Excerpt from Report on the Belzoni Drainage District in Washington County, Mississippi There are but few roads crossing the district. These are very poor and during the wet seasons some of them become impassable. Teams get mired in the soft mud and much time and energy is wasted by drivers picking out new trails through the woods when the roads are in such bad condition. Cotton is hauled from the Sunflower River to Isola and Belzoni when the roads permit, but most commerce along that stream is carried on by steamboat. The lumber business is quite extensive, the Barr - Holliday, Interstate Cooperage, Castle man, Belzoni, and Belgrade companies all operating large plants within the district. This industry is second to that of raising and marketing cotton, but much of the cotton handled at Belzoni and Isola is grown outside the limits of the drainage district. Land under cultivation is valued at $20 to $50 per acre and timbered land at $10 to $20 per acre, depending upon the kind of timber and location of the land with reference to the towns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.