Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-06-22
Report That Mobile, jackson and
Kansas City and Mobile and Ohio
Railroads VIII Enter his
sissippi Port.

A Special from Gulfport. Miss. da-
ted June 13 has this to say: "Devel-
orments predicted on the passage Of
the Bowers bill are even now begin
ming to materiaiize and the initial
move IS an authoritative announce
ment thatNwithin> n few days a branch
of the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas
City Railroad will enter Gulfport
while the Mobile and Ohio win not
be brll9 Reg6 s Rllehjp S it .. v While this an
authenticity is not to be questioned
and the coming in of the two new
systems is regarded as almost an fat
accompll
About one and a half years ago the
Finkbine Lumber Company, which
is said to be rated at four to six mil
lions of dollars, owning something
like 10000 acres of timber land at
Virgins, a town on the Gulf and Shin
Island Raildoad, thirty-fve miles
from GulfpQrt, cutting 10000 feet
OF lumber at their mills there every
day and employing 500 workmen
with a monthly pay roll of $50, 600,
began the reconstruction of their log
road on very permanent basis,
making grading and guage comply
with those Of the Gulf and Ship Island
track and extending the road through
their vast tract of timber northeast
wardly. When the expense and per-
manency of their work evoked the
curiosity of the surrounding neigh
borhood, the Finkbines expla n ID
that they could thus haul larger :oads
and that their increased acreage de-
manded better facilities, but it now
develops that within a few DAYS this
reconstructed log road viii form a
juction with the Mobile, Jackson and
Kansas City and become a common
carrier by which means the latter
road will tap the Gulf and Ship
Island at Virgins and thence on to
Gulfport.
1t is also part of this plan, now
we'll carried forward, that as til e
Finkbines still have timber north and
east of the Mobile. Jackson and Kan
sas City, while the Turner Lumber
Comany at Vinegar Bend, on the
Mobile and Ohio, have for years Gro
ceeded through their timber by a
similar log road to and southwest of
Leakesville, the county seat of Greene
county, in the exact direction of the
Finkbine log road, that this line is
being rebuilt and will ere the close
OF the present year connect up with
the Finkbine road thus letting the
Mobile and Ohio also tap the Gulf
and Ship Island at Virgins and find
another terminus at Gulfport This
means practically the same as build
ing two more trunk lines into Gulf
port and opens up fertile farming
region as well as one of the richest
sections in the world. The lands be-
tween Merrill and Virgins are what
is known as the big level" the
finest agricultural section not only
of Mississippi but of the entire South.
These are the cut-over lands of the
Finkbine Lumber Company which
have recently been sold to the Mis-
Interstate Colonizing Com
pany, Of which Judge S. d. Stewart
of Gulfport is the head, and which
are now on the market on most fa-
vorable terms to actual settlers, both
for the lands and all necessary build
ing materials Settlers are offered
every inducement, including perma-
nent employment at best of wages at
the Finkbine Lumber mills. These
lands will undoubtedly appreciate
rapidly in value as have all proper
ties on the Gulf and Ship Island road,
one of the finest fruit, Der
~, vegetable and staple crop grow
ing sections Ia the South. The com
ing OF two new trunk lines adds more
than 50pcs Gent. to the commercial
importanceHof this port.