The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-05-26
GREENVILLE'S
OPPORTUNITIES
VIEWS OF BUSINESS MEN RE
GARDING THE FUTURE OF
THAT SECTION OF MISSIS-
SIPPI-BY JOHN BANNON.

at IS better to go forward slow1,
than round and round ever so fast
Is as true OF the building of a city
as it is of the making of a business,
said Mr. Z. c. Holmes, president O
the Business Mems League of this
city 1--WE hear every day of certain
municipalities booming, and while
it is stated with the intention of in
dicatlng the progressiveness of a
| town, 1t is, in my opinion, detrimental
to its best interests For this reason
[ vigorously challenge the statement
that Greenville is on boom. The
wonderful but substantial growth OF
this city can be attributed, first, to
the unbounded confidence of her peo-
pie in her unlimited resources and
the investment of millions in various
enterprises; secondly, her command
ing geographical position. In the
past few years we have laid paved
streets and granolith sidewalks that
would do credit to city Of one hun
dred thousand population. Electric
railroads traverse the entire city; her
elegant public school buildings and
educational facilities are not surpass-
ed in any city; her bank buildings,
hotels. clubs and churches represent
hundreds of thousands of dollars ):
the manufacturing enterprises are
numerous, using machinery only of
the latest and most modern types !;
the water and sewerage system IS per-
feet. On every hand is to be found
overwhelming proof of the confidence
her own people have III her brilliant
future. Can more be said to endorse
a city? Another great factor that
will have a determining influence in
Greenville's future growth is her en-
vIable geographical position. Being
situated in the heart OF the famous
1azOo Delta. surrounded bv the rich
est cotton and timber lands on earth,
having the advantage of the great
Mississippi river. which confers the
heneft of competing freight rates
with the great railroad systems, the
Illinois Central and the Southern,
and being the terminus of the latter
it offers to manufacturers the grand
est opportunities for the locating of
plants. Raw material can be had in
unlimited quantities, while freight
rates on the finished product to the
Northern markets are extremely low
THE advantages of this section are
not being overlooked by investors.
with result that in a few years it
viii be known as Tie great manufact
uring center. as well as the richest
country on earth
Natural advantages avail but little
in the enrichment OF a country or
development. No locality can attain
its highest possibilities which exports
raw material alone Labor expended
in the transformation of raw material
into the finished commodity gives
the latter value. Unskilied labor pro-
ducing raw material enriches that sec
ton which affects the transformation.
1t is for this reason that Greenvilie
invites manufacturing enterprises,
" hich Will enrich themselves while
benetiting her and her people. Such
enterprises as are here have demon
strated the accuracy OF this view; to
them, to the fact that they have found
cheap raw material at their doors,
with excellent trans portation facili-
ties for their finished product, as we'll
as the energy and industry OF our peo-
pie. is much OF our past growth due.
We need more capital. We have
made money with our own. Others
! can make money with theirs. 1t Is a
/ business matter which shoIld com
mend itself to those whose business
sense has made them successful Ii
! localities offering fewer advantages
For those who desire to live II
an up-to-date. progressive town, Of
F, fering many advantages for the rem
dering of life pleasant as we'll a.
profitable, while increasing their store
of worldly goods, Greenville has bu
to be seen to be appreciated. To tht
for profit. pleasant and healthfu
investor she offers an excellent fiel,
home, and hearty welcome
Much has been written and sait
at various times concerning poo
mans country, said Mr. w G.
Stimmel, "butz let me say that of al
countries with which | am familiar
the Yazoo Valley of Mississippi !:
the only really and sure enough poo
mans country that | have ever seer
No man man is so poor that he can
not have an opportunity here to gai
financial independence, and possibl
riches. All that he needs is heal
thy body, two good hands and intel
iligence and energy enough to US
them.y Any man with such an equip
ment need>haveeno capital at all, br
will find plenty who will be glad t
house, feed and furnish him with a
the equipment necessary to raise
| - ~. NhoA 6ssik Cu\A N4AsPAAANHt Gil
furnishing against the crop which h
/ is raising. Hundreds have started
this way. and have prospered beyon
their most sanguine dreams.
"The Italians are making their b.
ginning in this way. with the add
tional handicap of having steamshi
passage from Italy to America chart
led against their account; howeve
with this additional expense, mar
pay for their living and equipme,
and have handsome surplus at tt
end of their first year in Americ
What these Italians can do any an
bitious American can surely do. al
many white men from the South ha,
done equally well.
why Americans will go to Cana,
to live under an alien flag. to bra,
the rigors of a semi-Arctic wints
when there is place of such oppo
tunity. with such productive soil 4,
such a balmy climate in our own go1
land. under our own flag, is q que
ton which finds its answer not
reason nor because the advantas :
OF Canada can touch in the sliUkfe