The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-01-25
INDUSTRIAL
ADVANCEMENT
NO LET UP SHOWN IN MT. PLEAS
ANTS PROGRESS.
A Suggestion To columbia's Business
Men.

MT. PLEASANT, January 19.-And
stin the boom goes on. That Is II
YOU want to call the steady and re-
markable interest now being taken in
real estate. building and every other
line of business in Mt. Pleasant and
surrounding territory boom" Boom
or no boom. the town is coming to
the front at a rate which has never
before been dreamed Of by even the
most enthusiastic optimist, and
schemes are now being formulated
and plans on foot for the upbuilding
of the place, which two or three years
ago. would have been ridiculed as the
vain air castles of an idle dreamer.
It is now understood that within
the next twelve months two addi-
tional large fertilizer factories will be
in operation in the Mt. Pleasant field.
These factories, so 1t is stated, Will
be erected by big fertilizer companies
Of the North, the advantage in locating
them here, being in the fact that low
grade rock. of from IS to 65 per cent.
B. P. and L., can be very. prontaDly
utilized in local concerns, while the
same low grade rock can hardly stand
the expensive freight rate to factories
in the North. This fact has been fully
demonstrated, and the remarkable sue
cess of the Mt. Pleasant Fertilizer
Co. since it's plant was erected last
year. and the fact that that company
Is already arranging to increase its
output, goes to prove that Mt. Pleas
ant Is the most reasonable point In
the entire South for the location OF
such concerns.
Plans and specifications for the new
postofice and opera house building
are now being drawn up, and 1t is
stated that it is the purpose OF the
new company to have the building CON-
pleted as early in the spring as posi-
BILE. Goodloe and Chandler are also
arranging to let contracts for their
new brick store house on the public
square as soon as possible.
Ounce Hall, one Of the good colored
citizens OF Jonesboro, sold the rock
on his lot to parties whose identity
the writer has not learned. Tuesday.
for 81 TOO. Other deals are being
made in Jonesboro property at hand
some figures, and the cclored citizens,
who own that surburb Of Mt Pleas
ant. are coming in for their share OF
the pie in the phosphate boom.
r. M. Bullock has opeend up me
bed Of rock for the Blue Grass Pnos-
phate Co. on the site of the old Gran
berry homestead, south Of town. The
rock on the place viii be remover
before the Blue Grass people begin
the erection Of their new dryer.
J. e. Rhodes, the contractor. VINO
secured the grading of the new Swan
Creek Railway, is In the city getting
things together and in shape to be-
gin work as soon as possible. Within
the next few weeks his grading out
at, which includes large number Oh
scrapers, steam plows. mules and men,
will be moved here.
The movement to organize COM
mercial club, or something OF the
kind, in Columbia, is good one, not
only for your city, but also for the
entire county, and its success VIII
depend entirely upon the spirit and
enthusiasm with which your people
enter it. Every town should have
such an organization, and the cooper
alton of any people in any movement
will bring success much more readily
than IL the same people are working
separately, but all having the same
end in view. However. 1t has been
the observation of the writer, that the
best and quickest -esults in the ad'
vancement of public interests can be
and are brought about by the cooper
alton of small number of men OF
means. who have the interests OF
their home place at heart, who are
willing to pool their interests In any
scheme for the upbuilding of their
town, and who exhibit their conf |
dence by investing their own funds
in such enterprises, without waiting |
for commercial club to induce out |
siders to do 1t. There are twenty
men In Columbia who could get to-
gether, pool their interests, build a |
lot OF factories, and establish other
enterprises to build up Columbia, and
lust as soon as 1t Is announced that
they propose to do such a thing. 1t
will inspire confidence in the town,
and other people in Columbia, and
lot Of outsiders, for that matter, will
FALL over themselves to get in on the
good thing" Get some public spirit
pumped into a lot OF your men OF
means induce them to turn loose