The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1894-04-21

prOnt on the sale OF these frults ana
vegetables, they placed them in funds
at the time Of year when they are Or
dinarily without any money. Mer-
chants have reported that the farmers
are buying more dry goods and a bet
ter class of them than they have for a
number Of years, and that they looked
for a very good spring trade.
I'm no place along the line of our
road have found any evidence of dis
tress. The only complaint, so far as I
can SET, is from merchants, who claim
that the country at large is in better
condition and that in the towns they
wore not doing SO large Il business as
heretofore. Whether this is attributa-
bile or not to their old method of doing
business, making advances to the farm
ers and handling their crops, supplying
them with all they consumed, am no.
prepared to say. With the surplus
money in the banks and little or no de-
mand for 1T, there seems but one way in
which the capitalists can utilize
their capital. and that is in the invest
ment il stock of manufacturing enter
prises. have found them more dis
posed to subscribe to stock in reputable
enterprises than ever before. and it
seems to me only question of a very
! short time before desirable industries
will receive sufficient inducements 70
locate permanently in the south.
There Is at present natural dis
trust for large number OF industries
that make application for changes Of
location, and it is far better for cities
and towns to go slowly in securing de-
sirable industries than any that are at
all questionable. and it is only after the
most thorough sitting that cities should
invest in the stock of manufactures
Human nature is SO constituted that il
100 factories be located in the south
and one of the 100 should prove IL fail.
ure it would do more harm than the
other nincty-nine would do good. and
where local capital is necessarily limit
ed the result OF obtaining an undesira.
Bile industry would be felt for twenty
years, and would prove a standing ar.
gument against further subscriptions lc
desirable industries.
Il know offurniture factories in The
south which during this last depression
have been working not only full time
but half time extra. and | have bee,
shown net results that would be astoni>h
ing to furniture men in the north. Wha
holds true OF this character OF industr,
holds true of the majority of woodwork
ing industries. \ number OF man lfuc
lures in the north have very crude idea
as to their saftey in the south, believ
ing that they will be looked upon a
interlOpers and treated accordingly
How erroneous that opinion is and hoy
unjust it Is to the south can only b
demonstrated by people of the norti
visiting that section of the country.
am happy to say that of I. large numbc
OF people who have gone south durin!
this last eighteen months to look 70
new homes and also for places in which
to locate their plants. there has not beel
an exec pt.On but what they have conc
back thoroughly well pleased with thei
treatment, and have universally said
in the language of some Indiana mel
who were recently in the south. tha
they felt more at home after twenty
four hours acquaintance than they die
with great many of their own towns
men, where they have been thirt,
years.
''It only needs the location o
some we'll known citizens from ditferen
portions OF the north in the south t.
have this feeling entirely dispelled ant
to have them work as they do to hav.
their neishbors and friends t.
90 south with them. So far us the posi-
bilities of manufactures doing we'll il
the south, I am thoroughly convinced
that the business that can now pay il
the woodworking states, taking int
consideration the high price of timbe
and its scarcity with the same energ,
and knowledge Of the business applied
in the south, would produce YER!
much better results for, in the Opinio
OF a practical man from Indiana who ha
thoroughly looked over the situation
the opportunities for making money i
the south are fully AS good as they wer
in Indiana forty years ago. He assure
me he will not only locate himself /
the south, but will try to get all hi
friends to locate there as we'll.
In a recent interview. Hon, Fran