Macon beacon., 1905-09-02

There Is now on file in the United
States Land Office at Jackson over
sixty thousand patents for lands in
the State of Mississippi. These pat
ents are issued by the United States
and are the basis of title to all lands
purchased from the government.
They will be delivered to the owners
of the tracts upon the filing in this
office Of an affidavit TO the effect that
he Is the owner of the land described,
and the original receipt is lost or de-
stroyed' Please insert in the paper.
for which you correspond a notice to
this effect.
FIRED W. COLLINS, Register"
This notice means more than is in
dicated on its face 1t means that
in the State Of Mississippi there are
more than sixty thousand pieces Of
land of which the title has never been
perfected. Mr.. Collins says that for
owners TO secure these patents, all
that is necessary is to certify that
the original receipt has been lost or
destroyed and that the party applying
Is the owner of the land. II might
be well for those who own land that
came from the government to give
the matter some attention to prevent
trouble in the future.
Reports from all over the State in
dcatc that never before has there
been so much work of a sanitary ma
ture done and that the towns arc
now in condition to claim the appel
lation of 'spotess." This is certainly
one good effect of the fever scare
They ought to be kept in this condi
tion all of the time and it is criminal
not to do so. The crusade of clean
ing up will not only tend to lessen
the possibility of infection from ycl
low fever. but from other diseases as
we'll The writer becomes more for
cibly convinced every day that the
proper thing to do is to take t1e
! money being spent in establishing
guarantees and spend it in sanitation
and do away with the stringent quar-.
antine.
The little city of Marks. in Quit
man county is partaking of a large
slice Of prosperity It is in the rich
delta country and already has largo
trade. The business houses have
been more than doubled in a short
time and now Eugene Clarke has
started a newspaper to keep things
| humming There is great future
before Marks and the people up there
are Of the kind that will likely get all
that is coming to them.
Recent reports state that only four
mole miles of road are to be con.
structed before the NJ, J. & K. c. will
be abe to operate trains through from
Mobile to Middleton, Tenn, the north
| ern terminus at present The work
has been delayed somewhat by rains,
but is progressing fairly well,
Friend Robertson, Of the Wesson
Enterprise. in response to about $50
letters from Northern people asking
for printed matter descriptive of his
section. issued an edition of his paper
last week filed with information that
will prove valuable and mailed to
these interested parties. 1t was an
especially interesting paper and will
no doubt prove to be worth many dol
lars to Wosson and vicinity
lndanola will have concrete walks
of uniform dimensions in the princi
pal parts of the town The city board
will pay half the cost and the abutting
property owner the other half. This
is good scheme that other towns
might adopt with profit. Money spent
in good roads and walks is judiciously
expended and regret will not follow
such action.
Greenwood claims TO be the clean
est city in the State. 1t is to be
hoped that a large number of cities
will get themselves in shape to con
test this claim If every city and town
in the State was trying to occupy the
position claimed by Greenwood there
would be no cause for the present bus
ness-destroying quarantine Com
mencc next year early, clean up the
towns, destroy mosquitoes and keep
open house
Capt. J. +. Merry, of the Illinois
Central railway, with headquarters at
Manchester, Iowa, desires experiences
of successful farmers for use In
publication on Mississippi If you
4 ,T,,t ,,r,tA
send to him. The writer Of this de.
partment also desires such expert
ences and will be glad to get as many
as possible.
Grenadas new brick factory has
proven all right in that the product is
as good as can be manufactured any
where. II will prove a great benefit
to that city, as well as profitable to
the owners.
Meridian is to have new S150,Oo0
cotton compress to be built and oper
ated by parties from New Orleans.
The wagon factory at Laurel will
be greatly enlarged, almost if not
quite doubling its present capacity |
This plant has been very successful
from the beginning, and goes to prove |
that such establishments, If properly |
handled can bo made n success in |
this section. And why not? We have
the material from which they arc
mM ufactured and the market for the
finished article. We should do more
Of this kind of work.
The first train on the NJ, ]. G. X. c
came into Philadelphia recently, and |
from the published reports the event
was made one Of iolliicatian and |
good cheer The town is eNperieGc
ing a,period Of great prosperity since
the location Of tho road through it and |
many new buildings. enterprises, ETC.
are being erected 1t is in a splendid |
section Of tho State end will no doubt |
hc an important commercial center
Ccrirth ie layins severn miles o'
saVot7ca durin. The sn"ner nonth9
when ,ima would otherwise be ypr'
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