The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1889-05-25

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We were not only charmed with the
of Greenville people, but
surprised to find city of ten thousand l
people full of push and enterprise, the 4
like of which cannot be found in the
State. To give our readers an idea of
the city ankfertility of the surround
ing country 1t viii only be necessary
10 say that Greenyille handles $4,000 !
bales of cotton. has two congresses 1
and number OF banks and manufae-
turing enterprises, all in most pros
porous condition. The business part
of the city is substantial, new and of
brick. The residences are of modern
style of architecture, and taken as a
whole are the handsomest in the State.
The price of real estate has increased
from one hundred TO two hundred per
cent. in the past two years. Rents are
almost as high as Memphis and every
thing is ON a boom.-Tate County
Record.
Within a radius of fifty miles of
Greenville it is estimated that 100000
bales of cotton are raised. A great
portion of this country is naturally
tributary TO that city. to which new
territory is being added by railroad
development, besides, acreage in cot
ton increases in the territory mention
ed, We should conclude from this |
that Greenville will have to enlarge |
her facilities for handling cotton and
cotton seed in order to master the situ-
ton. The Georgia Pacific will give
her cheap coal and iron and If so and
should she diversity her industries by
building suitable iron manufactures
and cotton mills II is in the power of
Greenville undoubtedly ID become the
leading manufacturing city of Missis-
issippl; as well as the chief cotton
shipper. Nor do we believe she can
attain the full measure of the prosper
perity to which her location and sur
roundings entitle her by any other
means.-Woodville Republican.
| No town in the South has had more
| to contend with than Greenville; no
town to-day shows more prosperity,
vim, indomitable push, energy, and a
determination to succeed than 1t does.
From the river front for miles back
the sound of the hammer and the saw
can be heard, from sun to sun the
shrill whistle of engines in factories,
oil mills, brick yards, electric light
plants, Ice factories, steam bottling
works, steamboats,, laundries, etc, peal
: forth, telling that every avenue Of
trade aud commerce Is represented In
! that busy place. BY the courage o.
, the people of Greenville they have
succeeded in stopping the caviug o
river banks, and now they look
I. forward to the time when their fai
: city win be the acknowledged metrop
J oils of the State. Situated in the hear
. of the Mississippi Delta, the fines
> country in the world surrounding
for miles, with no city to compete wit
for hundred miles, truly Greenvill
"a does enjoy most enviable position
"a Filled as il Is with the most energeti
"a and best business men to be foun
~ anywhere, none need fear that ever
of opportunity to make 1t large di'
tributing point will be looked afte
r Truly, it is wonderful place; 1t wi
"a become greater as it grows older.-
ID Yazoo Herald.
ct went all over Greenville. | saw
N city of 10000 people--a people wh
OF are for their town first, last and oil IL
al time a people who have nerve, plucl
re energy, intelligence, refinement, hosp
es tality. went in the by-ways an
h. bedees-on every side found the ca
1t, penter. the brick mason, the painte
s. saw city built in three years--a ci'
whose principal street three years ag
i'll IL now one hundred and fifty feet
no the Mississippi river. A people WI
on devised means TO stop the incroach
on the river, and undismayed by calam
ps. ties that would crush other places hay
he grandly risen and building anew
,c- building permanent houses, stores an
,t- dwellings two and three stories hie
he in the latest architectural style.
nt- city containing, as a whole, the be
H. class of Hebrews ever saw educate
ia cultivated, intelligent, and who pl
nd togerher with the Gentiles wherev
* Greenville is concerned. Much D
re. been said of the unhealthfulness Of q
sn- Delta. Possibly, and even probabl
,rd out from the river in the lowlands al
ms. bayous 1t is bad but cannot belle
It is unhealthy in Greenville. ii
people say 1t is not and the large nul
'he ber of healthy men, together with t
en- complexion of the women and childre
ie' the best Of tests, confirms the TACT III
Gu, they have good health and then
rus beautiful ladies, pictures OF health,
'ne another confirmation strong as nc
Iat- writ for no woman can be beautii
the and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dispatch
uc- ""'
the A few years ago Greenville wa
the place of some 1000 inhabitants, a
now the most conservative estim'
Dus placed on the number ofits populati
isis is 5000 to 10000. The cause of t
its wonderful growth is naturally ask
i've. There are several causes. 1t has bt
east divinely favored, being located on
the Father of Waters surrounded by
fers of the most fertile countries the wo
,ent has ever known. This country m
have q market, and the nearer its do
=, the better, into which to pour Its 7
tne agricultural products. But all
'ate, would amount to nothing If Greeny
VEN did not have within her borders 7
&C q of means with capacity to realize
npie situation, courage to take hold O
Ion, and judgement to handle 1t. I
'es's have confidence in their town and
is Oh tablish that confidence in outsiders
ssis- investing their own means in the to
we They show their faith by their wo
anu If all improvement that will redo
ner TO the public good is to be made,
ana don't go around with long faces crl
Aert the necessity of the work, but the
W., we OF enterprise and money to do 1t.
one stead of this they take hold, resoly
rom do and do it. The croaker Is unkn
cneu there and should he make his app
el at ance the live men and women of
sup nlace would soon crowd him into