The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1906-10-19

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 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-
charitable variety SO extensively used for
Ill purposes. Work was begun on this
| plant some three years since, but until
| the present it has been in the hands of
large Northern concern that make a
speciality of constructing such concerns,
it being necessary to'deyise and construct
special machinery for the purpose intend
ed. After three years of constant work
the first plant in the world 10 make COM
mercial alcohol from sawdust has been
completed, tested and ready to turn
over to the owners.
This is a 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
confidently 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 aico-
hol, why not utilize it in this way?
There is undoubtedly money in it Tor
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
will brighten to a monday brilliance In
the near future.
"Over Sc. O0O, 100000 is invested in cot
ton mills in Europe and America, de
pendent upon the South for their raw
material 1t is estimated that 100000
people in Great Britain alone live on the
cotton industry of that country. The bal
ance of trade in favor of the United
States depends upon the cotton EXPORTS
which now reach annually S400,000,000,
or more than the worlds gold production.
Of this royal crop, imperial in magnitude
| and in domination of the worlds financial
and manufacturing interests, the South
holds world monopoly. Its ability to
! increase cotton production to meet the
worlds growing needs, and its ability to
develop cotton manufacturing common
surate with its monopoly of cotton pro-
duction, are limited only by its labor
supply. Economic forces will of neces-
sitv bring about great increase in pop
ulation and thus prepare the way for a
vast expansion in manufacturing and
production as the price and demand may
Justify. The South produces so per cent.
Of the cotton for the 119,000,0OO splndles
in the world, but has less than 100000
spindles itself. Think of the hmitless
possibilities for expansion in this indus
try alone when you are studying the
future of the South"
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 premium,
and the more of them the better. There
is room for all that may decide to come
and help us in the great work OF develop
ment undertaken.
The untold opportunities of Mississippi,
opportunities that will be developed in
later wears, would astonish our most OPP
timistic citizens of today if they could
be unfolded to their view.
The satisfaction of owning land at
present is only foretaste of what 1t
will be in later years. The men who
own land in Mississippi in the future Will
certainly be the lords of creation. Ed
ward Everette, in the following forcible
language, emphasizes this fact:
'The man who stands upon his own
soil. who feels that by the law of the
land in which he lives he is the right
full and exclusive owner of the land
which he tills, feels more strongly than
another the character of man as the
lord of an inanimate world. Of this
great and wonderful sphere, which, fash
toned bv the hand of God, and upheld
by His power, is rolling through the heav-
ems, part of his-his from center to
sky! 1t is the space on which the gen
Grafton before moved in its round of
duties. and he feels himself connected
by a visible link with those who follow
him. and to whom he is to transmit
home. Perhaps his farm has come down
to him from his fathers. They have
gone to their last home; but he can
trace their footsteps over the scene OF
his daily labors. The roof which shelters
him was reared by those to whom he
owes his being. Some interesting domes-
tic tradition is connected with every in
closure. The favorite fruit tree was
planted by his fathers hand. He sport
ed in boyhood beside the brook which
still winds through the meadow. Through
the field lies the path to the village
school of earlier days. He still hears
from the window the voice OF the Sab
bath bell, which called his father to the
house of God; and near at hand is tho
SPOT where his parents lay down to rest,
and where, when his time has come, ne
sha.. be laid by his children. These are
the feelings of the owners OF the SOIL.
Words cannot print them-gold cannot
.. buy them; they flow out OF the deepest
fountains of the heart; they are the very
life springs of fresh, healthy and gen.
erous national character"