The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-22
|EUFAULA IS REGAINING HER
 SUPREMACY COMMERCIALLY
Bluff City, Also the Political and Educational Center of Prosperous East Alabama:
 Something of Her History

on the Bluff It had been . greas town before the var. .i ds ssoamss s south. svs west Georgia, Southeast Alabama ana ns Northwest Florida, rich sections cs os three great states were its customers S ey 1U combed with wagon yards and the crack of the teamsters whip Wes |continual reminder of peace and pien- ty. u.,,.n ta the euI East a9 'ae to ne .' West, the railroads flung their shining lines across tne routes of the wagon trains ana tns the crack of the teamster's. whip. A new era had come--and the wagon train passed into state of innocuous
 And quick upon the heels of these things there came the horrors of four and five cent cotton. Four cent cot
 ton Is terrible tragedy y.d,,on in rarm1ns nn,,ns man. It takes years to wear it iIt off, to live it down and to forget it. And four cent cotton came to EuIaula
 when 1t wss struggling in its recovery
 new railroads that had circumscrioed.
 Was ever a town so triedY At some length have these condi-
 ancient history been retold. The pur-
 pose of 1t has been to emphasize what | Eufaula has done, to point out wnas
 obstacles she has had to overcome and | tos show some of the things she has accomplished What has been writ 1 ten. has been written to show how
 the, town has come forward 70 mset
 and compel success from new condi- i tions which succeeded the old.
 The wagon trains were gone never to return. but factories might be built to take their places, as trade bringers The customers of the retail merchant
 miles or a few yards Of their doors. but the wholesale merchant could take the place of some of the retail mer-
 stroy the country retail trade ef Q town build up the wholesale busin ess, If there are men of sufficient energy
 and ability to seize the new opportuni- tories, with new wholesale business
 with new interests Eufaula has rebuilt
 the waste places in her trade.
 %HonoF to Ten Cents Cotton.
 After all has been said and. done, however 10 cent cotton should be given it's due need of praise and ap-
 PreeiatIon & It Is mSsvelloas Ss rsstoreT ai
 the Alabama town and the price of cotton are so closely entwined that they form the truest modern exempfi.
 Naomi Naomi " Where ere one neO' goes the other goes. The people of one are the people
 of the other and they may not be sep-
 %All Is we'll with us,' said Mayor
 George H. Dent. "our feet are upon firm ground. The present is prosper ous and the future Is promising. No
 casual visitor can understand the ex-
 tent of our Improvements in the past two years. doubt if any town the size of Eufaula has put out so much | money in building, in restoring, in re,
 pairing and in improving in a general
 way as Eufaula has. The very ap. pearanCe of the town represents the sound prosperity that is ours.
 There is not vacant store in the city. Our business has largely in-
 creased We have. made new. friends
 cotton mills, one of them $15o,o in
 stttution and the other valuable pri-
 vate institution, are in full operation and the volume of the city's business Is weekly increased to tho amount oi | their pay rolls. Other manufacturing
 interests have grown up among us and
 which has widened 50. to continue tt
 The Mayor only reflected the conn.
 dent optimism of the town. 1t is gen. erally felt--this confidence and thls optimism. That Eufauia has made
 marked advance in recent months. ov. erybody there knows, that 1t will con.
 hSs. t1Ss t9 s aSysSSs ,g bgEss spd hghe,
 iine history q rare history, that the forwardHt Hto even better things.
 A veteran merchant, atfnerchant whc has amasged a fortune In business life of forty years In Eufauia Is M. NJ Berringer. He has known the town in
 It's various stages and his business was
 nTst built up in the old empire days Song of Outimtarn.