The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-01-16
BIG ENTERPRISES LOCATE IN GRENADA
IS Acres Leased Big Hardwood Plant Altogether
Seven New Manufacturing Plants Within Past Twelve
Month"; Means Something Near One and Half Mil
lion Dollars Investment Grenada Been Building
For the Downing of This Day. Big Fu-
tme For the Town

the Y. & M. v. Rail Road for tn,
erection of one of the largest hard
wood lumber plants in the South
This concern owns vast tracts O.
land in the delta. Thus it will be seer
that Grenada citizens must prepare
themselves to listen to the whistle o1
| great engines and the whirr of biz
machinery. These enterprises NEAR
something like million and half dol
lars invested in Grenada and added tt
the business activity of the town anc
surrounding country. It means 9
great deal for the business life OF
the town. It means great deal to
the farmers and others in the sur.
rounding country. It will help the
laboring man, it will help the banker
| it will help the meat markets, the
schools, the doctors, the lawyers, the
hotels, the BARRIERS and every other
activity.
But still another enterprise, prac-
tically already organized, will soon
be doing business in Grenada, and
that is a $5O,00O.00 brick manufact-
uring plant. The rapid development
of the town and the high price of
lumber makes the brick plant a ne
cessity and will serve good purpose
for the entire territory.
All these enterprises mean the
dawning of new day for Grenada.
These mean greatly increased pop
ulation. They mean employment for
a thousand or fifteen hundred men.
Grenada will extend the glad hand
to the newcomers which the passing
months Of the year will bring here.
Grenada welcomes the new enter
prises. AS already stated in this ar
ticle, Grenada has builded SO wisely
for the years past that she is able
to adjust herself to any needed con-
ditions and the strangers who come
here with the new business concerns
may rest assured that they will be
among the best people on earth and
that they are coming to a community
whose health record is unexcelled.
There has been nobody who has
labored harder, longer and more eff
fectively for these new enterprises
than M, w. b. Hoffa. He has been
ut. the forefront all the time. He
has talked Grenada in season and
when some thought out of season.
He has done that which not one in
a thousand would do, almost sacri-
fee himself financially for a big
milling plant at Grenada. And now
that his dreams and hopes are about
to be realized, everybody is glad not
only for what the enterprises mean
for themselves, but for Bill Hoffa's
sake.
There is still another industry
which is only few months old and
which means a great deal to this Sec
ton, that is a shining mark to the
pluck and enterprise of Grenada busi-
ness men and Grenada capital. Ref
erence is had to the Grenada County
Sweet Potato Curing plant. This
concern is the pioneer in enterprises
Of this kind in this section Of Missis-
sippi. 1t is another avenue by which
the farmers may realize the very
best results from their lands. 1t is
a $1O,00O.00 plant and will cure this
season approximately 10000 bushels
Of potatoes. The average acre of
land in this section will make 200
bushels of sweet potatoes to the acre
and with a certain sale at from rs
cents to 81. per bushel, the farmers
are bound to make money.