The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-10-18


ing into the rights that have long
been hers. The initiative of the past
few years is beginning to tell. ias
world reserves its big prizes for those
who take the initiative and the soutf
is taking it. We are doing the rlgh'
thing without being told in general
way and doing it after being told once
anyway. The Manufacturers Recorc
paints the following bright picture
Of the past and also Of the future:
"Give free rein to your magma
ton and let it picture the future ol
a section which has one-half OF thu
iron ore of the United States, nearly
three times as much coal as Great
Britain, Germany and Pennsylvania
combined, which holds a worlds mo
nopolv on cotton production and Is
rapidly becoming a great cotton man
ufacturing center, which dominate
the phosphate rock and sulphur trade
of the world, which has much OF the
richest oil territory known, which has
one half Of the standing timber of the
country, which produces all the sugar
all the rice, most of the tobacco, ano
fadd to these SO0,000,000 bushels OF
grain a year; and then think of its
water powers, its splendid rivers, Its
erea. seacoast, its expanding com
merce, and remember that its cottor
crop alone annually exceeds the to-
tai gold and silver production of the
world, and that every dollar of gold
annually mined is not enough to pay
the south's bill against Europe fol
co ton, and you will get just faint
conception of the future.
"Here are the materials for feed
ing and clothing an unlimited popu-
! lation. Here are an enormous supply
Of those Indispensable sinews OF all
manufacturing enterprises-coal AND
iron. Here is wonderful profuslon
and. supply of the most important
articles of the worlds consumption
and therefore Of the worlds commerce
; while the country's endowments in
navigable rivers, in water power and
! in location, make up a sum OF natural
wealth of resources unequaled IN any
other part Of the Union, and offering
unlimited opportunity to enterprise
labor and capital for the grandeS'
prize of development to be found upon
our globe. Such without exaggeratlon
or Misrepresentation in 'our south !.
embracing what has long been known
as the Southern States Of the Union. -
After long period of experiment
ING, the invention of special machln-
ery, constructing the same, numerous
changes in plans and devices, Hattfes-
burg announces that she now has a
plant that is not only unique IN It's
operation, but is absolutely without a
parallel in the United States, or the
world. 1t is a plant that manufac-
! lures alcohol from pine sawdust and
the refuse from sawmills, not the
| poisonous article known as wood al
cohol, but the regular merchantable
variety so extensively used for all
purposes. Work was begun on this
plant some three years since, but un'
til the present it has been in the hands
of large northern concern that mako
a speciality of constructing such com
Germs, it being necessary to devise and
construct special machinery for thd
purposes intended. After three years
Of constant work the first plant IN
the world to make commercial alco'
hol from saw dust has been completed
tested and ready to turn over the own.
ers.
This is a very important plant fol
Hattiesburg. 1t covers several acres
cf ground, has building several sto'
ries in height and will employ hun
dreds of laborers. A refuse from
the thousands Of sawmills in the state
will be used to making something re'
quired by the world in immense guam
ties and demanding a good market
value at all times. 1t is confidently
expected that ere long more of these
plants will be installed and that Mis-
sissippi will soon be one of the lead
ing states of the union in the produc
ton of alcohol And why not? Now
that it has been demonstrated thai
our sawdust will make a good grade
of alcohol, why no utilize it in thi:
way? There is undoubtedly money il
it for the promoter and source Of
revenue to bhe mill man for what ht
has expended money in the past to
burn or otherwise get rid Of. Grea
are the possibilities of our state, thy
present development only being the
breaking of a dawn that will brighter
TO noon day brilliance in the neal
FUTURE
Say a good word for Mississippi
when the opportunity affords and i
necessary, make the opportunity.