Oxford eagle., 1904-02-18
FOR GREATER MISSISSIPPI
Items Of Industrial Interest GIeaneJ From All Over the State
Notes and Comments.
a. E. BLAKESLEE
BY a. E. BLAKESLEE.


eraI insurance, capital stock. $4,000.
A. F. Oliver Co., Courtland, capital
stock $50, 700, general merchandise.
Amendment to charter of the Pearl
and Leaf Rivers Railway, changing the
eastern terminus from Hattiesburg TO
Scranton and the western terminus
from Columbia to Natchez. Also a
second amendment changing the name
to the mississippi Central. The prop
osition is to build the road at once
between these points.
That our State is forging to the
front in the matter of stock raising,
! becomes more evident every day. The
establishment of oil mills at every
town of any Importance makes. the
raising of cattle a great success and
our people are not slow to catch on.
Statistics go to show that the ship
ments to market last year were far
ahead of former years and the start
| for this year is unusually good. Mules
are also becoming an important FAC
! tor in Mississippi exports More are
| being raised than formerly and of
better grade. The State is now in the
market for sixty mules of extra size
and it will not be necessary to go
outside of the State to get them. This
is as it should be. When our people
| learn that everything needed can be
raised at home and at a profit, the
prosperity of all will be materially in
creased.
Louisville. in winston county, is TAX
| ing a. new lease on life since the ad-
vent of the grading crews lor the M.
j. & K. c. railroad A number of
substantial brick buildings are going
up, two banks have been organized
a brick factory put in operation and
many other enterprises of a substan-
| tial nature put on foot. The good
people over there do not propose to
| sit down and let all the good thiags
go by, but are getting hustle on them
and will go after what they want the
town to have Success is sure to
crown their efforts.
The people in our several levee dis
tricts will be glad to learn that Presi
dent Roosevelt has at last been i'm
pressed with the Importance of 'leyees
| for the development of their section.
Gov. Heard, of Louisiana, seems to
have gotten close to him in an argu-
ment made before the senate commit
| tee of commerce few days silce. Ar
guments against our levee systems has
prevented liberal appropriations in the
past, but there is a promise Of better
things for the future.
Organized effort should be the slo-
gan of Mississippi communities for
| greater development in the future.
| Much more can be accomplished in
| this way than each man to try to stand
on his own bottom. and make an eff
| fort by himself. Organize progressive
| unions, boards of trade, industrial
| leagues, etc, and get to work right.
| When anything is offered, go after it
with a vim Results will follow.
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Pecan planting is again attracting
the attention of landowners in the
| southern portion of the State and
| many trees are being put out. 1t of
| fers a good field for investment and
| a sure and steady income after few
| years. Pecan orchards are better and
| safer than orange groves in the long
run. There are thousands of acres
| of land in the southern portion of the
State especially adapted to raising pc
| ca1s and those who have tried the ex-
pertinent find it profitable.
|
A great number Of Mississippi
| towns are getting move on them
| selves and making organized cam
| Daigns of industrial as well as COM
| mercial Improvement They are at
| least awakening to the fact that an
| effort is necessary to accomplish any
thing.
| The food Of chartered institutions
| IN the State continues with unabated
| vigor. Hardly a day passes without
| several applications for charters be-
| ing received for record at the secre-
tary of States office.
A new county is being formed from
| a portion of Marion, to be called La
| mar" 1t is named after Hon.>L. Q. c.
| Lamar. the honored statesman and pa
| triot who graced the legislative halls
| of the State and United States in days
| rast and gone No more fitting trib-
ute to the memory of her gifted son
| could be made than this.
! A movement has been started to
| build a road from Woodville in Will
| kinson county to Natchez. Promoters
| have taken the matter up and the pro-
| gressive citizens of Woodville are very
| hopeful of seeing something substan
tial evolve il short time.
|
There is one city in Mississippi with
| enterprise enough to get up Mardi
/ Gras celebration in competition with
| the larger places outside the State
and try to keep her people and money
| at home That city is Natchez, and
| her celebration is a success from
| every standpoint A number of years
ago the project was put on foot and
has been kept up every since. While
the celebration may not show a big
dividend to the stockholders when the
accounting is made, it is worth much
to the town from other sources and
brings many a dollar in that would
| ordinarily go to other places. 1t would
be better if more of our towns made
| greater efforts to keep their money at
home. When the people can be made
to see that the benefits from such a
| move are so far reaching in their eff
feet. then more interest will be shown
/
A farmer in Jones county last year
ran three pIows and gathered more
than one thousand dollars worth OF
crop to the plow. He raised corr, cot
ton. potatoes, tomatoes, oats, etc
What one man can do in Mississippi
is an index to what another man can
accomplished if he will only hustle
There is no place in the world where
the laborer gets more for his work