Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-02-25

crop until the price justifies selling.
TheI why have we not solved the
problem of over-production and the at
tendant depression in price? Hold
what you have and raise less this
year One-hfth being held and a re-
ductlon in acreage OF any appreciable
proportion would soon send the price
back to nine cents, despite the efforts
OF Mr.. Bear Theodore Price and
his numerous cohorts The people OF
Mississippi are all right and the day
of having the price fixed on their
principal product by a few men in
the 'steenth story Of palatial office
building in New York Is fast drawing
to close.
The governor Of North Carolina has
sent special message to the legisla-
ture urging the establishment of an
Industrial and immigration bureau.
( The great work being accomplished by
the South Carolina bureau is largely
the cause OF this action by the goyer-
nor of the adjoining State. The value
Of such department would be hard
to compute in dollars and cents. Mis-
sissippi needs such department bad
ly.
After several years OF anxiety and
suspense the contract has been let for
a splendid government building at BIZ
loxi. Work will begin shortly and
soon the beautiful city on the coast
can boast of being one OF the places
recognized by its Uncle Samuel in a
substantial manner.
Jackson has an innovation in the
construction of a row of apartment
houses. The Capitol City is fast TAX
ing on metropolitan airs.
The handsome new depot of stone
and pressed brick built by the A. &
V. at Newton, has been completed and
occupied. That enterprising city is
entitled to the best of everything and
its worth as a business point Is fully
appreciated by the two railroad sys-
tens that pass there.
Ouitman. one of the liveliest little
cities of the State, is taking on city
airs fast A project Is now on foot
TO build a telephone exchange so that
all parts of town will be in hello
distance of the other The Cumber-
land is figuring on supplying the
want
from year to year the farmer tow
els higher and higher as the real
dominating force of our nation. Liv.
erpool plainly begins to fear him.
There is less of the hem and ha,' less
derisive looks, less of skeptical shrugs
ard incredulous raising OF eyebrows
when the determination Of the plant
or to hold his cotton Is mentioned.
Prominent planters, even in the past,
have been known to hold their cotton
for a number of years. The South as
a section is infinitely better off than
ever before.
Tupelo is to have the second large
knitting mill. The money has been
raised and the project is now on the
side of certainty Tupelo is fast
becoming one of the foremost manu-
featuring cities of the State.
Silver Creek, in Simpson county,
continues to improve. A first-class
hotel was opened there last week,
along with the many other improve
hppn
placed In the town class by the gov
ornor.
One Of the wide.awake editors Of the
State says, regarding the necessity of
manufacturing and handling our
goods in tho South:
mot until the South begins to man.
ufacture her own goods from the raw
material produced here will she real
ize the greatest amount of prosperity.
When a Cuban house ordering South
ern goods has to pass the orders
through New York and Boston be-
fore they reach the Southern mill,
only about two days distant from Ha-
vana, the result can easily be seen,
There are a number of cotton mills in
the South, but they do not bleach the
goods, as is done in the factories Of
the North, where 1t is claimed by
some that the South cannot put the
desired whiteness in the goods. There
is no reason why this section cannot
turn out as high class manufactured
products as the mills Of any other
section"