The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
BY H. E. ~BLAKEsLEE, Jackson.

Clarksdale continues to improve its
water and light plant to meet the
demands of a fast increasing popula-
ton. 1t was at n time general for
municipalities when installing such
plants to build for the present and
with little consideration of what
would be demanded in the future.
This was no doubt the case at Clarks-
dale, the people not expecting such
a decided increase in population and
consequent demand upon the facil1-
ties. At present. towns constructing
plants are more generally building
with a view to a decided increase and
will experience less ,roubie with
building up plants that have become
too small. Mississippi is wonderfully
prosperous and the rapid increase OF
population which has been shown by
her towns and cities is now being con-
sidered in arranging for utilities Of q
public nature.
Corinth has a citizen who is deserv-
ing of praise. His name is Moore,
and several years since he went to
South Africa and became very
wealthy by the mining process. Mr..
Moore did not move away from the
city of his nativity, but still lives in
Corinth and is doing a number OF
nice things for the people with the
money made in other lands. He has
built and furnished a beautiful mu-
scum that would do credit to any
place, has built a large park and beau
tilted it with lakes, trees, drives, etc.
and has also placed in it a number OF
rare and valuable animals. He is
now adding one of the finest collec-
lions of birds in the world and will
continue until Ccrinth can boast of
the finest park and ZOO In the whole
South if not in the United States.
Hazlehurst people are preparing to
build a large lake of 25 or 80 acres
adjacent to that town, stock 1t with
fish, provide boats and other means OF
pleasure and maintain it as a public
park. The movement is a highly
commendable one and deserves he
approval of all the citizens. No town
or city can have too many places OF
rest and recreation if they are of the
proper kind and conducted along NOR
al lines. 1t is well to look after such
matters before property gets so high
that the price would tend to make the
area smaller than it should be. Plenty
of breathing places, well kept, should
prove a strong attraction for good
people who are seeking places in
which to make homes.
A correspondent in m of the Holly
Springs papers gives several excel
lent reasons why a street railway
| system should be built in that town,
and reasons that should appeal to the
| citizens who desire to see their town
take its proper place in the progress
| siye column. The writer is well ac-
uuainted with Holly Springs and the
good people up there and believes
that this correspondents views are
worthy of consideration at least. 1t
is to be hoped that they will be acted
upon.
Forty thousand acres of pine land
in Marion county recently sold at SIS
per acre, and the price paid was not
considered abnormally high. 1t was
not many years since that this same
land could have been purchased at
SIPS per acre. 1t is generally con-
ceded that while the price of the tim
Der may have reached high water
mark, the land is still very low in
price to what it will be in the future.
Mathiston reports as new enter
prises a $40, 900 bank, four brick and
one frame store building, the organ
ization of a land and improvement
company. a saw mill that will work
twenty hands, nine new residences
and several tenement houses. That
is doing fairly we'll and the end is not
yet. The little city is enjoying q
splendid growth, which the energy of
it's people deserve commentator for.
Aberdeen has a factory that pre-
pares a special food for chickens. and
it is reported as being a great sue
cess. Only a few days since a ton OF
feed was shipped to Birmingham. and
it is going Ii in all directions daily.
This is so much better than being
compelled to send to Maine or other
Northern States for such supplies.
Mississippi should manufacture nine
ty per cent of everything used here.
Corinth will build seven miles Of
sewer, the contract having been
awarded a few days since. Electric
light and water works we're installed
some years since and have proven
successful from every standpoint.
The Mississippi town of 500 people
without these c~onveniences is fast be-
coming an exception instead of a
rule. Our people are fast awakening
to the convenience as well as neces-
sity for such improvements.
Mississippi is far in the lead of 9TH
err Southern States in the organization
of the Southern Cotton Association.
The percentage of membership to pop
ulation is greater, the collections are
larger and the association is in bet
ter condition in every way.
G. s.. Smith, of neal Corinth, is a
successful raiser of timothy hay and
recently brought some to town that
measured 9k inches for heads and
4 feet s inches of stalk. Mr.. Smith
has just harvested his crop, which
produced an average of two tons to
the acre. He is a successful farmer
who came from the North, and de-
lights in letting his old friends back
up there know of the greatness OF
Mississippi. If We had enough men
like Mr.. Smith it would not be long
until the greatness of Mississippi
would be sung from one end of the
continent to the other.
$3.50
West Point is organizing a whole
sale crockery and glass business