The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-20
THE TWIN SOURCES OF BIBB
 COUNTS PROSPEROUS GROWTH
At Centervlle is a Dividing Ledge, on One Side the Farm and on the Other
 the Mine.

cal ways the coal and iron deposits break rather suddenly out of the earth convenient te the hand of man.
 But the foot hills continue further msuntains and the plains In . gath ertng of these hllls along the cahaba, CAHteFpilla was planned and feun9ea years and years before the war. 1he most commandiHg hill was selected fpF the town. Here the town was feundAd according to the old style with public square and the court house in the
 The hill is just large enough and none too large for the square. The square with Its court house and en- circling business stores its snugiy upon ths top Of the hill Oyer the other built in q rather desultory way. After the square Is left behind the streets become county roads curved and wind ing, and .bordered for a space with the
 Down a hlII-in whichever way one goes, he has to go down q hIll-and across the railroad IS the hns ola home of Aeutenant Goyernor MoTen. Alabama has ever had. And like the present Lieutenant Governor, pr Gun ningham, Dr. Moren was physician. He; was a strong man. .s mar. man with special interest attaches to him be- cause his term as Democratic state official was sandwiched In between i've Radical Reduction administrations. And as a Democratic official he. held the reins Of government over the Senate with Q strong hand and in imminent danseF of personal violence. violence ,nddsawas ,dssa was in Alabama's history of. which the peo- pie of the state are are only too ignorant
 The old home of the Lieutenant Gov Arn0r ia nffii fp fair statA of Dfe9er- vation, at the foot of the hills with the cahaba River running behind 1t not so many yards away It sits In with oaks and mock orange trees and surrounded by fertile acres of corn and
 it is one of the r!sh plsa.atiosps n s qt a on the river and that which Is in sight of the home IS almost as level as a floor 1t Is a beautiful place for farm ing And the place has been prosper ous throughout all its years
 Tt is a fine place. very fine place" said F. H, Nunnellee Of The centreyille Press who had pointed 1t out. Tt is. however, a fair sample of the fertility and in the southwestern portion of the county. All the Moren acres would total up to about 1000. The Howison place has s,SoS s,SSS acres ia 1t the David. aid. 2'00e. So you see we nave some big plantations here in Blob, as well as the Black Belt folks; h the best farm rGs rlyer and in the yves western portion s of the county the land is as rich as that of the big cotton section to the south of us, dare say our crops will equal which I speak the land Is held at too high a figure. Some of 1t, dare say, could not be bought at all For other acres $50 would be asked. Much land, and good farming land. too, can be bought at cheaper figures, but our farming lands about here are not going abegging for purchasers.
 The Small Formers.
 ITO the north of the city aud with in sight are the hills. The farms among them are small but prosperous. The white farmer always manages to set along and do well for his commit
 'STbe mines about BleetoH have stFated some of the farmers in the northEestesrn part 9 tfhs l,so coqn- ,n creased the demand for garden truck and the farmers nearby quickly saw the money there was to be made in have no other interest Growing veg etbales, where there Is such a demand as there Is in these mining towns, brings in much more money than the farmer could get from cotton and corn crops. There are many of them who might be named who grow no cotton or corn at all.
 Now. as important as Blocton Is, it by no means moHopolizes the coal mines of Bibb County. The coal de- p0sits of Bibb County are too exten- siVe and too convenient for working to be monoopolized by any one place. There are successful mines, l might say rich mines at Hargrove, Bell Ellen, Colina and Braehead. We are in great coal producing county. Tn fact. in point of coal mined Bibb County stands third in the list of counties in the State. And in addition, oar de- posits of iron ore are rich and con Siderable. At Woodstock an enormous amount of ore Is taken out for ship ment to the furnaces at Tuscaloosa.
 Mr. RunRellee's words, as to the mineral deposits. are more than eon- firmed by the reports of expert geolo~ gIsts, if they needed any confirms tion, beyond the statement that at Blocton alone there are twelve coal mines in operation. The geological re- ports in dealing with the mineral de- posits of Alabama say that there are three great coal fields within the state, named from the three streams which drain the basins in which they are located, the Coosa, the Warrior and tho 6ahaba coal heldR, The cahaha