The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1890-06-14
xrw IDEA ANDA GOOD ONE.
,,ny for the Illinois Central Rail-
road TO Seriously Consider.
load to Grenada Suggested, and its
Advantages Explained.

OR SENTINEL WI
me- of our home capitalists have
~ contemplating, with favorable
essions. the natural advantages
Fed bv Grenada as a manufactur-
boint. particularly in the line Of
woods and cotton fabrics.
Has developed, however, that with,
Considerable reduction in rates OF
knortation on the manufactured
les. enterprises of the kind would
with poor success.
Iere is no good reason why the
bis Central r. r. should not en-
oe Investments in manufacturing
! its line by a liberal policy of
fing rates to the necessities of
financial conditions. Enterprises,
in the beginning, and needful of
fostering care of sympathetic
Iportation power, can by proper
ire be made to increase in magni-
land multiply in numbers until the
state will feel the good of its
&nce, and its proftableness as a
lament and prosperous customer of
transporter will fully compensate
he aid bestowed upon it in the
lev of its growth.
4 illinois Central r. r. has pursued
d policy in the development of
|ruit and vegetable industry in
! Mississippi and in louisiana.
Ia | presume some favors in the
hi special rates must have been ac-
IA the Mississippi Mills in the early
btrugling days Of that splendid
fprise.
II why Grenada can't secure such
as will justify her people in max
|uch investments is not understood
bur correspondent.
K a misfortune to the State, and
ly so to the people of this vicinity,
possessing the liveliest advantages
profitable manufacturing center,
Capital and labor ready and anx-
To engage in the work, yet for the
of considerate regard for the
3c interest and an intelligent un-
landing of their own on the part of
|sole transportation agent, these
hdes must remain uncultivated,
this enterprise go unrewarded.
Ii Grenada cannot afford to allow
advantages to longer remain un-
ling in her effort to accumulate
th and increase her usefulness.
resources must be developed, and
! to contribute to the upbuilding of
{ocial and business interests.
|enada is not totally helpless, or at
hercy of an unrivaled transporter.
E would get herself together she
quickly span the gulf that separ-
her from the centres of commerce
trade. A Anarrow-gauge railroad to
Tallahatchie river, tapping the
Pacific, or to Carrollton, would give
ada competitive rates of transpor-
b as valuable to her as though the
Fgia Pacific passed through her cor
te limits.
is estimated that such aroad would
including equipment, not eX-
[ing 100000 90. 1t would be a
|hg investment from the beginning
Grenada being specially interested
be road would give it the refusal of
! er trafic. If Grenada will secure
right of way, and endow the enter
f with a cash investment of $50, 600
balance can be raised by issuing
Bs, predicated upon the railroad
perty and franchises. And there is
easOn why these bonds should not
at.par. Grenada | believe offered
600 90 for the Methodist college. A
Poad to the Tallahatchie river
id be worth a half dozen such col
s to the business interests of the
D.
ill the SENTINEL take hold, an6
! its strong arm, push on the car Of
'reSS? CITIZEN.