The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04
BOLL WEEWL IS
 STEADILY MOVING Cotton Pest Is Extending Its
 Field In Mississippi
PROTEST ON DEPOSITORY
Hon. c. H. Williams Will Not Institute Legal Proceedings-C of Agriculture Is Fight
 ing the Tick.

Jackson, Miss, October 3.-(Special)- All doubt as to the presence of the boil weevil in Hinds coknty was dissipated today when the commissioner of agricul- ture received a small pasteboard box in which were imprisoned three insects or a dark brown color and about twice the size of the familiar corn weevil. These bugs came from MT. James F. Smith, prosperous planter of the Utica neigh borhood, Hnds county, and he asked for an official diagnosis. The commissioner was bound to admit these were the genu- lae Mexican weevils--the pests that have played smash with the big cotton farmers of Texas and Louisiana and caused great many of they to undertake other kinds of work in addition to the pro- duction of cotton of early maturing vari- cities, and MT. Smith was so advised by return mail.
 The presence of the weevil at Utica, 20 miles southwest of this city and near ly 50 miles from the Mississippi river, means that the weevil has traveled at least 40 miles this year. If he is at Utica the chances are that he is also on the east side of that place, and that he will reach the Illinois Central rail- road by frost, and travel half way from Jackson to the Alabama line next year. Hon. C. H. Williams of Yazoo City, known to fortune and fame as the brother of John Sharpe, and to his in innate friends as Kit" while in the business world he is recognized as one of the most successful bankers in the state, being at the head of the third to the oldest, and, perhaps, the strongest banks in Mississippi, having a capital Of nearly s50o00O and s35000o which is earned capital, was in the city today, and spent a goodly portion of his time conferrlng with Attorney General Fletcher and Au- ditor E. J. Smith.
 ItNis natural to suppose that NIT WH- Hams was discussing his state depository muddle. and he was asked if he intends to institute any legal proceedings to com pel State Treasurer Edwards to recognize the Bank of Yazoo City as state de- pository. President Williams replied that he did not propose to make any move or that kind. He is confident his bank IS just as much a state depository as IS any other bank in the state, and he Will con- tinue to receive the deposits of the sher- |
 to some $5O,0O0 or s60,00O during the term of his commission as state depository.
 MT. Williams stated that he had writ ten a letter to State Treasurer EdWards, which he was at liberty, of course, to give to the press, but MT. Edwards, when approached on the subject, declined to give out the letter for publication
 Commissioner of Agriculture Blakeslee has returned from the northern part or the state and from the Tri-State 1alr at Memphis, where he has spent the week. He reports that the main object or ms visit was to inaugurate the fight against the tick in other counties and to extend the work of the state and the Onlted States government in that direction. Ben ton and Marshall counties have already been very thoroughly covered by the anti tick brigade, and the war Is now pelns carried into DeSoto and Tunica counties, but where they will have to go slow be- cause of the lack of funds.
 While in Tunica county MT. Blakeslee was shown samples of Sea Island cotton grown for the past six years on the 1arm of Mir J. w. Henderson, and which main tains a staple as fine as spun SIX ana two full inches in length, in spite or the claim that it deteriorates if produced from it's own seed in this climate. MT. Henderson has been experimenting in d small way with this long staple cotton, and has only a few acres, but the cotto n is worth % or more cents per pound ana 1t is worth something to prove to the world that it flourishes in Mississippi as well as elsewhere.
 General Freight Agent Steele of the A. and V. railroad has sent the railroad commission a new tariff sheet, and calls especial attention to the rates of fer tlizers between Vicksburg and Meridian, and which have been arranged at the instance of the secretary of the Meridian Board of Trade. For distance or 70 miles and over 20 miles the rate on car lots is fixed at 374 cents per 100, and l cent per ton per mile over miles. MT. Steele states he is advised the Meri- dian board of trade is willing to have same rates as are in force on the New Orleans and Northeastern, and he IS willing to make a flat rate of cents per 100 between Vicksburg and Meridian.
 Governor Noel went down to the sol diers' home at Beauvoir last night to at tend the meeting of the board of trustees. It is expected that a new superintendent is to be elected and the Confederate vet erans of the state are very much Inter ested. as several candidates are under