Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-03-31
FOR GREATER MISSISSIPPI
Items Of Industrial Interest GleaneJ From All Over the State
Notes and Comments /
BY Il. f. BLAKESLEE.

| ed and the amounts lnNoiNeu. oahns
seem to lead everything else, but man
ufacturing concerns are not far De
hind. Banks have made good dlVl-
dends lately and there is great rusn
to get stock in them, but 1t Is iaf
more important to see money invested
in manufacturing enterprises to WORN
crude material and employ labor. Fol-
| lows a list of charters granted re-
Gently:
| Weatherby Machine Works, Nerd.
| ian-Capital, $4,000: foundry ane'
machinery manufacturing and repair
/ business.
/ Hamilton -weems Grain Co, Gulfport
Capital. $4,000; build. maintain,
operate elevators, warehouses ana
| deal in grain.
Amendment to charter of the Bank
of Roxie. increasing capital from $2o.-
900 to $4,000
! Oakland. Charleston & Western
Railroad Capital, si25,000; to build
road from some point on the |. c.,
near Oakland. to Charleston, Talla-
hatchie county.
Crystal Springs Oil Mill and Ferti-
| lizer Manufacturing Co., Crystal
Springs-Capital. $4,000; cotton seed
|
| ice and bottling works
Mississippi Eastern Railway, Quit
man-To run road from Quitman,
| Clarke county, to some point on the
Southern or Tombigbee river in Ala
bama.
| Miazza- Woods Construction Co.,
Meridian-Capital, $4,000; own, i'm
prove and deal in real estate in Merid-
| ian.
Peoples Bank, Holly Springs-Cap-
ital, $4,000; general banking busi-
ness.
Branyan High School, Union coun-
ty-No capital; educational.
Delta Drug Co., Shaw-General
wholesale and retail drug and manu-
featuring chemical business. Capital,
$4,000.
New Albany Compress Co. New AL
! bany-Capital, $4,000; build and op-
crate compress, electric light and wa
ter plant.
Wesson Light and Power Co., Wes-
son-Capital, $4,000; build and oper'
ate electric light and power plant.
Delta Bank. Leland-Capital, $780,
900: general banking business.
Planters Ginnery, Hollandale-Capi
| tai, 10000; ginning plant.
Meridian Coffin Co, Meridian-Cap-
| ital. $50 900; manufacture and deal in
collins.
Amendment to Indanola Light, Ice
& Coal Co.. allowing 1t to manufac-
ture woodenware and own and operate
electric railways.
| Aberdeen Electric Light and Power
Co., Aberdeen--Ca Capital, $4,000; build
and operate electric light and power
4 plant.
Clarksdale Real Estate Co. Clarks-
dale-Capital, $4,000; do general
real estate business,
Amendment to the charter of the
New Albany Oil Mill Co., allowing in
crease of capital stock to $50,000, and
the building and operation Of cot
ton ginnery.
T. ]. Evans Opera House Co, Ma.
con-Capital, $500; to build, own and
operate opera house.
w. M. Ross Co. Silver Creek-Capl-
tai, $30, 900; wholesale and retail mer-
camille business.
Bank of Picayune, Picayune, Han.
cock county-Capital, $4,000; to do
general banking business.
Bank of Hebron, Hebron-Capital,
10000; general banking.
Richton Lumber Co, Moss Point
I Capital, S50,000 to do general lum
her manufacturing business, own and
operate tram roads, etc.
! Amendment to charter of the Vicks
burg Cotton Press Association.
Bank of Wilkinson county, Wood =
ville-Capital, $4,000; general bank
ing business.
j. M. Lindsey, Jones county farm
er, has planted 10000 tomato plants
and besides, 20 acres of Irish potatoes,
three acres of squash and several 9TH
er vegetables. He is only one of sew
eral hundred farmers who are doing
the same thing down there in Jones
and neighboring counties. This is the
result of some good work done by the
North Eastern railroad in stimulat.
ing residents and importing truck
farmers. There will be an increase In
trucking from year to year in that sec
ton.
Crystal Springs is making grea
preparations for the coming Chautau.
qua meeting in the summer. This
has been made great success and
it is strange that more towns have
not aroused from their state of lethar-
gy and tried on something like 1t.
There ought to be Chautauqua some
where in the northern end of the State
by all means.
The town in Mississippi with one
thousand people and without water
and light plants has become an excep
tion instead of rule. Several are
now engaged in adding sewerage to
the water and light plants installed
some years ago and operated since
| with success.
Private educational institutions are
becoming very popular in the State
Just at present. Several have been
chartered in the past few days.
The legislature is thing of history
now The gavel fell on the closing
session last Tuesday at noon and the
few remaining members left for theii
homes. A large amount Of business
was transacted while the bodies were
in session, Whether it was good OF
bad will be found out later. Prac'
tically nothing was done to beneft the
State in Industrial development, but
our people will not fail to work to
thaJ END just dS IL the Luost losol apie
laws had been enacted.
Two new railroads chartered this
week and proclamation issued fol
the third.
A new enterprise. the first of its
kind in the State, will soon be located
at Gulfport 1t will be known as the
Gum-Carbo Co., and will manufacture
rubber roofing and other like pro
ducts. This factory was made pos
sible by the acquisition Of deep water
i on our coast and We may expect to
, see hundreds of like enterprises fol