The age-herald., 1902-04-06
Northern Alabama Goal, Iron $ R. R. Co.'s Pants Are Here
IT EMPLOYS 1000 MEN
Numerous Other Industrial Companies Help to Run Monthly Pay Roll to Large Figures-Gossip
 About the City.
BY HOMER GEORGE.

Talladega, April 5.-(Special)-For sev- enty-five long years the process of form ation has been continuously going on at Talladega. As a result of this slow, steady moving forward the city now stands conservative filled with manufac- turing plants, excellent business houses, well-to-do people, first-class schools and modern comforts and projections.
 No place of 5000 inhabitants who have been attracted only through seventy-1ve years of business success and social pleasure can be other than conservatively built, can be other than charmingly home-like and can be other than sub stantial to the greatest extent
 | Slowly, surely, carefully, Is the only possible way to build upon solid foun- dation. Especially is this true beyond dispute in a place dependent for years solely upon agricultural resources.
 With this city all these things have had to do. Of more recent years the opening of industrial enterprises has had the ef- feet of giving a rapid growth. Thus has been made city combining the charms of an old town with the activity, pro- gress and development of recent, quick ly built cities.
 Probably no feature of the city's life possesses more force for attraction than the educational. The State schools for the deaf, dumb and blind, Isabell Col lege for Young Ladies, the Presbyterian orphans Home the Training School for Boys and Taladega College for colored people.
 In an industrial and mercantile way the city is one of the most progressive in the State. The trade Is attracted from miles around. One hundred stores offer goods to purchasers. The place also has three cotton mills, one knitting mill, one ice facory, one fertilizer factory, one cot ton seed oil mill, car shops, steam flour mill two wholesale firms, a steam laun- dry and a bottling works.
 Handsome City Building.
 The city owns it's own city building, costing $12,000, city school building, brick fire house and complete second-class fire apparatus, its own water works and gas plant and a magnificent sewer system, which latter is free.
 The income of the city from all sources is $50, 600 and its debt is small. The popu- lation at the last enumeration was 5050.
 This city Is the home of the Alabama Chautauqua Assembly, one of the bright est and best Chautauquas of the the United States. This year will the eighth | anniversary of the assembly, and 1t promises to be the best. The gathering will be late in July. On Its platform will appear the most renowned lecturers. the brightest entertainers and the leading talent in this line The music will doubt less be furnished by Birmingham. Mayor Wellington Vandiver is general manager of the Chautauqua and will answer any inquiry in regard to 1t.
 While Talladega Is a first-class cotton market and is the center of rich agri- cultural country. yet she docs not depend upon this entirely. Her pay roll of mon- ey actually paid out to employees is $42, GOO per month. Three newspapers are here, towit: The Our Mountain Home News Reporter and the Messenger, published at tLe Deaf and Dumb Institution.
 MT George w. Chambers the largest individual tax payer of Talladega county, who Is interested in numerous industries about the city of Talladega, has compiled the following information about the city which throws much light upon the place:
 The oGd of Nature has placed Tala- dega as the great central point of the une- qualed brown hematite mineral region of Alabama. Twenty-two miles to the north- east of Anniston, thirty-five miles south- west Is Shelby Iron Works. forty-five miles west Is the red ores of Birming- ham, south and east Blue Mountain, l with it's iron and marble, extends in a semi-circle whose nearest point Is twelve miles. Within the limits thus defined