The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-30

6hlCdgO Title and Trust Co. Has Paid Up Capital 0



directly, the advertising that a satisfied in
weston will give to it's extensive fruit
growing enterprise, of which the special
five-acre fruit farms form a part
THE INVESTMENT WHERE YOU CAN
SEE IT.
Vinemont, Alabama is only GOO miles
from Chicago. only Is hours car ride, and
located under the laws of the United
States.
The railroad fare on the first and third
Tuesdays of each month, the regular ex
cursion days. is only $2O.16 for the round
trip. Your property is where you can see
1t at small cost, where you can inspect the
work of Improvement, cultivation and har
vesting; see your crops grown and market
ed; and know from personal inspection
that the company is carrying out its part
of the contract at all times and the COIN
pany invites you to do it.
THIS TELLS THE STORY OF PROFIT.
Strawberries are ripe in Alabama and
ready for shipment April l.
Peaches are ripe in Alabama and ready
for shipment June !.
Grapes are ripe in Alabama and ready
for shipment July 1.
Two months ahead OF northern fruit or
California even, and only eighteen hours
shipping from Chicago. No competition
because first in the markets-hghest price
because no other section has anything to
a nutshell.
$1,000 FROM THREE ACRES.
The Admission, Alabama, Daily Hot
Blast of October 5, 1893, has this to say
about the profits of peach raising in the
upland section of Alabama:
"a few years ago Colonel e. Locke
bought some land on Point Lookout, Just
east of the city, and built home there.
HE set out few acres of Elbertas and
a small area In some earlier and some later
peaches. Two years ago they began bear
ing Last year the yield was much larger
and there was quite neat income from the
peach orchard
"This year Jebeles Bros. bought the en-
tire yield and shipped to the larger cities
north, east south and west-besides sup
plying their large local trade. They were
able to pay Colonel Locke between 500 ana
$500 for his three acres of Elbertas this
year, and the peaches from the other few
trees will run the account up to $1,000 ell
from peach trees on a little more than
three acres of ground"
What the worth of land will be 100 years
hence no man can venture to estimate or
one thing we can rest assured, and that is
that the richest inheritance a man can
leave to his children and their immediate
descendants is a farm of many broad and
fertile acres In the United States of Amer
ica.--Hon. jeremiah M, Rusk, former Sec
rotary of agriculture United States.
In climate the Giver of all things has not
staid his hand. but has blessed us with OPP
portunity to labor twelve months in The
year without detriment to health or COM
fort.-Gov Joseph F. Johnston, Alabama,
ONE THOUSAND SPECIAL PARTIALLY
IMPROVED FIVE ACRE FRUIT
FARMS.
As a special inducement to interest a
larger number of people in its fruit grow
ing enterprise, the directors of the Ala
dacidn6 tn
set aside 10000 acres of its most desirable
fruit lands and subdivide the same into
five acre tracts, each fronting on well
graded Streets under common fence pro-
lection, planting portion OF each tract TO
peaches and strawberries, and selling
them at a special price of $225 each on easy
terms through a medium of a special
guaranteed contract bond, with warranty
deed and certified abstract to the prop
erty deposited in escrow with the chicago
Title & Trust company, who execute GER
tifcate of trust and warranty deed to the
holder of the bond at maturity.
The reason of the company for making
this radical departure from the general con-
duct of its business heretofore is to more
rapidly develop it's fruit growing properties,
increase the fruit products of the section,
and, by interesting large number of adj
ditional people, greatly increase the value
of it's remaining lands. The impetus this
plan Will give ~ llle II UT 5lOWh6 'iect-
ests of Vinemont will double the value
of the remaining property of the company,
as well as its profits in handling the inn
provement work and marketing the crop,
on larger purchasers, and additional i'm
provements; and for this reason the direc-
tors feel that from business standpoint
the proposition will be mutually profitable
and certainly attractive to those looking
for a home and competency in the rapidly
growing southland.
LOCATION OF THE PROPERTY.
At Vinemont, in Cullman county, Ala
bama, the only exclusive white county in
the south, populated largely by northern
people, on the Louisville and Nashville
railroad, the great north and south trans
portation line. giving shipping facilities
for northern markets unsurpassed for
quick time and low freight rates, 59S miles
south of Chicago, and S12 miles north of
Pensacola, at the pinnacle" the highest
mountain plateau between Cincinnati, o.,
and the Gulf of Mexico 900 to 1000 feet
above the level of the sea- where he
waters part, flowing north to the Tenncs-
see and south to the gulf; in the healthiest
portion of the healthest county of the
healthiest state of the rich growing, pros
porous and clmatically blessed southland.
VINEMONT, ALABAMA.
CMeaning Vines on the Mountain.)
The site of Vinemont is on the "Pinna-
cle'-the highest point of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, between Cincinnati, o.,
and the Gulf of Mexico-1,046 feet above the
sea. The location of the new city is all
that could be desired. the broad street and
avenues regularly laid out and leading in
all directions from the twenty acres, re-
served in the center of the city sur
rounding the station, for parks and expert
mental gardens, vineyards and orchards,
which are used by the company as an OBJ
ject lesson, demonstrating to settlers the
fertility of the soil and its adaptabilty for
raising all kinds OF viticultural, horticul-
tural and agricultural products and saving
them the necessity of experimenting to as
certain products that pay them best to
grow These gardens contain over 5000
trees, plants and vines, every variety of
every variety grown in temperate zones.
Although Vinemont was first established
during the last year, there are at present