The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-21
FLOW WILL SUCCEED
 AK OF THE WOODMAN

out the worn road and avoid the branch byways that lead to remote farm houses and active or deserted lumber camps.
 He travels always firm roads car peted with pine needles. It Is a sinu- ous road. winding among the tall and stately tree trunks. A train of OK log ging carts are passed. There are three of them, having six and eight oxen plodding meditatively along. and white drivers. bewhiskered and closely but toned to keep out the too bracing win ter air. The two wheels of the carts, from which the logs must swing are big and tall The carts are on their way to the camps where the loggers and sawyers are at work getting out timber.
 Logging Roads Gone.
 We cross road beds where ran many years ago tracks for the logging trains. but which are now deserted. Clearly. masked upon the road bed are empty places where the cross ties once rested. The owners of the road have exhausted their timber rights in these woods and they have moved their logging railroads to other field of usefulness in other woods.
 A broad level road of natural soil thrown up. firm and uncut Is crossed.
 That is the old stage road from Montgomery to Mobile" the visitor is told. Andrew Jackson built part of 1t and improved part of 1t. A few miles down the road was built up over stretch of marshy ground by Gen. eral Jackson. This is now called Jackson's Causeway and is to this day in good condition"
 It was an important artery of com merce in the young days of Alabama, M-., kerav, cry to Mobile. probably the most inn portant In the State. But the railroad killed its importance and the greater part of its usefulness.
 Here and there are breaks of thin wooded plats In the continuous pine forests. Scattered over the ground are decayinE limbs and tops of trees, and jagged stumps close to the ground. The lumberman has been here. He has cut away the larger trees. trimmed 1 and shipped away their trunks and left the limbs and tops, which are dross to him upon the ground, to add to it's richness, which has come with unnum- bered years.
 And having cut the valuable trees l away from his own plat he has gone 1 to other woods leaving the smaller trees untouched and the limits of the
 thick forests of the neighboring land | clearly marked.
 But the widest expanse of these pine | forests are innocent of saw and axe. | There Is a majestic beauty about the
 cool. calm pine forests. where. far | above, the boughs sigh soothingly and musically. a beauty that is wide and | inspiring and which is solemn and mo- | notonous. l And yet there are times when 1t is | varied, varied by the axe of the tur- 1 pentine man. The white boxes of the l turpentine trees shine in the cooler, darker recesses of the forest and their | ornamentation of congealed turpentine
 glows and glistens in the winter sun
 like encrusted pearls.
 Two Great Corporations. l The greater part of the timber lands
 about here are owned by the Sullivan ] Alger Lumber Company and the South
 ern Lumber Company. There are other l large owners of these lands but their
 acres do not approach those of these | two great corporations.
 Masoo was built in the Bleackshear
 Lumber Company, under the personal
 supervision of F. w. Blackshear, the young and enterprising resident super | intendent of the company. The Black 1 shear Company has secured the timber
 rights but not the land of many miles l or pine IOTeSIS WnICn DelOnR 10 Lne | Sullivan Alger people.
 | The logs are gotten out fin the woods
 around here and carried to the Ala
 bama river eighteen miles away by a l logging train to Dixie Landing. Then | they are dumped into the river and
 rafted to the Blackshear plant at Mo- | bile. There Is talk about here that the
 Blackshear company is making enor-
 nous profits through it's energetic bus | mess methods, but that Is d private
 matter.
 l F. U. Blackshear. who by the way l Is the owner of the big automobile. and l who lives in a fine two story house l built in the lumber town. is enthusias-
 tic upon the agricultural possibilities | of the land that Is beneath the pine l trees of this section.
 l This strip in question, the one
 which extends through the southern | portion of Monroe county and through parts of Escambia and Conecuh coun-
 ties, contains some of the finest farm eing lands of Alabama" said, MT. Black shear. T dare say your best prairie lands are not more productive. The | richness of the farming lands of South
 west Alabama, that part of the State known as the Wire Grass section is
 we'll known. These lands are in the
 same belt and are of a similar nature.
 I should say these are the better lands | here.
 But they can't be bought We have endeavored to buy the lands from which we have cut the timber. having in mind a plan of agricultural devel- opment But they can not be had at any satisfactory figure. They nave talked of selling theme at $25 an acre, ] price which Is out of the question,