The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-03-12
FOR GREATER MISSISSIPPI
Items Of Industrial Interest GleaneI From All Over the State
Notes and Comments.
E.. BLAKESI4EE
BY H. e. BLAKEsLEE.


There Is in the State one factory
that is a red hot proposition. The
Red Snapper Co.. of Ccnterville. is
referred to. 1t manufactures brand
of pepper sauce which has been
named the RED Snapper" and com
mands good Gale wherever intro
duced. The company has been doing
business for some time and enjoys an
extensive trade.
Why not organize league all over
the State with the motto: Push Mis-
sissippi?" There's something to it.
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That the State is awakening to the
enormity of her wonderful resources,
only the most ignorant can fail to see.
Within the last decade remarkable ad-
vances have been made in an indus
trial way. Our people are no longer
sitting idle, waiting for Northern cap
ital to come in and pick up the golden
plums lying scattered from one end of
the State to the other. Instead, they
have partially awakened to the posi-
bilities and opportunities before them,
ana now the busy hum of machinery is
heard on all sides. Cotton, our great
staple, is gathered from the fields one
day and sent the next in textile form
to the markets of the world. Our peo-
pie are alive at last to the possibili.
ties before them and are achieving for
themselves the long delayed tribute
which the world now voluntarily ac,
knowledges as their birthright. With
such country, such people must
keep in the forefront in the grand
march of commercial progress and ex.
pansion. This generation must set
the pace for the next by such wise
steps that will bring into full devel
opment the rich capacities of soil and
the grand powers of brain and Drawn
which the unerring wisdom of the
great ruler Of human destinies has
brought together in this favored land
This can be accomplished largely by
the judicious use of our own means
and the talents accorded us. The great
work is in progress and the man who
won't see it that way is blind from
choice.
The canal system Of retaining
swamp lands has been put in success.
full operation in some of the counties
where there were bottom lands with
favorable conditions. The plan is to
issue bonds and have the canal cut /;
then to assess each acre thus benefited
SO much per year until the bonds and
interest are paid. Land that was
worth less than $1.00 per acre before
was made to bring from SIS to $40
when sold. 1t might be we'll for PEG.
pie with this kind of land to investi.
gate the feasibility of having it
drained. Information on the subject
can be secured by writing G. W. Long,
chancery clerk of Lee county, at Tu,
pelo enclosing stamp for reply There
are other counties which have adopted
this plan. but the above address is
given because the writer is acquainted
with the success Of the venture in Lee
county.
Samples of cucumber pickles which
will be in our exhibit at the fair com.
pare favorably with those produced
by any section. Some lands within
the State are especially adapted to the
culture Of ouch vegetables, and II COM
munities would only form small COM
Danies to put up these articles they
would be assured a ready market for
the product. The company that could
supply twenty per cent of the trade Of
Mississippi alone would have a big
business and furnish market for all
cucumbers and other picking vegeta.
bles that could be raised for miles
around. Could our people only be
made to see the advantages following
such a course, the State would be more
prosperous than ever.
The city of Tupe has a municipal
park in the way of body of IA acres
of pure artesian water. 1t is stocked
with game fish and affords fine sport
for those who enjoy angling for the
game Dream and elusive trout. A Zee
is charged for fl li~g in the park ana
keeper is always on hand to collect
the fee and look after the comfort OF
his customers Quite handsome sum
| is paid in each year for fishing privi
leges and it has proven great sue
cess
The people of Mississippi are very
backward in one thing especially, and
] it is to be hoped that they will be
come educated along this line and In
| he f,Ifr mol nm IN an
lance of properly advertising to the
world our wonderful resources. II II
were generally known that. our State
possessed the advantages she does We
believe that in very short period Of
time there would be an influx of i'm
migration and capital that would sur
prise even the most optimistic.
Our new citizens from ths North
and West are contented and happy
They enjoy the mild winters and the
comparative ease with which a CROP
can be produced here.
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There's always room for men with
money, brain and muscle in Missis
sippi.
And whoever would have believed
that Mississippi was the mother Of
Yale College? But it is so. And
Yale College seems to be content with
Itawamba county. where it is To-
Gated, and, by the way, we understand
that it is prospecting, as all such ex
cellent institutions in the State
should.
There is employment for all who de
sire work in Mississippi at remunera-
tive figures. The demand for labor is
always good, and especially for the
skilled artisans of different trades.
Mississippians gladly welcome men
of energy and enterprise, makes nc
| difference from what section OF the