Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-04-21
FOR GREATER MISSISSIPPI
Items Industrial Interest Gleane1 From ALI Over the State
l Notes and Comments.
BY n. E. BLAKESLEE.

| that Attorney General Williams mas
been absent in New Orleans looking
after the boundary dispute, and GOV.
Vardaman in st. Louis with the falr
Commission Next week Will flkei!
show largely increased number, now
ever. on this account.
Seay Confectionery Co.. Meridian
Capital, s25, 900, manufacture and deal
in confectioneries.
Van Cleave Bros. Mercantile Co.,
Ocean Springs-Capital, sl5,o0e, gen
/ eral merchandise.
Amendment to the charter OF the X
Watts & Co., increasing capital STOCK
| to $4,000
Davenport Fractional Calculator Co,
Okolona-Capital, $4,000, print ana
sell fractional calculators.
Peoples Drug Store, Braxton-Cap-
ital. $4,000, retail drug store.
| Progress Furniture Co., Hatties-
burg-Capital, $4,000, retail furniture
| business.
The staid old city of Grenada is get
ting a move on herself. The business
men are preparing to organize pusl-
ness league on late principles and get
down to business right. The largest
plant in the world for creosoting ties
| is in course of construction just north
of town and will add many thousand
| dollars to the Golfers of her merchants
each year as well as helping the sur
rounding country proportionately. A
new addition to the town has been
plated and placed on the market,
another railroad is coming, much
! building of a substantial nature is be-
| ing done and the people confidently
expect many other good things IN the
next year or two, and will go after
| them.
The Poplarville Free Press says that
| truck growing around that town mas
/ proven very profitable to those engag-
| ed therein and that it is almost con-
tinual thing, the mild winters retard-
ing growing of crops but little. There
is a great future ahead for that section
| of the State. Where such conditions
prevail as in south Mississippi, people
/ interested in trucking are bound to
be attracted sooner or later. A little
advertising of the proper kind would
in a short time make it the greatest
fruit and vegetable producing country
| in the world.
Mule raising is bound to become a
leading and profitable industry in the
State. The experience of those who
have tried it confirms this as fact
! The Aberdeen Examiner says that d.
l. Howard & Co., of that place made
speciality of exporting Monroe county
bred mules last year and found that
they commanded as good price as.
those raised in sMis5ouri or any other
| State. The experience of successful
raisers OF mules would prove inter
esting reading and would look well in
this department Let's hear from
some Of them.
In the delta of our State there are
thousands of acres of land that can be
bought now for $6 to $40 per acre in
the woods that will produce easily 70
| bushels of corn or bale and half
of cotton to the acre, and other stun
in proportion. Labor is scarce and
what is needed is a bureau to interest
good white labor to come here, buy
this land and put il in cultivation. A
State of landowners is much more to
be desired than one of renters and
shareholders.
Is there community in the State
where land values have not advanced
from so to 100 per cent in the past
three or four years2 There certainly
is not, and the end is not yet. This
has been caused by good work done
by the wide awake people who are al
ways alert to the interest Of their COM
munity in getting everything good that
comes along. Opportunities will still
come, and in Increased nuPbers. Let
every neighborhood.. town or city get
in shape to get what comes. only
/ hustfers will be in at the windup.
I
:: The Progressive Union of Columbus
has succeeded in locating big factory
for the manufacture OF fieeee.haed
underwear. The plant will employ 2oQ
operatives and is large feather IN
the cap of that rejuvenated town.
That Progressive Union has already
been worth more than the cost for
whole year, and the work has only
lust begun In short time the town
without such an organization VIII De
a back number of the rankest hue.
Organized effort is the key to indus
trial success.
+ Brookbaven came to the frant last
week with humber concern with a
capital stock of million dollars. In
connection with the enterprise $780,
600 mercantile establishment is also
chartered. Several hundred hands
will be employed and the plant will
prove great stimulus to that already
thriving city.
Small industries to employ labor
land work our crude material are need
ed in almost every town in the State
The man who establishes them de-
serves the heartiest commendation OF
his. neighbors and progressive people
Everywhere.
j The NJ. j. & X. c. win build a
j $4,000 depot at Newton and the good
3 people over there are eorrespondlngiy
happy. over the prospect.
AS an evidence of hustling, We call
i attention to the fact that the Winona
Times Ia t..-.@The Times outfit was
burned and things looked pretty blue
/ for the paper to come out again III
several weeks but the hustling pro-
prietor was equal to the occasion. he
bought out competitor and never
missed an issue.
Ten acres of Mississippi land well
arranged for fruit and vegetables VIII
! produce more money than the laborer
can get in a city and besides will bring
ten times the satisfaction and con-
tentment that the confines of city
offers
There is a marked improvement in
the newspapers of the state. They
are superior geographically than
few years since and are much better
patronized by the merchants. Nothing
&. is a better sign of the thrift and pros.
perity of a town than the newspapers
published in it, If the town is alive
and wide awake to everything tnat
is good for it, it can be told plainly
by a glance at the local papers