The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1904-08-23
BEAUTIFUL AND
PROGRESSIVE. :"
is the Way the Southern Field
Describes Columbus in
it's Recent Missis-
sippi Edition.

he southern Flclu, a monthly
journal issued by the immigra-
ton department of the Southern
railway and which is devoted to
the agucultral mining, manu-
featuring and busine ess interests
Of the country tributary to that
line, recently issued a special
Mississippi edition, which is given
over to our State, every column
of reading pages being devot-
ed to comprehensive and eX-
haustive resume of what gratify-
ing progress the cities and towns
/ within its borders have made
during the past few years.
No city in the State mas ac-
complished greater things during
the past decade and especially
during the. past year than has
Columbus, and the Southern
Field naturally devOtes a good
deal of its space to our city, cuts
of the Industrial Institute and
/ College and of one of our most
beautiful residences accompany
ing the write up. The article is
too long to copy in full. but We
reproduce a part Of it, which is
as follows;
columbus is Il manufacturing
point Of Importance and the in
dustriaI interest seems to be rap
idly expanding. Among the
factories are the Tombigbee Cot
ton Mills-knitting mills, the Co
lumbus Cotton Compress, two
cotton oil mills of l arg q ca
pacity, the Columbus Machinery
Company, manufacturing oil mill
machin cry, the Columbus Chair
Factory, making about "a dozen
chairs a day and having a wide
business, Southern Cotton Down
Company, brick works, stave
and heading factory, sawmill,
planning mill and other lines. Re
, Gently there have been located at
, Columbus the large knitting
plant of the Kavanaugh Manu-
featuring Company, which will
invest about $3.50, 600 in building
and machinery and have the lar
} gest underwear industry in the
r South; and large stove works,
, which will have an extensive
! plant, employing about 200 peo-
] pie, all high-grade labor. ana
other industries. With these
J new plants the industries will en-
ploy about 1, 200 people.
: "The Columbus Progressive
/ Union, organized by the the bus
: mess men of the city several
months ago to carry on an active
. campaign for the securing of new
( industries for the city, is push
! ing work energetically and inter-
, esting people from the outside in
f Columbus. There is money in
I the place to invest in first class
industrial corporations, and par
ties looking for manufacturing
locations will find the people of
Columbus ready to cooperate
with them in establishing plants
at that point.
columbus has very large
: trade, reaching out into a wide
stretch of country on all sides,
lying as it does in the rich prairie
: belt section and having tributary
to it many of the finest cotton
and corn growing plantations in
the United State. The cotton
marketed in Columbus amounts
: to from $4,000 to 80, 900 bales a
season. The farming c-untry
tributary is not only suitable for
corn and cotton, but is a f i c
stock country, and is excellent
for. gen eral farming, and will
continue to contribute o t b G
city. Within convenient distance
there are large areas of timber
lands which will furnish good
supplies for woodworking estab-
lishments of nearly every kind
This timber includes oak hickory,
poplar, gum and other woods" 3"
The Southern is a most pro-
: gressiye line, and has been very
fortunate in the selection of its
! local officials, Mr.. G.. Nj. Reeves,
: the trainmaster, Mr.. j l.. Cox,
the commercial agent, and MIR.