The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-04-30
FOR GREATER MISSISSIPPI
Items Of Industrial Interest GaneJ From All Over the State
Notes and Comments.
BY n. E. BLAKESLEE.

plans to greater efforts in building up
their State, also to bring its resources
and advantages to the favorable notice
of people on the outside"
This is the object of the depart
ment exactly. If only one good family
can be induced to locate here and
help bring some of our land into cul-
tivation, or one factory be located for
the use of our crude material, the
writer will feel fully repaid for the lit
tie trouble experienced in getting up
the matter
Just after every disastrous fire in
the State there is a big noise made
about better means of combating the
flames. Every town has had this eX-
perience 1t is too late to lock the
door after the horse has been stolen.
A system of waterworks costs but
little to the individual members of
a municipality, is a great convenience
as well as necessity, and the town
with one thousand people or more
, without such a system is back num-
Der. Build water plants and be pre-
pared for any emergency that may
arise. Winona is the latest sufferer
in this line and her people are now
talking of some means for fighting fire.
! The property loss in her recent fire
would have gone a long ways toward
putting in plant if it would not have
built it. There is no better invest
ment that could be made and all towns
should have them.
There is little cause for complaint
with a great many Mississipians that
could be easily corrected. They know
too little about their State and when
asked for information are too slow or
uncertain in giving it. Post your
selves about it. get goodly store of
information at your tongues end for
use on the instant make up your mind
that we have the best State in the
Union and have a dozen reasons to
prove this always on hand Then
when the opportunity affords you will
not be at loss for something to say
and it can be said with zeal and con.
viction that will have weight with the
party asking for it.
The oyster industry one of the
greatest in the State, will not play out
in few years for want of the beds, as
some people seem to think. While
great inroads are made on the oyster
every season, plan of renewing the
beds has been adopted and more
grown to take the place of those TAX
en- out. Shells are planted every year
for the young to attach themselves to
in the grounds just fished over. This
season the commission has Just de-
cided to plant 10000 barrels in the
various waters affected. BY this means
the grounds are kept well stocked and
one of our greatest industries made
perpetual
The newspapers of Mississippi. bless
them, are always ready and anxious
to throw their whole soul into any
work attempted for their respective
sections, and for the whole State for
that matter. A loyal and enthusiastic
press is powerful factor for good.
Mule raising is a money maker in
Mississippi, Almost every farmer can
raise a few and when they are ready
Tor market command a good price
The cost is very small and the money
they will bring will come almost like
Federal pension. Try it and see how
near true this is.
An Atlanta concern announces that
after a long time and much money
spent in experimenting. it has at last
produced a 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 a large per.
centage of the paper used in the
United States will be made from cot
ton stalks. And, again, it has been
proven that an article which has al.