The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-30
A GOOD COUNTRY.
But Alabama is a Better One.
 Pisgah, Ky, Aug. 9, 1903.

But Alabama is a Better One.
 Pisgah, Ky, Aug. g, 1903.
 Editor of The Advertiser:
 If any of our farmers want to go out from home in search of new helds Tor their future homes. I would suggest Ok lahoma and Indian Territory. I spent June in and around Oklahoma City, and industriously observed the field, both nnd eg o De and prospects for such as intended to smigrate,. The The land land is now rich 1hora and %ent up on iEs qh University h and saw the grandest and most beautiful country ever beheld, As far as eye could reach it was an endless plain, COW cred with magnificent fields of wheat and oats. interspersed with streams fringed with timber and dotted here and there with farm houses cut north and sixty feet wide, covered with native grass and flowers. The crop of wheat measured twenty-five bushels and oats
 fifty to 100 bushels to the acre. Around fruit cattle. horses and hogs, all fat and fine. and the air vocal with the song of birds. All nature seemed to smile. The soil is intermixed with sand and resting on very red clay foundation. Corn grows vigorous hy making forty to sixty bush els per acre oS Cotton 6S too will soon eG.ef year. in the State. Sweet and Irish po- tatoes and all kinds of garden truck growing well: Alfalfa will be the great gazing and hay crop of that country. The roads are delightfully."- good. climate unsurpassed winter short, but summer though long is never oppressive. as a gentle but steady breeze Is blowing all the time, keeping both man and beast comfortable. Good, pure and cool wa ter can be obtained by, boring forty to sixty feet. Now. outside of the .aobve. the especial advantage as I see it, over all other countries is the little labor re- quired. to wit: Mike Powell and Win bought. each half section of S2o acres of land. They plowed. narrowed. sowed 200 acres in wheat in sixty days. In Feb ruary they sowCS sixty acres each in put in shock at $50 outlay for labor. They will make from 1000 to 5000 bushels of months of the year. and will receive, in | return at least 5000 each: thus making about $750 per month. There was no nigger in it. They do not want negroes men of the South avail themselves of the l opportunity for it will not last long. , We have hugged the delusive hope that l the negro will improve as he becomes | better edRucated. but alas they will not. Now. about the city of Oklahoma, four teen years ago. little one-room board 5000 people. happy and prosperous and | the wonder of the age. Nine railroads concentrate there with two others to be built at once, coming from the west. | north. east and south. A city that must | be the great storehouse of the South west. She stands 800 miles from any | rival and with the start she has can never be overshadowed or have a for midable competitor. It Is a city virtually but eight years old, with streets paved, street cars. water works. electric plants, | packing houses cold storage five big fiouring mills ice plants. Main Street and | Grand Avenue will tower above Main Street. Lexington, Ky. or Dexter Avenue, | Montgomery. The great secret is there | is no credit. Pay as you go is the GUS tom. I saw no loafers or dudes but busy men with money in their pockets. con tentment in their faces. and confidence in their country. It is the open gateway for all energetic and ambitious young men. Get in and grow up with the coun- | try. I saw and talked with men from all sections of the country north, south
 and east. but fewest of all were from l the five great States. Texas, well repre- sented, but most from the Northwest. talked with people from everywhere anc all say it is the most delightful climate in America. If I were young again,
 (Mr. Powell. the writer of the above
 was former citizen of Montgomery | County. The Advertiser publishes his letter because of the news it contains as to an interesting part of the country.
 but believes that Alaharoa is the bes' State in the Union to live in.