The age-herald., 1901-03-24
TWO EPOCHS OF INDUSTRIAL LIFE IN ALABAMA.

states. I cite in evidence some of the statistics from the government archives. The cash valuation of agricultural lands in the. four slave states Alabama, Mis- sissippi Arkansas and Texas, was in creased in round numbers from one hun dred and fifty millions of dollars in 1850 to five hundred and thrty-slx millions in 1s60 while the cash valuation of agricul- tural lands in the four free states, Ohio, Indiana Illinois and Iowa. had increased In the same period from six hundred mill lions to only fifteen hundred millions, That is to say the increase in this class of property had been in the slave states named here, in excess of 300 per cent, while the increase in the free states named had been in excees of 200 per cent. only. The wealth In agriculture, manufactures and carrying facilities in all the slave states in 1860 was five and a half billion of dollars, while in all the free states 1t was six and a half billion. even numbers. The amounts respective ly expended in the two sections in 1860 on account of colleges, universities, acad- emies and public schools was eleven mill lions for the slave states and twenty-two millions for the free states. The popula- tion liable to the benefits of the educa- tional fund was, say, eight millions in the slave states to twenty millions in the free states. The exports from the port
  1S59-60 were $20S, ,276,50S, as against $123,- 127, 769 for the port of New York.
 The last census in which slaves ap- peared the eighth, shows that the value of animals slaughtered in the slave states in 1859 was $S,S3 per capita of pop ulation, bond and free, while the free states slaughtered only S5.33 per capita. In the slave states that year of corn and wheat there was produced thirty seven bushels per capita, bond and free, while in the free states twenty-five bush els per capita was the limit in these grains. The free states nevertheless ex- ported these grains, while the slave states consumed all they produced, so great the waste.
 Michael Tourney should have a bronze statue to his memory in Central Park l met him once only in the crowded drawing room a wedding night at Tus- kaloosa, I a youth of eighteen. He was gentle as a maiden in his manners, so sympathetic with life that he engaged me for half hour, raw boy that l was, in conversation, and at parting then he suggested that he would reply to such letters as I might write to him from time to time. How consideratel
 Lewis Troost of Mobile was the chief engineer who surveyed and in part built the first of three railroads of the fiftieS intended to tap the ores and the coal or Alabama, the Alabama and Tennessee River road. As this road approached Montevallo the coal in that vicinity was mined for market. About 1859 Mobile be- gan to take a little of the product. The ladies of that city rejected it In their res idenoes because of the smoke and dust from it. In those days sailing vessels came in ballast from Liverpool to Mo bile for return cargoes of cotton. These vessels used Liverpool coal as ballast and thus the ladies had the option be- tween the foreign anthracite and the Ala bama bituminous coal, preferring the for mer.
 Lewis Troost was ardent lover of his profession. He fell from the timbers of a bridge while building his railroad from Selma northward, received most serious injuries and died after years of suffering as a result.
 Robert k. Rodes of Tuskaloosa was the chief engineer in charge of the North east and Southwest road when he march ed off to war as captain of the Warrior Guards Put uniform on General Rodes, let him walk across the camp ground or mount him to gallop down the line and in him was the incarnation of the martial idea He was the completest