Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-17
"Tbe advance which the colored neon,e I

"The advance which the colored people
of the United States have made in the last
twenty years." said he, sis astonishing.
They own farms, mills, mines, shops,
stores, printing presses, patents, manu-
featuring establishments, vessels, hotels,
ranches, stock and orange groves. They
are traders, brokers, printers, farmers
and spectators. They are editors, doc
tors, lawyers and merchants"
''Particularize, said I.
ct is easy to do 80. In Louisiana the
colored people pay % per cent. of all the
taxes, in Georgia their property amounts
to So, 900, 900, in South Carolina SIC, 900,
600, in Alabama $12. 2.000,0 900 and in the
United States $3.50, 600, ,0O0 In Louisiana
the colored citizens have sugar, dry goods,
groceries and other establishments.
Private fortunes among them range from
500, 900 to $1,000,00O. Mercer Bros, of
New Orleans, carry a clothing stock of
100000, and their dry goods stock
amounts to $500, There is colored
levee contractor named Allain, who en-
ploys hundreds of whites as well as blacks.
The Pickwick club building of New Or
leans, which is the swell club of that
city. was built by colored mechanics.
Colored men own 8 new building on Canal
street, in New Orleans, which cost $780,
000. 1t was built by colored mechanics. "
'H = bout Alabama"
9th . are many rich colored men in
Alabama They have made some money
out of the rise in property about Birming-
ham, and all over the state they are adj
vancing Samuel W. Lowry, of Hunts
vile, was awarded the first prize at the
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raw silk over seven exhibitors, one of
whom was the exhibitor of silk cocoons
raised in France This man recently
bought sixty acres of land near Birming-
ham, and he has shown that the climate
of central and northern Alabama is
adapted to the mulberry tree. He pro-
poses to establish a loom and 1000, 900
cocoons on his property at Birmingham.
In Selma colored men manufacture cal
riages, wagons and buggies, and they do
an extensive blacksmith and wheelwright
business. Philip King, of Montgomery.
is a colored bridge builder He planned
and constructed the bridge across the
Chattahoochee at Columbus. Ga, and
another at Eufaula, Ala. James
Hale, of Montgomery, is con-
tractor and builder, and he owns $75,-
Robinson are two colored men who own a
coal mine at Birmingham, and another
colored man, Alfred Billingsly, Of Mont
gomery, has refused $500, 600 for his real
estate in Birmingham. Maura, another
colored man, has property in that city
valued at $1,000, ,O00 The largest tin
factory in Alabama is owned, and worked
with colored help, by F. Gomez & Sons,
colored men, of Mobile, and this firm
owns real estate valued at 500, 600. Mrs.
H. White, of Mobile, a colored woman, is
worth $40, coo. A. Armant is steam
boat boiler maker of that CITY, Felix
Andre, of Mobile, is a contractor and
builder who employs colored help only
and does good business"
"How about Georgia.
"You have heard of Mrs. Amanda Eu-
banks. She is worth 100000. Ebert
Head, of Americus, Ga, is a colored
farmer worth $4,000. Jacob Mckinley,
of Atlanta, Ga, is merchant, real estate
owner, dealer in coal and wood and the
proprietor of grocery store and brick
yard. The colored students of the Clark
university, at Atlanta, have an industrial
department, and they manufacture and