The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-09-21

half a million dollars; or IN ten ears
NJ Five Million Dollars. That certain
IL would be a good thing. We are talk
ing now about what the people can do
With that FIVE million dollars in ten
years we could run electric car lines,
radiatfng from Columbia to within
-wo or three miles Of the county line,
so a. TO bring every farm, or practi-
caIly every farm in Maury County. TO
within two or three miles of an cleo
tric car line: and not only could the
reople come to Columbia on those
cars. but every bushel Of grain, ev-
ery hog or sheep or head of horses,
mules or cattle. could be shipped over
these electric car lines TO Columbia,
on their way to the markets of the
world: and at a trifing cost, compared
to present slow and expensive hauling
by wagon. Wouldn't that be a good
thing?
In addition to that. we could erect,
and it would belong to the stockhoid-
ers. who would be the people Of Maury
county, cold storage plant. to take
care of. and to ship by the car load, In
refrigerator cars. to the large markets,
all our surplus eggs, butter, fruits.
melons. etc. dressed poultry, beef,
etc. The difference in price, and the
difference in volume, would bring I'M
mense profits into the pockets of the
people of Maury county. That is, sup
posing they will do what they can do.
OF course, if they won't, they won't.
But knowing that they can, and sup
posing for the sake Of argument that
when the proposition is fully explain
ed and understood by them that they
will. then in ten years what would
thar mean for Columbia and Maury
county? 1t would make every mans
farm yield him more in money value
every year. It would make every
mans farm worth more money; 1t
would make every house and lot In
Columbia worth more money; 1t
would increase the inhabitants OF Co
lumbia and Maury county; instead OF
Maury county having a population OF
forty thousand. in ten years Maury
county would have population OF
eighty thousand; and the more thick
" settled a community, the higher
the price of land, the better Schools
roads churches: the more culture, ed
ucation and refinement.
The wav to build up Columbia Is
not with manufactures. Columbia
is not a manufacturing site. Columbia
is the centre and the capitol OF the nm
est agricultural community In the
world. And the way to build up Co
lumbia is to develop Maury county.
And the way to develop Maury county
is for the people of this county not TO
sit and wait for something to turn
up:" not to DO begging northern OF
eastern capital to come and brlng
their money here and grow rich at our
expense: but for the people themsel-
yes. who have the brain and money
and are lacking in nothing but enter
mise and organization, to band them
selves together, each man with MS
shoulder to the wheel. determined 10
lift and to shove and to carry his part
and with strong pull, and hard
null and a pull altogether, lift Maury
county up and out of the old, slow way
of doing things, and put her upon an
eminence where her matchless re-
sources as an agricultural community
NAV be seen and admired and desired
Of all men.
The Maury County Development so
cie+v ought to be a success. The peo'
ple of Maury county can make IL SO Il
thew will: if they won't, why we VIII
still have the land and houses our
fathers left us. No few men can de'
veIop Maury county. 1t must be done
nv the many. But we are constrained
to believe that If the few will present
it fairly and fully, earnestly and ener'
getically to the many, enough OF them
(of course not all of them) but enough
Of them, will take hold of 1t to make II
a go. It can go, Of course, on some
what less extensive scale than the one
proposed; but whatever is worth DO
ing at all. is worth doing we'll"