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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-23
ANTIQUES.
BASKET AND RATTAN WORKS.

5o7 EAST MARSHALL. PHONE MON
roe TAI. Chairs caned; all kinds Of
chairs repaired: novelties our spe.
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*Daily. Weekdays. sSundays only.
All trains to or from Byrd Street Station
$50 night stop at Elba. Time Of arrivals and
departures not guaranteed. Read the signs.
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The Confederate Musuem

TWELFTH AND CLAy STREETS
OPEN o A. M. TO Is p. NJ
ADMISSION 25c. FREE ON SATURDAYS.
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National Bank Of Virginia,

National Bank Of Virginia,
Richmond, Va. December Il, 1910.
THE DIRECTORS OF THIS BANK
have declared the regular semi
annual dividend of 8 per cent, free
of tax, payable on and after JAN
uARY 8, 1911. Checks will be mall
ed, w. NJ ADDISON,
CaShial.
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win. =. Redo, Trustee.
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BY virtue of a certain deed OF trust
dated Juno II, 1909 and recorded in
the Tenrico county Circuit Court clerks
office, in d. b. 1856 A. page /. default
having been made In the payment or
a portion Of the debt occurred thereby.
and having been required by the bene.
hclary therein so 10 do, /, the under
signed trustee, VIII, ON
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1910, AT12M.
in front of the Honrico county court.
house. Twenty-second and Main streets.
Richmond, Va, proceed to sell at pub,
lie auction the property conveyed
therein, viz:
All that certain tract. piece or mar.
eel of land, with ali IMPROVEMENTS
thereon, lying and being in the county
of Henrico. Va. about ten miles peIow
the city OF Richmond, Va, on the VIII
lIamsburg Road, containing. according
to Il survey made by Walter f. Pleas
ants, four hundred and eight ana one
quarter acres, excepting that portion
of the said tract Of land which was
conveyed to w. II WEIGH by deed dated
April 10, 1910, and which was released
from the said deed OF trust by a deed
of partial release, dated April %. 1910.
and duly recorded.
There is u large, first-class dwelling
on this farm, besides numerous ont
buildings. There is also large amount
or timber in easy access 10 iaiiroad
facilities.
IVM !, PEND rrus.a,
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LADIES, YOUR HAIR IS IMPORTANT.
Switches puffs, doll wigs are selling
at cost to-day. Great bargains. III
Broad Street
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The above sale has been postponed
until
TUESDAY. DECEMBER 81. 1910.
at IL o'clock NJ, at the same place and
upon the same terms as above set
forth.
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27aIp, 4t!aie alI0 u emaIe.

EMPLOYERS: WRITE rs WHEN
wanting employees (No charges)
Applicants, write us when wanting
work. PIEDMONT EMPLOYMENT
AGENCY. Durham, n. C,>
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HORSES TO HIRE BY THE DAY,
week or month; also Cor sale or ex-
change. w. y. JONES. 3o5 East
Canal Street.
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Want Ad Rate.

Classification not guaranteed
after $3.50 p M.
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WANTED. RELIABLE PEOPLE TO
work on commission: good pay to
right parties. Apply in own hand
writing TO d. ". WEEkLEY, POST
Office Box 5a2. LynchburG, Va
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HAIR.
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XlIAs BOXES q 70 5 PouNDs)
ALLEGRETTfs ORIGINAL CIIOC-
ULATEs. RICHMOND PHARMACY,
Sol EAST MAIN.
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Fnr GsaIs.

FINEST CANDY ON EAR r H.
ABLEGRETTPS FANCY LEATHER
BOXES. RICHMOND PHARMACY,
bUl EAST MAIN.
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CHRISTMAS JEwELRY,


SOLID GOLD SIGNET RINGS. $500
UP; SOLID GOLD SET RINGS, Sl..h
UP. S1GNET SCARF PINS, S1.25 UP i.
LOCKETS AND CHAINS. $3.50 UP
BRACELETS, $500 UP; COMB.
BRUSH AND MIRROR SETS, $500
UP; SOLID GOLD CUFF BUTTONS.
$500 UP; 7-JEWEL ELGIN WATCH
IN 20-YEAR4 FILLED CASE, 80. THE
PRETTIEST JEWELRY CASES IN
TOWN FROM roc. UP. FOUNTAIN
PENS FROM S1.50 UP; GuARAN-
TEED CrHE JOHN HOLLAND) {.
SOLID GOLD HAT PINS, Sl,50 UP.
AN IMMENSE LINE OF GENTS
FOBS AT PRICES THAT CAN'T BE
DUPLICATED IN TOWN. N WILL.
BE TO YOUR INTEREST TO SEE
4 OUR GOODS AND GET OUR PRICES
BEFORE PURCHASING ELSE
WHERE. DOWN TOWN SMALL EX-
PENSE. SATISFIED WITH SMALL.
PROFITS. w. II. COWARDIN SONS,
MATCHMAKER AND JEWELEE,
1915 %. MAIN ST.
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FIREWORKS.
cLARKE's BAKERY.
RUB III. OU1..

WHEREVER ACHE OR PAIN IS Lo.
catcd-stiTness and soreness OF nus
Giles or joints--rub IN F'rayser'a
Great Nerve and Bone Liniment. and
the pain disappears; the greatest all.
beast; try it--don't suffer-here, 10
the right help: csc bottles. at drug
gists
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Rfal estate Tot aSals.
Afro-Americans
can md out all about their new vii.
lage by writing to Captain cussoNs.
owner and founder of Glen Allen,
Virginia.
Aurrlon scales, .Tuture 3sapg
TRUSTEES AUCTION SALE
By Green g Redd
Real Estate A.etloneers.

A FINE FARM IN ftENRIco COUNTY
ON THE WILLIAMSBURG ROAD
WITH y LARGE AMOUNT OF
STANDING TIMBER THEREON.
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sINGLE GuNs. sa.O0. JACoBs'.

FINE DIAMOND RING, WEIGHT 2ts
karats; absolutely perfect; $3.50
. JACOBE, Ninth Street.
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FOR SALE BELGIAN TIARES AND
guinea pigs. Apply 2706 II. Clay 81
FOUR GILLETTE SAFETY RAZORS;
good AS new Call blades unuscd), -
each. JACOBS LOAN OFFICE.
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ablebodied. unmarried men, between
ages Of Is and 35 citizens OF United
States, of good character and temper
ate habits, who can speak, read and
write the English language For In
formation apply to RECRUITING or
FICER $50 East Broad St. Richmond.
Va: ISL Sycamore st, Petersburg, Va.
or Columbia Building, CRANKY St. Nor
folk. Va.
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miscellaneous.
Toys.
HAIR

FOR SALE, TOYS AT COST; CLOSING
out balance of stock at cost. TOMB
RINS, al West Broad.
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ohlo ON Company. inc.

UlI IOWpuny, me,
317-3lS American National
Bank Building,
Richmond, Va, December 20. 1910
directors of this company, held this
day dividend of one and one-half
per cent was declared on the capital
stock from the earnings OF the COM
pany. payable JANUARY Is, 1911.
Checks will be mailed. Transfer
books will be closed January s, 191I.S
JOS B. MONTGOMERY.
Trea st1rar.
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SANTA CLAUS SUITS. FACES, WIGS.
whiskers noses for tall or thin. 81
Broad Street
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FINE ASSORTMENT OF DRUMS AND
bugles, $3.50 to $3.50. JACOBS,
Ninth Street
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sALEsMANAGER AND OFFICE MAN
aGer open for position January l.
1911. Experienced in manufacturing
and wholesale business; now handling
twenty-five men. Address p 90, care
Times-Dispatch.
POSITION WANTED FIRST or YEAR
by young, settled man. familiar with
machinery and manufacturing X 49,
care Times Dispatch.
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SEE OUR LINE OF LADIES PEARL
handle umbrellas. $3.50 to So. ia
COBS'
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THE DIRECTORS OF TIE FIRST Ma
tional Bank of Richmond. Va. have
declared a seml-annual dividend OF
$4,000 % per cent. on the capital
stock), payable TO stockholders Of
record at close of business DECENI-
BIER 2STH. Checks will be mailed
December 3ist,
JNo. NJ, MILLER. JR.,
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mltuatlons Qo4antpo, sqiale.

WANTED. A BARBER: AT 502 WEST
Broad Street for Saturday
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DOLL WIGS, DOLL WIGS, DOLL
wigs! Real hair Bargains to-day.
Bargains to-day. 221 Broad Street.
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FOR SALE, HOTEL LOCATED IN
small town in the Shenandoah Valley
of Virginia, on the famous valley
Pike" equipped with telephones.
electric lights, modern bath and
sewerage. water system from reser-
voir fed by pure mountain springs;
also sulphur, alum and chalybeate
waters; beautiful lawns and more
than 5000 square feet or yeranda
space; good boating and fishing;
magnificent drives and fine livery.
To make quick sale of this prop
ertY am Offering IL at price. HAIR
RY VI. LEWIS, Real Estate, Staun-
ton. Va.
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Y KARAT DIAMOND RING; FINE
quality. SIS. JACOBS'. Ninth Street
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x KARAT DIAMOND RING, BLUE
white, $40. JACOBS.
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ELLIOTT FISHER BILLING MACHINE
In iirst-class condition. Call or adj
dresa ZIG y. Main. seoond floor.
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HAIR.
DOLL WIGS.

LADIES' SWITCHES, PUFFs, ETC
are bargains to-day. 22l Broad st
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THE REGULAR QUARTERLY DIVI- n
dend of . per cent upon the stock OF
this bank was this day declared nay
able to stockholders of record De
cember 10, 1910, Checks will he Y
mailed JANUARY /.
AMERICAN NATIONAL. RANK,
O h HILL Cashier. 49,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-11
OUR SPECIAL
BARGAINS

FourToom, new house. lot 50xlG5
east front South Fifth; $3.50 cash, bal.
ance $25 per month.
Six-room modern house, one block
car line, lot 5OxiS5 feet, good barn.
well, cave; s2,75O Terms.
Four-room house. corner lot, one
block car line; $3.50 cash, balance $l5
per month
six-room house. nice place, two
blocks hank corner; $i,500 Terms.
One lot Sparks addition. east front;
800; we'll located
Forty-acre improved farm. Is miles
chickasha; $3.50 A bargain.
1860 acres good rich soil. SIS per
acre.
List your property with u.s.
THE cLoHE INVESTMENT co.
i1sIa North Third st.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-11

Notice Is hereby given that q tax war
rant N the amount Of $i00B has been
Issued against Iot No 20, block No.
Ss of the city of chickasha, to pay
tor the construction Or sidewalk upon
Seventh street and idaho avenue adj.
iacent 70 said lot and has been filed
with the city clerk II at the expira.
ton Of the notice the amount named In
said warrant with fees OF the clerk and
cost disqualification shall not be paid
said fees and cost and a penalty on
rs per cent shall be added TO said tax
warrant and made part Of the origi
nal assessment and the same Shall be-
certified 70 the county clerk and to
be extended upon the tax rolls and col.
lected In the same manner and at the
same time as taxes for general pur
poses are extended and collected.
This 26th day Of April, 1910
IOE DEWS.
427-a0d City Clerk.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-11
First Published April 26, 1900
ATTACHMENT NOTICE.

State OF Oklahoma, Grady County
In District Court.
Joseph Bullsley Plaintiff. VS.. z. II
Hughes, Defendant No. 236s.
Said defendant. 2. II. Hughes. oi
Hastings, Adams county Nebraska
Will take notice thai he mas been sued
In the above named court III attach
ment and must answer the petition
filed therein By said plaintiff on Or
before the 9Th day Of June, A. =. 1910,
or said petition viii be taken as true,
and Judgment for said plaintiff in
said action for said attachment viii be
rendered accordingly
Dated this 25th day Of April. 1910.
THOS. ]. O'NEILL,
Attorney for Plaintiff
Attest:
n J. r. CALLAHAN.
District Clerk
EDNA 4. WATKINS,
tSeal.) Deputy goat
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-11

Notice Is hereby given that tax war.
rant In the amount Of $42.75 has been
issued against lots No 2s, "a and 25,
block No 2s. OF the city OF Chickasha.
to pay for the construction Of side
walks upop Pennsylvania avenue adia
cent to said lots and has been filed
Nltl the city clerk II at The explra-
lion Of this notice the amount named
IN said warrant with fees OF the clerk
and cost Of publication shall not be
paid said fees and costs and a penalty
of 25 per cent shall be added to said
tax warrant and made part Of the orig
inal assessment and the same shall
be certified to the county clerk and
to be extended upon the tax rolls and
collected In the same manner and at
the same time as taxes for general
purposes are extended and collected.
This 26th day Of April. 1910.
JOE DEWs.
4-27-30d City Clerk
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-11
An Ideal Husband

is patient, even With a nagging wife.
for he knows she needs help She may
be 50 nervous and rundown IN health
that trliles annoy her, II she is mel
aneholy excitable, troubled with loss
OF appetite, headache. sleeplessness.
constipation, or fainting and dizzy
spells. she needs Electric Bitters the
most Wonderful fulremedy for ailing wo-
men Thousgnds oi sufferers from fe-
male troubles, nervous troubles. back
ache and weak Kidneys have used them
and become healthy ana happy Try
them Only Soc Satisfaction gnaran-
teed BIZ Brown q GO. d.w
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-11

The splendid work Of Chamheflain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets Is daily
coming to light No such grand rem.
edy for liver and howell troubles was
ever k.Uwn before Thousands bless
them for curing constipation, sick head
ache, bIliousness. iaMndice and indiges-
an Sold by an dealers. ed.w
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-11
Lion FonaIes ! child.

IN Pittsburg savage lion fondled the
hand that . child thrust into his cage.
Danger to child IS sometimes great
when least regarded Often II comes
through colds. Group and whooning
cough They Stay thousands that Dr.
Kings New Discovery Gould have
saved "A few doses cured our baby
of a very bad case OF Group writes
Mrs George - Davis. ol Flat Rock. N.
C. 1--WE always give It to him when
ne takes cold Ips q wonderful medi.
cine for babies. Best FOR coughs
colds. IA CRIME, asthma. hemorrhages.
weak lungs. 6Oc. sloO Trial bottle
free Guaranteed BY Brown a. CO. d.w
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-11
FIRST Published May 10, 1900
ORDINANCE NO. 42e.

An ordinance alspropriating certain
moneys To the payment nf certain ac-
counts and expense.
Be alresolyed BY the mayor and city
oouneilmen Of the city Of chickasha
Oklahoma
Section That the sum or s24Ss4.45
Is hereby appropriated for the purpose
Of paying bills upon the Following
funds which bills have been heretofore
nllnuena IL flin nflN nciIl4anll.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-11
RAGS
WAN
Spot Cash Paid for
Rags at The Daily
Express Office.

Wanted--Men 70 learn barber trade
Few weeks completes. Time saved by
steady practice, careful INSTRUCTOR
tools given. diplomas granted Wages
Saturdays. Positions waiting spen-
did demand for graduates Write 70.
day. MoIer Barber College, Kansas
City. MO &c.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-11

Chamberlaln's Stomach and Liver
Tablets viii clear the sour stomach,
sweeteh the breath and promote the
flow of gastric Juice. thereby inducing
good dIseAll1n Sold by al dealers.
d.w
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-11
LOST AND FOUND.

Losi--A ladys small gold. open
face watch, initials n. II, s." en-
grayed on beck. Finder please return
10 Mrs stoddard, Az North sixth
street and receive reward 9.st
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-11

TO improve your property at d
small cost can easily be accom-
plished. Let US submit you a
plan for laying Concrete Side
walks, Curbing, Steps, etc. about
your residence, or place Of busi-
ness and give you our figures
for doing the work.
The durability 0 + concrete
work needs no introduction. All
work guaranteed to be first-class.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-11

For Sale--500 bushels Of snap corn.
at my harE south city limits. J. D.
chastain. 5-ll.tf
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-11

rs there any money III poetry IN.
CURED the hopeful amateur. mot FOR
me" replied the editor. Few poets
are able 70 pay fer more than one in.
sertion."
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-08-29
PERMANENT PEACE
BETWEEN NATIONS
Resolutions Looking To Estatlishmenr
OF Such Presented 20 Int -Pa-lia-
mentary Corventien.
(sy Union Associated Press.)

Brussels, Aug. 29--Resolutions
looking to the establishment of perma-
nent peace between the nations of the
world were presented by the American
delegation when the Interparliamenta-
ry Union assembled today in general
conference Representative Richard
Bartholdt, of Missouri, is chairman of
the American group.
One of the resolutions asks the con-
ference to request governments sigma
tory to The Hague peace conference
and the London naval conference to
sanction the American proposition
that the international prize court be
invested with jurisdiction of an in
ternational court of arbitral justice.
Another American resolution asks
the conference to request each ma
tion to appoint a committee, anal
agous to that recently formed in the
United States, the committees to re-
port to their respective parliaments,
prior to the third Hague peace con-
ference in 1915, a scheme looking to
the perfection of a system of world
federation, in addition to an interna-
tional judiciary. These resolutions
have the approval of the American
State Department.
EVERY DAY A BARGAIN DAY.
MCMILLAN & WILLIAMS BARGAIN,
STORE.
1909 Front St., Hattiesburg, Miss.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-08-29
BY Richard H. Edmonds, Editor of the
Manufacturers Record.

Last year one railroad carried into
Texas $4,000 settlers from the West
and Northwest. On one day that line
took out of Kansas City as the gate
way into Texas over 5000 settlers.
Careful estimates make the number
of new people locating in Texas dur
ing the last year or two average 200,-
600 annually. 1t is notably fact that
they are as whole well-to-do, a very
large numebr of them travelling in
Pullman cars, land having ample ready
money when reaching Texas to pur-
chase land for cultivation. Many of
them are locating in towns and cities,
for there is a remarkable growth in
such places as San Antonio, Dallas,
Houston, Fort Worth and other large
cities, while towns are springing up
almost over night, but the majority of
these newcomers are farmers who
have been selling their high-priced
lands in the West and investing in
Texas, expecting to reap a profit in
the advance of lands just as they have
done in the West. While some of
them are giving their attention to cot
ton raising, most of them are going
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-08-29

in corn growing the amazing results
which have been accomplished in rice
growing in southern Louisiana. In a
limited district where scarcely hui
man being lived twenty years ago,
there are now about $4,000 Western
people, mainly engaged in rice grow
ing and in city pursuits in the dozen
or more thriving towns which have
developed as an outcome of the rice
business. 1t is estimated that in that
immediate district, 5000, 100000 of val
ues have been created in the last fif-
teen or twenty years by the rice in
dustry, and land which twenty years
ago was not salable at rs cents an
acre now brings SIS to 800 an acre,
and dozen thriving towns of two or
three thousand to ten thousand popu-
lation are existing where there was
then an unbroken stretch of wet
prairie land.
There is very heavy movement of
population to Florida and a more linn
tied but active movement to- other
Southern States.
In connection with these facts, it
may be interesting to know that the
emigration from the South which was
the greatest drain on the business
life and vitality of that section after
1866 has practically ceased. Southern
people now find ample opportunity at
home for the employment of their
energies.
The Wreck After the War.
Prior to 1860 there had been very
considerable emigration from the
South to the West, due in pant to the
Anglo-Saxon love of adventure and
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-08-29
Business OUTLOOK SOUTH
IS bright SAYS EXPERT

into diversified agriculture, especially
into fruit raising and trucking. On
the Gulf coast of Texas, the develop
ment of onion raising has been so re-
markable during the last five years
that the Bermuda onion growers have
been practically run out of business,
and some months ago eighty Bermuda
onion growers arrived in New York
on one steamer, stating that their bus
mess had been-practically destroyed
by the competition of Texas onions
and that they had come to this coun-
try because of that fact.
The movement of population into
Oklahoma is of course generally un-
derstood, for that State in the last
eighteen years has grown with such
amazing rapidity that it now has d
population of million and half to
two million, according to local esti-
mates. There are towns of thirty to
forty thousand people where not a
single dwelling existed ten or fifteen
years ago.
The wonderful drainage operations
in Louisiana which are attracting the
attention of corn growers in the West
are resulting in bringing into that
section many Western farmers and
land operators, expecting to duplicate
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-08-29

ing into the possibilities of develop
ing on a very large scale reclamation
heard as to the suitability of this
land for corn growing. They were al
most boundless in their enthusiasm
about what they saw and about the
work of drainage now under way, and
the character of crops now being pro-
duced.
In Florida the State government
has recently let contract to the
same company which is cutting the
Cape Cod Canal-the Furst-Clark Con-
struction Company-for cutting about
$50 miles of canals to drain the Ever
glades. This will reclaim about g.
100000 acres of wonderfully fertile
soil, an area about equal to the State
of Massachusetts.
Though the industrial developments
of the South is but in it's infancy, that
section is now mining more than
twice as much bituminous coal as the
United States mined in 1880, or 1O0,-
100000 tons year against $4,000, 900
tons for the whole country at that
time. 1t is making nearly as much
pig iron as the United States made in
1880. 1t is consuming more cotton
and producing more oil and more lum-
ber. Its cotton mills are now consum-
ing over two and a half million bales
of cotton a year, or about the same
amount of Southern grown cotton as
New England is taking, having once
or twice considerably exceeded the
total consumption of New England
mills, as they will probably do this
year.
While Boston is planning to estab
lish a steamship line to Galveston il
may be interested in knowing that the
foreign export trade of that city ex
ceeds by $25,OOO,O0O a year the com
DiuC0 IOlciSH SApOIlS VI oil dCiuS
coast ports, and last year reached
$1S7 100000.
With three times as much coal area
as Great Britain, Germany, France
and Austria combined, with over 4C
per cent of the standing timber of the
United States, with iron ore in keep
ing with its vast coal resources, with
a practical natural monopoly of the
worlds cotton production, with water
powers sufficient, if fully developed
to create power equal to that now re
quired to run every wheel that turns
on rail or in factory in the United
States, with a variety of soil unsur
passed for every kind of agriculture
with a climate ranging from that Of