Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-04-28
FOR GREATER MISSISSIPPI
Items Industrial Interest GIaneI From Over State
l Notes and Comments }
BY II. e. BLAKESLEE.

after long time and much money
spent in experimenting, it has at last
produced fine grade of writing pa
per from cotton stalks. A factory
for making the paper has been estab
/ lished and the work is now beyond
the experimental stage. 1t is an
nounced that lower grades can also be
manufactured from the stalks and ere
| long it is promised that q large per
centage of the paper used in the
United States will be made from cot
ton stalks. And, again, it has beer
proven that an article which has al
ways been considered of no account
will be used in the future and net the
owners a nice profit.
Only few years ago It was that the
lint was all that was salable of the
| cotton crop of the South. Since that
time the seed have proven one of the
most valuable portions of the crop and
| now it is announced that paper is
being successfully manufactured from
the stalk This leaves only the burs
unused. 1t is now in line for some
man to find a use for them and there
will be nothing wasted.
There is an opening in almost every
county in the State for handle fac
tory, to use the small hickory and
ash. These factories cost but little to
install and use timber that could
hardly be utilized for any other pur
pose Small timber is the best for
handles. being tougher and more dura'
Bile, and that of quick growth is far
superior to old timber of slow growth.
There is supply sufficient to run fac
tories as mentioned for years and
years The timber in question Is be.
ing cut from land to clear 1t and Is
generally almost a total loss. Every
county town ought to have handle
factory to work it up, thereby bene-
fitting the town and the farmers who
have the timber.
Maben has organized stock com.
pany with a capital of $4,000 for
the purpose of building an oil mill
and fertilizer factory. This looks pret
ty good for Maben. Although it is
comparatively small town, there are
some big people in it. Oil mills bene-
fit not only the stockholders, but the
surrounding country as well. Many
poor spot of land adjacent to mills
has been made rich in the past few
years by feeding stock on 1t. Then,
too, the farmer saves transportation
on his seed to the mill and buys his
hulls and meal for a price less the
transportation. 1t always was the
height of folly for our people to send
their seed to the cities to be crushed
and then have the meal and hulis
shipped back to them for use in feed.
ing and fertilizer Keep it all at home
is the proper thing to do.
The village of Blue Mountain. up
in the yellow pine region of North
Mississippi, is experiencing period
of great prosperity. 1t is situated in
a most picturesque spot and surround
ed by good country. The Blue
Mountain Female College for girls is
one of the largest private institutions
in the South. A commodious brick
building for private school for young
men is being erected and will open its
doors next fall The town is bounti-
fully supplied with pure water from
numerous springs that flow from the
mountain side, the merchants are up
to-date in every respect and the peo-
pie of the community as good as the
State affords.
Work of surveying the interurban
electric line from Greenwood to Black
Hawk, in Carroll county, will be begun
right away. The stock company for
the purpose of building the line has
been regularly organized and the first
assessment paid in. The route to be
traversed is almost level and little or
no grading will be necessary. The road
is designed to carry freight, as well
as passengers, and will, no doubt,
prove a paying investment to the
stockholders as well as great boon to
Greenwood.
If one firm in Jackson paid $4,000
in two months to a Tennessee firm Tor
dressed poultry, why don't some man
near Jackson put in poultry farm
and dress them for market? Ii the
man in Tennessee can raise them at
profit and ship to Jackson, how well
ought the Jackson man to do without
having to pay transportation charges?
= "Push Mississippi on all occasions.
II is duty YOU owe yourself as a citi-
zen of our grand old State. Your OBJ
legation is not all to yourself, but to
YOUR fellow man as well. A word OF
praise spoken at the right time and
in the proper manner may be worth
untold amounts 10 the community III
which you 1--we.
The hustling little city OF osyka, III
the southern end OF the State, neia III
voted them by a majority Oh over SIX
for to one against. Inc spirit oi pro
gress has permeated tne entire otaee
and news OF good Worh coiies iioii
Opportunities IN MISSISSIPPI are ohiy
limited by the capacity OF tne people
to take advantage OF them. iheIe 20
something mere LOT All thae 20 ou' az
ter 1t In the proper manner