The leader., 1905-01-14

sections and level bottoms would then
raise the cotton of the country. The
hill farmers and new-ground men
would be left in the cold as far as
making the crop profitable would be
concerned. However, there is still
something for those in Mississippi
who could not raise cotton Truck
ing pays better anyway In hill sec
tions, and the new grounds could be
planted in corn and other crops until
clear of stumps. While it may be
unnecessary for those who own rough
land to become frightened SO soon,
it might not be amiss to begin to
think of what is to be done in case
the cotton picking machine should
come into general use.
Mississippi is to be congratulated
upon the stand taken toward the vet
Grams who so nobly fought beneath
her flag in 1S61-5 The fitting up of
Beauvoir as home where they may
spend their remaining days in peace
and eontentment, is the least that
could be done for these old heroes
who find themselves without support
Wheh life's sun is sinking Iowa
home at the residence of their de-
parted chieftain, with all the COM
forts and necessaries of life. Th9 J
cost is comparatively small when com
pared with the use to which it is
placed. May Gods blessings be with
them until the roll is called up yon-
der.
It looks as II. Aberdeen will have
two new oil mills when the season
opens next fall. The charters are be-
ing published for two in the local pa
pers. Oil mills do not pay the div
dend of few years since, but are still
considered good investments. With
fertilizer factories in connection they
are worth great deal to the com-
munity in which located.
The Manufacturers Record, of Balti-
more, has the following to say Of Capt.
w. H. Hardy's splendid address on
South Mississippi at the carnival
before Christmas:
Zone of the best speeches at the
Cotton and Corn Carnival at Jackson
was that of Capt. w. H. Hardy, OF
Hattiesburg, treating especially of
the resources of the piney woods re-
gion of South Mississippi. The speech
was, in fact, forecast of the wealth
to be enjoyed with the full exertion Of
energies now operating in numbering,
farming and manufacturing in that
region. Captain Hardy estimates that
in the 5000 square miles of South
Mississippi there are 100000 acres
of standing pine timber that will cut
during the next forty years $4,000, ,000,-
600 feet of lumber, representing $780,
100000, to say nothing of the value OF
naval stores manufactured by retort-
ing from the resinous stumps, limbs
and tops of logs and the utilization of
Sawdust, slabs, etc., in the manufac.
ture of. merchantable products, such
as wood alcohol, turpentine, tar and
resin oil and paper from pine shaw
ings After the tircber has been cut,
as Captain Hardy pointed out, the
land becomes quickly valuable for
farming, and alreaey the trucking bus
mess in that quarter is well under
way, with its natural adjunct, canning
factories. Plants which handle sweet
potatoes and syrup are now in opera
ton at several points, and it is be-
lieyed that within the next year fifty
or a hundred plants will be estab-
lished to can peaches, pears, straw
berries, beans, peas, tomatoes and
corn. The railroads of that section
are doing their utmost to extend the
sawmilling operations and to facilitate
the settlement of cut-over lands and
the establishment of minor indus
tries"
While Mississippi is not manless
land for Iandless man, it offers unex-
celled opportunities for a large mum
Der of thrifty settlers who desire to
come to the best State in the Union
and live under the most favorable cir
cumstances.
There is a great dear nefng saIG
about plans to increase the price of
cotton for the coming season, many
plans having been suggested for de-
creasing the acreage and decreasing
production, for bringing about organi-
cations for holding up the price, etc.
While some of these plans might be
feasible if it were possible to put them
in operation, they are not feasible for
that very reason. Too many times
has such been attempted and with
poor success in every instance. Mis-
sissippi and the South will continue
to raise cotton as it has always done,
and with result varying in the future
as in the past. So much cotton is
necessary for the worlds needs and
that cotton will be raised in the South,
One year the crop will be short and
the price go high, and succeeding
large crop will send it down again.
The price Of cotton will seek its level
and no generalizing will influence it
to bring more than it is worth. II
it were subject to such manipulation
the spectators would combine and
put it at any figure they saw fit. II
is our staple crop and will continue
so for some time to come. There are
very likely to be different allignments
Of territory In which it will be pro
duced caused by improved machinery
or other causes. but the South will
continue to raise what Is produced in
the United States So, in the language
of Bill Arp, keep on your shirt and
raise Gotten If you want to, but don't
forget the many other things necessa
ry to make life successful. even in 9
cotton country.
The writer has received no less than
twenty-five letters since the holidays
from people in the North desiring tc
purchase homes in the State Of Mis-
sissippi They have heard of the
beauties Of our favored cline and de
sire to come Down and help US as well
as themselves. They are placed in
communication with parties In a posi-
tion to sell them land and locate them
as citizens Of the best State in the
Union. The pity It's, that more oi
them have not already become inter
ested.
The South has again raised too much
cotton and will not receive for hel
thirteen million bales anything like
what eleven million bales would have