The Worthington advance., 1888-02-23
FLoREkcE, ALA.
u Fine Climate, Unsurpassed
manufacturing and Agricultural

a Fine Climate, Unsurpassed
HanufacturtnR and Agricultural
Advantagea.
N. Quad in tho Detroit Free Press OF
January 8. has the following to say OF
Florence, Ala, which is being rapidly do.
veloped by the Florence Land Co.:
Every Southern paper speaks OF "Fair
seventy years ago could not foresee the
march OF Progress, they had some excel.
lent ideas regarding the present. A high
and dry location was selected for the to wn,
tho streets were laid off for comfort and
beauty. and here to-day is the site for one OF
the handsomest cities in all the South.
There is beauty and the picturesque which.
ever way you turn, and enough OF the
modern has crept in to throw the old.time
dwelling out in strange contrast aud com.
pei your admiration.
WHAT IS COMING.
This sudden and through development
OF Alabama minerals by which the atten.
ton OF the world has been so directly call.
cd 10 her timber supply and agricultural
ends as we'll, will build up every town in
the State which has natural advantages.
Florence has set her stakes to become q
manufacturing center. Her advantages
are: thousand miles of waterway flow.
Ing past her doors: three railroads com.
p'eted and three more in contemplation
nearness to coal and iron the groat supply
ness with which it can be landed at the
doors OF manufacturing establishments.
Ihe problem OF to-day and the problem
OF the future is and will be cheap transpor-
tation. The manufacturer who secures tho
lowest rates will do the greatest business.
River or lake transportation insures che ap
rates by rail. A town situated so that
she has both. with iron. timber and coal
At hand. could hardly Seep manufacturers
out II she desired to. A steamer loaded
with manufactured goods at Florence, can
60 to PittsburR one way to the Gull an.
other, and to In Crosse third. II iron
could be put into furnaces there at 15c. q
ton. she would not have the advantages
she now possesses in being ablo to send the
pig to St. Louis for 81 per ton.
MANUFACTURERS IN WOODS.
Along this great river. from Florence to
Decatur one way. and from Florence to
Pittsburg Landing tho other, the supply OF
soft and hard wood timber has scarcely
lost tree. There is every variety known
to commerce, and it can be had at very
low prices. There is located at Florence
an industry which is turning out Is, 900
butter dishes per day without being able
to ill its orders.
HEALTH, CLIMATE AND MORALS.
Does any one de in this city OF 5000 in
habitants? Yes. at long intervals, but gen.
ernlly OF accident or old age. 1t is doubt
ful il the vital statistics of the world can
name healthier spot. There is no health.
aer climate in the United States than in
this Tennessee Valley, where every town
and village has perfect drainage and the
best of water. Epidemics are unknown
here. and the levers of the lowlands are
never met with. There may be u lookup in
Florence. but il SO it is probably rented
out as carpenter shop or store house.
There is no need OF ono. 1t has all he
churches, the best OF schools, and state
oi society which any city might be justly
proud OF. All the influences are for good
They are honest. big. hearted people, with
honest faces and hearty hand-shakes, and
It does a stranger good to pass a day
among them.
AGRICULTURE.
Nowhere in all this wide country is there
= richer agricultural section than this Val.
Icy OF tie Tennessee. It is the farmers
paradise. 1t will grow any thing except the
sruits OF the tropics. and grapes and fruits
AZ luciOns as California can produce can be
grown here with the least attention. 1t
sbonld. and some day will, be lie fruit belt
of the eastern half Of vhis continent.
The agricultural lands about Florence
sold as high rs $40 per acre seventy years
ago. The crops OF cotton, corn, oats and po-
fatoes produced by slave labor were aston.
ishine. Stilllarser crops could he produced
by intelligent white labor at this day. Al
abama began the battle OF life after
the war poor in purse and discour-
aged in spirit. The farmer had to take
.verything his land could produce to keep
bis head above water, and he was able to
put nothing back. Farms run down very
rapidly under this system, and they have
net recovered yet. However. the soil sim
ply waits for kindly treatment to respond
with such crops as the Northern farme,
tan never hope for. The whole section is
smelly watered. timber is in abundance,
md land is yet cheap. When Florence
tends up the smoke OF her mills and fur
aaces and factories. and droves OF laborers
pass to and from their daily toll. she will
aave the agriculture to support them, no
natter what the number.