The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-06-17
CONDITIONS
ARE IMPROVED
Crops so Per Cent. Better Alon1 the
Southern hallway.

AOS ulA0S, on OHf0CC l1n0 Oh Cn0 6006R-
ern Railway in Mississippi, farm condi-
tions Of all sorts are said to be tho best
in many years. It'sa conservative esti-
mate to say this section il so per cent.
improved in every way than it was two
years ago. Making = journey over this
line, which traverses the whole state,
commencing ut Lowndes< county, one
bisects Clay, Webster, Nontgomery,
Carroll, Lehore, sunnower and WAshing-
ton in tho order mentioned. From Co
'lunbus to Winona, eighty and , few
moro miles, cotton is in excellent shape;
corn is high and looks very healthy and
green, many fields of oats and other edi-
BILE products are cen Tho lands are
clean and people present . prosperous
appearance. From Winona to Green
vile, a 10 impressed even more with
the prosperous condition Of that section
Cotton and corn, while not - high ~ in
the eastern part Of Mississippi, arc in
~nne condition. Not . single person You
ask about crops will give you = pessi-
mistic kind Of answer. There in the
one acclaim Of good times ahead"
The stations along tho line are boom
ing. Guide, Miss, q place handy recog-
nized rs being on the map, about twenty
miles west Of Greenwood, boats Of =
lumber mill worth = million dollars. The
owners, not content with their lumber
profits, have bought thousands of acres
Of that good old delta black landa are
Offering it, cleared and ready for Guilt
walton, at a fair price. Eight or ten sub
stantial brick stores are visible. Ber-
clair, Miss, another stop, which two
years ago was just = crossing, has three
or four blocks Of streets laid OF and the
growth Of this hamlet is phenomenal.
Greenwood and Indianola are surpris-
ing. The former, tho city that claims
about fifteen thousand inhabitants, will
nearly touch twelve and q half thous.
and. This is a duplication Of popula.
tion since 1890. Greenwood il known AZ
the automobile city Of Mississippi, fo1
they possess 1855 cars in that place
They all bear city license tags. That's
an average of an automobile to every
eighty people. It simply donates q
thrifty and prosperous class Of citizens
From a business standpoint, Greenwood
runs head and shoulders above anything
in that section or near to it. They have
. hardware firm with hundred Thousand
dollars Of capitalization, and their an
nua1 business exceeds the hal. million
dollar mark. Their streets and homer
are beautiful. They have, rather it sooI
will be completed, a fifty Thousand dol
lar theatre. They handle 10000 bale,
Of cotton a year.
The Illinois Central Railroad has made
that section of Mississippi betwoez
Winona and Greenville. This line, o.
the branches controlled by the sam.
management, have absolutely monopol,
of that section. They cross the South
ern in Mississippi six times between
Winona n G~reenville. They act AZ
regular hoodgate to that whole terri
tory. Their service is of the kind cal
culated to boost a section. Their train'
and schedules are the outcome Of stud,
and many experiments.
At Dunleith, Miss, about eighteen
miles this side of Greenville, one is i'm
pressed with Dunleith farms. Man,
large buildings, several stores and n
immense cotton gin, which looks as il
was built to be . fixture and not . tenn
porary structure, tell Of moro money be
ing made on the farms. A citified resi-
dence il there and it's . safe predietio'
that town will soon be heard FROM
Special to commercial Anneal. June GIL