazoo river. When this shor
IN line is built the Yazoo and silye
y Creek planters can ship their long Sta
s nle cotton on the Silver City and Al
cola railroad to Greenvillc, the be'
ve cotton market in the United States.
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