The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-16
FOR GREATER MISSISSIPPI
Items of Industrial Interest GeaneJ From All Over the State
Notes and Comments
BY Fl. E. BLAKESLEE.

| confidently expects to ship ten OIL
twelve car loads of peaches from hi;
individual orchard Others have al
most as large crop and the entire
section is in a most prosperous condi
ton. The fruit and trucking bushes:
of the State Is fast increasing in i'm
portance. There are thousands Of
acres that would grow good fruit thai
can't be worked in cotton and corr
profitably. The people only need {
start to make this industry go.
And now Greenville has fallen into
line with regularly organized bust
ness league with paid secretary
and will make a concerted effort fol
the location of factories, as well as
the general development Of that splen
did section of the country. 1t is graf
flying, indeed, to note the renewed
energy with which our Mississippi
towns are taking on new life and
working to make themselves bigger
and better. AS the towns are de-
veloped, so will the country adjacent
thereto develop in proportion. If the
county town is large enough to con.
sumo all the produce raised by the
county does it not insure better prices
than if the cost of transporting to
foreign towns had to be paid and will
the price not be better? Assuredly
so.
The last legislature provided spe-
cial provision for the exemption Of
factories that turn out the finished
product to be built before the LIST day
of January, 1910. This provides that
all plants below enumerated be ex-
empt: Factories for working cotton,
Jute, ramie. WOOL silk, furs, minerals
and in making cements, cement plas-
ter or lime, or metals, factories for
manufacturing agricultural nipple
ments, machinery, implements or
articles of use in finished state and
ready for consumers use without ad-
d1tional process of labor; factories FOR
wagons, carriages, buggies,
clothing or shoes complete; factories
for making barrels or boxes COM
plete, whether coopered or loose, ready
fort transportation, and creameries.
The provision of the law is very lib.
eral toward manufactures, and we
expect to see great activity in this
line during the next few years. Mu-
inequalities are also empowered to re-
lease plants enumerated above for a
term of ten years If so desired.
Some interest has been shown In
the suggestion made last week for the
counties to prepare PAM
phlets descriptive Of the land, health
and other matters of interest for dis.
tribution by the Mississippi depart-
ment at the fair. Such would cost
put little and might be the result of
much good to the State. We need
good people to come here and develop
our resources and to get them inter.
ested, we must put these facts before
Lhem In the very best light possible.
The occasion offers an opportunity
Tor us to get before thousands at a
cost that is hardly worth considering
and 1t is to be hoped that several
counties will take advantage of the
The writer has heard Of the plant
annie for some years, but had little
conception of what it was, where It
grew and for what it could be used
1ast week a travelling salesman was
n jackson with samples of a very
Inc underwear. 1t was lovely piece
u goods, fine texture and soft as sill,
re explained that it was made from
ne ramie plant, that grew wild all
'Ver the State of Mississippi. but his
,arucular garments were manufac.
ured from plants grown in India and
arrled to Sweden to be prepared and
woven into cloth. He asked for a suit
! underwear made from this material
ne sum of $3.50. Who would have
nought that a despised weed would |
iouuce a fibre so valuable? The
IOre from the ramie plant is as lonR |