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diff --git a/38634.txt b/38634.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4c5d0f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/38634.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1509 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Montgomery, the Capital City of Alabama, by Anonymous + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Montgomery, the Capital City of Alabama + Her Resources and Advantages + +Author: Anonymous + +Release Date: January 21, 2012 [EBook #38634] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MONTGOMERY--CAPITAL CITY--ALABAMA *** + + + + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive.) + + + + + + + + + + MONTGOMERY, THE CAPITAL CITY OF ALABAMA. + HER RESOURCES AND ADVANTAGES. + + Issued under the Auspices of the Montgomery Real Estate Agents' + Association, Composed of the following Firms, + + KNABE & SCOTT, + J. B. TRIMBLE & CO., + + R. P. DEXTER & CO., + MOSES BROS. & CO., + + AGEE & LE BRON, + DAVIDSON & JOSEPH, + + CHANDLER BROS., + RAMSEY & CO., + + HILL & McMASTER, + + UHLFELDER BROS., + + J. T. ROBERTS & CO. + + + OFFICERS: + + W. T. CHANDLER, Pres., + + W. C. BIBB, Jr., Sec. and Treas., + + W. B. DAVIDSON, Vice-Pres. + + + 1888. + + ILLUSTRATED AND PRINTED BY THE SOUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY, + 76 PARK PLACE, N. Y. + + + + +[Illustration: STATE CAPITOL AND SOLDIERS' MONUMENT] + + + + +MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA. + + +The year 1865 saw Montgomery an utterly exhausted little town of some six +thousand people, with three broken-down railroads. + +The year 1888 finds her a city of 30,000 people, with six well-equipped +railroads. Her sole resource was trade with the cotton planters of the +surrounding country, and such enterprise as men might exhibit who started +life over without a dollar. This difference between 1865 and 1888 is +stated to show the discerning reader that there is a source of wealth +here, and that the people have utilized it as fast as they could +accumulate capital to develop it. + +[Illustration: Residence of W. B. Davidson] + +Unaided by the influx of capital and enterprise from the East and from +Europe, that has so rapidly built other sections of the country, she +accomplished so much. What could be done with that aid need not be written +to be appreciated. Both enterprise and capital are turning to the South +now, and both have found Alabama their best field of operation. It is the +purpose of this little pamphlet to show that Montgomery is the place of +places for the enterprise that seeks a field for development, for the +capital that seeks investment, and for the citizen of a more northern +latitude who desires a change of residence to a prosperous city in a +more genial clime. + +[Illustration: Government Building] + +[Illustration: Court House] + +Montgomery is the capital of Alabama, a State whose area is more than +fifty thousand square miles, and whose population is nearly or quite one +million and a half. She is near the geographical center of the State, +exactly in the center of the three great sources of wealth that are giving +such an impetus to Alabama's development, and has such close connection +with every part of the State that, leaving her depot in the morning, every +station on Alabama's nearly 3,000 miles of railroad may be reached before +night. When it is added that the Alabama river, navigable all the year +round, connects her with the Gulf of Mexico, it will be seen that her +facilities as a trade and business center leave little to be desired. + +[Illustration: Jos. Goetter's Residence] + +[Illustration: I. Pollak's Residence] + +No city is more completely equipped with all the conveniences that make +the modern city than Montgomery. Her water works supply her with 5,000,000 +gallons of pure artesian water daily. Her streets are lighted by the Brush +electric light, and her dwellings and business houses by the incandescent +electric light and gas. She has a complete system of street railway, and +is just completing a thorough system of sanitary sewerage. That such a +city should have good hotels, churches, free public schools, theatres, +telephones, etc., etc., goes without the saying. + +[Illustration: City Hall] + +[Illustration: County Jail] + +That Montgomery does an annual business of over $30,000,000; that her +manufactures are rapidly becoming an important element of her wealth; that +she has recently expended millions in improvements, and that she offers +the lowest death rate of any city on this continent, is all hereafter set +out in detail. She here invites attention to the claim that she offers the +best location for purposes of business, commercial or manufacturing, that +the developing South affords. + +Alabama has three sources of wealth--agricultural, mineral and timber. The +Mineral belt lies across the Northern third of the State, and there more +than a hundred million of dollars have been expended within the last five +years in opening coal and iron deposits that surpass those of +Pennsylvania. + +The Timber belt lies across the Southern third of the State, and there +billions of feet of yellow pine stand untouched in the virgin forest, +while a hundred saw mills are humming along the railroads and rivers. + +The Agricultural belt lies across the center of the State from East to +West. A belt of prairie, fertile as that of Illinois, is separated from +the Timber belt on the south and the Mineral belt on the north, by wide +stretches of fertile uplands. Along the streams and in the uncleared +forests of this central belt are vast quantities of hard woods, suited to +every purpose of manufacture. + +[Illustration: J. W. Dimmick's Residence] + +In the heart of this Agricultural belt, sits Montgomery, with her river +and six railroads. She is the commercial emporium of this farming region, +while a few miles north or south brings her to the cheap fuel and the +cheap lumber of the Mineral and Timber regions of a State more richly +endowed in these respects than any State in the American Union. + +These rich farming lands, already recovered from the revolution in the +labor system, are still to be had for from $3 to $15 per acre, while vast +bodies of timber lands are still in the hands of the government, at $1.25 +per acre. + +[Illustration: Residence of O. O. Nelson] + +Montgomery only asks that the man of enterprise and the man of capital +shall come and see for himself. Cheap iron, cheap fuel, cheap cotton, +cheap lumber and a consuming population of 500,000 farmers hold out +inducements to the manufacturer, unsurpassed on the American continent. + + +MONTGOMERY AS A HEALTH RESORT. + +We have long believed, and are now prepared to show by facts, figures and +an experience of twenty-one years in the Health Department of Montgomery, +that it is entitled to rank amongst the healthiest cities in America. We +make this assertion in no boastful spirit, but with security born of +experience, and sustained by the following carefully prepared statistical +tables, compiled from data furnished by a number of American and foreign +cities: + + | | ANNUAL DEATH + AMERICA. | POPULATION. | RATE PER 1,000. + -----------------------|-------------|---------------- + Baltimore, Md. | 400,000 | 19.63 + Brooklyn, N. Y. | 600,000 | 20.46 + Boston, Mass. | 375,000 | 19.46 + Buffalo, N. Y. | 150,000 | 16.52 + Cambridge, Mass. | 60,000 | 23.51 + Charleston, S. C. | 60,000 | 28.68 + Chicago, Illinois | 500,000 | 14.19 + Cincinnati, Ohio | 300,000 | 12.84 + Cleveland, Ohio | 170,000 | 21.50 + Elmira, N. Y. | 20,583 | 18.69 + Erie, Penn. | 200,000 | 13.35 + Fall River, Mass. | 50,000 | 20.39 + Lawrence, Mass. | 40,000 | 23.80 + Lowell, Mass. | 60,000 | 16.73 + Lynn, Mass. | 35,000 | 18.96 + Memphis, Tenn. | 80,000 | 16.08 + Milwaukee, Wis. | 150,000 | 21.55 + New Haven, Conn. | 80,000 | 15.50 + Norfolk, Va. | 25,000 | 19.82 + New Orleans, La. | 220,000 | 22.78 + New York City | 2,500,000 | 22.74 + Philadelphia, Pa. | 100,000 | 19.37 + Providence, R. I. | 105,000 | 21.20 + Richmond, Va. | 100,000 | 18.11 + San Francisco, Cal. | 350,000 | 16.04 + St. Louis, Mo. | 600,000 | 18.94 + Washington, D. C. | 175,000 | 31.12 + Worcester, Mass. | 55,000 | 22.07 + Yonkers, N. Y. | 20,000 | 15.33 + MONTGOMERY, ALA. | 30,000 |White 9.50 + " " | |Col'd. 18.00 + " " | |Total 13.00 + | | + FOREIGN. | | + Amsterdam, Holland | 289,982 | 33.01 + Antwerp, Belgium | 150,000 | 19.07 + Basle, Switzerland | 49,158 | 17. + Belfast, Ireland | 180,412 | 28. + Berlin, Germany | 200,000 | 23.9 + Berne, Switzerland | 40,168 | 20.2 + Birmingham, England | 400,436 | 28.5 + Bombay, India | | 42.7 + Breslau, Germany | 260,000 | 25.9 + Brussels, Belgium | 173,000 | 20.2 + Buda Pesth, Hungary | 60,000 | 39.6 + Calcutta, India | 892,000 | 49.4 + Christiana, Norway | 80,000 | 21.4 + Copenhagen, Denmark | 200,500 | 24.6 + Cork, Ireland | 580,076 | 41.6 + Dublin, Ireland | 334,666 | 31.7 + Dundee, Scotland | 145,600 | 31.5 + Edingburgh, Scotland | 220,729 | 28. + Geneva, Switzerland | 46,783 | 19. + Ghent, Belgium | 127,653 | 32.6 + Glasgow, Scotland | 560,933 | 24. + Liverpool, England | 600,000 | 32.6 + London, England | 3,560,802 | 25.7 + Madras, India | 397,352 | 98.6 + Manchester, England | 360,212 | 19.8 + Messina, Italy | 80,136 | 16.8 + Munich, Bavaria | 200,000 | 32. + Naples, Italy | 907,000 | 25.7 + Paris, France | 2,500,000 | 25.4 + Rome, Italy | 286,000 | 21.3 + Rotterdam, Holland | 125,097 | 28.2 + Sidney, Australia | 60,079 | 25.5 + St. Petersburg, Russia | 210,000 | 45.80 + Stockholm, Sweden | 165,677 | 27.2 + The Hague, Holland | 105,000 | 29.5 + Treiste, Austria | 127,936 | 41.1 + Turin, Italy | 225,488 | 32.2 + Valparaiso, Chili | 111,500 | 44.3 + Venice, Italy | 140,796 | 29.8 + Vienna, Austria | 1,500,000 | 32.24 + Warsaw, Poland | 300,000 | 21.58 + +[Illustration: Synagogue] + +[Illustration: St. Peters Catholic Church] + +It will be seen from the foregoing tables that Montgomery stands first in +the list, the annual death rate being only 9.50 per 1,000 of the white +population, 18 per 1,000 of the colored population, and 13 per 1,000 of +both races. It is from these facts, representing as they do, the vital +changes of a people, that values of health are obtained. Hence they are +not only priceless to us as citizens, but to representatives of our own +and of foreign countries, who, with their families, design making this +city their home. These ask and expect what we hope to give them, namely, +immunity and protection from all influences prejudicial to health. + +[Illustration: M. I. Moses' Residence] + +It would be well, just here, perhaps, to answer the many questions put to +us about the location, general appearance and sanitary advantages claimed +for Montgomery. This may be done by the following simple illustration. +Take an ordinary soup dish. Cut out one third of the rim, and place the +cut surface due north, and you have the city in miniature. Explanation: +The bottom of the dish represents the business or commercial center; the +rim the hills. From this flat, containing about eighty acres, the ascent +is gradual to the crest or water shed. Back of this is a sweep of green, +undulating country, which Nature seems wisely to have placed there for the +free and unobstructed outlet of storm waste and surface accumulations. +Extending from this water shed to the river, is a net-work of large +underground water mains and conduits, of sufficient capacity and strength +to resist the pressure of the tons of water that flow through them at +every heavy rain fall, thus carrying off the debris, closet refuse and +other matters to be wasted in the Alabama river. The Waring system of +sewerage is now being added to that already in operation. When completed, +the drainage of our city will be as perfect as human ingenuity can make +it. These natural advantages, aided and controlled by a liberal government +and a wise, energetic Health Board, will ever render Montgomery a charming +and safe resort for the tourist, and a home for the invalid. How can this +be otherwise when Nature has bestowed upon us this gift of position, and +invested our city with broad avenues, shaded by endless lines of the water +oak, elm and maple. These give charm to our parks and add beauty and +attractiveness to the many handsome public buildings and private +residences to be seen on every hand. + +Apart from these attractive features, and above price, is our exhaustless +supply of pure artesian water. Its constitution, source and chemically +pure composition bear directly and remotely upon the sickness and death +rate of our people. That many disorders, some of grave character, are +justly due to contagion contained in the water we drink, is an established +fact; and we should know this when the question of choosing a home is +under consideration. + +Again, Montgomery is wholly exempt from those wasting blizzards, cyclones +and storms so destructive to life and property in other sections of the +country. Such are unknown here, whilst around us, yearly visitations of +wind storms are common. No disease, especially of epidemic kind, as +small-pox, cholera, diphtheria, etc., takes hold here, and we do not dread +them. As a + +WINTER RESORT, + +Montgomery has superior advantages. Our mild winter, our clean bills of +health, hotel accommodations, churches, schools, and domestic help--the +least annoying of any in the world--are some of the many advantages +offered to those in quest of health and homes. + + +WATER. + +The city is supplied with water, both for domestic consumption and fire +purposes, by "The Capital City Water Co.," with whom a contract was made +for twenty years, late in 1885. The company completed the construction +of this system in June, 1886, and the same was tested to the satisfaction +of all in July. The supply, which appears to be ample for all the wants of +the city for years to come, is obtained from five artesian wells, which +flow into three reservoirs of 4,000,000 gallons capacity. Two of these +reservoirs are kept full of water at all times as a reserve, and in case +of fire. The pumping plant consists of two duplex pumping engines, having +a capacity of 5,000,000 gallons in twenty-four hours, and a battery of six +ninety horse power boilers, together with all the necessary feed pumps, +condensers, etc. + +[Illustration: St. Johns Episcopal Church] + +[Illustration: Presbyterian Church] + +[Illustration: First Baptist Church] + +[Illustration: Court St. M. E. Church] + +[Illustration: Residence of J. B. Nicrosi] + +The water is pumped from the reservoirs to a stand pipe twenty-six feet in +diameter and 105 feet high, holding 417,000 gallons; this is located at a +point where a top elevation of 245 feet above the business portion of the +city is obtained, and an average pressure of 110 pounds per square inch. +The system of pipes ordered laid by the city consisted originally of 26 +8-10 miles of the various sizes; to this has been added as follows: During +1886, 3,900 feet of six inch pipe and 4,660 feet of four inch pipe. During +the year 1887, 8,057 feet of six inch pipe, 1,558 feet of four inch pipe +and 2,000 feet of three inch pipe, a total of 3.82 miles. In addition to +the above nearly two miles of smaller pipes have been laid in the various +streets, to supply isolated places. There are located at the present time +nine hydrants on the 3.82 miles of extension. + +There has been found at all times when wanted an abundance of water, with +proper pressure at the various hydrants. + + +WAR DEPARTMENT, SIGNAL SERVICE, U. S. ARMY. DIVISION OF TELEGRAMS AND +REPORTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF COMMERCE AND AGRICULTURE. + +The meteorological data given in the tables is taken from the records of +Signal Service kept at Montgomery, Ala., since the establishment of the +station in September, 1872. + +TABLE 1, shows the mean temperature for each month and year. The highest +monthly mean temperature, 85 degrees, was July, 1875, and the lowest was +43 degrees in December, 1872, and January, 1873, a range of 42 degrees. +The normal temperature for fifteen years is 65 degrees. The highest +temperature recorded is 106.9 degrees on July 7, 1881, and the lowest 5.4 +degrees, January 9, 1886. From 1874 to 1881 the maximum temperature for +the year reached 100 degrees or over, but never more than two or three +times in any one year. From 1882 the maximum reached only 98 degrees until +June, 1887, it reached 102 degrees. + +TABLE 2, shows the total rainfall for each month in inches and hundredths +of an inch. The normal precipitation for the fifteen years is 4.44 inches. +The greatest fall occurs in March and the least in October. Occasionally +the rain-belt is late in moving up, and when this is the case, the fall in +April is increased above the normal for that month. The greatest fall in +any twenty-four hours, has been 5.97 inches, April 2, 1876. + +TABLE 3, shows the prevailing wind direction and the hourly maximum +velocity. The highest velocity reached in fifteen years was 48 miles, +November, 1873. These maximum velocities are nearly all connected with +thunder storms, which never last more than a few hours. Rarely does a +storm center pass over this section, but is located either east or west, +and passes by without causing heavy gales. + +TABLE 4. In this table will be found the dates of first and last frost and +other phenomena of interest and value. + + +TABLE NO. 1. MEAN TEMPERATURE + + ====================================================================== + Year.|Jan.|Feb.|Mar.|Apr.|May.|Jun.|Jul.|Aug.|Sep.|Oct.|Nov.|Dec.|Mean + -----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|---- + 1872 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 76 | 63 | 48 | 43 | .. + 3 | 43 | 53 | 54 | 64 | 74 | 78 | 83 | 80 | 75 | 63 | 54 | 49 | 64 + 4 | 51 | 54 | 61 | 63 | 73 | 80 | 80 | 82 | 76 | 65 | 58 | 51 | 66 + 5 | 47 | 49 | 57 | 62 | 74 | 81 | 85 | 78 | 74 | 60 | 59 | 54 | 65 + 6 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 65 | 73 | 80 | 83 | 80 | 75 | 62 | 53 | 41 | 65 + 7 | 49 | 52 | 55 | 64 | 72 | 81 | 84 | 81 | 75 | 65 | 54 | 52 | 67 + 8 | 46 | 50 | 63 | 67 | 75 | 79 | 84 | 84 | 77 | 65 | 56 | 44 | 66 + 9 | 48 | 49 | 60 | 63 | 74 | 79 | 82 | 77 | 74 | 68 | 58 | 54 | 66 + 1880 | 58 | 54 | 62 | 67 | 74 | 79 | 81 | 80 | 73 | 65 | 51 | 46 | 66 + 1 | 44 | 50 | 53 | 64 | 75 | 82 | 84 | 81 | 78 | 71 | 56 | 54 | 66 + 2 | 55 | 57 | 62 | 68 | 70 | 80 | 78 | 79 | 74 | 70 | 54 | 45 | 66 + 3 | 50 | 58 | 55 | 66 | 71 | 79 | 82 | 80 | 76 | 71 | 58 | 54 | 67 + 4 | 40 | 55 | 60 | 63 | 75 | 76 | 81 | 78 | 79 | 72 | 54 | 51 | 65 + 5 | 46 | 45 | 52 | 66 | 70 | 80 | 80 | 80 | 75 | 61 | 54 | 47 | 63 + 6 | 42 | 47 | 56 | 64 | 73 | 78 | 80 | 80 | 77 | 66 | 54 | 45 | 63 + 7 | 45 | 59 | 58 | 66 | 76 | 80 | 80 | 79 | 76 | 64 | 56 | 48 | 66 + 8 | 51 | 54 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. + -----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|---- + Means| 48 | 53 | 57 | 65 | 73 | 79 | 82 | 80 | 76 | 66 | 55 | 49 | 65 + ====================================================================== + + +TABLE NO. 2, PRECIPITATION. + + ======================================================= + Year.|Jan.|Feb.|Mar. |Apr. |May. |June.|Jul.|Aug.|Sep.| + -----|----|----|-----|-----|-----|-----|----|----|----| + 1872 |....|....| ....| ....| ....| ....|....|....|3.38| + 3 |4.97|9.97| 4.51| 5.57|10.25|11.08|4.17|2.56|3.05| + 4 |3.69|6.57|10.66| 9.45| 2.03| 4.31|3.87|1.25|0.39| + 5 |6.71|7.86|11.56| 3.54| 1.67| 1.94|0.99|2.14|8.13| + 6 |3.70|5.07| 7.33|10.99| 6.55| 4.85|6.24|3.05|1.61| + 7 |6.67|2.68| 7.17|10.36| 0.82| 2.94|3.43|1.07|4.07| + 8 |5.39|2.59| 2.64| 5.91| 4.06| 5.85|4.59|7.67|2.55| + 9 |2.06|2.14| 2.68| 4.50| 3.90| 3.22|5.21|4.54|1.12| + 1880 |1.65|6.11| 9.26| 6.42| 7.07| 0.90|3.17|4.41|2.83| + 1 |3.58|7.05| 5.45| 4.52| 1.41| 3.04|2.18|5.06|4.49| + 2 |4.54|9.27| 6.92| 5.03| 2.94| 3.98|6.29|3.41|4.18| + 3 |7.20|2.00| 3.61| 8.16| 2.62| 5.02|0.87|2.08|0.22| + 4 |4.82|4.80| 9.50| 3.08| 1.18|10.26|2.80|3.05|0.58| + 5 |9.72|3.68| 2.93| 3.92| 8.92| 4.32|1.54|3.93|4.83| + 6 |6.69|4.10| 6.86| 7.38| 2.95| 8.61|3.37|5.37|1.12| + 7 |5.08|7.47| 0.72| 1.18| 2.84| 3.31|8.56|2.04|2.03| + 8 |4.12|7.67| ....| ....| ....| ....|....|....|....| + -----|----|----|-----|-----|-----|-----|----|----|----| + Means|5.04|5.56| 6.12| 6.00| 3.95| 4.91|4.22|3.44|2.79| + ======================================================= + + ==================== + Oct. |Nov.|Dec.|Mean + -----|----|----|---- + 0.53|5.73|4.08|.... + 0.68|4.58|2.61|5.33 + 1.97|2.60|5.14|4.33 + 1.68|5.90|6.04|4.85 + 0.96|3.42|5.97|4.98 + 2.51|3.75|4.79|4.19 + 3.49|3.92|6.74|4.62 + 10.20|1.47|7.42|4.04 + 2.66|4.06|5.68|4.52 + 2.72|4.56|9.75|4.48 + 2.40|1.91|3.88|4.56 + 2.00|1.70|4.23|3.31 + 1.87|2.67|4.00|4.05 + 2.38|3.59|3.13|4.91 + 0.03|6.72|3.05|4.69 + 2.47|0.79|8.25|3.73 + ....|....|....|.... + -----|----|----|---- + 2.41|3.59|5.30|4.44 + ==================== + +TABLE NO. 3, PREVAILING WIND AND MAXIMUM VELOCITY. + + ==================================================================== + Year.|January.|Feb'ary.| March. | April. | May. | June. | July. + -----|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|-------- + 1872 |.....|..|.....|..|.....|..|.....|..|.....|..|.....|..|.....|.. + 3 |N. W.|8 |N. W.|14|N. W.|12|S. |16|S. E.|10|S. E.| 6|S. E.|20 + 4 |S. E.|20|N. |21|S. |20|N. W.|26|N. W.|18|E. |17|S. E.|14 + 5 |N. |33|N. |33|S. E.|28|N. W.|24|S. |29|S. |28|S. W.|42 + 6 |N. |25|N. |33|N. W.|36|S. W.|30|S. E.|30|S. E.|20|S. |36 + 7 |N. |24|N. W.|24|N. W.|40|N. W.|30|E. |24|S. W.|24|N. |24 + 8 |W. |35|N. W.|35|S. E.|36|S. E.|27|W. |24|N. W.|24|E. |17 + 9 |N. W.|30|N. W.|22|W. |30|N. W.|36|S. E.|28|W. |24|W. |36 + 1880 |S. |20|N. |26|N. |28|S. |28|E. |20|S. |21|S. W.|28 + 1 |N. |30|E. |32|W. |34|N. W.|28|E. |30|N. |26|E. |24 + 2 |S. |25|S. W.|34|S. W.|30|S. E.|27|S. E.|28|S. W.|30|S. W.|32 + 3 |S. E.|23|N. E.|18|S. W.|32|S. E.|26|N. W.|20|S. E.|22|S. W.|22 + 4 |N. W.|22|S. |32|S. E.|28|N. W.|30|S. W.|20|S. E.|28|S. W.|23 + 5 |N. |29|N. |27|N. W.|23|N. W.|20|N. W.|23|N. |23|N. E.|28 + 6 |N. W.|30|W. |22|S. |25|E. |24|S. W.|28|S. E.|32|S. W.|16 + 7 |S. |31|S. E.|28|S. |24|W. |22|S. E.|40|E. |20|S. W.|28 + 8 |W. |25|E. |25|.....|..|.....|..|.....|..|.....|..|.....|.. + -----|-----|--|-----|--|-----|--|-----|--|-----|--|-----|--|-----|-- + Means|N. |35|N. |35|N. W.|40|N. W.|36|S. E.|40|S. E.|32|S. W.|42 + ==================================================================== + + ===================================================== + August. | Sept. |October.|Nov'ber.|Dec'ber.| Mean. + --------|--------|--------|--------|--------|-------- + .....|..|.....|..|N. W.|..|N. W.|..|N. W.|..|.....|.. + S. E.|28|W. |16|.....|..|S. E.|48|N. W.|16|S. E.|48 + E. |12|E. |18|N. W.|18|E. |25|N. |20|E. |26 + S. W.|25|N. E.|27|N. W.|20|E. |25|S. |24|S. |42 + S. E.|24|N. |22|N. |30|N. W.|25|N. |36|N. |36 + N. E.|24|N. E.|25|E. |25|N. W.|27|E. |28|N. W.|40 + S. W.|16|N. E.|18|S. E.|18|N. |20|N. W.|34|N. W.|36 + N. |18|E. |22|E. |25|E. |20|S. |17|W. |36 + E. |26|E. |25|E. |18|E. |28|N. |24|E. |28 + E. |20|E. |18|E. |20|E. |23|E. |28|E. |34 + W. |16|N. W.|16|E. |16|N. W.|21|N. W.|19|S. W.|34 + N. |26|E. |17|E. |23|S. E.|20|N. W.|22|S. E.|32 + N. E.|27|S. E.|16|N. E.|20|N. W.|24|S. E.|22|S. E.|32 + N. W.|24|N. E.|22|N. W.|24|N. W.|23|N. W.|32|N. W.|32 + S. E.|20|E. |20|E. |24|S. |25|N. W.|25|E. |32 + N. E.|24|E. |23|N. E.|24|N. E.|24|E. |24|N. E.|40 + .....|..|.....|..|.....|..|.....|..|.....|..|.....|.. + -----|--|-----|--|-----|--|-----|--|-----|--|-----|-- + N. E.|28|E. |27|E. |30|N. W.|48|N. W.|36|S. E.|48 + ===================================================== + + +TABLE NO. 4, MISCELLANEOUS PHENOMENA. + + ====================================================================== + FROST. || THERMOMETER. || PRECIPIT'N. | + ---------------------||--------------------------||------------------| + Year.|First. | Last. || Max.| Date. |Min.| Date. ||Greatest.| Date. | + -----|-------|-------||-----|-------|----|-------||---------|--------| + 1872 |Oct. 15| ..... || Observation Commenced Sept. 5th, 1872 | + 3 | " 29|Mar. 6|| 97.0|July 5|14.0|Jan. 19|| 3.47 |May 1| + 4 |Dec. 15|Feb. 11||103.0|Aug. 13|27.0| " 15|| 4.67 |Mar. 16| + 5 |Oct. 8|Apr. 3||102.0|July 16|18.0| " 10|| 3.34 |Sept. 27| + 6 |Nov. 10|Mar. 13||100.5| " 11|20.0|Dec. 2|| 5.97 |April 2| + 7 | " 14| " 11||102.5| " 4|16.0|Jan. 9|| 4.65 | " 7| + 8 |Oct. 19| " 5||100.0| " 22|22.0|Dec. 18|| 4.03 |June 13| + 9 | " 24|Apr. 6||101.0| " 13|14.5|Jan. 6|| 3.46 |Oct. 17| + 1880 | " 24| " 13||100.0| " 4| 8.0|Dec. 30|| 3.33 |May 27| + 1 |Nov. 4|Apr. 15||106.9|July 7|24.0|Jan. 2|| 3.63 |Dec. 14| + 2 | " 14|Mar. 23|| 97.6|June 28|19.2|Dec. 8|| 3.13 |Feb. 8| + 3 |Oct. 26| " 28|| 98.6|July 17|25.0|Jan. 12|| 3.41 |April 9| + 4 | " 17| " 16|| 97.1|Aug. 29| 8.0| " 6|| 3.62 |June 30| + 5 | " 14| " 16|| 98.0|July 31|15.5|Feb. 11|| 3.13 |Jan. 23| + 6 | " 28|Apr. 6|| 97.8|Aug. 16| 5.4|Jan. 9|| 3.66 |April 28| + 7 | " 31| " 6||102.0|June 19|12.9| " 31|| 2.25 |July 27| + 8 |.......|.......||.....|.......|....|.......|| .... |........| + ====================================================================== + + ============================ + | DAYS. + |--------------------------- + |Clear. Fair. Cloudy. Rainy. + |------|-----|-------|------ + | ... | ... | ... | ... + | 73 | 132 | 129 | 112 + | 104 | 125 | 136 | 115 + | 101 | 148 | 116 | 123 + | 133 | 125 | 108 | 107 + | 117 | 122 | 126 | 105 + | 140 | 140 | 85 | 106 + | 122 | 151 | 92 | 135 + | 75 | 172 | 119 | 132 + | 123 | 130 | 112 | 120 + | 105 | 179 | 81 | 124 + | 137 | 145 | 84 | 112 + | 141 | 139 | 86 | 126 + | 114 | 153 | 98 | 140 + | 125 | 143 | 97 | 99 + | 139 | 126 | 100 | 103 + | ... | ... | ... | ... + ============================ + +[Illustration: Girl's High School] + +[Illustration: Swayne College, Colored School] + +[Illustration: Boy's High School] + +[Illustration: City Infirmary] + +[Illustration: Women's Home] + +[Illustration: Morris Eye Infirmary] + + +FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY. + + CITY--LIABILITIES. + + Bonded Indebtedness April 30th, 1888 $ 572,050 + Bonds issued since for Sanitary Sewerage 150,000 + --------- + Total Bonded Indebtedness $722,050 + + + ASSETS. + + Total Assets April 30th, 1888 $221,745 + Assessed value of Real Estate 5,500,000 + " " " Personal Property 3,090,000 + --------- + Total Assessed value of Real and Personal + Property $8,590,000 + + + COUNTY--LIABILITIES. + + Total Bonded Indebtedness $35,000 + + + ASSETS. + + Total Assets $100,000 + + Assessed value of Real Estate 10,063,374 + " " " Personal Property 5,175,133 + --------- + Total Assessed value of Real and Personal + Property $15,238,507 + + + TAXES. + + State Tax Rate 50 cts. + County Tax Rate 35 cts. + City Tax Rate $1.12-1/2 + --------- + Total Taxes for all purposes $1.97-1/2 + + + INSURANCE. + + Basis Rate for Standard Store Building 1 per cent. + " " " Brick Metal-Roofed Dwelling 50 cents + " " " Frame, Shingle-Roofed Dwelling 75 " + +Industries rated according to the tariff of South Eastern Tariff +Association. + + +STATEMENT SHOWING THE AMOUNT OF CAPITAL INVESTED IN MONTGOMERY, AND AMOUNT +OF BUSINESS DONE, TOGETHER WITH THE TOTAL OUTBOUND TICKET SALES AND +FREIGHT TONNAGE FORWARDED AND RECEIVED FROM JAN. 1, 1887 TO DEC. 31, 1887. + + CAPITAL. AMT. OF BUS. + Cotton Factors and Warehouses $2,490,000 $6,750,000 + Cotton Mills and Factories 1,380,000 2,450,000 + Groceries 1,680,000 6,900,000 + General Stores 440,000 1,200,000 + Hardware, China and Glassware 345,000 850,000 + Foundries and Machine Shops 120,000 350,000 + Plumbing 60,000 150,000 + Carriages and Harness 70,000 220,000 + Clothing, Hats, Caps, etc. 90,000 320,000 + Dry Goods 960,000 2,850,000 + Furniture 140,000 350,000 + Paper, Twine, etc. 80,000 175,000 + Coal, Wood and Lumber 160,000 750,000 + Boots, Shoes and Leather 260,000 550,000 + Drugs, Paints, etc. 285,000 450,000 + Flour and Grist Mills 245,000 1,200,000 + Cigars and Tobacco 80,000 450,000 + Builders and Building Material 325,000 1,150,000 + Printing and Stationery 140,000 270,000 + Jewelry 70,000 100,000 + Insurance Companies 300,000 250,000 + Sundry Establishments, including + Theatres, Hotels, Saloons, + Auction Houses, Fancy Goods, + Bakeries, Pickeries, Junk, + Live Stock, etc. 260,000 2,200,000 + Fertilizer Works 75,000 250,000 + Residences and Business Houses 550,000 + Oil Mills 250,000 + Street Railroad 130,000 + Furnace 175,000 + Ochre Mines and Mills 20,000 + Highland Park Improvement Co. 600,000 + Riverside Improvement Co. 750,000 + Banking Capital 2,600,000 + Steam Boat Line 50,000 + Water Works 450,000 + Ice Factories 50,000 + ----------- ----------- + $15,680,000 $30,185,000 + + Total Passenger Ticket Sales $272,279.45 + " Freight Tonnage forwarded by Rail 151,315 tons. + " " " received by Rail 354,570 " + " " " " " Trade Co's Boats 16,381 " + +[Illustration: Capital City Water Works] + + +MONTGOMERY'S TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. + +A glance at the State map must convince even the most casual observer that +Montgomery possesses rail and water transportation facilities, which not +only bring her in easy reach of the varied resources of the State, but +also connect her with the large commercial cities of this land, and with +foreign ports. + +The Alabama river, which is navigable from Montgomery the entire year, is +her water way to the Gulf, and is an important factor in the question of +freights. Connecting her with New York and foreign ports, it is a +perpetual check to freight discriminations against her by railroads. When +the obstructions to the Coosa river are removed, a matter now engaging the +attention of Congress, Montgomery will have water communication as far +north as Rome, Ga., which will open up to her a country rich in mineral +and agricultural wealth. + +The great Louisville and Nashville system, which has contributed so +largely to the development of the State, reaches out from Montgomery in +two directions. It connects her with the markets of the entire country, +north, northeast, northwest and south, and supplies her with coal and +other products of the mineral districts of the State, and lumber from the +timber belts. + +[Illustration: Residence of John R. Tyson] + +The Western Railroad of Alabama, from Montgomery to Atlanta, connecting +with the Kennesaw and Piedmont Air Lines, is a link in the great line from +New York to the Gulf. At Atlanta it connects with the Georgia Railroad, +giving it a through line to Charleston, and at Opelika with the Central +Railroad system, forming a direct route to Savannah, two of the most +important ports on the Atlantic. + +[Illustration: Opera House] + +[Illustration: Montgomery Theatre] + +[Illustration: Views from Highland Park] + +[Illustration: Club House Montgomery Shooting Club] + +[Illustration: A Glimpse of Jackson's Lake] + +[Illustration: Exchange Hotel] + +[Illustration: Windsor Hotel] + +The Montgomery and Selma division opens up to her the rich agricultural +districts of West Alabama and Mississippi, giving her a valuable trade. + +The Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad, runs southeast from Montgomery, +through rich, black prairie lands to Eufaula, where it connects with +steamers on the Chattahoochee river. This road is a part of the Georgia +Central system, and forms a direct line from Montgomery to Savannah. It +offers unsurpassed facilities to Montgomery shippers, giving through bills +of lading over its own rail and steamship lines, to New York and Europe. +It is the most popular through route from the West to all Florida resorts. + +The Florida and Northwest Railroad is being built south from Montgomery, +and is now running fifty miles through a rich agricultural section to +Luvern. From Luvern it will pass through the finest timber belt in the +country, to some point on the Chattahoochee river. While this road will be +a great feeder to Montgomery, it will also form the most direct route to +Florida. Its extension from Montgomery, northwest to Maplesville, is +generally conceded, where it will connect with the East Tennessee, +Virginia and Georgia system, that great artery of commerce, that stretches +its arms of steel from the Atlantic to the lakes, and from the mountains +of Virginia to the plains of Texas. This system now enters Montgomery over +the track of the Louisville and Nashville road. + +The above is but a meager statement of Montgomery's transportation +facilities. + +[Illustration: Residence of Judge D. Clopton] + + +PUBLIC SCHOOLS. + +Our public schools consist of the Boys' High School, the Girls' High +School, the Capital Hill Grammar School and the Sayre Street Grammar +School for white children, and Swayne College and Cemetery Hill School for +colored children. + +There are employed in the white schools, twenty-six regular teachers and +one supernumerary, and in the colored schools, ten teachers. + +There has been an attendance during this year of about nine hundred and +fifty white children, a larger number than ever before, and about four +hundred and fifty colored children. The expenditures for the session +1887-8 have been about twenty-three thousand dollars, besides about four +thousand dollars for buildings and repairs. + +The income of the schools is derived from an annual appropriation by the +city, an annual appropriation from the State, regulated by the number of +school children in this school district, and from the poll tax collected +from the citizens in this district. + +The schools are in a flourishing condition. The Superintendent is a +competent, painstaking gentleman, and his assistants are for the most part +well adapted and fitted to be his coadjutors in the good work. + +[Illustration: Residence of A. A. Wiley] + +The schools begin on the first Monday in October and end on the last +Thursday in May, thus having an eight months' session. The children within +the district who are able to pay it, are required to pay a fee of two +dollars per session of eight months; those who are unable to pay this fee +are admitted free. The students in the Boys' High School and in the +highest class of the Girls' High School pay a fee of ten dollars per +session of eight months, if able to do so. + +We have every prospect of continued prosperity in the schools. + +[Illustration: Moses Building] + +[Illustration: The Adams Cotton Mill + +OFFICERS ADAMS COTTON MILL: J. R. ADAMS, PRESIDENT; J. B. SHERROD, +SECRETARY AND TREASURER; W. L. DOLPHYN, SUPERINTENDENT. CAPACITY 5000 +SPINDLES AND 150 LOOMS.] + +[Illustration: Noble Boykin & Clopton Bldg.] + +[Illustration: Hobbie Building] + +[Illustration: Griel Building] + + +INDUSTRIES THAT WILL PAY IN MONTGOMERY. + +Cotton Mills,--As shown elsewhere. + +Bagging Factory,--From absence of any here, and the immense trade that +Montgomery has in bagging for wrapping cotton, amounting to something like +$200,000 per annum. + +Iron Works of all Kinds,--As a furnace of fifty tons capacity will soon be +completed in Montgomery, giving cheap charcoal iron of best grade; and +unexcelled transportation facilities to reach the home and foreign +markets. + +Variety Wood Working,--Owing to cheap lumber of every kind, as shown +elsewhere. + +Paper Factory,--Owing to the large amount of cotton seed hulls to be +secured from our three large oil mills, which hulls will make a most +beautiful white paper; and unexcelled facilities for securing cotton +stalks and other good paper stock, and inexhaustible water supply. + +Tan Yard,--Owing to large number of good hides shipped from this point and +towns in easy reach, and ease of securing barks, bitter weed and other +material for tanning leather. + +Plows and Agricultural Implements,--Owing to large home demand and +cheapness of raw material, with splendid shipping facilities. + +[Illustration: Residence of J. C. Hurter] + +Glass Factory,--Owing to large deposit of excellent sand near Montgomery, +and the absence of such a factory in this section. + +Shoe Factory,--Owing to large trade, amounting to half a million dollars. + +Cheap Clothing,--Owing to immense wholesale trade, supplying Middle and +South Alabama and part of Florida. + +Terra Cotta and Tiles,--Owing to large deposits of fine clays suitable for +making such articles. + +Flouring Mill,--As this is a large wholesale market for flour, and there +is a good opening, with promise of large return, for such an enterprise. + +[Illustration: Brewery] + +[Illustration: The Montgomery Iron Works] + +Paint Factory,--Owing to the large beds of fine ochre within ten miles of +the city, which ochre is now being shipped in the raw state to other +points. + +Paper Box Factory, Wool Factory, Hat Factory and Knitting Factory. + +The above-mentioned enterprises are only named to suggest to the minds of +business men a few of the manufacturing establishments that will pay a +large profit on capital invested in Montgomery, while the field is open +for sundry others that are two numerous to give in detail. Montgomery +stands at the head of commercial cities of the South, with almost +undisputed control of a large territory occupied by half a million +consumers, and unequaled railroad and river transportation facilities for +collecting all raw material to this point and delivery of manufactured +articles to foreign and domestic markets. + +For further information as to facts in detail in regard to the above +manufacturing enterprises, write to any member of the Montgomery Real +Estate Agents' Association, who will take pleasure in furnishing +information and will secure donation of site for plant. + + +MONTGOMERY'S AGRICULTURAL ADVANTAGES. + +The City of Montgomery is surrounded by a greater variety of valuable +agricultural lands than any city in the South, being situated on the south +bank of the Alabama river, just below the confluence of the Coosa and +Talapoosa rivers, all of which streams are bordered by very rich farming +lands. Some of the alluvial bottoms are subject to occasional overflows, +but the second bottoms are above the effects of freshets and form +beautiful flats, in some places several miles wide, of sandy loam with +clay subsoil, making a most valuable land for general farm purposes, as it +is easily tilled and susceptible of great improvement by manuring and a +good system of farming. + +The rich black prairie belt touches us on the south and certainly contains +some of the finest and most productive lands in the Union. It is just +undulating enough to afford good drainage. The prairie soil is naturally +so rich that fertilizers have been used very little, and the all-cotton +system of farming which has been practiced almost to the exclusion of +every other crop since 1865, has impoverished the farmers to such an +extent that large prairie farms have been turned over entirely to negro +tenants. This has resulted in a complete failure as a system, as the negro +without a white man for a director, is not capable of making a living for +himself or rents for his landlord. These magnificent lands can now be +bought for about $10 to $15 per acre, and are certainly better adapted to +stock raising than any other section of the continent, being splendid +grain lands for such crops as oats and corn, yielding from twenty-five to +100 bushels per acre. + +[Illustration: Alabama Oil Mill] + +[Illustration: Montgomery Oil Mill] + +Johnson grass flourishes here as a hay grass, yielding from one and a half +to two tons per acre, without any trouble of re-seeding, and sells in home +market for $15 per ton. + +Bermuda grass for pasturage is unsurpassed by any grass in the world, as +it affords good grazing for eight months in the year, and will keep fat +one horse or cow per acre for that length of time. Another valuable +characteristic of the Bermuda grass is that it never runs out as a +pasture. Some pastures are now in fine condition that were sodded thirty +years ago. + +Another important advantage of this section, for stock raising, is that +our winters are so mild that stock does not need housing, except that it +is better to provide open sheds for protection from rain, and they feed on +the cane which grows on all branches and streams, staying green all the +year. When a specialty is made of stock raising it is well to provide some +ensilage to feed at night through the winter, in connection with the cane +pasturage. + +While some of our farmers are paying more attention each year to stock +raising, as a general thing the prairie farms are rented to negro tenents, +and now is a splendid opportunity to buy them cheap and devote to grass +and stock. + +[Illustration: The Southern Cotton Oil Co.'s Mill at Riverside Park. + +HENRY C. BUTCHER, Pres.; JOHN OLIVER, Sec. and Treas., of Philadelphia; E. +W. THOMPSON, Local Manager. Capacity, 150 tons cotton seed daily.] + +[Illustration: Old Compress] + +[Illustration: Hurter & Co's New Compress] + +While 250 pounds of lint cotton, twenty bushels of corn and thirty bushels +of oats per acre are considered fair crops for our white farmers, below +will be shown what can be done with our lands under the intensive +system of farming. The figures show the results on a four mule farm of 320 +acres of our good land. + + DR. CR. + Wear and tear of mules, tools, etc., $200 00 + Feed of mules, 200 00 + Wages and rations 10 hands, 1,250 00 + Extra labor during harvest, 200 00 + Fertilizers, cotton seed meal and acid + phosphate as adjunct to home manure, 2,000 00 + Yield of 80 acres of cotton, 160 bales + at $40 $6,400 00 + Yield of 60 acres of corn, 3,000 bushels + at 50 cents, 1,500 00 + Yield of 80 acres of oats, 4,000 bushels + at 40 cents, 1,600 00 + Yield of 5 acres of cane, 2,000 gallons + syrup at 35 cts., 700 00 + Showing net profit of, 6,350 00 + ---------- ---------- + $10,200 00 $10,200 00 + +The above estimate shows the possibilities of good farming. It is not +overdrawn, as five bales of cotton and one hundred bushels of corn and +oats, respectively, have been grown on single acres. These figures show +225 acres under cultivation, leaving ninety-five acres of the farm to be +devoted to pasture, orchards, etc. + +[Illustration: Residence of W. H. Graves] + + +MARKET GARDENING. + +Market gardening, or truck farming, around Montgomery, offers a number of +advantages over other sections. As stated elsewhere, we have a great +variety of soils that are suited to growing fruits and vegetables, while +our climate is all that could be asked, with a mean annual temperature of +64 degrees, the last frost occurring from the 5th to the 25th of +April, and earliest killing frost in the fall, in November, with an annual +mean precipitation of rain of 55 inches. The conditions are therefore +favorable for growing all fruits and vegetables not natives of extreme +northern or tropical climates, and we can have some crop growing all the +year round for marketing. + +[Illustration: Charcoal Furnaces & Chemical Works] + +[Illustration: Masonic Temple] + +[Illustration: Liverpool & London & Glob and A. P. Tyson Buildings] + +[Illustration: Alabama State Fair Grounds] + +With the good railroad connections that we have with such points as +Louisville, Cincinnati and Chicago, and advantage in rates by being two +hundred miles nearer to these markets than the Gulf coast, the Montgomery +gardener is favorably situated to make his business successful. + + +LUMBER AND TIMBER TRADE OF MONTGOMERY. + +Montgomery is favorably located for being one of the largest lumber marts +in the South, owing to her close proximity to the immense body of long +leaf pine in South Alabama, which, with good rail connections in operation +and in course of construction, will enable her to control any amount of +splendid yellow pine lumber for manufacturing into sash, doors, blinds, +etc. On all the rivers and streams in this section abound hard woods of +every kind, suitable for manufacture into furniture, wagons, tool handles +and for every variety of wood working. These can be laid down in +Montgomery at such a low cost that she is destined to become a great +center for wood working establishments. + + +COTTON FACTORIES. + +As a financial investment, cotton mills in the South, under proper +management, offer as good promise of dividends on capital invested as any +industry or branch of business. The average profits from cotton mills +South, for years have been fully equal to those of other business, and in +many instances, far greater. In selecting a site for a mill, there are +localities that offer greater inducements for such an enterprise than +others, and among those cities that offer the greatest attractions is +Montgomery. We believe a careful review of her facilities will convince +capitalists that she is the most available city in the South for +operating a cotton mill, and that she must become sooner or later the +center for cotton manufacture. In counting the cost of a plant, the +question of a site would not have to be considered, as a good railroad +site will be donated by either the Riverside or the Highland Park Company. +Building material, and skilled and unskilled labor required to convert it +into mill buildings, can be secured at a very reasonable rate. The +proximity of the city to the Alabama coal fields settles all questions as +to the cost of fuel for power. Coal at a little over $2 per ton affords +power to propel a cotton mill, which under the ordinary natural conditions +attached to water power, makes it impossible to compete with steam. The +city is a trade center for the distribution of large quantities of staple +goods of every kind over a large territory, which in turn supplies her +with the raw material, and in such quantities that she enjoys great +prominence as a cotton market. The supply of cotton for the mills could be +readily obtained, and many of the goods produced would find a ready home +market, while the competing lines of railway and the Alabama river insure +low freight rates for the products and for all material and supplies used +in building and running a mill. + +[Illustration: Residence of H. C. Moses] + +Fully 80 per cent. of the operatives of a cotton mill are females and +minors, and Montgomery has a large class of this population who are now +practically without employment, the majority of the industries now in +operation here being unsuitable for such labor. In many families the adult +males are compelled to support by their labors the remaining members of +their households, owing to the difficulty of the class mentioned above +finding suitable and profitable employment. For this, at present, surplus +labor, there is no fixed value. It seeks employment wherever there is an +opportunity, and is satisfied with very moderate pay. Should a cotton mill +be built in Montgomery, an ample supply of this labor would be certain to +volunteer before the completion of the building. + +[Illustration: Carr's Cracker Factory] + +[Illustration: Standard Club Building] + +The South is the field for the manufacture of coarse cotton goods, and no +other section of the country can compete with it on these products. This +has been fully determined, and is no longer an open question. These goods +are standard and the demand for them world wide. Thousands of bales of +domestic goods have been shipped during the year from Southern mills to +China and Japan. As stated above, the South is the field for cotton mills, +and Montgomery is the most available point in the South for the +establishment of such industries. + + +TALLASSEE FALLS MANUFACTURING COMPANY. + +The Tallassee Falls Manufacturing Co's Cotton Mills are situated at +Tallassee, a small town contiguous to and contributory to Montgomery. The +main building, of stone, is 220 feet long by 50 feet wide, five stories, +with an L 60 feet, six stories, and a wing 116 feet by 60 feet, four +stories high, containing about 20,000 spindles and 330 looms. + +These mills manufacture cotton brown goods, consuming 7,500 to 8,000 bales +cotton annually. + +The officers of the company are, John W. Durr, President; James A. Farley, +Treasurer, and Wm. H. Micou, Jr., Secretary. Their residences are at +Montgomery, where the principal office of the company is located. The +officers at the mills are, A. J. Milstead, Superintendent; A. J. Noble, +Assistant Treasurer, Tallassee, Ala. + +The mills are run by water-power, are equipped with the latest improved +machinery, and lighted by an 800 light Edison electric light plant. + +[Illustration: Cotton Mills of the Tallassee Falls Manufacturing Co.] + +[Illustration: Montgomery Ala. and Its Surroundings] + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Montgomery, the Capital City of Alabama, by +Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MONTGOMERY--CAPITAL CITY--ALABAMA *** + +***** This file should be named 38634.txt or 38634.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/8/6/3/38634/ + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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