The new South-news., 1906-03-17

A large strawberry farm viii be
located near Holly Springs just as
soon as the preliminarics can be at
tended to. l; viii belong to stock
company Of good citirens who have
joined their cai/al in the enterprise
and will be managed by Mr.. +. +.
West. II Is safe to predict that IN
very short time there viii be more
than one berry farm in the Holly
Springs vicinity. An enterprise OF
this character always sauses more 10
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 berry center rs
Madison is Al 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
s365.000 is to be built at Pass Chris
tian. Work has already begun and
it will be open for business by next
season. II is said that Sl35.000 viii
be expended on Furnishings. making
the total cost s500,000 Dispatches
also give the information that Capt.
Jones viii build a sea coast hotel on
Cat Island with a regular line Of small
passenger vessels connecting il with
the pier at Gulfcoast At any rate,
our coast is attracting increased at
tention as a winter resort, the hotels
are full 10 overilowing now and the
winter visitors could be largely in
creased in number by additional ac-
commodafions, 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 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 clti-
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 small amount each
year, sell bonds and use the money as
proposed. The experiment seems &c
be worth making TO say the last, and
there is large possibility Of success
in the proposition.
The Silver Creek and Vicksburp
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 aud Delta is being rushed and IN
short time win be completed from
Philip TO Sardis. The |. C. line from
Corinth to Jasper, Ala, is dotted with
camps and dirt is moving rapidly
The ". J. & X. C. will announce a
through schedule from Mobile to Mid
dleton, in a short time and other work
on new roads is progressing very sat
isfactorily. Mississippi is the scene
of much activity in railroad circles
and promises to be for some time tc
come.
The greatest need Of Mississippi al
present is labor with which to cult
vate the lands and make them pro
duce something Of use or market val
ue. There is no use TO try to side-stsI
the condition. Negro labor is becom
ing more and more unsatisfactor,
every year and planters are spendin:
large sums Of money in the effort t'
secure labor for working their places
Thousands of acres that would pro
duce abundanily if cultivated lie idl'
and produce nothing for the owner o
the state. We need people who vii
own small farms and work them with
out outside help. II is not time tha
the land owners began to realize tina
/, Hon. ]. W. Pace is preparing I
develop large farm on the back ba.
| at Biloxi. His viii be the largest es
| tablishment Of the kind in the state
There are a number Of these farm
e and the business is quite profitable an