The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-11-17
By II. Z. BLAKEsLEE, Jackson, Mss.

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and maintaining machinery. A COM
plete outfit of road working machin-
cry will be on display and a piece of
road shown before and after being
built with this machinery. Not a citi-
zen of the state but who is interested
In betteh roads and it would be well
if every county would send its board
of supervisors here to see these ma
chimes, see them work and judge as
to the adaptability to conditions in
their respective counties. There will
be something done towards better
roads throughout the state in the near
future, and this display will be worth
a great deal to all interested.
1t is estimated, and that upon sound
business principles, that the increase
in wealth and other developments in
the south will be much larger in the
next ten years than in the past ten.
Since the census of 1900 there has
been a remarkable increase. For in
stance; the increase in lumber pro-
ducts has been from 500, 100000 to
5000, 000, 1000. Capital invested in cot
ton manufacturing has increased from
$50, 000,0 900 to 5000, OO0, 200. Capital
invested in general manufacturing
from $659,0O0,0 900 to $1,2OOO,00O. Val
lie of agricultural products from$773,-
O00,0 to ST. 00,00O,00O The same
progress has been shown along all
lines and the showing is indeed a very
Gratifying one
Bohemian laborers are becoming
very common on the Gulf coast. Large
numbers are employed in the canneries
and a after car is being brought
down from the vicinity of Baltimore.
The decrease of oyster fishing in the
Chesapeake Bay country is driving
the business to our Mississippi coast.
For quality the Mississippi oyster has
never been excelled and the worlds
supply is largely coming from our
grounds now. The oyster industry
will be largely augmented in the next
few years, and will prove one Of the
states largest sources of revenue. A
settlement of the contested boundary
question will expedite matters greatly.
Yazoo City is hustling for business
as never before. Not many days since
a train was run over the Belzoni
branch of the Y. & NJ. V. carrying a
large number of her business men who
became acquainted and presented the
claims of Yazoo in the best light pos
sible. The experiment proved salts
factory and other trips are planned
for the future. What Yazoo is doing
might be adopted by other towns
with profit. At this time business is
secured by going after it. The town
that sits still and waits for something
to turn up will never have cause to
report a great quantity of turnips.
Hustle is the thing.
Canning factories are attracting
more attention in the state than for
merly. While there is no great amount
of money in the operation ofthem, yet
they furnish a market for vegetables
that would not command a price in
the northern markets and also at times
when the market is overcrowded. Ev-
cry trucking community Of any impor-
lance should have a canning factory
for the purposes above named.
The editor Of this department has a
letter from a firm in Glasgow, Scot
land, asking for samples of clays de-
scribed in Bulletin No. 8, of the
Greater Mississippi Association sew
eral weeks since. So it would appear
that the news that Mississippi had
clays that would likely be Of great
value has reached the other side Of
the ocean,.
There is a strong probability that
the Southern will extend its Itta Bena
branch to Belzoni. The amount of
bonus asked for has almost been rails
ed and the people all along the pro-
posed route are active in the work Of
securing the road. 1t would open up
a splendid section Of country, which
has no superior anywhere in the
state.
Several towns in the state r fig
uring on improvements that mean a
great deal if made. There is a spirit
of progress abroad that promises a de-
velopment in the future beyond the
anticipations of the most optimistic.
Mississippi is all right in every way
just at present.
James Roden, a tenant on the place
of w. G. Dixon Of Alcorn county has
already marketed eleven bales of cot
ton at from $50 to $50 per bale and
will get three or four more. MI. Ro-
den also raised the other articles nee