The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-27
NYE IN MISSISSIPPI.
Cursory Remarks on Cotton,
Booms and the Lottery.
AGITATION IN NEW ORLEANS.
Jay Gould on the Annual Drawings
bilfs Experience at the Circus
Grounds When a Young Man.
Copyright. 1871. bx Edgar W I'VE.

IN THE CoTroS BELT, Dec. 2l.-fSpecial
correspondence. I'VE have been riding
al the afternoon in the cotton-growing
country OF Mississippi. AtlHelena. Ark, 1
saw the largest quantity of baled cotton,
thlnk, tnat L have ever seen. AT Green
WOOD, Miss, We stopped for three or four
hours IN order to make what is called 4
southern close connection. Greenwood is
Doom town: II vas shown Us by man
VINO mad charge OF the boom, and whose
business 1t Is, occasionally, 10 stir it up
Win long pole and make it squeal
He Is connected with several enter
prises which he showed Us, among Others
a cotton compress. This machine cost
S@opo, and cost for repairs last year $3.50.
or COMPRISING the cotton the company
receives % cents per bale, and seventy
baies are compressed in a minute: there
tore the profits in the business are worth
considering. In fact, il beats grand lar
ceny, and does not involve so much night
WORK 1t stands next TO the Louisiana
state Lottery in the matter of dividends
and freedom from intellectual strain.
Perhaps | should add, however, that this
machine IS not In operation. We next WIS.,
lted large ice machine and bottling works.
The Ice machine Is also very profitable
enterprise, but II also was not in operation.
Artificial ice is constructed by lowering
the temperature artlnclally to such an ex-
tent that ordinary water becomes hard
ened. Before | visited this machine was
III utter ignorance regarding the process.
We visited several other enterprises at
Greenwood, but il did not seem to be their
busy day.
visited the Office of the local paper and
had long, interesting talk with the editor,
who IS also member OF the state iegisla-
ture.
Recently the railroad from Helena to
Lula has been abandoned. This news will
fall With sickening PUNK on the ear of
the tourist. The road ran largely through
q dank swamp shaggy wallow in the
wilderness. When the off side OF the
track sagged, which it invariably did. IN
less the nigh side was engaged in Saying
the weight Of the train showed the decayed
ties into the Wet, mushy bosom OF the
earth and squiTted the mud forty feet
high This kept the windows OF the cars
looking very untidy, which is q rare thing
in that vicinity.
1t is said 10 be the worst railroad ever
born in captivity. / could hardly help
comparing 1t with the road in Michigan
leading out from Manistee, which has
never had dollar OF debt, / think. The
stock has never been for sale; the logs
hauled over it are sufficient to pay all
running expenses. The only passenger
conductor on the road is also general pas
senger agent. assistant general passenger
agent. auditor, general western freight
agent. assistant general press agent and
ex-o1ticlo president.
Al Lula We got what we called dinner.
It was such a meal as you would naturally
expect in town named Lula. The hotel
was run BY a sad-iaced woman in middle
life, who had probably twenty years ago
rasbiy MADE a bet that she could suDsist
for twenty years on her own cooking. |
would like to give list of the different
articles which We ate there, but | never
knew what they were, and | hate 10 de-
scribe anything unless | am fully posted
regarding i. What we had in orr coffee
cups / inferred was coffee, but it might
have been, for ali l could see to the con-
trary. the abandoned right-of-way of the
Lula and Helena railroad
During the afternoon we rode through
one enormous and almost continuous cot
ton field. The negroes pronounced mig
grOes) were just closing Up the third and
last picking. The first picking, | believe,
occurs in October, but as the balls are not