Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-10

In the delta, where the Yazoo and Missis-
sippi valley has almost network of roads,
land has advanced in the same proportion.
AS an evidence of the prosperity of the
in Mississippi in the hands of a receiver.
The total mileage of the state in 1890 was
200: it is now 3,142 miles. with several
new lines under construction
The attitude of the Mississippi railway
commission toward the railroads is more
liberal than that of Alabama. A new COM
mission, which is said to be more radical
than ever, has just gone into office at Mont
gomery, and B. B. Conner of birmingham,
the chairman, in his inaugural address
threatened all kinds of discipline At the
first meeting of the board, however, he was
sat upon by his colleagues, Messrs. Tunstall
and Sanders, who are more conservative
and judicial in their attitude.
Manufactures Exempt From Taxes.
The state government of Mississippi and
the legislature are quite generous toward
manufacturing industries and has passed a
law exempting them from taxation for ten
years. A state containing 10000 square
miles of territory and only million and
half of people, cannot be expected to de-
velop its own riches without foreign aid.
and all kinds of inducements are offered
capitalists to engage in manufacturing here.
Some thread has been spun and some
coarse cloth has been made in the state for
generations, and there are now fourteen
cotton mills with 4,273 looms and 132 696
spindles, representing an investment of
about 2,5O0,OO0. The largest mill Is at
Wesson station ON the Illinois Central road,
which has LOO operatives But Mississippi
is far behind other southern states In work
ing up its raw material. The state produces
million and a half bales of cotton year,
but consumes only about twenty thousand
bales; although there is a greater demand
for cheap cotton cloth than for any other
fabric. There is plenty of labor also-large
families of the poor white class living In
greatest privation because there is nothing
for the women to do.
In North Carolina, South Carolina and
Georgia this class has furnished excellent
factory operatives, and the same people and
same conditions prevail in Mississipppi
south Carolina consumes half of her cot
ton crop within her own borders and ex-
ports half the cloth and yarn manufactured
In the state Mississippi does practically
nothing, although it's advantages are equal
to those of any other southern state A
source of great wealth lies unused With
the hope and expectation of the introduce
non OF cotton mills, the state has recently
established textile school in connection
with the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege; SO that one step, at least, of impor-
lance, has been taken
Cotton Seed Oil Industry.
More money comes out of the cotton seed
Oil industry than from any other. A few
years ago cotton seed was as much of a
nuisance around plantation as sawdust
around the lumber mills. But it has been
discovered that every seed contains a drop
OF precious OIL SO that which was recently
thrown away now adds more than $50 OOO,-
O00 year to the profits of cotton planters
mississippi alone turns out about 100000
tons of cotton seed annually, and last year
1t was worth $15.75 per ton
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad, like the
Cunard steamship line, boasts that it has
Messenger There ic trad q
ton that on one occasion a tramp, who
was stealing ride on freight train, was
killed in a collision, and a number of en-
ployes of the road lose their lives every
year But l am assured that no first-class
passenger was ever killed on any train Oc-
casionally there is an accident There was
horrible smash-up near Tuscaloosa only a
rev weeks ago, and during the Spanish
war trafnload of soldiers went through a
bridge. But no one was killed on either
occasion.