Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-14


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The Mississippi Mineral, Exploration
and Development company of Raleigh,
lately Incorporated, is composed of well |
known local business men, and is con-
servatively capitalized at $4,000. The |
company's expert has been locating min
erals which can be commercialized, and |
they have already acquired valuable |
holdings, such as fine clays, phosphates,
mineral paints (pigments), silica, acids,
building stene, lead, zinc and other min
erals.
The mayor and board of aldermen of
Water Valley ordered an election held |
on January % upon the question of
whether or not the city should issue
$4,000 of its bonds for the purpose OF |
buying terminal facilities, depot grounds
and right of way for the Water Valley |
Southeastern railroad. This road runs
through Water Valley east, connecting
with the Southern at some point in Cal |
houn county.
A hard fight is going to be made in
Greenville to secure lower fire insurance |
rates. 1t costs more to insure house !
in Greenville than in many other towns |
in the state with poorer fire protection,
and the business men and citizens gen |
orally have taken hold of the matter |
and are making representations to the |
rating bureaus which they are hopeful
of bearing fruit.
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Prof. Thomas A. Early, superintendent |
of education of Yalobusha county, ten !
dered his resignation to t. Ike effect at !
snce. The board OF supervisors ordered |
an election to be held on January Is to
all the vacancy. Prof Early will as-
eept position under the department |
Of agriculture and will be engaged In |
special work of organizing boys corn
clubs.
Chancellor Hicks has granted an in
junction enjoining the American Express |
company and the Southern Express COM !
pany from refusing interstate shipments |
of liquor from the Southwestern Express |
and Telegraph company, whose main Of
L. -, IoHa
from NatcheZ.
The board of supervisors of Lauderdale
county refused to order an election to
determine whether the county should
construct paved public highways, declar-
ing they first wanted to see what ths
legislature proposed to do with Governor !
Noel's recommendation Oh the subject.
The Injunction secured by the Vicks-
burg Waterworks company against the
city of Vicksburg, restraining the city
from further prosecution of its suit to
forfeit their charter and appoint re-
ceiver for said company, was dissolved
by Federal Judge Niles.
The department of agriculture at
Washington has announced to the Busl-
ness League of Greenyille that the sub
iect of the address to be delivered in
Creenville January II will be Cotton,
the Greatest of Cash Crops" in which
it will be shown the Importance of main
tanning the cotton industry in the South
and the notifications in the present sys-
tenn of farming necessary to be made
to succeed under boil weeYil conditions.
A petition signed by 500 farmers OF
Chckasaw and Clay counties was for
warded to the Legislature, advocating
determination of cattle tick. A number !
of the most progressive farmers of Clay,
Chickasaw, Monroe, Oktibbeha and
Lowndes counties have written Prof.
Archibald Smith, secretary of the state
Live Stock Sanitary Board, offering to
contribute from $50 to $500 each to as
sist in externGnating the cattle tick.
One small district in Lowndes county,
south of Columbus, has offered to Con-
tribute $1,000.
Pursuant to the mass meeting held at
Hermanvile for the purpose Of condemn
ing the practice of foreign labor SCENTS
stirring up settled labor, committees
was appointed from the NEST Pronl-
nent citizens of the town and county,
to act as q permanent organization to
deal with any further attempts to en-
tice the laborers of the community to
emigrate.
The president of q company wRish
has under consideration the construction
of railroad from st. Joseph, No. to
Mobile, Ala, will visit Grsenville some
time the latter part Of the month, and
while there viii make a personal inYes-
tigation Of the territory northwest and
southwest of Greenville as q possible
route for the road, crossing the river at
or near that point.
The future for Enterprise is very
promising along the line of manufacture
Of iron, cement, glass, porcelain and
earthenware. Analyses have been made
Of the iron ore vein found here by DR..
]. II. Stubbins Arthur j. Kesler and Or.
Il. T. Cox The first two are mineralo-
gists OF England and the latter is late
State gsologist of Indiana. Their analy-
ses show the ore to make an average
of 4e per cent. of iron to the ton.