The Tupelo journal., 1904-04-29
FOR MISSISSIPPI
Items of Industrial Interest GeancJ From All Over the State.
Notes and Comments
BY FL. E. ~BLAKESLEE.

An aAaS ~ 49, S@tS
the Office Of the secretary of State this
week has been small from the fact
that Attorney General Williams has
been absent in New Orleans looking
after the boundary dispute, and Gov.
Vardaman in ST. Louis with the Fair
Commission. Next week will likely
show a largely increased number, how
ever, on this account.
Seay Confectionery Co., Meridian
Capital, $25, 900, manufacture and deal
in confectioneries.
Van Cleave Bros. Mercantile Co.,
Ocean Springs-Capital, SIS, 900, gen.
eral merchandise.
Amendment to the charter of the r.
Watts G. Co., increasing capital stock
to 500, 1000.
Davenport Fractional Calculator Co.,
Okolona-Capital, $4,000, print and
sell fractional calculators.
Peoples Drug Store, Braxton-Cap-
ital, $4,000, retail drug store.
Progress Furniture Co, Hattles-
burg-Capital, $4,000, retail furniture
business.
The staid old city of Grenada Is get
ting a move on herself. The business
I1SI are pIGpdlIuS W olSoiiLC buS
ness league on late principles II 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 we'll 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 has
proven very profitable to those engag-
ed therein and that it is almost a 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 kin 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 a fact.
The Aberdeen Examiner says that ID.
l. Howard & Co.. Of that place made a
speciality of exporting Monroe county
bred mules last year and found that
they commanded as good price as
those raised in Missouri 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 Sc to $40 per acre in
the woods that will produce easily 70
bushels of corn or a bale and a hall
of cotton to the acre, and other stuff
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 it in cultivation. A
State of landowners Is much more to
be desired than one of rSnters and
shareholders.
Is there a community in the State
where land values have not advanced
from so to 100 per cent in the past
three or four years? 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 tt the interest of their COM
munity in getting everything good that
comes along. Opportunities will still
come, and in increased nurbers. Let
every n~eighbOrhood. town or city get
in shape to get what comes. Only
hustlers will be in at the windup.
THE Progressive Union of Columbus
has succeeded in locating a big factory
for the manufacture of f1eece-lined
underwear. The plant will employ $50
operatives and is a large feather in
the cap of that ~reiuvenated town.
That Progressive Union has already
worth more than the cost for a
whole year, and the work has only
lust begun. In a short time the town
WITHOUT StiCH al olSdiiAdtAoh "a Nv
a back number of the rankest hue.
Organized effort is the key to indus
trial success.
Brookhaven came to the frant last
week with a lumber concern with a
CAPITAL stock of a million dollars. In
connection with the enterprise a $50,-
600 mercantile establishment is also
chartered. Several hundred hands
will be employed and the plant will
prove a great stimulus to that already
thriving city.
Small industries to employ labor
and work our crude material are need
ed in almost every town in the State.
man who establishes them de-
serves the hearties. commentator OF
his neighbors and progressive people
everywhere.
The M. ]. & X. C. will build a
SIS, 900 depot at Newton and the good
people over there are correspondingly
happy over the prospect.
AS an evidence of hustling, we call
attention to the fact that the Winona
Times is it. The Times outfit was
burned and things looked pretty blue
for the paper to come out again in
several weeks but the hustling pro-
prietor was equal to the occasion. He
bought out a competitor and nev
missed an issue.
Ten acres of Mississippi land well
arranged for fruit and vegetables will
produce more money than the laborer
can get in a city and besides will bring