The age-herald., 1901-10-10
Proareas pown the state.

'Colonel Rose of New York mas pur- chased for sls.0Oo the culiom Springs property, mile above the historic Blan- don Springs. with 56o acres of land, and he will proceed immediately to expend $50 GOO in building a hotel and making other im- provements." Mir. Thompson said
 Colonel Rose, who is a man of great wealth. will build railroad to connect Cullom Springs with either the Mobile and Birmingham or the Mobile and Ohio main line. and he is determined to make cullom Springs the best winter and health resort in the United States. Natural conditions make this easy. The
 waters of the springs are unequalled in America for indigestion, chronic dys- pepsia, kidney troubles, and certain other ailments. The springs are in the high and healthy pine country, and the climate there is ideal.
 And the finest baths in the world are 1 at Cullom, and they were discovered in an odd way. Eighteen years ago, Mir. Otto Stoelker. then of Montgomery, but now resident of Birmingham bored for I oil at Cuilom. sinking his well to the | depth of 1860 feet. From this well there l came warm soda water and salt water, gas and electricity, and these combine ! to make a bath of unequalled virtues. The flow of gas is so strong that one may | light 1t with match and 1t will burn In a blaze ten feet high.
 The capital and enterprise of Colonel Rose will bring these springs and baths and the ideal climate within easy reach of health and pleasure seekers. and provide | G.
 Alabama Marble for Great Library.
 Former Mayor Frank V. Evans of Bir- mingham, who Is interested in the mar bie quarry near Sylacauga, in Talladega | County, has received letter from Hon. Phares Coleman of Montgomery inquir- Ing as to the practicability of obtaining sufficient quantity of that marble for the construction of the building for the library which Andrew Carnegie has do- mated to Montgomery.
 Mir. Coleman writes that 1t is the desire of the library management to construct tho building of Alabama marble. MT. | Evans company owns enough superior white marble with which to build a city, l and 1t is presumed that arrangements will be perfected for supplying the Montgomery library managers with all of the stone they desire.
 Once again may be repeated the fa- miliar story of the block of Alabama marble in the great Washington monu- ment in Washington. The association which was formed to build this monu ment, and which began work in 1S40, in- vited the government of each state then In the Union to send to Washington | block of native stone, marble preferably. | to be placed in the monument-visitors to the monument in this day are shown those state memorials.
 The then Governor of Alabama for warded to Washington block of Talla- dega County marble, properly inscribed. | But the fineness and whiteness of the marble so surprised the monument au- thorities that they decided it could not be an Alabama product; that 1t was, in 1 fact Italian marble; and so they wrote to the Governor explaining that 1t was genuine Alabama stone, not marble from | Italy, that they desired. The Governor forwarded affidavits. endorsed by him self officially. that the marble was cut from natures original store of marble in Talladega County, Alabama. The stone was finally accepted. and may now be seen in the inside wall of the Washing | ton monument.
 | Alabama Sturgeon and Other Fish. | Johns Adams. druggist. and John W. | Dickerson, merchant. the Birmingham | fishers who went out to fish in the Coosa river and who began their sport by fall ing into the turbulent torrent. have re- turned to town fully recovered from theif