The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
TRUSTEES REPORT
 ON STATE FARMS Penitentiary Board Finds Af- fairs Working Smoothly MUCH COTTON YET UNS0LD Preacher Who Acts as Detective Among the Blind Tiger Lairs Has
 Returned to Jackson and
 Will Get Busy.
MUCH COTTON YET UNSoLD

Jackson, Miss, March 5.-(Special.)- The penitentiary board of trustees met yesterday in regular session, disposed of a lot of routine business and adjourned. The three trustees made reports of their inspections of the several state farms during the month of F ebruary, on which they found everything moving along nicely the convicts in good health and spirits, the officers doing their duty, the buildings in good condition and farm work well advanced. More than hal. the land on the state farms has been plowed and is ready for planting in spite of the excessive rains of the past few
 weeks.
 Col. Leroy T. Taylor, president of the
 board, goes more into particulars than
 the other members in their reports. He finds that on the Sunhower county farm
 there are 1422 bales of cotton yet to
 sell. Of this 241 bales are 5-6 staple and 11S1 measuring IS. The total crop of
 cotton produced on this farm was 442a
 bales and nearly 100000 bushels of corn,
 to say nothing of the peas, potatoes, hay, etc., which were harvested in great quan-
 tites Five hundred acres of additional
 land will be cultivated on this place this
 year.
 On the Belmont farm in Holmes county
 Colonel Taylor found 6S9 bales of cotton
 unsold that being all the place made
 in the way of cotton. It is now being
 transported to the compress at Green
 wood, by boat On this place 100 acres of
 new ground will be cultivated this year
 and about 300 acres are being enclosed
 with wire. for a hog pasture, it being the
 intention of the state to go more largely
 into pork raising on all the farms than
 ever before.
 Colonel Taylor reports that the cotton seed on the state farms were sold at prices ranging from ST to $21 per ton, the latter figure having been paid for the deliveries of the past month or two. w. M Pinson, the preacher detective | who has been a great big thorn in the | side of the Jackson blind tigers and gam- l bling fraternity the past two months, | has returned from q visit to his home | at Little Rock and states that he is | ready for the fray once more.
 When MT. Pinson left Jackson two
 weeks ago the tigers rejoiced and it was | l return. that he was gone for good. The | wish was father to that thought and | now that the detective is back in theii l midst the tigers will lay low for while | In view of the fact that great num- | per of the parties convicted in the city | court on Pinsons testimony and that ot | his lieutenant, Evars, appealed to thS circuit court, their presence here during circuit court was very necessary at this | time.
 | The preacher is, as the tern | would imply, both detective and minister | of the gospel and is highly indorsed by | those who stand hign in both professions ] or callings. He is the man who brok' up the shanty boat tigers and saloon! | along the Mississippi river He not only | put an end to that business along th' | great river. at least on the Mississipp side, but he made the owners set nr' l to their. own boats and burned them tt | the waters edge He understands tha | since he left the section the shanty boat | tigers have resumed basinaak Ea1y slyly