The Tupelo journal., 1904-09-23
BY H. E. BLAKEsLEE, Jackson.

A hustling real estate mar of Jack.
son has just sent a nice display OF
trucking products to a fair in tho
Northwest, with the view of interest.
ing good people in our great country.
The Illinois Central railroad is dis.
tributing 1905 0 copies of the Kent
Jones letter on trucking, which ap.
peare6 in this department two weeks
since, throughout the North and West.
All of the railroads are featuring Mis-.
sissippi and the Cotton and Corn
Carnival. to be held in December,
throughout the entire North, West
and East e~ndeavoring to bring de-.
sirable citizens down to help our peo
pie in the great work of development
so well begun. Mississippi is promi
nently before the eyes of the world
just now.
West Point is considering the propo
sition to build a creamery where the
'Cairymen can sell cream and milk
for making cheese. This project was
tried al Myrtle, in Union county,
Bethany. in Lee county, and Baldwin,
in Prentiss county, a few years since
with poor results. However, there
may have been no real cause for the
failure, more than the u~npreparedness
and ineXperience of The people of those
sections for the support of such in
Gustries. Mr.. Moles, vice-president OF
The famous Elgin Butter Association,
of Illinois. was in Mississippi recent
ly and stated to the writer that he
could see no reason why this coun-
try should not prove as good for the
production of butter and milk as the
Elsin district. Tho people must be
educated to comply with conditions
necessary for the success of such i
movement. but, as it has been done in
other sections. there seems to be no
good reason why it should not be done
here.
His neighbors dubbed him a crank
when d. E. Cantrell, of Monroe coun.
ty, set out several hundred fruit trees
some years ago. His orchard is now
bearing and is bringing big. cash re-
turns for the time and money ex-
Tended. His apples are declared
splendid and are of the Johnson Red,
Ben Davis, Mckay Red. Arkansas
Blacks and Russets. This is given as an
example of what the prairie region
will do in the way OF fruit raising.
Mississippi has the greatest diversity
OF soils of any State in the union, n
offers ~uneXcelled advantages to farm
ers, stock raisers and truckers. The
only thing lacking is letting the out
side world know what we have. For
this purpose was the Cotton and Corn
Carnival proposed and organized. We
want the people of other States to
visit us and see what we have right
here on the ground. That meeting
should be worth many thousands OF
dollars to the State and every section
should be represented.
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The hustling little city of Belzoni,
TIE ltZCO, cIthtls SOllilCStCu 1
the outside world with one railroad
and fine prospects of another, is build
ing fifteen brick stores at present, and
others will go up as soon as material
can be obtained. Wonderful progress
is reported along all lines and it bida
fair to be one Of the best towns in
the great delta in a very short space
of time.
The governments big fish hatchery
at Tupelo is in operation after more
than two years spent in construction.
Millions of suckers are being born up
there every day, and the work OF dis
tributing to lakes. ponds, streams, etc,
is well under way. This is the only
hatchery run by the government in
this section, and its location at Tupelo
is the elimination of the efforts OF
Congressman John Allen.
The cotton crop is opening fast and
labor necessary to pick it is hard TO
supply. Mexicans and Italians are be-
ing tried in the delta with mor or less
success 1t is nearly always the case
that it is difficult to get labor for har.
vesting the cotton crop, and the man
" no will invent a successful cotton
is richer than Pierpont Nor
gan, or any other trust maguate.
The people of Yazoo county are
very much in favor of better roads.
At an election held in the county q
few days since the vote stood $40 for
to 457 against working them by con.
tract. Nearly two to one. Had there
been a full vote the majority for i'm
would undoubtedly have
been larger. Keep up the good roads
agitation.
A Mississippi mar claims to have
discovered a plan by which cotton seed
oil can be substituted for linseed oil
in the manufacture and mixture Of
Cotton seed oil has been used
for a number of years for adulterating
but did hot possess the required
body for making a durable paint. II
the gentleman in question has dis
q process whereby this quail
ity can be obtained, he has found
something worth having and will
prove himself a benefactor to the cot.
ton producer as well as the consumer
Of paints,