The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-02-17
MOBILE THE GATEWAY
TO THE CANAL AND
THE ORIENT
NEW BERLIN MAN WRITES OF
HIS IMPRESSIONS OF THE
SOUTH.
Great Opportunities For Those Who
Are Willing to Work-Soil is
Pich and Climate Salu-
brious.

Joseph A. Pierson, of New Berlin,
who is in the south on business, has
written the following comprehensive
letter of the prospects and conditions
Of certain sections of Alabama:
Mobile, Ala, Feb, 10, 1905.
James G. Deidrick, President of the
News Democrat Publishing Co.,
Canton, Ohio:
Dear Sir:--The river work going
on and for the continuance of which
Mobile tide water communication with
the great coal and iron region of Ala
hama long before the Panama canal
is completed. Coal will be the prime
necessity Of navigation between the
western and eastern oceans. In my
opinion Mobile is to be the actual
gateway to the Isthmanian canal and
the orient Not only does the busi-
ness conditions of Mobile interest me,
but likewise does the great improve
ment in sanitary conditions show
wonderful stride This is bound to
add to other matters which tend to
make an enterprising city and give
the impression of progressiveness to
the newly arrived stranger Busi
ness is greatly on the increase and
nowhere in my recent journeys south.
ward is prosperity better than in Mo-
bile.
predict that within ten years Mo
bile will be the metropolis of the
south. The south also calls for men,
Farmers and industrious white immi-
grants will do much to strengthen
the hands of the representatives OF
the railroads who are laboring for
the substantial development of the
south The people of the south are
wide awake and are taking practical
hand in the movement. Hundreds of
thousands Of acres here are awaiting
the coming of the husbandman
Vast mineral and timber resources
are TO be utilized and thousands of
men will be needed in the many in
dustries resting upon such develop
ments. The material is here. The
| call now is for men. OF course many
persons who come from the older
states to the new south seem to ex-
fertile lands, cheap. living. and an
early competence, combined with all
the comforts. and refnements of the
older communities they have left be-
hind.
People of this class, too indolent
to work or too fine to rough it for a
short time, either turn back discour-
south, or they settle down into Il
state of unthrift and constitute the
grumblers brigade, so well known to
every community. AS rule to
which there are of course exceptions)
the man of sense, sobriety and in
dustry who secures railroad land Of
good quality and well located, and
who has sufficient means to cultivate
1t to advantage will find himself at
the end OF five years in better fin
ancial condition than he could have
hoped to reach by a lifetime of hard
work and economy at the north and
east, where competition is sharp and
land costs from $50 to $3.50 per acre.
But in the south, as elsewhere, thrift
and success will not follow idleness,
bad management and drinking habits.
1t should also be remembered that
every new country like every old one,
has some waste and worthless land
in the most fertile region, and some
days of drizzle and chill under the
most delightful Of climates.
Alabama and Mississippi are not
garden Of Eden-neither is Cali
fornia, Illinois, Ohio nor New York,
but those who go south expecting to
find noble country and climate,
who are willing to work, will not be
disappointed. ] intend to go to Pen
sacola, Florida, in a few days. We
are having nice weather here now.
am, and remain,
Yours Respectfully,
JOS. A. PIERSON.
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