The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-04-19
MISSISSIPPI LETTER.
A Great Cotton Country About
County Division Interested in
Native Cour,ty.
To the Editor of The Robesonian:

lNduVC NOuI.ly.
To the Editor of The Robesonian:
1t may not be amiss to many
of the readers of The Robesonian
to hear from Mississippi, land
IN which almost anything will |
grow and flourish. If cotton
don't exactly grow in the woods
here, it will come as near it as
any country in the world. There |
are score or more counties in
Mississippi which will average a |
bale of cotton to the acre, with
out fertilizing; and even here in
the piney woods the bottom
lands make a bale to the acre
without help.
A great many farmers keep
up the ante-bellum habit make
cotton and have their barnes
and meat houses in St. Louis
and Chicago. Habit INDUCED in
for a long time is hard to over
come. Several years since, in
company with a friend, | attend
ed the Charleston Reunion of
Confederate soldiers. Standing
on crowded Meeting street
whilst the veterans were march
ing by a good looking man close
by asked me where | was from.
| told him from Mississippi. |
asked him where he was from;
he replied about 20 or 80 miles
up the coast. He said, You peo-
pie in Mississippi think you can
make cotton, but we can beat
you here too badly to talk about. -
| replied, my friend, how is
that?" His answer was, by
our system of labor, improved
implements, cultivators, etc" l
told him that cotton grows in the
woods in Mississippi and all we
had to do was to gather it in the
fall. His reply was, That's
add lie, sir %
| see in The Robesonian that
an effort is being made to estab-
lish another county out of Rob-
eson territory, also parts of 9TH
er counties. When | was a boy
years before the civil war-I
heard my father and his neigh
bors' discussing the same thing.
The trend of opinion was to
make new county out of upper
Robeson and the lower end of
Richmond with the county seat
at or near "Shoe Heel," D." now
Maxton, the division line start
ing from the State line south OF
, Rowland, leaving that locality in
the new county and running by
Pembroke-then known as Low
rvs Bridge-and joining Cum
berland not far from Lumber
t Bridge. The way to arrive at q
) correct conclusion in regard tt
! many things is to put yourself il
J the place of the other party
Now, | will ask the voters OF
5 lower Robson to put them
r selves in the place of the voter:
] of upper Robeson. Would they
: not be in favor of a new count!
s to a man? Remember the COLDER
s rule. Cannot the people of Rob
/. eson be as just as the people O.
5 Richmond. Would Scott a n {
] county ever have existed but fo
e putting in practice by the citizen!
O of Richmond county that God
e given principle, justice. Whel
another effort is made in the ir
o terest of a new county out 0
n Robeson | hope it will succeed
|. Robeson county is amply able t
h have two counties, both as re
1t CARDS territory and finances.
IS | can't do without The Robe
J. sonian. Though l have lived i
a Mississippi thirty-eight years
;e my interest in the land of m
l. birth is unabated. The Rowlan
IF Sun and The Robesonian kee
f. me posted. | read nearly ever!
d thing in both. Aunt Becky
I. letters with many others, are il
to structive. Though the railroad
m have changed the face of til
a country, established new towr
Sc and postoffices, still from name
lg and other circumstances | &C
lis locate most of them. | have Wri
d. ten to Congressman Goodwin
s. send me a soil map of the coul
al ty. This l will appreciate, az
am willing to pay the pric
I'd therefor. D. McCallum
nd Weathersby, Miss. April II. %