Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-05-10

ire in consequence beginning 10 looA
10. A number of discoveries have been
'epofted lately Of valuable building !
stone, several beds of phosphatesi !
strata Of fine clay, minerals and other T.
valuable materials. One &sathe most
of these discoveries Is at
West Station, on the Illinois Central
road. If one-half the reports from VS.
iting experts are TO be accepted as
true the little Holmes county town Will
soon spread cut into city, and CITY
of stone at that. The hills surround
ing the town are solid chunks OF what
is now said to be some Of the finest
building stone in the country. There
Is a constant and heavy demand LOT
building stone and the news Of this |
discovery has brought a number oil
prospectors to the scene.
Those who have examined the stone
pronounce it superior to any in THIS
section for building foundations, max
ing concrete and ballasting. 1t is al
most as hard as granite, and is impel-
yious to the weather. For such stone
there is now an almost unlimited de-
mand. and could the owners OF these
beds but come to some kind Of an un-
derstanding and form a company Tor
the purpose of putting the stone on the
market, they would almost equal TIE
oil barons of Beaumont Tex. The sup
ply of stone in the neighborhood OF
West seems almost ineXhaustlble 1t
extends for a number of miles on the
east ana west sides of the railroad,
the lands being Of but little value eX-
cept for this stone deposit.
And now comes the regrettable part
of the story, which might we'll be
headed with the old saying, slightly
altered, about "the prophet" and his
"own land" This time 1t might be
said that land is not without honor
save among its own prophets Al
5 any rate, whatever profit was to be
found in this new discovery will g(
4, into the pockets of Michigan capital
4 lists, who came down and got options
e on vast acres at very low figures whil'
q our own folks were thinking about it
) Fortunately, some of Holmes county
far.sighted citizens refused to ente
into the Michiganders' hard deal, an
81 if the people Will work together a
/ they should do, they may yet max
r grand success of the hidden qua
d ries on the hillsides of old Holmes
n Success to them, ard all other ente
If prising Mississippiansl
erd we would be glad if we had spat
if to reproduce every word Of the lea
W ing editorial from Hon, Lem Sc
is wrights able pen in last weeks Plai
It, dealer. 1t is on that most importal
question. the Rural School, al
as contains some excellent advice. Amor
in other things Mr.. Seawright says; "'
TT. the 7.OOO,O 600 children of school age
The Southern States, more than 600
| Loco live in sparsely settled distrlc
re-, or in towns Of less than 1000 inha
it Iitapts. Hence the rural schools a
ro- of first importance and should recei
ch first consideration We can never
an educated people until we have go
SIS schools and the country children
,th tend them" Continuing, the wri'
in gives facts which prove that the ay
lis age school life of our children in ru
the districts is lamentably short, the
red commodations poor and the equ
ith ment meager. These children, tr
led whose ranks so many of the tutul
25O great ones must come, are contil
md to the poverty Of q few ilEassor
ma; textbooks from which to get tn
for start along the road of knowlec
of We're it not that theirs IS the bou
ON less wealth of the great teacher Nat
their way would be hard, their W
len. Of scant avail and their knowledge
re- little worth to them or others.
of We find in Mr.. Seawrights plea
the better opportunities an earnest apl
Iar- to our men to build worthy houses
sub their children's school days, mai
them attractive as well as comforta
nm "The South is no longer poor as it
,,,- in the decades Immediately succeed
hv the ravages of war. Building mate
ado is abundant in every State, and
"a men have strong arms to fell Il
&c nrepare lumber and make brick
1.-Two should begin at once to build de
or15 and comfortable school houses in
+,,ot cry school district, and to equip
"A l., with the needful furniture and a
ma, ratus. These school houses are
! 4yEhomes Of our children all the days
eo1d attend school, and we should see
bis that they are made worthy
well b It is a. great pleasure to run a
Pet such good news as the published
lights ment that Mississippi pine will f
Vir- largely in the building of the Ii
testi- ana Purchase Exposition. A nu
ippi's of firms on the Gulf & Ship Il
the Railroad have secured large cont
Con- for lumber of various grades,
fact cially our splendid long leaf y
ques- pine, and already Il number of
cular rush orders have been shipped
Mississippi and delivered on tn
,at to position grounds. This will in
share give us and our great lumber
when .itry a splendid advertisement.
C0lA The Yazoo Herald rejoices in I
Ce.o az, port (Which it hopes will prov
'ueie % eu reot) that a Northern firm will
i an an the work of building the railroad
0,"a Cav. Yazoo City to Belzoni at once,
IS lay ,.p1h 49,; ,r,u ho great finn
A laborsayer, as well as won
le eyi- i''"'i.'''''s ~ +bo noonlo of N,
W. ton, and they and their friends
"et' eagerly for echoes from the first
"ioee' of the workman hammer,
as one 40, ~ 4as ,-.f
pew.t sLacltson's First Presbyterian {
ber II is this week putting in a
issinpi Pitcher pipe organ, built in M
Ceme. leans and Yazoo City's Presbyt
- aeaa nre putting in their $4,000 instr
70 which was built by Hook & III