The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-03-05
FOR GREATER MISSISSIPPI
Items of Industrial Interest Geanc1 From All Over the State
sZ Notes and Comments.
N8 BY H. E BI4AKESLEE.
BY Fl. E. BLAKESLEE.

ceived here goes farther in the way
of living expenses than in the New
England States. The average of weav
ers up there is $500 per week, while
the average in this section is only
$3.50 per week, yet the man here who
receives $3.50 per week can buy more
of the necessities of life with his pay
than can the New England weaver
with his $500. This is only one of
the many advantages possessed by the
South in the manufacture of cotton.
~
A charter issued last week to the
Batesville Manufacturing Company
looks like an effort would be made to
navigate the Tallahatchie river as far
up as Batesville at least. Years ago
the stream was open to small boats
much further up than this, and there
seems to be good grounds for believ-
ing that 1t can again be made nav
| igable portion of the year at least
for small river craft.
| The newest enterprise in Mississippi
pi, although not as yet one of the
chartered institutions of the State,
but one that Is attracting attention
abroad, is frog farm. Not frog
| pond, remind you, but farm that
| will raise for market the succulent and
ever evasive bull frog which is con-
sidered such delicacy by many with
| epicurean tastes. This farm is said
to be located or will be located, over
near Clarkesdale, in the delta section
of the State. While the originator
of this report may have meant it in
spirit of levty, why could not such
thing be done The hind legs of a
bull frog have always been considered
very valuable and have been hunted
by those versed in the ways of the
frog for profit. While the writer has
no information at hand as to the
proper attention demanded by frog.
lets, and as to the amount necessary
to the installation of farm, it
Is certain that they would command
good price, and it seems that some
man with an experimental turn of
mind might turn this joke to profit
Take advantage of what we already
have in the way of resources and be
continually on the lookout for new
ones. Too few people realize what we
have and what is being done to devel- |
op what we have. Keep pushing, and |
the result will be satisfactory.
The Mobile & Ohio is surveying a |
branch line from Shuqualak to Edn-
burg on the Pearl river. The proposed |
line is about sixty miles long and
will tap country that has been with
out railroad facilities. Some good tim
hnu nj For ,ipo will nut |
touch with the outside, world and de-
veloped.
The city of Greenwood will purchase |
the waterworks plant and operate 1t as
a municipal affair hereafter Apprais-
ers have been selected by the city
and present owners to agree what it
is worth, when the price decided upon
will be paid "a The system will be
greatly enlarged and improved.
Pike county is making fight for
another court district and court house,
while some of the citizens of Goa
homa are making an effort to get rid
Of a district and court house which
they have on hand. Pity but that they
could effect a trade.
The staid old city of Aberdeen has
awakened to the necessity of indus
trial development and is now forging
10 the front as a manufacturing city
If the latest type. A new light and
power company has been chartered, a
pants factory put in successful oper-
alton, a factory for the manufacture
If buttons from mussle shells is build
ng and there are many evidences of
in all lines. Who would
lave taken seriously the proposition {
o make buttons from shells of the
lespised mussle few years ago? But {
t is being done, and at profit. This
actory opens up a field for using these
hells and will afford employment to
great number of persons in gather t
ng them. Several towns in Arkansas t