The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-08-31
Mr., AARON G. DAVIS.
In an interesting Interview
Gives Some interesting Facts in Reference
to Building up a Town.

In an interview with Mr.. Aaron G..
Davis, who has resided in Grenada
for several weeks, having come to
this place from Dyersburg, Tenn, we
learn a few things about the rapid
growth of that fiourishing little city,
which may be of great interest to
those who are interested i'm the
development and growth of Grenada:
"A few years ago." said Mr.. Davis,
"DyerSburg was small town, entirely
dependent upon an agricultural trade,
and far behind a number Of her
neighboring towns in population.
Today she is the most important
manufacturing and trade center in
| West Tennessee, outside of Memphis.
This has not been the result of a boom,
but of Il rapid healthy growth, the
result of the development of her
natural resources through mani
featuring. Some of the factories,
which have made the town were COM
menced on a small scale, but there
are a large number of them now on a
substantial basis and owned by home
people-the result of home capital
and enterprise. The largest of the
timber manufacturing concerns is the
Stevens Lumber CO. plant, which
employs hundreds of hands with a pay
roll of several thousand dollars per
month. The single-tree, yoke and
spoke factory Of p. j. Weimer has a
pay roll of over $4,000 per month.
There are several spoke factories.
staye and heading factories, wagon
and buggy factories, oil mills, ice
factory, large machine shops, copper
and sheet iron works and Others that
could be mentioned.
These factories have furnished the
farmers with a market for almost all
kinds of timber, ever hickory saplings,
which were made into band HOOPS
and became a our of much profit
both to farmer and manufacturer.
The large pay rolls of these fac
tories have made the fi%ourishing trade
of Dyersburg. The town has about
thribbled its population during the
last ten or twelve years. There are
no vacant business houses, in fact
they have not been built fast enough
to supply the demand. Dwelling
houses are also scarce and rents arc
high.
DyerSburg has far outstripped hel
neighboring towns, Paris, Union City.
Trenton, Humboldt and others which
were much larger some years ago, be-
cause they have depended on an agri-
cultural trade. Union City had five
times as many inhabitants as Dyers-
burg 20 years ago, equal agricultural
advantages and has always had
superior railroad factories, but she
has fallen far behind in population
and Importance. 1t takes man.
ufacturing, backed up by a spirit of
enterprise to build up Il town."
What manufacturing has done for
Dyersburg, as well as many other
towns we might name, it would do for
Grenada. We have the natural adj
vantage and railroad facilities. There
is an abundant supply of timber from
which spokes, slaves, heading, fur
niture, band hoops, singletrees, breast
yokes, etc, could be made. The man.
ufacture of these things would pay as
well here as they do elsewhere. 1t
would scatter thousands of dollars
among our farmers for this timber.
give labor employment, put money in
the channels of trade and place Gre
NADIA where her natura, advantages
entitle her-in the vanguard of pro-
greSS.
Besides the things above men
TONED there is u splendid opening
mere for furniture and wagon factory.
brick and tiling factory, pants
factory and other things.
Home capital %iudiciously invested
and managed would not only find man
ufacttring q source of fine profit 10