Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-03-04
BY H.. f. BLAKESLEE, Jackson.

port lullDSr lfduei lhtlc has nPiuHS
up a thriving business in naval stores
that is increasing rapidly and prom
ises not to be one of the least OF Gulf
ports items of commerce. During the
last six months of 1904 1922 JOY barrels
of pitch and 1853 $50 gallons OF turpen-
tine were sent abroad. A mammoth
naval stores concern has been organ
lied and it is confidently expected that
an increase Of several hundred per
cent will be experienced during the
present year. The port Is not without
a satisfactory list Of imports also, u
ing the latter part of the year recelI-
ing 6,100 tons Of iron pyrites ard 5000
tons of acid phosphate. The new year
has opened up under bright prospects,
January showing the clearance OF a
net tonnage of 22,473, carrying 49,
473 900 feet, board measure. lndica-
lions are that the present year will ex-
coed last year by a larger per cent
than 1904 did 1903. A phenomenal
increase in business making dock
room insufficient, necessltates the
building of the second pier. When
this is completed vessels Will be ena-
bled to come in and discharge their
loads and take on an outgoing cargo
without having to wait in the channel
for their turn, as is frequently the
case at present.
The city of Gulfport Is experiencing
a growth in proportion to that OF the
Port. A recent census gives II a pop
ulation of $500 souls inside the cor
porate limits. A large suburban pop
| ulation resides outside and the figures
are placed in the neighborhood OF
1900 as the grand total. Stately
blocks of substantial brick and stone
buildings are going up, replacing the
pioneer shacks that have serye1 their
DAYS of usefulness. A magnificent no.
tel with several hundred rooms affords
comfortable quarters for the travelling
public and the hundreds OF Northern
visitors who spend the winters enjoy
ing a mild and salubrious climate.
The commodious pavilion at the end
of the pier, connected with the shore
by broad board walks and an electric
car line, offers a pleasant and UNIQUE
place for spending a few hours each
day. A Chatauqua will be held there
during the first days Of July and large
numbers Of people will take advantage
of the opportunity to visit the coast
and hear the celebrities engaged for
the occasion. A number of large
manufacturing plants are already in
operation and a number being built at
present. A liberal policy toward en-
~terprises of every nature is pursued
and every encouragement given them.
The mercantile establishments will
compare fayorably with those of much
larger cities. A great many substan-
tial homes have been built and the cit
izenship is of the best.
The building of the great Panama
canal will turn the attention OF tae
world to our gulf coast, and it is con-
fdently expected that two or more
great cities of maritime trade will be
built on Mississippi soil. Gulfport Is
destined to be one of these, and with
the start it already has, will not be
slow in asserting itself. Great is
Gulfport and greater still the magni0-
cent future that is before it.
Waynesboro growers are experience
ing great results from liberia peach
es. The dealers call for more like the
last sent and the demand is excellent.
A great many more trees are being
planted from year to year and
Waynesboro promises to go up head
in the peach business. Trucking is
also becoming an important industry
and the growers are obtaining results
that are very satisfactory.
Marx S~chaefer, of Yazoo City, is an
educated farmer and works upon the
plan 'of something to sell every day
in the year" While he makes cotton
his principal money crop, it is in real
ity a money crop from the fact that
almost everything needed to run the
farm Is raised thereon. A few days
since he brought to Yazoo City &c
bushels of yellow yam potatoes and
carried home with him 60 good dol
lars. His land will raise from 200 tc
$50 bushels of potatoes to the acre
and he finds the crop a very profitable
one. Mr.. Schaefer is diversifyine
along the right lines and his success
Is the pride of his %neighbors.
A great many people from the North
are now in the State seeking homes
and investments. They come on low
rates offered by the roads and are al
lowed a stay of something like twenty
: or thirty days. If they are good citi
zens we need them and every mar
should extend them a hearty welcome
} A Calhoun county citizen brought
to Water Valley a few days since thir
: teen hundred dozen eggs gathered III
in his community of the Free State
Then, too, when you think of the mis-
! cradle weather and the trying circum
) stances under which the Calhoun hens
labored to produce this prodigou'
} quantity of fruit. 1t is now proven
: that the hen is mightier than thu
sword, in Calhoun county at least.
l Newton sets the pace on paymen
, of taxes. In that enterprising little
/, city only one piece of real estate was
: d%elinouent and the tax collector
thought IL 100 sinai W duNelllsc, di'
it Is supposed that he paid 1t himself
: Mississippi dirt is too valuable now t.
:. let it sell for taxes, as has frequent.
; been the case in the past. 1t will stil
, be more thought Of in the future.
r Aberdeen is very much pleased witt
, its municipal light plant. The state
. ment is made that the amount hereto
fore paid a private concern to ligh
the streets is set aside and will IL
, four or five years pay for the new
plant.
There are openings in the State TO
a number of factories to make small
h handles from hickory or ash timber
While a large part of the hickory ha
Q been split into spoke timber, there !
, still an immense amount of small o
a ash and a considerable q%uantit,
of small hickory that Is excellent II
q quality. Factories Of this characte
have been in operation at one or tW'
points in the State and are payinI
s handsomely. There should be a nun
n Der started during the present year
The outlay of capital is not necessari
, " large and it would furnish a maj
ket for timber otherwise useless a
well as prove a paying investment TO
v the proprietor. Investigate the bus
nose right aWaV