Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-12-07
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An article was published il your iotrnal
u short lime since hy DIR. Galrn Wilsaa. cf
Sew York, expressing a desire OIL The psrt
OF some eastern ~iugulsers IL find \ seuial
climate southwark that embraced 4 ptlirie
sui! adapted especially for corn raising. 1t
gives nae pleasure 10 ray that the blarNprat
rie belt lying along the eastern horler of
northeastern Mississippi and locally Known
as the Aberdeen prairie. is an ideal region
for the purposes inquired after, The black
lahds crop out ABOUT fifty miles south If
Corin,h and with Il width VARYING rromlttn
TO tbirty-iive miles. trend almGst south IL
long The Mississippi and Alabama state Ii 10
for i hundred or mare miles. %iisaprrsfin;
after II slight dctour eastwardly across Into
Alabama 10 The Tomhig5ec river just below
Gainesville. The almost entire belt lies IN
Mississippi; at the lower end. however, it
crosses over the line aud occupies It small
strip OF hlabamt, hot n!ed on the east by
the Tom5isbse river. lived for twenty.
i've years in the lower end Of this lovely
prairie region. pIartieing medicirIe and
farming the greater part Of the tine, aud |
can say from personal experience thu there
are no more beautiful and fertile corn lands
in the south than can he found ir this splen-
did belt. The climate fer ten months OF the
year is d~e'igatfrl. Cold is rarely excessive
aud cold waves rarely continue beyondtwo
days .nd The mercury seldom reaches 20 a.
ho,c zero. The summers are delightfully."-
tempered with the brcezes from the Gulf Of
Mexico, and the maximum Of heat is less
in midsummer than in this belt OF states to
the north of Mississippi.
The lands are gently undulating sunici-
emily so, h however, TO furnish the amplest
laria, except, Of course. along the swamps
that here aud there are found, where chills
will. more or less prevail, as they will whcr-
ever there are bottom lands in any part of
the United States, For lung troubles this
belt is curative as well as preventive. In II
practice Of fifteen years l never had six
deaths from consumption, and when once
settled for a | period of three or four years.
those moving in with incipieEt lung trou.
bic secured almost complete exemption
from the disc Sc. This section is destined
to become one OF the garden spots Of the
south for white settlers. Its fertility, sall-
brity and its accessibility to market, render
it II most desirable country, and now while
lands are cheap and its people anxious Tor
help to develop them, no better country can
be found for good people who are seeking
to escape Il rigorous climate and find 4 soil
and climate that can hardly be surpassed
as well as a people than whom there are
none better in the round world. This re-
gion is travorsed longitudinally by one Of
tie finest railways in the south, the Mobile
Il Ohio, which has termini at Mobile. Ala,
and st. Louis, Mo-, aud is indirectly in
close connection with New Orleans, Louis
vile and Memphis. The Mobile 4 Ohio
railroad is offering liberal inducements to
home-seekers ana is exceedingly anxious
10 secure settlers along its line. Inquiry
as TO immigrant rates Tor passage or lrelghts
cal be made to the President or Maj. K. L.
Posey, &. p. A. at Mobile, Ala. | am In no
sense an agent for any railroad or land syn.
dictate, do not own an acre of land in
that section or am | in any sense IN agent
Cor anybody who does. My whole desire
is to see this lovely region teeming with in
dids:.I, ala prosperity aud blooming with a
happy, healthful and thrifty people, as it
did in the days of auld lang syne. III shall
attract the attention of any good people to
this lovely country my whole reward will
be found in. a consciousness of ha ing done
a good service for worthy home seekers
and tor as good people as the sun shines
upon. JOHN u. YoODS.
Bowling Green, Ky.