The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-05-27
VICKSBURG.

cam show as good. Her people are
alive to- the benefits OF sewerage and
now boasts or fourteen miles laid with
a total. when completed, OF 2s miles.
Her sewerage bombs, Az per cent,
were recently sold at premium
whioh speaks we'll for her credit.
when the low rate OF interest is
considered. Vicksburg is justly proud
OF her sewerage system which is' not
! surpassed in cities of anywhere near
her size. Clay street paving is just
about completed at a cost OF $4,000
and Cherry street will be paved this
year costing about $4,000. Thirty
miles of perfect driveways make au-
toing, driving or riding horseback
pleasant recreation, besides the be-
nefits derived in business way.
| The records show that even during
the days OF open saloons that hemo-
cddes there, were rare, and since
State wide prohibition has gone into
effect, the people tell you with pride
chat the blind tiger not emily does
not flourish, bait cannot : be found
there. a'sssI
| The magnificent churches of all
determinations attest the fact that 7
the Hill City believes In Christianity
and is liberal in giving to the cause
of the Master. The post office re-
ceipts are a sure index to the bust
ness of any place, and the following
figures taken from the records show
a steady growth and also that Vicks-
burg leads the State:
1894, $22,129.86.
1898, 27,154.00.
1900, 30,717.27.
1908, $4,000.
In 1898 her assessed property val
ue was, 1892 $4,000.
In 19OS-$9, 691 ,463.OO An increase
of nearly 100 Per cent.
Im banking, the increase has been
almost remarkable, growing from
81, OTIS, 3O5.54 in 1895, to $5,40O, OOO 90,
in December 1908.
The increase in savings depos-
its from $304. 100000 in 1900-to ST.
616,72000, July 1908 shows that
the wage Garner is banking his saw
ings.
A reliable indication of a city's bus
mess cam be had from it's clearing
house which for 1908 was 1880, 900.
and a great volume for a city of U.s.
900 population
The principal shops of the Yazoo
& Mississippi Valley railroad are loca-
ted in Vicksburg, giving employment
to 600 mem with pay roll of about
100000 per annm.
The United States Government
Fleet with about 100 boats. perman-s
entity ON the river front, has it's own
docks and machine shops.
Dry docks, privately owned, do
good business and are the only one
between New Orleans and Cairo.
Such industries add largely to a
city's prosperity.
Her public schools rank with the
best of like grades and are we'll at
tended
ALI Saints College for girls will cp-
en- next fall under the auspices of
the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi.
1t cost over 100000.
The Medical school of the Univer-
sity of Mississippi, is located in Vicks
burg in connection with the State
Charity Hospital.
There are several other institutions
of learning.
The Elks Club recently burned will
be- replaced with a handsome $4,000
Club House.
The B. B. L. A. Club House, owned
by Jewish residents cost $40, 900.
There are several other clubs, whose
members see to their friends enter
tainment while i'm the city. But the
average Vicksburger does not neceS-
sarially have to be a club member to
know how to do the honors to
friend, or stranger, for since the birth
of the city it's inhabitants have ever
been known to be princes in en-
pertaining and royal dispensers of
hospitality.
Her commercial men are clever in
trade and know their business.
1t was the home of the greatest or
ator America has ever produced and
while there is no Prentiss in Vicks-
burg today, her bar ranks high and
among it's members are some whose
regulations are more than State wide.
Law suits are not settled in this
commercial age by Oratory, and the
lawyer is greatest today who knows
the law and how to apply it.
The press of Vicksburg of anti bel
lllm days had national reputation
and some of the editors were brill
ant men of great intellectual strength,
but newspapers print the news today
for readers who know by breakfast
what happened the night before lin
distant parts of the world, and what
the people want the papers must
print 1T is not the decadence of the
press Intellectually, but the service
demanded that the editorial writer
treats more of utilitarian subjects
than matters of State. The news
papers of the Hill City, editorially
and every other way are credit to
that city. Her gifted SONS who have
served and are now serving the State
have accomplished as much of practi-
cal benefit in State and National af-
fairs as the anti bellum statesman.
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