East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1913-04-11

ieooh leodu Us SJdltu uereln, anu
fronting on Main street, and the
main street leading out to the Col
lege and U. S. Experimental Sta
ton, completely solves the depot
problem, covers the situation so
far as the M. & o. is concerned,
and so far as the prerent and future
interest of this road and of Stark
vile is concerned: then let the |.
Q. R. r. build it's station when
ard where they may deem it to be
their interest to build.
The building by the M. & O. of
its 10000 or $1,000 depot as
poin ed out herein would be an Or
nament and great thing for the
road and a great thing Tor the town
aud a great thing for the College,
Il thing of beauty for all time to
come, in plain view of all The trav-
ell from town to the College, and
this travel is immense all the year
round and would increase as the
years rol! on, and as the College
grows and the town grows and as
the business of the NJ & O. grows.
Would like to suggest that in
building the NJ. & o. new freight
and passenger depot where contem-
plated herein, a small plaza, or
esplanade be left between the trout
OF the depot and the Rock Road,
or Main street, so as to keep the
crowd from congregatiug in front
of the depot and out on the street
or road, this for obvious reasons
not necessary to state to railroad
men. This idea of "a plaza or es-
planade is considered important and
all the ground necessary for such a
purpose can be easily obtained;and
the advantage of and the advisable
ity, the necessity for an esplanade
or plaza will grow more and more
as the town grows and rs the busi-
ness and traffic of the road increas-
eS.
The building of fine first class
new freight and passenger depot
by the N. & O. at Starkville he
comes more and more advisable,
because the M. & O. should do all
in its power to build up Starkville
as passenger and shipping point.
Why? AS already stated in our
correspondence. Starkville is
competing point with Maben, Math.
iston and Alderman aud always
will be; then again. looking solely
to the interest of the M, & 0. r.
R. Co, as we should, Starkville is
a strong competing point with
Longview. Bradley, Sturges and
Osborn on the |. q. r. r. and al
ways will be, it is strong com
peting point with Cedar Bluff and
Pheba on the Southern and always
will he, Starkville is u strong com
peting point with Reform duo west
of Starkville, on the N, O. M. &
9. Railroad and always will be,
besides other stations will grow up
and become shipping points as the
country develops and these several
lines of railroads grow older. To
illustrate, at Sturges in this county
and on the /. G. r. R., some sew
cnteen miles southwest of Stark
vile, a few days since, as stated in
one of our local papers, there was
sold in Sturges by one farming
firm (the Morgan's) 20S bales of
cotton bringing say $11,00), just
think of it. If one town, one firm
will do this. what may we not ex-
pect from the ten or a dozen towns
along the lines of railroads mention
ed. OF course the above is stated
generally, from recollection but Is
believed to be correct, approximate
is at least, consider what the Nor
gans sod is supposed to be- just for
one year. Do all you can to build
up Starkville and you are building
up yourselves, you are building up
i strong competing point for q large
section of country, travers,d by
three railroads, the |. z. the
Southern and the New Orleans,
Mobile and Chicago. Build up
Starkville and you hayc got all the
fowrs around beat for all time to
come, Starkville has the start, a
..oud start and we can keep it, il
our friends help all they can 10
build up the place. There is moth
ing to hinder q town from being a
city if it has the proper railroad
facilities, an inland town mean
lutf the lines of navgable rivers aud
navigable bodies of water. Baud
Iup Starkviile, aud through Stark
| Vile the Nj. & o. will fight for The
traffic and trade of this section,
passenger and freight, and fight
for all time to come, Starkville will
dn all il can to bring this trade to