Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-01-03
CITY IS MAKING
GREAT PROGRESS
improvements Aggregating Three
Quarters OF a Million Dollars
Now Underway

The following interesting item, re-
lative to the progress and growth of
Greenwood, was copied from the an
nual report of the Chamber of Com
merce of this city:
The traffic earnings of this city,
from all sources, including river, rail
and express, for the past year, ap-
proximates $2,5OO,OOO.
Passenger earnings, $350,O0O.
The total payroll, including rail-
roads, boat lines, oil mills, compress
es, saw mills, furniture factory, mach
inc shops, wagon works, garages, ETC.,
exceeded $50O,OOO.
Total cotton receipts were over
10000 bales, representing, with the
cotton seed and by-products, over $75,
100000.
The number of houses erected in
Greenwood including North Green
wood and our immediate suburbs the
p0St tWO ySdAS3 ID ONCA Soo.
The unsupplied demand for houses
to rent or buy, during the same per-
iod, was over 35O-an average of three
a week-representing loss in popu-
tion to this city of twelve to fifteen
hundred.
The amount of building and paving
now either in course of construction,
contracted for, or planned for the near
future, amounts to over three-quart-
ers of million dollars, and includes
several $4,000 to $4,000 residences;
a hundred thousand dollar additional
equipment and enlargement of the E.
Iectric Light & Water Plant; a $50,
900 home for the Business Women's
Club; the new one hundred thousand
dollar home of the First National
Bank; a $25O,OOO bank and office
building proposed by the Greenwood
Bank & Trust Co.; and system of
paved streetse betting every industry
and warehouse in Greenwood, and con-
Meeting them with these railroads, riv-
er, and business center of the city.
1t does not include the possibility
of a new 100000 90 enterprise,
which depends almost solely on how
earnestly and unitedly we go after it.
The odds are assissst Us, bot we can
get it if we go after it determinedly,
aggressively and persistently, ten
thousands strong.
It does no. include the possibility of
another enterprise costing somewhere
near quarter million dollars, the pro-
moters of which, with cash in hand,
are asking that committee of the
Chamber of Commerce meet them
Monday next.
1t does not include the possibility
of a manufacturing plant, with abun-
dant capital, an established business
and reputation, and a pay roll of one
to two thousnd dollars a month, locat-
ing here within the next thirty days
if very moderate housing facilities
can be secured.
of a soap factory, and one or two 9th
er minor enterprises, that are nibbl-
ing at Greenwood bait.
It may not be amiss to state that q
single one our cotton firms handles
well over one-tenth of the cotton crol
of Mississippi annually; that three Of
our wholesale houses have established
branch houses in Tutwiler, Clarksdals
and Greenville, the past year; tha
within this twelve months we have es
tablished and are successfully con
Quoting the only strictly wholesale dry
goods house, the only packing house
and the only furniture factory in thi'
state. That our banking capital ant
deposits have almost doubled and tire
bled, and that almost unsolicited
some of the strongest banking inter
ests of the south have shown thei
faith in Greenwood's future by locat
ing here-not to halve our presen
business-but to share in doubling it
and more than doubling it-as did tn
Wilson Bank. Bankers that are bank
ers seldom make error of judgmen
in such matters, and there is no sat
er or surer indication of commun
ity's future than such selection b.
such interests.
This organization, in successful,
contesting the efforts to eliminate ou
competitive water rates, as the after
math of the Charleston and jackson
cases, saved to the people of thi
community over three hundred thous
and dollars annually, in freight chare
es-enough to justify all that it eve
has or ever viii cost the people Q
Greenwood.
For the future we are planning TO
: more roads and better roads; for
new bridge, for gas plant; for NOR
houses; for increased depot facilitie
and service; for Z union station; fo
IN auditorium; for = park: for . mu
nicjpal system Of street tree plant
inr: for ! baseball park; for 60
club: for On anto dealers' club. m
n auto ownsr's club; for the copyin
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