Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-03-12
HATTlESBURG is BOOMING
Electric Power Plant Changes Hands
and Street Car System
Will Be Built.


Hattiesburg, Miss, March TO-
Hattiesburg is becoming one of the
most active little cities in the state.
It Is forging ahead in every line of
business, establishing manufactur-
plants and paying considerable at
tention to all industrial enterprises.
A few days ago the electric light and
power company's plant was pur-
chased by a local stock company
which paid In the neighborhood of
$50, 900 for It. This plant has the ex-
elusive franchise for lighting the
city, besides furnishing all the in
candescent lights for private use. 1t
is broadly limited that the new COM
pany Will soon put in street car
system, extending the same, perhaps,
to Rawls' Springs, summer resort
ak miles west of the city. With a
population of nearly 1000 people, it
is calculated that this enterprise will
eventually be a paying one. The
street car system will be the very
best that can be had.
IS BOARD TRADE.
Hattiesburg a few months ago or
ganized board of trade, for which
there was great need. This board Of
trade is presided over by Dan M.
Mayors, son of ex-Judge A. G.
Mayors of this, the eighth judicial
district, and he is the right man for
the place Although only organized
a month or two ago, it Is making
good Roadway IN bringing before the
people at a distance the many ad-
vantages offered by this city for the
location of Industrial enterprises
and some of the enterprises are
being secured, among which is a
pants factory with a capital of $780,
600, and another, broom factory,
and still another, mattress and
wire spring factory. The first seems
to bea certainty, while the latter
are only in prospect. The secretary
has also other manufacturing indus
tries on his list which may be de-
veloped.
HATTIEsBURG's INDUSTRIES.
Hattiesburg has complete sewer.
age system, one of the best in the
south, an electric light plant which
furnishes both day and night power
three banks, two of them. national
banks; several wholesale houses ant
numerous planning and saw mills. I
has two fine brick school buildings
costing over $4,000 each, heated b.
steam and lighted by electricity
half dozen three-story pressed
brick buildings with stone fronts
four railroads with sixteen passen
ger trains daily, with other road
projected to this city. 1t has n
paved streets, but they will come il
time
It has fifteen or twenty artesia
wells, that flow at the rate of fror
two to three hundred gallons pc
minute, owing : to the size of tn
pipes, and splendid voluntary fir
company with millions of gallons G
water to use in case of fire.
VERY HEALTHFUL.
Hattiesburg is considered the mos
healthful city in south MISSISSIPPI
The decayed and decaying timber
which produces generally more
less sickness, have been removed b
the who'd hanler and with absolutel
pure water, so found by several al
alyses, q fine sewerage system and
natural drainage, there Is nothing
create sickness.
GROWING CANE.
It has been fully demonstrated TIL
the soil of the surrounding countl
is the best adapted anywhere in Il
South for the production of cane al
the making of molasses. So far th
industry has not been developed
any great extent, but the farmers a
naturally taking hold OF IT.. What m
lasses is made is readily sold and o.
hundred times as much more cou
be sold, even in the -produ
ing section of Louisiana, Hattie
burg's products being so much 6
perior to that of the Louisiana nal
RICH IN WOODS.
It is useless ts speak of the 10
leaf pine timber Of this section,
its reputation 10 known in this .
European countries. But it Is !
generally known that this place
some OF good hardwoods as al
whore IN the State and they can
had ct very reasonable rates. III
tiesburg would be . fine location
! wagon and bugsie factory ora g