The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-31
THE NJ, Il. & N.RAILROAD.

THE NJ, IL. q v. RAILROAD.
The time has come when the citi-
zens of Brookhaven must be up aud
doing in the matter of all East and
West line of railroad. Such a line OF
road is going to be built in that part
of Mississippi south of the Nicksburg
& Meridian road and that i'll the near
future. The field is an inviting one
and capitalists will soon realize 1t.
The territory is rich, the products OF
field aud forest are abundant
The question now is will Brookha-
ven seize the opportunity and make
herself the principle city in Central
South Mississippi? We believe she
will. II she does not then one of our
neighbors, Wesson or Summit, will be
the fortunate place.
Business men of Brookhaven, think
for a moment what would become OF
YOU if the Meridian and Natchez rail-
road was to pass in this neighborhood
and vet give Brookhaven the go-by. We
would have to prepare to move, either
above or below, according to where
the junction with the |. G. road was
made.
We can offer greater advantages to
the company that wll build the road
than any other point can possibly
give:
/. We are on the most direct
route.
.. Seven and three quarter miles
of the road has been built and is now
ready, and this can be cheaply utilized.
3. We can make as good a sub
scriptiou as any town on the Illinois
Central railroad, and we will do it.
Br0OkkGrcR NeWS.
Rrookhavcn has in her history
made several serious mistakes. She
made mistake in not securing WeS-
sons factory, which could have been
done with slight encouragement at
the time. Out of that mistake the
thriving and industrious city of Wes-
sou has grown; and she is a CONNER
cial rival of no small proportions
within nine miles of us.
The machine shops of the
Illinois Central Railroad company,
now at McComb City, could easily
been secured here, but our people
seemed Indifferent and this was am
other serious mistake.
Think what this city would have
been with WessOn and McCOnrb City
added to us
Our town made Il serious mistake in
not securing-it could have been done
by proper effort on the part of our
cilzens-the construction of the Rail
road from Natchcz here. We We're in
different and the road went to Jack
son.
We can all now see that it would
have been better for us and for the
road: and we can see too that we
were too slow and Indifferent in the
matter of securing the location Of the
Presbyterian male college--old Oak
land-now known as Chamberlain
Hunt Academy, aud which went to
Port Gibson.
These are all monumental errors.
They must not be repeated.
Our Meridian and Natchez cXchan-
ges show that the building of d rail
road between those cities is almost Il
certainty. We must move in the
matter and this point must be the
crossing place Of the new road with
the Illinois Central. We are glad to
see our neighbor the News (and we
know the Progress will be on the
right side) interesting itself i'll this
matter. We commend its article to
our readers which we have copied
above.
With a railroad to Natchez, under
our State Railroad commission,
freights would be so reduced that the
trade of this city would be quad
rupled.
The very constructions of the road
would give employment and money to
al large number of men and bring into
the stores of our merchants numerous
customers. Our population would
double in a year, manufactures would
spring up, and our lands would in
crease in value one hundred fold.
We will have more to say on this
subject in the future.