The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14
BREWTON THROTTLES THE
 BEEF TRUSTS EFFORTS

| AOcdi OH mifl go Into the St0ck buSi- ness. Nor did the company go into business to circumvent the Beef Trust. The company's reasons were business reasons. It was because the officers of . the company saw an opening which led to more and larger profits on the ledger and in the safe.
 Now. word or two as to the com pany W. Y. Jernigans Is its President; c. l.. Sowell, Jr.. Is its General Man. 1 ager, and J. K. Finley Is the company's Secretary and Treasurer. The com pany has a capital stock of $50, 900, and 1t has, moreover one of the most com plete and up-to-date plants in the State. The machinery is new and 1 modern and the plant is as convenient and efficient as experts could make it. It is not this that makes the plant unique, nor yet its ginnery, nor it's storehouses filled with seed enough to run the mill for eight or nine months ]! It is the stock yards near by in which 25o head of cattle are fattening for the market that differentiates 1t from oth- CT enterprises of like nature in Ala bama. A stock yard is not the ordi- nary accompaniment of an Alabama oil l mill.
 l Hoofs on Their Native Heath.
 These cows, standing in the commo- dious yards are native born and native raised. They come In the main from the rich stock raising district to the west of Brewton. Manager SoweI is versed in the stock business. He was engaged in it before 1t become a sub- 5ect of wide discussion in Alabama, and before its importance was recognized | throughout the State. The merging of | the stock and the oil business was the idea of MT. SoweIl.
 T am unable to tell you whether any | other oil mill in the State Is engaged | in the stock business" said Mir SowelI | in response to a question. .srhe busi- ness appealed to us as one which, in all probability, would return satis- | factory profit You see we could feed | the stock here with the products from the mill much cheaper than any one | else could. We figure that 1t costs only cents day to feed and fatten one COW. That is an outside estimate. The | cost if anything is a little cheaper.
 We have here in these yards about 25o head of stock. They are being fat tened for the market. We have in ad- dition to these, 1900 head of cattle in l the woods. These cattle in the woods live by grazing. Their feed does not cost us cent. and when we need cattle for fattening, we take them from the l woods. They do not at first take kind | ly to cotton seed meal and cotton seed | l but they soon learn to eat them. When they learn this, they fatten with great rapidity.
 Will Ship Beef.
 | "We slaughter from one to five cows daily. We have that much local de- mand for our beef So far. we have sold beef only locally It is our pur- pose. however. to ship 1t to other mar l kets. We have every reason to believe that this will be profitable and we will engage in shipping at an early date"
 The stock yards of the oil mill prac- tically supplies Brewton's needs in the beef line. And they say. this locally fattened beef Is as good as the best that is shipped from the Western mar kets.
 The oil company runs its own ice manufactory. It's own cold storage plant and It's own modern market. It is in this way enabled to handle tho thin, but hardy, native COW of Escam- bia County, and through the various processes, transform 1t into tender steaks or juicy roasts for the dining tables of Brewton.
 There is hint and a suggestion in this for the many oil mills of Ala bama It Is a thing of importance, too. for the statement is made that the number of oil mills In Alabama have doubled in the past three years.
 The local fire department Is another mark of Brewton's individuality. I all but saw a run of this unusual depart ment. The whistle of the Lovelace Brothers lumber mill let out a startled scream. The engine of the Brewton pumping station echoed the frightened echo. The whistle at the pumping sta tion is the towns fire alarm. When 1t screams, the local fire department knows there is something to do.
 The Stable Boy There.
 Before the echo of the whistle had died out, stable boy, ina fur cap and a blue army shirt, hurried two big horses out of livery stable and rushed them to a door of a wide, one-storied wooden building. The horses. who knew their business, made the trip eagerly.
 They wererushed around the sides of the hose wagon and of their own accord jumped under the harness which hangs exactly as it does in the | Montgomery fire station. and which Is of the same make and the same na- ture.
 In the meanwhile a number of young men in shirt sleeves and office coats darted from behind counters and desks and out of shops and stores and ran to catch the fire apparatus as 1t would dash out of the wooden fire house.
 But before the gates were thrown open the word came that it was only a pile of shavings and that 1t had been put out by the mill hands. The horses and the driver are sup piled by the livery stable two doors away. The proprietor of the stable Is paid for each run made. The hose Is manned and the work Is done at the fire by volunteers The volunteer de- partment Is we'll organized. There is a day shift and a night shift to the department The men on the day shift are not compelled to go to ordinary night fires. nor do the men of the night shift do the work at the ordinary day fire. It Is said each run of the depart ment costs the town $5.
 Brewton is foremost in its water | works. The system Is very similar to Montgomerys. Artesian water is its basis and it has a covered cement res ervoir. The plant is small but is well equipped and efficient. The pipe lines throughout the city have a fine pres sure. In the same building Is the model electric light plant of the city. | Brewton is proud of It's artesian wells There are fifty of these wells in the city. all with a fine natural flow.
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