The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14
Monopoly Has No Hold on
 EScambia Capital.
Cotton oil and Manufacturing Company Engages in the Business of Fat tening Cattle and Supplies
 the Local Demand for
 Roasts and Steaks.
BY WILL T. SIBERIAN.


 Brewton, Nov. 13.-(Staff Correspon- dence. )-One phase of the eternal trust question has been settled in Brewton. So far as Brewton is concerned the Beef Trust. universally condemned is innocuous and harmless.
 Brewton has been innocuiated and rendered danger free from this branch of hydra headed monopoly. A local enterprise has done 1t and it has done 1t so simply and so effectively that the wonder is that the wisdom of the place had not commended itself to other com munities and had not been put into operation in every section of the State. The plan if adopted throughout Ala bama would have made the exactions of the Western packing houses a thing of unconcern and of small moment in the State.f ge
 The Brewton Cotton oil and Manu- featuring Company, has gone into the stock fattening and the stock growing business. The few words in this state- ment may not convey It's full meaning to the mind of the casual reader. A cotton oil mill makes largely products which are used in the feeding of cat tie. These things are cotton seed meal and cotton seed hulls and other by pro- duets of the seed of the great staple.
 The owners of cotton seed oil mill can feed and fatten cattle cheaper than any man or any other set of men.
 The officers of the Brewton oil Mills and Manufacturing Company in the very inception of their business recog- nised this fact. They made stock rais- ing and stock fattening a part of their business. Their experience so far has been eminently satisfying. They have made money in their mill and they have made money on their stock. And more than that they have blazed a way in pioneer style, for other oil mills in the State.
 The company has shown how money could be made easily and legitimateiy, in a side line and the community bene- fited at the same time.
 upon interest and consideration Brewton's commercial life that im- presses the inquiring and the curious visitor.
 BrewtOn Fire Department.
 There may be other oil mills of Ala bama which have embarked upon this new and important side line, but they have gone unnoted and unrecorded If is this enterprise of the Brewton com. pany which first strikes the visitor that and the unique hut effective fire department of this Escambia town This fire department has its own claims upon interest and consideration It is cross between the paid depart ment of city and the old volunteer department of a country town. The basis of the department is q hose wagon very similar to those in use in Montgomery. And this hose wagon is pulled through Brewton's done by volunteers who are pledged to trained. but the work at the fire is heavy streets by horses more or less undertake the responsibility. But Brewton's unusual fire department is material for another part of this let. ] ter.
 To go back to the stock feeding enterprise of the local oil mill is the thing just now. The oil mill Is fa- vorably situated for such an enter prise. These fine lands were always | good for stock and cattle. The grass Is succulent and nutritious in the highlands and the camebrakes are yer. dant and luxurious. The pine lands have been favorite grazing lands since | the days of the aborigines
 The Indians in truth favored greatly this section. The level lands covered with luxuriant wire grass and shaded with the pine trees that sang in the breezes were inviting places for In. uiah camps ana lnolan Villages. What | cattle they had and of their cattle if could not be said they were not num- ercus. fed upon a thousand hills" But Tor their grazing richness, for their balmy climate, for the soothing shade or their graceful pines the Indians loved this section and their names and | language have been written upon the streams and lands in a way that may not be washed out. The Indian has | left this reminder in the name of Es- cambfa county and Escambia river He is recalled by Conecuh county and Conecuh river
 Murder and Burnt Corn Creeks. The days of Indian occupation ara called to mind by the startling mama Of Murder Creek. a name which comes down through the years. because of a brutal bloody crime its banks witness. ed in the days when the Indians owned l and roamed the pine lands. And the name of Burnt Corn Creek, a stream which marks the boundaries of inc town of Brewton, summons up tbe memory of the first battle between the Indians and the white settlers. A hat tie in which the settlers were inRlori- | ously routed.
 But for none of these reasons did ths