The Grenada sentinel., 1906-10-20


portant articles of the worlds consump-
ton and therefore of the worlds com
merce, while the cUuntry's endowments in
navigable rivers, in water power and in
location make up sum of natural
wealth of resources unequaled in any
other part of the Union and offering un-
limited opportunity to enterprise, labor
and capital for the grandest prize of de-
velopment to be found upon our globe
Such without eXaggeration or misrepre.
sentation in our South embracing what
has long been known as the Southern
States of the Union"
After a long period of experimenting,
the invention Of special machinery, con-
structing the same, numerous changes
in plans and devices, Hattiesburg an
nounces that she now has plant that is
not only unique in its operation, but is
absolutely without a parallel in the
United States, or the world. 1t is a
plant that manufactures alcohol from
pine sawdust and the refuse from saw
mills. Not the poisonous article known
as wood alcohol, but the regular mer-
chantable variety so extensively used for
all purposes. Work was begun on this
plant some three years since, but until
the present it has been in the hands of
a large Northern concern that make a
speciality of constructing such concerns,
it being necessary to devise and construct
special machinery for the purpose intend
ed. After three years of constant work
the first plant in the world to make COM
mercial alcohol from sawdust has been
completed, tested and ready to turn
over to the owners.
This is very important plant for
Hattiesburg. 1t covers several acres Of
ground, has buildings several stories in
height and will employ hundreds of la
borers. A refuse from the thousands of
sawmills in the State will be used to
make something required by the world
in immense quantities and demanding a
good market value at all times. 1t is
expected that ere long more
of these plants will be installed and
that Mississippi will soon be one of the
leading States of the Union in the pro-
duction of alcohol. And why not? Now
that it has been demonstrated that our
sawdust will make good grade of alco-
hol, why not utilize it in this way?
There is undoubtedly money in it for
the promoter and source of revenue to
the millman for what he has expended
money in the past to burn or otherwise
get rid Of Great are the possibilities
of our State, the present development
only being the breaking of dawn that
III 70 do hrI 10 in
the near future.
There is always work for the man
who is seeking work in Mississippi. The
demand for good men is unlimited. We
need men who are strong and who will
busy themselves with the useful tasks
that Others cannot or will not do, and
will allow the more timid to do the
easy things which they can do and moth
ing else Such men are at a premium,
md the more of them the better. 1hero
IS room for all that may decide to come
md help us in the great work of develop
nent undertaken.
The untold opportunities of Mississippi,
that will be developed in
ater years, would astonish our most op-
-imistic citizens of today if they could
De unfolded to their view.
The satisfaction of owning land at
present is only a foretaste of what it
will be in later years. The men who
,wn land in Mississippi in the future will
be the lords of creation. Ed
ward Everette, in the following forcible
anguage, emphasizes this fact:
"The man who stands upon his own
oil, who feels that by the law of the
and in which he lives he is the right
ul and exclusive owner of the land
which he tills, feels more strongly than
mother the character of a man as the
ord of an inanimate world. Of this
treat and wonderful sphere, which, fash
oned by the hand of God, and upheld
v His power, is rolling through the heav-
ms, part of his-his from center to
xvi 1t is the space on which the gen.
ration before moved in its round of
uties. and he feels himself connected |
" a visible link with those who follow
i'm. and to whom he is to transmit
ONE. Perhaps his farm has come down
o him from his fathers. They have
one to their last home; but he can
race their footsteps over the scene of
is daily labors. The roof which shelters
i'm was reared by those to whom he
ives his being. Some interesting domes-
c tradition is connected with every in.
losure. The favorite fruit tree was
lanted by his fathers hand. He sport
in boyhood beside the brook which
till winds through the meadow. Through
he field lies the path to the village
,hool of earlier days. He still hears
.om the window the voice of the Sab
ath bell, which called his father to the
ouse of God; and near at hand is tho
pot where his parents lay down to rest,
nd where, when his time has come, ne
lan be laid by his children. These are
le feelings of the owners of the soil.
lords cannot print them-gold cannot
nv them; they flow out of the deepest
,untains of the heart; they are the very
fe springs of fresh, healthy and gen.
'ous national character"
The South's monopoly of cotton pro-
lction should be the admiration of the
orld as well as our own people, who, i.
regrettable to note, to a large extent,
, not appreciate our situation. 4
outhern trade paper has the following
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