The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-03-15
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A large strawberry farm will be
located near Holly Springs just as
soon as the preliminaries can be at
tended to. It will belong to q stock
company Of good citizens who have
joined their caItal IN the enterprise
and will be managed by Mr.. F. E.
West. It is safe 10 predict that in q
worry short time there will be more
than one berry farm N 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 Der
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 nice clean crop. Success
to the movement.
A hotel with 365 rooms and to cost
1865, 900 is to be built at Pass Chris
tian. Work has already begun and
it will be open for business by next
season. 1t is said that $4,000 will
be expended on furnishings, making
the total cost 100000. 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 winter resort, the hotels
are full to overlooking 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 Ill towns on the
coast and it will then be q continuous
city some sixty miles long.
Wilkinson county has under con-
sideration the opening of 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 d.
rectly benefited 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 tho proposition.
The Silver Greek and Vfcksburg
railway is being pushed as fast as
possible. Wet weather has interior
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 wiN be completed from
Philip to Sardis. The i. C. lime from
Corinth to Jasper, Ala, is dotted with
camps and dirt is moving rapidly. |
The M. j. & K. C. will announce a
through schedule from Mobile to Mid
dlebon, in short time and other work
on new roads is progressing very sat-
isfactcrily. Mississippi is the scene
Of much activity In railroad circles
and promises to be for some time to-
come.
The greatest need Of Mississippi att
present is labor with which to culti-
vate the lands and make them pro-
duce something Of use. or market val
ue. There is no use 10 try to side-step
the condition. Negro labor is beeom-
ing more and more unsatisfactory
every year and planters ere spending
large sums Of money in the effort to
secure labor for working their places.
Thousands 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 It is not time that
the land owners began to realize that
Hon. J. w. Pace is preparing to
develop large farm on the back bay
at Biloxi. His will be the largest es-
adjustment Of the kind in the state.
There are q 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