The leader., 1902-06-11
IMPROVED CONDITIONS.
Judge Neville Talks Cheerily
About What He Sees in
His District.

w AAO hJOSS ia
His District.
In passing through jackson last
week Judge Jas. A. Neville, of the sea
coast district, was asked by CORE
spondent of the N. o. Picayune what
his section of the State is doing in an
industrial and material way.
"Never in my life", replied Judge
Neville, shave l seen such evidence
of growth and prosperity as there is at
the present time. This is not only true
of the piny woods and of the towns, but
in general, the people in the country
showing unusual prosperity. The peo-
pie have fat, sleek horses and mules,
fine cattle, good vehicles, are we'll clad,
and their children are at school. In
fact, it is hard to go into a neighbor-
hood in the commonwealth where there
is not good public school. Parents
are taking greater pride in the educa-
ton of their children, and the ami
mating spirit among them is to devise
ways and means to more rapidly and
surely develop the country. There is
a unity and good fellowship that is alb
solutely refreshing between the coun-
try people and the town people. Neigh
borhood chickering's, in my district,
have ceased, so far as l know, or can
learn. The people are happy and con-
tented. They are working with more
intelligence everywhere. A farmer
told me the other day that he had at
last reached the conclusion that it re-
quired as much intelligence to farm
successfully as it did to successfully
conduct any other business. This man
has one of the prettiest farms in Jas
per county.
1.-The young men and boys are not all
wanting to be professional men, and
are taking deep interest in industrial
affairs, in mill matters, in railroad
building and all the other diversified.
industries that can and will make this
State great when the young manhood
takes hold of it, as it is doing. The
increase in the taxable values in my
district is something almost indie
scribable. 1t results from develop
ment of the latent resources, from
building railroads, saw mills, cotton
mills, canneries, the turpentine indus
try and kindred enterprises.
"The branch experiment station of
the A. and NJ. College at Mcneil has
awakened more interest in the lands of
that section, after the timber is cut
and seems to me to be solution of
the situation after the denudation of
the lands. This station is being or
ganized, and another year will begin
to bear fruit, and it's methods will
spread as leaves among the farmers in
that entire section.
"While the people are working as
never before, they are not unmindful of
politics, but they are for higher, cleaner
PO1AOASo, 1Ol ChC OCoU u1oh 1OI al Oh1OO0S
high and low, county, State and Fed
eral. There is also noticeable deter
mination among the people to help en-
force the law, without which law Off
GERS are powerless. The sheriffs are
doing their duly, and grand and petit
jurors are coming up to that high de-
gree of citizenship which they should
feel. The people are behind the Off
GERS, the jurors and courts. They are
backing them up at every turn, and
this makes the suppression of lawless-
ness and the better protection of life,
liberty and property, and the easy en-
forcement of the law.
"The immediate coast, where l live,
is prospecting as never before. The
canning factories are pressed to the
limit to fill orders, as are also the sash
aud blind factories. The gulf is white
with the sails of vessels carrying lum-
Der everywhere, both to domestic and
foreign harbors. The flour mill at
Biloxi is doing a fine business. This,
Notwithstanding the fact, that the
wheat is shipped there from other
States.