The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-21

The Mobile, Jackson q hdhsas SN'
Railroad is now a fact beyond dis
pute. Work has been commenceu OH
the grading from Augusta to Laurel.
March will probably witness the hrst
laying Of the rails. Already steel
rails, locomotives and fine passenger
trains have been purchased. The Inc
goes north from Laurel over the N.
C. & NJ. line and will be pushed 10
Memphis as rapidly as ample
and plenty of workmen can push IT,
Other important railroad news IS
that concerning the recent charter
granted for the incorporation or the
New Orleans e Mississippi Midland.
This is the road that is to connect at
Pontotoc with the Gulf & Chicago, II
at Memphis with other important
roads. The contemplated route -
from a point on the southern bound
airy of the State, midway between
Pearl and Bogue Chitto rivers, up
through the counties of Pike, Marion.
Lawrence, Simpson, Rankin smith,,
Scott, Leake, Alfalfa, Choctaw, Win
ston, Webster, Chickasaw, Pontotoc,
then in a northwesterly direction
through Calhoun, Lafayette and De-
Soto counties, on Though the pound
airy to Memphis. A line viii also
be run from the main line through
Simpson and Rankin to Jackson.
Revenue Agent Adams is expecting
any day a check for the amount or
$4,000 from the Illinois Central
Railroad, in payment of back taxes on
the Canton, Aberdeen & Nashville
branch of the system. Of this goodly
sum Mr.. Adams gets his customary
20 per cent. This course was resolved
upon by the road and its attorneys,
Messrs. Mayes & Harris, because of a
recent decision by the United States
Supreme Court in the case of Hewes
vs.. Gulf & Ship Island road, wherein
practically all points of law involved
in the suit against the Canton, Aber-
deem G Nashville branch were settled
When the check for $4,000 is ro'
ceived 1t will run the |. c. roads back
tax payments in Mississippi, during
the past year, up to more than $1,000
600. And suits are still pending in
volving nearly $500, 900 against other
branches of the Y. G M. V. road.
But little more than two years ago
tho U7,rro1A 6fftn, mile ayiGtp6 only
in the minds eye of a few clear-head'
ed, energetic men who had determined
that no obstacles should prevent the
establishment of q first-class plant
Today a magnificent cotton mill is
helping the town grow into a city, and
so far has its fame spread that the
~spinners and weavers are busy nov
completing an order for 100, 900 yards
of cotton cloth to be shipped to China
within the next fortnight. So far a!
we can discover, this is the first lot o.
cotton goods even shipped from thil
State to China. 1t must be borne il
mind that China makes and uses thu
) most exquisite cotton fabrics to b,
= found the wide world over; hence tn
pride of the Tupelo mills in this orie
l is we'll founded.
Monroe county owns about 1,60
acres of Sixteenth section school lane
which is generally well timbered. TIL
Examiner sounds a timely note o
warning, as the ~log-getters are tryin
to secure this land. The county nee
not let it go, and the Examiner urge
that it keep a good, firm grip on
for the sake of the children. "If
is a good purchase it is a good hole
: Ing, and we are in condition 20 hol
q it Indefinitely for a big rise" it say
The offer made for this land recent
is just double the offer made for
c two years ago, and it is fair to b
lieve that it will continue to increas
in value every year. We join wit
the Examiner in urging that it
Q withheld from the "log-getters,"
2 AS noted before In these column
v prospectors have been at work f(
n some time at Wilson's Springs BORN
t. for oil, and they are greatly encou
n aged, having brought up the fine
flow of artesian water yet recorde
l. in the State. 1t was while boring
n this point that a remarkable disco
n cry was made by the workmen. At
IS depth of about 700 feet the drill wei
into water, which proves to be a
h underground lake of fresh watt
about sixty feet deep. The body
;" water lies between two dense strar
!. of ordinary clay, and is the large
- body Of water yet struck by oil pro
pectors.
At a recent special election in Su
rs flower county to fill the Office of iu
tice OF the peace only three votes we
y, cast, and these were by the judges
I'd the election. Evidently there is not
lg ing hot about politics in Sunaow
r. county these times.
Mrs. Mary Thompson Howe, seer
"a torv of the Interstate bronob Of thu I