The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-10-18

lew years ID DeSIHnlng TO Jell. IH
world reserves it's big prizes FOR thos'
who take the initiative and the south
is taking it. We are doing the righ
thing without being told in a genera
way and doing it after being told one,
anyway. The Manufacturers Recort
paints the following bright pictur
Of the past and also of the future:
"Give free rein to your imagina
ton and let it picture the future 0.
section which has oae-half Of tn,
iron ore Of the United States, neari,
three times as much coal as ,Grea
Britain, Germany and Pennsylvani:
combined, which holds a worlds mo
nopoly on cotton production and il
rapidly becoming great cotton man
ufacturing center, which dominate
the phosphate rock and sulphur trade
of the world, which has much Of th'
richest oil territory known, which ha
one half of the standing timber of thu
country, which produces all the sugar
all the rice, most Of the tobacco, ant
add to these 800,o00,000 bushels o!
grain year; and then think Of Its
water powers, its splendid rivers, it
great seacoast, its expanding com
merce, and remember that its cottoi
crop alone annually exceeds the to
tai gold and silver production of tn,
world, and that every dollar of golt
annually mined is not enough to pa.
the south's bill against Europe for
cotton, and you will get just faiD
conception of the future.
"Here are the materials for feed
ing and clothing an unlimited popu
lation. Here are an enormous suppl,
Of those indispensable sinews of al
manufacturing enterprises-coal an<
iron. Here is wonderful profusior
and supply Of the most inportap
articles of the worlds consumption
and therefore Of the worlds commerce
while the country's endowments il
navigable rivers, in water power and
In location, make up a sum of natural
wealth of resources unequaled in an,
other part of the Union, and offering
unlimited opportunity 10 enterprise
labor and capital for the grandess
prize Of development to be found upoi
our globe. Such without exaggeratioR
or misrepresentation. in 'our SOUTH
embracing what has long been known
as the Southern States of the U1ion.'
After long period Of experiment
ing, the invention Of special maehin.
cry, constructing the same, numerou.
changes in plans and devices, Hatties
burg announces that she now has .
plant that is not Only unique in is
operation, but is absolutely without. &
parallel in the United States, or. this
world. 1t is a plant that manufac.
lures alcohol from pine sawdust ane
bhe refuse from sawmills, not the
poisonous article known as wood al
cohol, but the regular merchantabls
var',sy so extensively used for al
purposes. Work was begun on thin
plant some three years since, but IN.
til the present it has been in the hands
of large northern concern that max.
speciality of constructing such con.
Germs, it being necessary to devise and
construct special machinery for the
purposes intended. After three year,
of constant work the first plant In
the world to make commercial alco-
hol from saw dust has been completed
tested and ready to turn over the own.
ers.
This is very important plant for
Hattiesburg. 1t covers several acres
of ground, has building several sto.
ries IL height and will employ hun.
dreds Of laborers. A refuse from
the thousands Of sawmills in the state
will be used to making something re-
quired by the wsfld in immense GUAM
ties and demanding a good market
value at all times. It is confidently
expected that ere long more of thess
plants will be installed and that Mis-.
sissippi will soon be one of the lead.
ing states Of the union in the produc.
ton of alcohol. And why not? Now
that it has been demonstrated that
our sawdust will make good grade
of alcohol, why no utilize it In this
way? There is undoubtedly money in
it for the promoter and source OF
revenue to che mill man 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 a dawn that will brighten
to noon day brilliance in the near
FUTURE
Say good weird for Mississippi
when the opportunity affords and il
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