The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-18

them. This Is the cry that goes up all over the state. There is hardly a town of any importance in Mississippi that does not need more cars than it can get. A great volume of freight Is going out, especially of lumber. cotton and man ufactured goods Complaints reach the railroad commission from every section, but the tale Is the samA-there is more business than cars. This is a condition of affairs that would be matter for congrat- ulation on the part of the state, provided the cars could be had to handle the busi- ness. It Is not only outgoing. but incom- ing cars that are needed and wanted The coal dealers of Jackson are in hard lines. One firm has out orders for twenty-five or thirty cas of coal, and has not been able to get a single carload in more than month. In the meantime their cus- toners and those who have contracts with them for fuel are up against hard proposition. The roads are unable to get cars from the makers and builders for the simple reason that they have orders ahead. What cars they have are scat tered all over creation. and their tracers are almost powerless to run them down and get them back in their territory.
 Farming Suspended.
 Secretary Wells of the board of control has a letter from Assistant Secretary Lacey, who Is stationed on the state farm in Sunflower county, in which he states that they have had bad spell of weather so that farming operations are almost suspended. The spur track of a railroad that runs down to one of the farm gins has been washed up. and it seems impos- sible to get it replaced before the water subsidies. MT. Lacey says That one of the state gins closed down the middle of the week. and that the other would p1n tn1o hot taana hot t,lk Ing Is practically at an end for this sea- son There may be forty or fifty bales of scraps in the fields yet and the gins will have to run one more day before the season is over to get rid of that. About 100 bales have been accounted for on this place this year. and there will be some six or eight hundred more, per haps, to be placed on the market. It has been estimated that the farm would pro- duce 27O0 bales. but the chances seem to be that less will be made,
 On the Belmont place. in Holmes coun- ty, picking is practically at an end. So far Belmont has shipped to the ware house at Greenwood 230 bales. and Secre- tary Wells went up yesterday to classify and get it ready for selling. It Is a pyetty fair short staple cotton. measuring 1iA inches but some of 1t Is frost stained and does not make such good showing in the sample as 1t otherwise might Last year the Belmont place made 63S Sales of cotton, so that the decrease Is at least 50 per cent-perhaps more.
 VIII Improve Cars.
 The Southern railway informs the rail- road commission that It's attention having been called to the condition of passenger coaches on trains No. S7 and 3S, 1t will take steps to improve them It Is sup posed this determination is In response to the complaints made by W. C. George of Carrollton before the commission at it's last session. There is another letter just received from an official of the Southern in which he states that he de- sires to appear before the commission in response to MT. George.
 Florida Woman Dead.
 Tallahassee, Fla, December 17.-Mrs. Ellen Call Long daughter of former Gov ernor Richard Kieth Call. died at the old Call homestead of paralysis today Mrs. Long was the first white child born in Tallahassee. She was a woman of culture, prominent In the social and in- tellectual life of Florida. She was an author of some distinction, Florida Freezes" being her best known work.
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