New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-08

eleven miles long, $40 500; rolling stock $4,000; cat
dtiom. the company owns about 5000 acres Of tim
beT lands in the immediate neigh3orhood or tag g
sills sold to the railroads. are large part; about
bort and the balance is ward stock This twenty
plant does its electric lighting, has water
etc: its rough dry shed stores four million feet
Of lumber and it pumps its water for Its d log p0md
miles distant. 1t houses its 4O employees In
now stands Was a virgin forest; last March the
mill shipped 200 cars Of lumber! .a,,r TINA b,,
the foreloc1 are intellgently seeking to discover
which when cut over they VIII SELL iast January
they started an experimental farm, 70 determine
Later. Uncle sam took a hand furnishing seed
plants and expert MANAGEMENT the c0nP s, con
is TO be put IN staple crops. small grain. truck
the raising OF food for hogs and cows. It was
started the poorest land: as test. and Is. the
ing. 1t also selected because the depth OF its
surface soil varies considerably Ihus Iar only
shortly be put in tomatoes. TO supply the canning
C5.co0 was subscribed IocaIly-every 500 OF stock
is backed by an acre OF tomatoesl
road. Hattiesburs. fully described later on: Col
W end 5h pan fMo m %o naval store f
tories. its electric light plant its waterworks It's
competitor of Collins IN population and enterprise,
with its cotton compress. its canning factory. and
Laurel, the terminus OF the Laurel branch. VIII
re ucSCrlned more particularly later on laylOrS-
Vile equidistant from the main line and from
Laurel, and perhaps the most important station on
v9rIs and Tery imnortanf nercontiie estabIisH
meuts. ana is surrounded by good farming coun-
try and vast quantities Of timber
on the Columbia Branch there are Columbia and
tWhue no mention is here mad9 OF the smaller
one or more Industries each and are rapidly in
cr"asiHs in popHlation9
\ GOOD CLASS OF SETTLERS.
Though some OF the towns described are DID, they
slumbered until awakened by tho Gulf and Ship
Island Road The remainder are creations OF yes
terday: but they must not be considered frontier
towns. their people having come from almost every
tr,,ad tIriT,, 49, It's ',y ~, W. III.
Their society viii compare favorably with that OF
schools most Of these benE fr sTberor to wba d
struck IN passing through these towns. with the
dressed. Won groomcd, and quite up to the fashions
~ the LAY are courteous in their manners intel.
!isent Looking, and bear unmstakahe evidence OF
tne he2lthiuluess Of the country; II IS also very
volume OF stocks their stores carry strangers in
yaraoy express grateful surprise. too the kind
man they testify to the hospitality extended them
man need be ithogt empIoren a mere no
figures and that mere lack OF means will not
prevent his receiving the same treatment accorded
The country offers splendid opportunities to the
young and enterprisiug and experienced men OF
affairs are o az premium As resident tersely
ut H. Al I."nE we lllo tileTe IS opportunity Tor
I'm almost any place IN the country BY All along
the line IS meant the counties OF Harrison. Perry
Marion. Jones. Simpson. Smith, Lamar Rankin and
Lawrence. more particularly. as the Gulf and ship
Island Railroad traverscs these. but the whole OF
Southern Mississippi between the Illinois Central
and the Mobile and Ohio railroads. IS really tribu-
tIry to the first named.
LAND VALUES
cut over land within five miles land along the
main line) OF the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad is
worth s. 90 10 $40. according TO character and
location; along the branches. 50 20 s.. and at a
greater distance s. 80 10 s. an acre. Long Ieafed
yellow pine timber land (uear transportation il
worth about s. 50 10 50 a thousand feet stumpage
which includes timber and laud-the average stump
age Is about eight thousand feet an acre-and when
the timber IS cut OFF. tho purchaser will have the
most valuable asset left. for the land with in