The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30
HOFFA WRITES OF
GRENADA
In a Letter to Manager South.
ern Commercial Congress.
He Tells Of What Gre
NADIA is and Hints
at its Future.

In response to a request OF Manag-
ing Director, Dave, Of the Southern
Commercial Congress, Mr., w. b.
Hoffa. ever foremost in promoting
Grenada s welfare, has sent him the
following on Grenada and her progress.
Mr. Dave adyiaed Mr.. Hoffa that the
Washington Herald Of May ,, will de-
vote an entire section TO Southern
progress The Southern Commercial
Congress means more than it is posSi-
bic now to comprehend TO the South:
Grenada, Miss. April, 81, 1909,
Mr.. GroSverner Dave, Managing Di-
rector, Sou hern Commercial Con-
gress, Washington, D, {,
NY Dear Sir:-Your favor OF the
22nd. inst, received and n0ted. La r.
ply TO your question as to Grenada
progress in The past year. | Will give
YOU a few items that may be OF inter
est in the development OF your great
plan TO give to the outside world
so-e idea Of the South S wonderful ad-
vancemenf a,ong all lines IN the re-
cent past.
No section Of our country offers
.yreatcr pt,S>i hilitipS or safer returns
| for the iuvestme t Of capital than the
- nth. and yNur efforts to bring 20 the
attention Of investors the merits or
opportunity, now theirs, Sn.ud meet
the approval OF every one North and
South.
Grenada is a little city of over four
thousand inhabitants situated at the
head of navigation on the YalobuSha
river one hundred miles south OF
| Memphis, Tenn. and one hundred
and eleven miles north OF Jackson,
Miss, the capitol of the state, and is
the junction point of two DIVISIONS OF
| OF the Illinois Central railroad, ana is
a terminal Of the Yazoo and MISS
Valley railroad which traverseS the
| whole Of the Mississippi delta.
Grenada owns her own water and
ligh, plant and sewerage system,
water supplied by fine artesian wells,
has a cotton compress, two c0ttoU
seed oil mills, two brick plants, a
wood preservation plant, owned by
the Aver & Lord Tie Company cf
| Chicago. for the preservation. by creo-
soting. of cross les. telephone or tele-
graph poles, bridge timbers and max
ing paving BLOCKS: (this company, with
the Illinois Central railroad bridge
plant, has a pay roll Of over enc hun
dred thouSaod dollars per year
at this place. foundry and ma
chine shop, steam laundry, whole sale
grocery, three banks. with about four
hundred fifty thousand dollars bank
ing capital aud surplus, a Splendidiy
equipped coIlege for girls, fine puolic
SCHOOLS, twelve miles of granolithlc
side walks exclusive OF crossings, which
are also granOlithic
Grenada has an assessed valuation
Of one and one half million dollars,
which is only about fifty per cent OF
the actual value, and the county o:
3rena,ia has fine system OF public
roads worked by contract.
Within the past year there mas
been aided over three miles OF grano-
Ijtbic sidewalks. many new handsome
residences, ranging from three to ten
thousand dollars each. foundry and
machine shop, a steam laundry, a
whole sale grocery. one brick plant,
five BRICK store buildings, twenty
five thousand dollar bank building
now in course Of construction, gain
nf hine hundred and thirty dollars IL
}post office receipts, and a gain OF over
one hundred thousand dollars in bank
deposits.
Grenada is on direct line OF the
Illinois Central rail road between
Chicago and New Orleans, and Is
noted for being the best residence
town in north Mississippi.
Grenada is the center OF the hnes'
hardwood section of the South, an(
offers fine opportunities for all kinds
of wood working plants, and for al
other manufacturing enterprises.
Wishing you much success iu you
grand undertaking for the develop
ment of the resources of our South
land, remain,
Yours very sincerely,
w. B. Hoffa.