The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-12-07
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cypress trees, which are gigantic, are
festooned with Il grey moss, parasitic
growth of velvety softnesS and of some
value when dried and cured, being
used by upholsterers to take the place
of hair stutfing, the palmetto having
n fibrous root that the natives cut up
and utilize for scrubbing brushes.
In these dense swamDs alligators
and wild fowl abound, the noise OF the
passing train often causing them to
swim away in haste. From the swamps
and the trembling prarieS, the road
passes through sugar and cotton plan
tations, the sugar houses looming up
in the distance with tall chimnevS,
and here and there cotton patches.
From alluvial soil, the land changes to
yellow, as we enter the pine forests.
! should make mention of the bridge,
or treStle work, across Lake Ponchar-
train. This bridge is the longest bridge
in the world, being over twenty-SiN
miles long, and the bridge proper, from
shore to shore, is seven miles long,
with two draw bridges for vessels. This
great work is built of creosoted lumber
and constructed in a most substantial
manner. Another, the wooden Struc-
| ture over the Bay of ST. Louis, fifty
two miles from New Orleans This
,, bridge was built under great difficult
ties, owing to the teredo, a species Of
barnaclc, which faStenS itself to the
wood under the water and bores into
it until it becomes honeycombed and,
in time, will completely undermine any
structure.
The noise made by the teredo boring
can be heard distinctly by listening on
the wharf. The track is carried on the
trestle work, much of which is sheath
ed in huge earthen- ware pipes to pro-
tect it from the terrible destroyer.
LUMBER IN THE SOUTH.
1t is well to remember that forty per
cent. of the area of Louisiana is COW
cred with forests of pine. oak, ash,
poplar and cypress, and 10000, 900, 600
feet of hard wood, yet it stands un-
| touched on it's soil. The Cypress Lum-
Der manufacturing association alone
represent an output of 500.000.c00 feet
of finished cypress lumber per year.
In Mississippi One-halt of the state is
forest land. and the southern part is
the home of the pine and oak. For
cStry statistics of the United States,
recently compiled, show sixty percent.
| of the wealth of the whole country in
this line of natural resources-woods of
valuc--to be located in the South, and
Louisiana ranks foremost among the
states. Think of it. In long leaf pine
alone, Louisiana has 26,J5S, 900. 900, near
ly twenty-seven billion, feet: Alabama.
near nineteen billion; Mississippi, sew
enteeen billion; Georgia, near seventeen
billion; Texas, 20,5OS, 100000; Florida, e.
615,00O0O0; North Carolina, 5,229, 600, 900:
South Carolina. $3.50 900 feet, now
standing.
RESOURCES OF ALABAMA.
Arriving at Grand Bay, on the Gulf
Of Mexico we leave behind the great
states of Louisiana and Mississippi and
enter the famous mineral, as we'll as
agricultural, state--Alabamu-a for
over two hundred miles traverse beside
her wonderful waterways. her sugar,
rice and cotton plantations, tlourishing
orchards and nurseries, her dairy
farms, corn belts tobacco fields, marble
quarries, coal mines. immeasurable
beds of limestone, iron ores and dolo-
mite; through her famous forests Of
lumber, also through towns containing
furnaces, rolling mills, foundries and
cotton mills, and factories and indus
trial plants of every kind and descrip-
tion, when we reach the original Con-
federate capital, Montgomery, Suffice
to say, the journey from the Creole
City" a $40 mile run over the Louis
Vile and Nashville railway, through
portion of these three great states, has
been one of thrilling interest, enjoy
able and educational. All northern
tourists are surprised at the superior
service of these trunk lines, particu-
larly the Louisville and Nashville,
which extends from the Crescent City
of the South to the Queen City
(Mobile) of the Gulf and to the Queen
City of Ohio. Cincinnati,
Montgomery is situated in bend of
the Alabama river on circle of high
bluffs or hills, bordered on all sides by
rich farming lands. 1t is the capital
of Alabama, and will ever be famous
as the first capital, also of the Confed-
crate states from February Is to May
q, 1861, when 1t was removed to Rich
mond. Its name came from General
Richard Montgomery, who fell at Que
bee in 1775.
1t Is "A beautiful city of 10000 popu-
lation, of whom one-third are colored-
an increase of forty per cent in ten
years. or the colored people. only five
per cent. own their homes. The visitor
Is first attracted by Its miles of wide
and well-payed streets. its smooth
stone sidewalks. that cover the main