The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-02-04
TIsHoMINco COUNTY.

Is Slludtcu III the uOTlncaSl corner
of the State and contains little
over 400 square miles of territory.
1t is bounded on the northeast by
the Tennessee river, which separ-
ates it from Alabama, and on the
north by Tennessee; on the east
by Alabama, on the south by tia
wanda County, and on the west
by Prentiss and Alcorn Counties.
The county is traversed by two
railroads: The Southern, with a
general direction of west to- east,
and the Illinois Central. with a
general direction of north to
south. In addition to the trans
portation facilities afforded by
these excellent through illness of
railroad, the Tennessee river,
which washes It's northeast bound
airy, is open to navigation all the
year, The United Ststes govern
ment has spent several millions of
dollarsain improving the naviga-
ton of this river and the work of
improvement is still going on.
When completed, the river will be
navigable at all seasons for large
steamers for nearly its whole
length. 1t will be seen from the
foregoing that the transportation
facilities of the county are of the
best.
There is a great variety of
farming land in the county. The
valleys of Big Bear creek, Cedar
creek and Tennessee river contain
some of the finest corn lands in
the, world. Yields of 60 bushels
to the acre are common and choice
spots have been known to yield
rs to 80 bushels per acre. The
level uplands produce fine crops
of cotton, corn. sorghum and
other products peculiar to the
South. There are oyer 100000
acres of uncleared land in the
county that is covered with tim
Der, some of it very valuable old
growth, and some of it second
growth. Forest fires, such as
Clevastate the woodlands of the
North and West, are entirely UNI
known here. This. uncleared land
is equally as good as lands in
South Carolina and northern
Georgia that sell at from SIS to
$50 per acre, and can be pur-
chased at from So to Sc per acre,
according to location and improve
ment. There is scarcely a quar-
ter section of this land that has
not upon it, somewhere, bounti-
full, never-failing supply of free
stone water, either in the shape of
springs or running streams.
There is not a section of the
United States that is better sup
piled with water. OF course
some of this land is billy, though
but little of it is stony, and but
very little indeed is too steep for
cultivation
The valleys of Indian, Yellow
and Mackey creeks and their trib-
utaries are very productive, yet
the land is very cheap, very little
of it being held as high as $l0I
per acre and mucl. of it for con-
siderably less. Nothing but a
want of knowledge of these con-
ditions by the people in other sec
tions has caused this land to re-
main SO ridculously cheap. When
persons in other sections = where
similar land is very high are
told or read about the cheap lands
of Tishomingo county, they some
times either refuse to believe, or
else they imagine there is some
thing untold about the country
that, if known, would account for
the cheapness of the land. To
such persons we appeal to come
and look for themselves. Seeing
is believing.
The first inquiry most people
make who contemplate change
Of residence is about the health