Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-06-08

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burg, ana so soon as the surrounding
territory is peopled and the lands made
to produce of the worlds needs, there
is reason to believe that it will grow
even faster still. That section of the
State is especially adapted to trucking
as well as the production of all crops
and all that is needed to make it bios
som as rose is thousands of good
white people to bring the land into cul.
tivation.
DR.. E. L. Turner of Washington coun.
ty has an article in recent issue Of the
Leland Enterprise anent the working
OF public roads that was especially able
and to the point. The strongest feat.
ures of DR.. Turner's article was upon
the supervision of the roads and in get.
ting man without strings tied to him
to see that the work is done according
to contract or as the law directs. Work.
ing by contract will not be satisfactory
at all il some man is selected commits.
sioner who will not see that each con.
tractor is made to do his whole duty
and bring his section OF road up to the
standard required. Think about this,
talk about it and then act.
McComb City is fighting any feeling
that might be akin to the blues on ac.
count Of unfavorable crop conditions,
and announces that buildings to the
amount of 100000 are to be commenced
during the present month. 1t looks
pretty good to see patriotic citizens
pushing all the time, and more especial
ly in the face OF circumstances that
might discourage those who are in
clined to be timid. McComb is good
city and affords the market for an i'm
mense amount OF farm and garden
products, the bigger it grows, the bet.
ter for the farmers in Pike county, and
it still grows
A trucking company with a capital
stock of 100000 is to be organized at
Hattiesburg for the purpose of working
cut-over pine lands and doing general
trucking and fruit business. The rail-
roads are said to have offered co-opera-
tiOn and the success of the project
should be assured. The lands in ques-
tion have already been proven adapted
to this class of farming, and in a few
more years South Mississippi should
be shipping hundreds of cars of truck
per day. 1t means great deal for the
State to see this vast area of land
brought into cultivation.
The hustling people of Yazoo county
will not be content with holding an or
dinary county fair this fall, but propose
to hold the biggest and best county
fair in the State. They have commit
tees at work constantly, and the pros
poets are growing brighter day by day.
D. Wollerstein, the popular manager,
is working overtime to get everything
in readiness for the event, and is well
pleased with the success attained.
1t should be source OF qualification
to Mississippians to know that the
States credit is excellent and 1-2 per
cent bonds sell at par, although the
money market is pretty tight just at
this time, There may be some differ
ence of opinion as to the reputation of
some sixty years ago, but all are agreed
that the credit is good at this time.
A great howl is going from those who
have held the whip hand for years and
amassed immense fortunes at the ex.
pense of the general public and the
bugaboo of hard times and financial
panics threatened have been worked
overtime. 1t is amusing to see the an
tics being cut by the people who are III
q condition to tide over just such times
as threatened, but are fearful of their
graft being cut off or lessened.
The importance of one of the new
lumber plants being erected at Charles
ton is shown when the statement is
made that $50 cottages for white work.
men alone are being built. Many of
them are neat homes, and all are sup
piled with electric lights and water,
T. E. Henry of Corinth is marketing
the second crop of Strawberries for the
season. The first crop was not very
good but the prospects for the second
are said to be much better. Here is
another evidence of what is in store for
those who make Mississippi their home.
Impress it upon our young people
that Mississippi is the best State in the
Union and offers more to the man or
woman who is willing to work. For
too many years have we furnished Of
our brain and Drawn for the peopling
of the States further west. Keep our
young people in Mississippi and help
them to reap the benefits of living in
our great commonwealth.
Write your experience in farming or
stock raising for this department.
Others would like to learn of your
success.
We need better roads in Mississippi,
not so much for automobiles, but for
the plain, every day farm wagon haul
ing produce to market and bringing
home the necessities of life. Let's quit
paying that two and half million dol
lar tax every year and have nothing to
show for it in the end.
Buy tract of land, either large or
small, now while it can be had for q
reasonable price. Those who own the
land in Mississippi will have a most
valuable asset in years to come.
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