Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-29
CARROLLTON.
Progress of the New Railroad Survey How the Ptckens People View the
 Back Tax and oil Inspection Laws.

Carrolltoa, April 26.-(Special Corre- | spondence) 1.-The weather has been some
 WlaaI, cool for the week and the rain has | apparently ceased for the present.. The | farmers are ptlaCng in their time for all | 1t is worth Ar the fields.
 In April of last year the farmers in | this section were selling corn and meat. | This order of 'hings is now reversed, and | large s.t.pmerlts of such articles cf phims | necessity are being made to PickeHs. This is due largely to short crop of corn
 lazt year, but in part to the increased area devoted to cotton.
 Pickens appears now to be a part Of
 the territory cf Aaabama, being carefully exambled by men connected with the raiI- road. The work is being rapidly pushed | and the state will s-on get a revenue from a part Of the country which has been drawing more from the treasury nan has been paii in by the tax collectors. It is feared by some of the people that | the lcclticn.c of the railway along Gh'e war trace Of Tornado De Soto will no'- result l in the commemorsHlln of the Eames of
 any of his captains in akts sectiecl, as Senator Nc'.yan is arouEtng much ill- feeling against thsi Spaniards by his | speeches in behalf of Cuba. In fact, it ia now believed in Pickens that while t1e cd warrior was camping at south Car
 o,fIla church, after being chased through this county by the Choctaws and Chick aoaws, that he was taking a resting spell | to gel. away from the Indians.
 Th's surveyors from YcrlSvllle in Pick | ems to the Warrior river have pursued l the route followed by ths traders when | going from the old Indian town on that | g ream to the bOX-makerS creek, Tom | bia-a-acka h'1, as TombeolEbea was th l called by the Indians William Hargrove, | one of the frat settlers in this county, | travsled ai-izg the same path, and after | wards sscisted in working out a public l road on 'ae same line from Tuscaloosa. | to South Carolina. church, wh.re many | evidences Of the Spanish intruder were l found by the pioneers of western Ala | bania. | The etymologists of this county have | not been able to account for the name | of Coal Fire creek in Pickens. That | si'ream was designated by that name i'm | the early history of Pickens, but it s now | krown that ar ihrscite or bitumiEous l coal has never besn found within its IGn- | it's. Brown coal CT Mgnfte, of very re- | cent origin, has been discovered within | he past ten years, but it's forma ton cen | be traced hoi causes that have arisen | since the settlement of the county.
 The engineers appeared to find no diff | ffculty in settiing the name of Coal Fire | creek, bui. in determining the b-s,: place | to crciss that stream so as to avoid hills | consumed over a week of their time. Tns | cc:ps was ercamped near C5al Fire when | the small army of cc.ltraotors vera ex- l amiEfrg .1he lime of survey through Pick efS LoCfn- persons repOpt that he nl0On- sllirier could have beffrn found in Pfckens | during last year, and this to some extent | was true. The rigid enforcement of the l laws agaiErit illicit dist,,fing hss greatly 1 lessened he evil, and the county is now | comparatively free of the violations of the revenue laws.
 Judge Samuel He &Sprott will hold cir l cult court in Pfckens next week and | such meetings of the peoAe of the coun- ty at the county seat are matters Of con- | siderable importance. The presiding l officer of this circuit is very popular | and has often been mentioned as the suc- l cessor of our present congressman.
 MT. L. D. Godfrey is the solicitor of | this circuit, and has been faithfully dis | charging the duties of that important of- l flee many years. He is rigid in prose- I cutting offenders and ranks high in the 1 estimation of his brethren of the bar, | and the people generally, as a just and l upright advocate for the state.
 | The people of this county are giving