Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...charged to residents of other States. The enrollment to date (January 22, 1895) is 594. The Courses of Study are College, Scientific, Academic, Preparatory and Commercial. Those who complete the College and Scientific courses are given the degree of B. S. Those who complete the Commercial course receive a certificate. The Graduates number seventy-nine and are scattered through Mississippi and contiguous States doing good work. Thomas J. Calloway, A. B., President and Professor. FACTORIES WANTED. Although the agricultural advantages of Mississippi are made the prominent feature of this pamphlet, factories, and especially small factories of almost every kind, will find better opportunities for location and a better local market for their products here than in almost any other section of the country. With our unlimited supplies of timber in the greatest variety, with clays suited to the manufacture of brick, tile, and every grade of pottery, with our immense fields of cotton, with abundant water power, cheap fuel, and inexpensive labor, this state offers unqeualled facilities for manufactories of every kind. The cotton factories which have been in constant operation at Columbus, Wesson, Enterprise and at other points in this state have demonstrated that cotton cloths can be made here at a profit when many of the mills in New England are obliged to suspend because unable to pay running expenses, and the establishment of additional factories here is attracting more and more attention. The cotton mills at Water Valley have been in constant operation for nearly twenty years, and have always paid good dividends. The mills at Natchez, Corinth, and other points have proven equally good investments, and the cotton goods manufactured in this state...