The Tupelo journal., 1907-11-01

ton going on the market and further
depressing the price. 1t is to be re-
GREETED that our people are not all in a
position to give a solid backing to such
a movement as has been inaugurated
by the Union and Cotton Association.
The foreign spinners frankly told the
writer while on their recent visit TO
this country, that cotton was worth Is
cents per pound, and that the prices
for which they had contracted their
goods would warrant them in paying
that price, but if it could be had for
less of course they would buy it for
less. The warehouse plan is a sensible
one and along right lines, although
some time will be required % perfect it
and make it as effective as it should be.
1t is just as imperative that ONE plan
be devised, after the warehouses are
built now, mind you, to take car of
the distressed cotton that ome on the
market first in the fall. The cotton
forced on the market furnishes the
spinners with a supply for several
months, and before that is used up the
planter gets tired of holding and more
is dumped on, keeping the price down
all the time. We are beginning TO
plan against such contingencies, and
all will be we'll in the future. Don't
get in too much OF a hurry, but make
these changes in a slow and safe man.
ner.
Mississippi seems to be getting an
overdose of trust just at this time.
General Fletcher's campaign against
them seems to make them more greedy
aud defiant if anything. The Gulf
Compress is making a wholesale ad-
vance in charges that is stirring up a
row in a number of places. The news
papers contain accounts OF these adj
vances at A great many points in the
State. The Cumberland Telephone has
cut out the night rate, the free county
service, and it seems that the railroad
commission is at its rows end so far as
regulation is concerned. While Gen
eral Fletcher was in Nashville looking
| into the affairs of the Cumberland She
! general manager writes Editor Bean OF
the Amory Times a warm letter be-
cause that paper had seen fit to criti-
else the methods of the company. 1t
may have been a little late in coming,
but Mississippi has a corporation fight
on at last, and the people should give
the officers who are endeavoring to pro-
tect their interes a hearty and o n
staat backing and cooperation.
Some days since an immense pine
tree was cut on the place of J. K. Bar
Der, near Magee, in Simpson county,
chat squared "a inches for 81 feet and
contained 1900 feet of lumber, board
measure, OF course a great deal was
wasted in the squaring, it being too
large and long for the saw, requiring a
broadax and hewing. The tree brought
$40 as it stood in the forest. 1t is dis
tressing to consider that in a few more
years such splendid pieces of timber
will have become q thing of the past in
u great State. There can be no
doubt in the wisdom of the suggestion
that something be done now for the
preservation of our forests and the ON
tinuation of our timber supply. 1t is
a subject of the greatest Importance.
WinOna has just cause to be proud OF
her waterworks system, several fires
that promised to be of large proper
tions having been stopped before gain
ing much Roadway. Water is a mighty
handy thing to have around, especially
when the fire fiend goes on a rampage.
The city with a good water system is
fortunate in more ways than one.
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And again the machine cotton picker
is in the land. Down near Mobile one
was tested out a few days since and the
announcement made that it proved
highly satisfactory. This is about the
'steenth time some fellow has invented
an absolutely successful cotton picking
machine, but strange to say, they are
rarely ever heard of after the stock
selling stage. and the plantation niger
and the long sack still reign supreme.
The matter of protecting fish and
game is receiving considerable atten-
ton in Mississippi these days. A num-
Der of counties have appointed game
wardens during the past month or SO
and up at Yazoo a few days since a
barrel OF fish was seized. The law
should be enforced, it makes no differ
ence whether it be good or bad. II bad
have it changed.
There is a premium on the optimistic
citizen who always finds something
good in the worst of situations. Mis-
sissippi has more of these optimists a.
present than ever before and the room
is still not overcrowded, Get in on the
right floor and get some enjoyment on,
of life.
E. w. Brister, of Deasonville, Yazoo
county, recently sold seventy bales OF
long staple cotton in Yazoo City for q
cents per pound. A pretty good sale,
the amount being S9,867.70 70.
Rrookhayen is taking rank with the