Evening star., 1897-02-09
BEAUTY -oF ANNlSTON
Business Reviving and the Prospect Good for
the Future.
Many Enterprises Begun md Project.
ed, Which Promise a Return of
Industrial Activity.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

ANNISTON. Ala, January %, 1897.
The pessimist who thinks there has been
no improvement in the general business
of the country since the election of Major
Mckinley ought to visit this portion of the
south. and 1t would not be long before he
would change his mind on that score, pro-
viding, of course, he was open to convtc-
ton
Although it has been but little more
than three months since the presidential
election was held, contracts have In that
time been entered into between parties in
various parts of the north and west and
land owners of this vicinity which involve
the expenditure of hundreds of thousands
of dollars and mean. when the various en-
terprises are put in operation. a very SUBJ
stantial addition to the population of An
nfston
Prominent among the new establishments
referred to- is the large factory of the
American Twine and Net Company of Bos-
ton. Mass, which has nearly completed
large plant for the manufacture of those.
kinds of goods, and which, it is expected,
will be ready for operation in the course of
a few weeks. The Admission Land and I'M
provement Company gave the company a
large tract of ground on which to build its
factory. and the necessary outbuidings,
and also for the construction of twenty
four commodious double houses for the
operatives of the factory to live in.
In addition to this, a large firm of can
ners and packers of various kinds of fruit
and vegetables in Michigan have within the
past few few days contracted for the purchase
OF 1900 acres of land in the immediate
neighborhood of the town, on which it Is
proposed to raise cucumbers, toma-
toes, corn. etc, for canning, for both the
domestic and foreign export trade A num-
Der of other enterprises have also either
been contracted for are projected.
The desirability of this section a grape
growing region has been recognized
frv fnr of
years past, and a bulletin issued by the
census bureau in Washington. D. c., stated
that the wine produced from the grapes
grown here was worth in the market 81 10
per gallon as against 10 cents for the Cali
fornia article.
A FlOurishing Town.
Admission is one Of the most fiourishing of
the new cities of the south. 1t is not in
any sense boom town. and it's manufac-
lures comprise car works foundries ice
factory, saw mills and almost every variety
of plant usually found in a city of it's size
Strange as 1t may appear, there are in An
niston the largest car shops in the world and
from them large number of the railway
companies of the south and some portions
or the west get their new equipment. There
| is also within its limits of the most
extensive establishments In the country
Tor the casting Of car wheels, and these
are sent to every section of the United
States and Canada. On a recent occasion
one of the big trunk line companies alone
gave the proprietors of this foundry an
order for 5000 sets of car wheels
While Admission is considered an indus
| trial city, its industries are located in
different portion of the city from the prin-
ctpal residence sections. The industrial
plants are separated from the other por-
| tions of the city by the Southern railway
as dividing line. The nature of the in
| dCstries in Admission is such as to draw
different class of labor from that which
| operates in the coal mining districts of the
state, and the people are thus far removed
from the dangers and disturbances which
have at times been serious in various coal
districts.
Admission has a climate noted for its
salubrity: for its invigorating influences;
| equableness of temperature; for its freedom
| from miasmatic Influences; for it's proof
| against the spread of contagious tropical
levers, and as a whole that perfection of
| healthfulness which is not exceled by any
| location in the entire country and equaled
! by few.
HealthfuI Conditions.
The healthfuness of Admission is based
upon its having an altitude of 800 feet
above the sea level; its being in a noun
| famous region, removed from any local or
rearby influences calculated to produce ill
| health; furnished with a bountiful supply
| of the purest spring water. which is dis
| tributed thr oughout the city through a
most perfect modern water system; a COM
plete modern system of sewerage, which
| conveys the sewage of the city into large
stream four miles distant, and with the
grades of the streets of such nature as to
| perfectly drain the city of all surface wa
| ter within a very short time after The
heaviest rainfalls.
The source of Aunistons water supply is
| q beautiful spring with flow of more tha n
| 20.OOO,OU gallons in twentyfour hours The
| water is conducted to the city through a
| 2o-inch main by means of two most i'm
proved pumps. having a capacity of 1900
| 600 gallons each per day. Near the city of
Admission the reservoir Of the water works
/ has a capacity of 100000 gallons, and is
| of such elevation as to give splendid pres
sure for domestic and fire purposes.
| Admission has a well-equipped fire depart
| ment which Is active and prompt in the
performance of duty, and therefore insures
! the reduction Of risk by fire to minimum.
The secondary local requirements, such
| as systems for lighting the streets and resi-
| dences of the city; the furnishing of coun-
! try and other produce and supplies in
| abundance, and at the lowest mari. at Price
| The supplying of cheap fuel: the social and
| moral inf1uences,are fully met. for Admission
| furnishes a first-clasS electric plant, pre-
| pared to furnish electric lights anil electric
| power 20 any extent a first-class gas plant;
! surrounding country noted for its fertile
| and productive valleys, furnishing a supply
| of vegetables. fruits meats. poultry and
| dairy products at very low prices: with a
| society that is elevating and refining in its
| influences, and houses of worship, repre-
| senting Presbyterian, Methodist Episcopal,
| Baptist, Christian. Roman Catholic and
| Jewish denominations, of such capacity and
| elegance and beauty of structure that they
| are said to be uneQualed by any city of
| more than twice the size of Anniston's pop
ulation in the southern country.