The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-22
THE BEST WAS OMITTED.
In The Birmingham News of last Fr day we find this:

In The Birmingham News of last Fri day we find this:
 .If were asked to name the coming cities of the South" said 2 well known % ingham New Orleans and Jacksonville. first. because 1t is my home city. How. | Atlanta and Birmingham are about. on 1 par, except Atlanta Is the cleaner city of the two. This probably results from Birmingham than we have In Atlanta. Of course New Orleans will always be great city because of its tremendous ship
 1t will surprise you to know that Jacksonville is coming to the front at a rapid pace You will doubtless recall it made the largest per centage gain in population of any city in the South. This growth is continuing. The big fire which of years ago has really proven bless ing. It broke several Insurance compa- nies. but it resulted In the erection of the % burned @ structure structSres o once @ stood. @ Jack Jack sOnville looks like new city, having been built up better than it was before
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 Being in Birmingham. 1t was natural for the drummer to jolly that city, to use common expression. It is probable also, that he was never in Montgomery, or he might not have been so sure that he had selected the only ito be- cities in the South. To use another common expression. there are others" and Mont- gomery is one of them.
 As a matter of fact. Montgomery has some elements of future greatness when neither of the cities named by the drum mer can lay any claim to- It is located in the midst of a rich agricultural region. | where corn and cotton, fruits and vege- | tables. grain aad hay can be raised in almost unlimited quantities. This city re- ceives and transports to other sections I and countries from 10000 to 100000 bales of cotton each year. and the amount of food stuffs. though not as great as it I should be, is immense The central loca- l ton of the city, with its railroads from every direction, makes 1t the logical re- ceiying and distributing point for ter- ritory comprising thousands of square miles. all of which is and must remain | tributary to Montgomery. One great ad- vantage in this respect over Birmingham is that a cargo can be loaded on a boat at our wharves and sent to any part of the world without breaking cargo, if de- sirable to do so. As a receiving and dis triouting point. present and future, this city is peculiarly favored. Fhara is m rarIaon why Mont nnoary should not become one of the leading manufacturing cities in the South. True. iron and coal are not at our door, but | both are easily accessible. and at little | expense. With the actualities and possi. | bilities of electric power this can be made a leader in manufhc fhcturing industries, es- pecially of cotton goods and woodwork. | There are millions of feet of hard woods which can be brought here at slight ex- pense. and everything made of wood, for household and agricultural use, as well as for transportation purposes ought to be made right here. We can have the raw material brought in cheaply and the wires will bring all the power needed to drive the machinery.
 Above all things, in the industrial line,
 Montgomery ought to manufacture a practically unlimited amount of cotton
 goods. The staple grows around us in
 every direction. We can have all the mo-
 tive power we need and all the skilled
 tabor to carry on the work. One of the
 great advantages we have over New Eng
 land is a climate in which work can go
 on continuously all the year around.
 There is no stoppaGR for frost and ice
 for we are independent of both. We ought to send cotton goods to all the world instead of importing almost every
 thing we use.
 Another almost incalculable advantage
 Montgomery has is healthfulness and
 she owes much of this to the superb qual-
 ity of the water we use. There are pre-
 cious Jew large cities in the world which , excel ours in this respect. The supply , of water is practically unlimited, and the quality unsurpassed. Good and pure wa
 ter makes for health, for comfort and for
 the contentment and satisfaction of the
 people. In this respect not one of the cities named even approaches Montgom-
 cry and the value of pure, clear water for all domestic uses cannot be ovesti-
 mated. The inconvenience, discomfort
 and actual suffering caused by a lack of
 this necessity of Ifs is apparent to all
 who read the newspapers of the large
 cities. where the complaint is continually
 made that the water is unfit to drink and that the health,of the people is sac rificed because of foul water. In this re-
 spect Montgomery is sis:nally fortunate.
 We might extend this article indefinite
 ly without enumerating all the blessings and advantages Montgomery enjoys. and
 which other cities lack but this is suft-
 cent for the time. Nature and circum-
 stances combine to make this one of the
 great cities of the future, if man will
 do his part.
 It is humiliating to find President of
 the United States uttering such rot as
 the following from Roosevelt's recent speech at Shagpsburg: