The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1906-10-26

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at Vicksburg in the city hall at night.
Thursday proved to be the second best
day of the two weeks in point of attend
ance. The entire day was spent in the
rich delta section of Mississippi and
commenced at Rolling Fork at half past
8 in the morning. At number of
points it was found necessary to hold
overflows. While the exclusive negro
town of Mound Bayou was not on the
schedule for stop, few minutes was
given them and a crowd entirely too
large to get in the cars was on hand and
were addressed from the depot platform.
The night meeting in the courthouse at
Greenville was very well attended and
interesting. The last day, Friday, the
18th, began bright and early at Benoit
on the Riverside division of the Yazoo
& Mississippi Valley Many stops were
made during the day and splendid at
tendance and interest was the result.
The last stop of the memorable trip was
made at Lake Cormorant and the train
pulled out for Memphis, where the party
was to disband and return to their
homes. Good Dyes were said, congratu-
lations passed, and Capt. Merry roundly
thanked for his untiring efforts in the
interest of the comfort of the party and
the success of the undertaking.
While the good to be accomplished by
this undertaking is to a large extent
problematical, there was evidences all
along the line that the people appre-
ciated the efforts of those responsible
| for the train and were interested in the
subject of diversifcation of crops as a
necessity to the future welfare of our
agricultural country. A great many
| questions were asked and not few sug-
| gestions made as to how this end might
i be accomplished, and all were impressed
with the Importance of the subject and
the benefits to accrue. The railroad rep
resentatives freely made known their
principal object in equipping and run
| ming the train at an enormous expense to
the company, and stated that if the
people could be induced to adopt mod
ern methods in tilling their land that
they would have more crops to haul and
more money to spend for tickets. So
| long as the people are prosperous, Just
so long will the money invested in rail-
roads pay a dividend. That improved
methods are demanded in handling our
Mississippi and Louisiana soil none who
have studied the question fcan deny.
Lands that readily made bale of cotton
to the acre ten years since are today
making less than one-half a bale. Cane
lands are decreasing in yield from year
to year woh crop that is continually
draining the soil of plant food and re-
turning little or nothing. Good seed has
been sown, and although the result may
be slow in coming to the surface, it is
eventually bound to come.
Greenwood is to have veneering
plant to cost 100000, announcement
having appeared in last weeks issues OF
the papers from that enterprlslng place.
More than million feet of timber has
already been secured for use in the fac
tory. About 100 men will be given en-
| ployment and it will be an important ad-
dition to Gree1lwoods already long list
of manufacturing concerns. Some four
weeks ago another plant of the same
kind was secured for Itta Bena, in the
same county, making two large veneer
factories for Lefore. Good for both ltta
Bena and Greenwood.
Capt. J. F. Merry, general immigration
agent of the Illinois Central railroad, and
with headquarters at Manchester, Iowa,
was responsible for the road offering this
| train and was in charge from the first
dav to the last. His good work for
Mississippi and Louisiana during the
26 wears of his connection with tins
| great system has been the subject OF
| much favorable comment. He was as
sisted during the first week by j. Z.
| Clair. industrial commissioner, and In
their respective territories by travelling
freight agents, Eastman, Tullus, the two
Vrelanders, Redmond and other en-
ploves of the system. President }. Z.
Hardy, of the Mississippi Agricultural
and Mechanical College; Director Hutch
/ inson. of the experiment stations; d.
rector Ames, of the Holly Springs sta
| ton, and Director Fox, of the Delta sta
ton; Director Lloyd, of the Institute
| work, and Prof. Smith, of the dairying
department, were the representatives OF
the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechan-
zeal College. Director Dodson and veter-
marian represented the Louisiana Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College. Hon.
| Walter Clark, president of the Missis-
sippi division of the Southern Cotton
Association, made the entire trip, as also
did Commissioner Blakeslee, of the Mis-
sissippi Department of Agriculture and
Commerce. H. E. Saveley, of the United
States Department of Agriculture, made
portion of the trip. Prof. P. G. Hol-
den, the celebrated Iowa corn expert,
was with the party three days, as was
also Prof C. G. Hopkins, of the Univer-
sity of Illinois. Hon. n. B. Morrison, Of
| Odin, ILL.,, remained with the party for
eight days and made interesting ad-
dresses. The entire time was spent both
proftably and pleasantly, and it was
| the unanimous verdict of all interested
that it was great success and plans
were discussed for more work along the
same lines next year.
A 100000 photographic stone quarry
company has recently been organized at
Amory for the purpose of placing ON the
market a splendid stone that is especial
! lv adapted for photographers and is said
to be the only absolutely pure stone to
he found in the world except depleted
quarry at Bavaria, Germany. 1t is sin.
cerely to be hoped that the project will
| prove a success and that the promoters
will realize millions from it.
The splendid battleship Mississippi"
will be ready for the silver service with
/ in a short time and the money for It's
! purchase is not more than half raised.
it behooves our patriotic citizens to 40
the proper thing and contribute the
money necessary right away.
Winona is issuing $4,000 in bonds to
| to raise funds to improve the school IA
cilities of that pushing town. WiIiona