The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-13

| Walter Bros. Montgomery County. IS
| Henderson Boyd Lumber Company. 80
| Tyson Lumber Company .............. Al
Mills & Collins ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. IS
Horse Shoe Lumber Company...... n
Hand Lumber Company ............., al
| Carter, Rose q Babb .................... IS
Union Naval Stores Company, Wall
lace ...,.........-... ............-.. Is
Union Naval Stores Company, Walker
| springs ............. '................. As
Alabama Manufacturing Company. 81
Total number of convicts leased. 4. i, 47s
| Convicts at State prisons:
Prison No. 1. wetumpka. ..,........ i55
Prison No. 3. Speigners ...,..........., IS
Prison No. 4, Montgomery County,. 50
Total convicts at state prisons. ..... $50
Total convicts leased ................1. SO
Total number Of state sonvicts. Il .sss
4a - @E
The exhibit re'ating to acreage under
cultivation by the Convict Department
shows as follows: lilo acres In cotton,
727 acres in corn. 149 acres in peanuts.
10 acres in sorghum. II acres In sugar
cane, 80 acres in potatoes. rs acres in COW
peas, 81 acres In garden truck. ana rs
acres in oats, 10 acres in melons, 10 acres
In rice. and 14o acres in grass.
The department has livestock at the
ferns as follows: 47s hogs, 2s2 cattle,
"a mules. horses and 345 sheep
The report of Judge Thomas Bradford,
| Assistant Inspector of the Convict De-
partment which accompanies the report
OF Judge Carmichael is as follows:
During the quarter ending today June
| 800. / have visited and carefully inspected
| the. prisons and convicts at the Hender-
SON Boyd Lumber Company ana Tyson
Lumber Company In Coffee County; the
\ Hand Lumber Company IN Baldwin Coun-
I ty; the Horse Shoe Lumber COMPANY In
CoYington County and the Vinegar Bend
Lumber Company in Washington County
As their. names indicate. all Of these
A people are In the lumber business, and
| while there is no lack of hard labor
\ about modern saw mill plant, yet there
Is less breaking down and less permanent
injury to the health of the convict than
In the mines. The Vinegar BEND people
work only county eonvicts.. having con-
! tract for all the convictions in the coun-
| ties of Washington and Mobile. They
! have about ninety conyicts in two camps
4 one at Vinegar Bend, the other at
Dwight, Physically, they class up well
ana are humanely treated. The company
needs larger and better ventilated
prison at Vinegar Bend. which they ex-
pect to have ready at an early day.
! { AT the other prisons the men are do
1 ing wei. l classed out few whom l
thought would not be able to work for
some time and had them sent to the
| walls.
Az River Falls more prison room ana
better hospital facilities are needed
| wnlch the company promises to have
ready In a short time.
Il also visited and inspected the fol-
lowing places where convicts are worked
at the turpentine business: Mills and
! Collins, Coffee county: Union Naval
| Stores Company at Walker Springs
! Clarke county, and Wallace, Escambia
| county, and Carter Rose and Babb al
| Hanimac in. the last named county. This
| work is not hight, but there is some va
riety In 1t and the convicts have plenty
OF exercise in the open air. The health
record at the turpentine camps is a fine
| one.
Visits and inspections were also made
| to the following prisons, where conyfcts
are worked under contract on farms:
| Walter Bros, Sprague Junction, Mont
gomery county; w. d. MeCurdy and l..
| III. McCurdy, near Lowndesboro. Except
one at Walter Bros. place the convicts
| at these places are all colored and most
| or them are In fine physician condition.
Some of them came to the farms after
they had worked In the mines and were
slow in building up. but work, in the
open air has been so beneficial to them
that they are now rendering good SER
vices as farm laborers.
"A large number of the eonvicts at the
turpentine camps and saw mills above
| named had also done mine work until
| they were classed out, but at these
places most of them seem to have taken
on a new lease of life and are rendering
profitable service.
The Alabama Manufacturing Company
at North Birmingham has at their prison
about fifty-fiVe colored convicts engaged
in the business of making stove hollow
ware. The work is not heavy nor in any
way injurious to health and the plant
| is admirabl yarrapged for convict work
| The superintendent says the hands, with
few exceptions, learn rapidly and soon
become proficient in the business
THE prisons and eonvicts at No. and
| Spcigners are in good health. At We
| tumpka are large number of broken
down and invalid eonvicts, some o. whom
are able to do light work about the
premises. A great many sent here in
/ bad condition from the mines and jails
| gradually regain their health sufficiently
| to go out on contract. Under the ex-
cellent management of the officials in
charge it is a fine home for that class
of convicts unfit from agslOr disease for
1 hard labor.
! II have inspected the prisons named
several times during the quarter and ex-
amined the food, clothes. quarters, bed
ding, provisions made for the sick and
general treatment and found but few.
causes of complaint. Contractors have
shown willingness to comply with the
rules and regulations of the Board
Accompanying the report of the Presi-
dent of the Board is report by Or.
shiriy Bragg, Physician Inspector as fol-
| lows:
Hon. w. d. jerks Governor:
"Sir-According to law. ! herewith beg
to submit my report for the quarter end
| ing May 81:
Since my last report there has been