The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-03-15

"A large strawberry ldfH Will po
located near Holly Springs just as
soon as the preliminaries can be at
tended to. 1t will belong to a stock
company Of good citizens who have
joined their caL(tal in the enterprise
and will be managed by Mr.. F. E.
West. 1t is safe to predict that in a
very short time there will be more
than one berry farm in the Holly
Springs vicinity. An enterprise OF
this character always causes more to
follow, and the larger the interests,
the more profitable the business.
With several hundred acres in ber-
ries Holly Springs would soon be
looked upon as a berry center as
Madison is at present. Then, too, the
country contiguous to Holly Springs
is no doubt especially adapted to the
cultivation of berries. The section
is high and dry and would no doubt
produce a nice clean crop. Success
to the movement.
A hotel with 365 rooms and to cost
$365,000 is to be built at Pass Chris
tian. Work has already begun and
it will ibe open for business by next
season. 1t is said that $135,000 will
be expended on furnishings, making
the total cost $500,000. Dispatches
also give the information that Capt.
Jones will build sea coast hotel on
Cat Island with regular line of small
passenger vessels connecting it with
the pier at Gulfcoast. At any rate,
our coast is attracting increased at
tention as a winter resort, the hotels
are full to overfowing now and the
winter visitors could be largely in
creased in number by additional ac-
commodations, and men with money
are busily supplying this deficiency.
The coast electric railway will in a
short time connect all towns on the
coast and it will then be a continuous
city some sixty miles long.
Wilkinson county has under con-
sideration the opening of a portion
of Homochitto river to navigation. An
effort was made along this line some
years since by the government but
with poor success, the money likely
having been expended under adverse
circumstances or possibly not at all
on the work accounted for, The citi-
zens of Wilkinson figure that with the
aid of $4,000 they can open the canal
to the river that will in very short
time prove a valuable waterway. 1t
is proposed to tax the land to be di
rectly benefited a small amount each
year, sell bonds and use the money as
proposed. The experiment seems to
be worth making to say the last, and
there is large possibility of success
in the proposition.
The Silver Creek and Vicksburg
railway is being pushed as fast as
possible. Wet weather has interfer-
ed with railroad building considerable
during the past year, but construction
is going along better now. The Sar-
dis and Delta is being rushed and In
a short time will be completed from
Philipp to Sardis. The I. &c. line from
Corinth to Jasper, Ala, is dotted with
camps and dirt is moving rapidly.
The M. J. & K. C. will announce
through schedule from Mobile to Mid
dleton, in a short time and other work
ON new roads is progressing very sat
Mississippi is the scene
of much activity in railroad circles
and promises to be for some time to
come.
The greatest need Of Mississippi at
present is labor with which to culti-
vate the lands and make them pro-
duce something of use or market val
lie. There is no use to try to side-step
the condition. Negro labor is becom-
ing more and more unsatisfactory
every year and planters are spending
large sums of money in the effort to
secure labor for working their places.
of acres that would pro-
duce abundantly if cultivated lie idle
and produce nothing for the owner or
the state. We need people who will
own small farms and work them with
out outside help. 1t is not time that
the land owners began to realize that
Hon. ]. W. Pace is preparing to
develop a large farm on the back bay
at Biloxi. His will he the largest es-
tablishment of the kind in the state.
There are number of these farms
and the business is quite profitable and
growing more SO every year. The
Mississippi terrapin is commanding
higher prices than those from any
other section of the country on the
northern market where they are pur
chased by the large hotels and restau-
rants for making soup and other de-
licacies.
The Enterprise at Greenwood re-
marks that Enterprise has made