The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1915-05-06

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a few of them. The main one j.
that it practically brings eacl
part of the county equally nea
the center. 1t enables you tt
haul any produce or any part oi
the crop, or timber you may have
to the market and get the money
tor it any day in the year 1t en-.
ables the doctor to reach the sicl
within a few minutes after yor
call him. 1t makes your county
attractive. If you can conver
these latent values into means tha'
will help you increase the crops,
improve the county and increasing
your earning power, you are due
it for yourself, your family. neigh
Dor and future posterity. | have
seen four good size horses come
into Iuka with one bale of cotton.
These four horses showed that
they had had hard pull TO get in,
and were practically exhausted.
That same day | took train for
Memphis and beyond Collierville
l passed a farmer that had ten
bales of cotton on his wagon a
small team of two horses and the y
were moving along with apparent
ease. 1t was raining in luka-..it it
was raining in Collierville. The
same weather conditions prevail
ing in both places. This shows
the cost to the farmer in Tisho-
mingo County over the cost to the
farmer in Shelby county, Tenn.
Ifthe farmer of TishomingoCounty
had roads as the farmer in Shelby
County has he could find a ready
market for his cotton with much
less expense. These roads will be
of great benefit to the schools. 1t
enables the farmer to visit more,
to see more of what other people
are doing in other counties. 1t
invites good farmers to move in
to this county from other parts of
the country that we will be able
to learn some things from and
they will be able to learn some
things from us. 1t enables you
to realize on ties and timber that are
now inaccessible being ten or
fifteen miles from the railroad and
to deliver them on the side of the
turnpike. The Lumber aud Tie
companies receivingthem there and
moving to railroad. With the aid
of trucks that can haul immense
loads and would make it absolute
ly productive both to you and
them, it would increase the value
of your timber as you now have
no way of getting to the market,
and enhance the value of your
land.
There are a great many large
land owners that have come into
this county and bought up your
timber and your land expecting to
hold them until some one builds
a road. 1t is not only fair, but is
right and proper that these people
should help build these roads. If
everyone in Tishomingo County
will take it upon himself you can
have these roads and realize their
benefits this year.
The intent of this article is not
written by us to sell gravel in
Tishomingo, as it is to let people
of Tishomingo County know what
other people of different parts of |
the ftate are doing. We feel that
it would, at least, be our part to
enlighten the people along this
line. There will be some parts of
these roads that we can load gravel |
and ship to you cheaper, than you
Can haul from other points, and |
there will be numerous points
from which you can dig gravel to
build roads at practically no cost. |
Our main object is to get you in !
terested in the good roads move
ment more for your good than our
own. We acknowledge that we
hate to bring people to see our pits
and be compelled to tell them that
we have not single mile of grav- !
Ell roads in Tishomingo County. |
Now, you can build these roads if |
you just think you can as il is alb
solutely no trouble to sell the |
bonds and realizing the money |
that will build them.
There is no chance to be taken |
in issuing these bonds if you will |
take the proper and necessary |
course. The money derived from |
the bonds is absolutely safe. |
Because you had misfortune with |
the other issue of bonds is no ex-
cuse why you should delay this
matter. You will, probably event |
ually get the money for the for
mer issue. After you do it can be |
used. either for road building, or |
for retiring part of the indebted |
ness of this isef1a Won nma II to