The lower half of the district has had and maintained a levee system for a long period. and during the past twelve months expended $90.000. Today. along the whole Yazoo front. there is a continuous line of levees which absolutely protected the district from the unusually high floods of 1886. Confidence in the ability and determination of the residents of the district to grapple successfully with the floods. has also led to the immigration within the last few months of not less than ten thousand persons seeking to better their fortunes through the wonderful and exhaustless fertility of its lands. Railroads have also come. and other lines have been projected and will shortly be constructed. There are. in round numbers. five millions of acres in that district. and now. that the question of protection from overflow is practically settled. it will be rapidly populated and brought into cultivation. and the time will come. and that at no very distant day. when it will contribute not less than two millions of bales of cotton to enrich and enlarge the commerce of the country.
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