The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-18
PROSPEROUS PR OGRESS OF
 PRATIVILLE AND AUTAUGA
Town and County Have Felt Remarkable Re- vyal of AIabama's s Agricultural Interests
 Some of the Great Enterprises
Fly Will T. sheehan.


 the impetus. the spur of the re feel the impetus, the spur of the re- ferests of Alabama of the past eight years. a revival to which attention mas mas several times been called before in this seres S Ieters and of S ne Its full share. And of the scope ana the importance of this revival or agri- culture the people of the Stats have so far failed to grasp it's full value.
 Beyond doubt Prattvifie is awaken ing to it's opportunities. From its very foundation by Daniel Pratt, until this featuring center. It is today more manufacturing center than ever before in its history. More dollars are touay invested in manufacturing enterprises than were ever invested since Daniel Pratt moved from Montgomerys mili. built a new dam across Autauga Creek and founded the town of Prattviiie. And more dollars are coming n as. divi. dends to the men of Prattvillc and to the men of other cities who have mon cy invested ir Prattbille than ever oe- fore in the life of the town.
 But outside oi and beyond the returns and the investments in her factories, the town is looking to her rich agri- and increased prosperity. The land hereabouts is being cultivated in q more thorough, a moro intelligent way, in such waysas 1t has never KnoWm ,n..,sI -s cated in ceiled aud white-washcd house, house to which he has hereto fore been a stranger; the farmer. 1T ue is we'll to- do, has built him modern finely equipped home, such home that has heretofore been in Alabama the ex- ception rather than the rule The sales of the guano merchant in these eight years have been more than doubled, even as has been the sales. or the wholesale merchants. The rich planta- tions of Autauga County last year gave l xyit. n1slVsDlS AT of richness could boast in all their his tory, and they have had an honorable career. All of which rebounds to the credit and to the richness of Prattville the little city which Is no longer merei; a manufacturing center, and wnicf. hopes in the near future to attain thu, growth to which its invested interest and it's rich agricultural interest en. title 1t.
 A town or a city grows like a tree. dtS tpps snS sP spmss
 tree grows from within by nourishment which it draws up from the soil ana sends forth through its arteries ana a growth. that which starts 1t on It's way to dignity and to greatness: But this partial and primary. growth must pc sunshine. Through bark and leaves the tree, large or small, must aid ana encourage the growth which comes up~ ward from the soil and rom m sI.,,a sne aoons snd impossible but for the first and primary growth which comes from, within.
 Prattville's first development was from this original source. Here Daniel Pratt came and founded his great gin works and established other. coroliary and morey-making industries The largely increased. Even so have the dividends from them. But the town is- self for many years showed no vlslple expansion In population in expansior it may have done in invested wealth.
 But the agricultural recrudescence of Alabama-that meant anotner thlns dped other towns of Alabama. The prosperity of the former Is genera prosperity In an agricultural state Iihe Alabama. To draw the greatest benent from its factories on. the one hand. and from its rich agricultural resources on the other is the problem for solution by men who must at.y,Ife have the at an'S beart o
 In having the assistance so needLul in solving so vital a problem PrattyIinle is at this time quite fortpnate, a nd older men who have been at the head of the industries, the financial enter prises which have kept Prattvilie con. tented and prosperous throughout past and the enthusiasm of number or young men who stand ready to nrt q hand to anything that will make lor the prosperity nt of i the tbeIT tSwn money m and
 
 their labor in anything that will move Prattville along in the way to greater things. . ~ n Thomas, President of the Prattville Mercantile Company, and With severn other prominent and enterprislns s.li young men, investors and encouaaaste.rs , of enterprises calculated to beneht the town. ..t, o.,,h,I,tias for Prattyille." said MT. Thomas rather Enthusiastically. Its older manufac- turies, the gin works and the cotton mil. are known to the old state 50 well known are they that the impress sion may have gotten abroad that they are all of which Prattville has to boast Such an impression is decidedly wrong: We have other manufacturing ana other industrial enterprises or Wnlcn YOU shall presently learn more In de- tail. That some of these successta al en : ternrices are recent date indicates or itself that Prattville is moving TOT ward on new lines. The ease Wieh which stock in any enterprise wnlcn ,l promIses to help the city's progress IS st,bscrIbed Is another hopeful sign Tor inc city's future growth. honesty heIieye that there is more wlillns money for investment in city improve ment enterprises right here in Pratt- vile than in any other town of it's size in the State The people of Prattyille with money to invest have never 1alieu to show their faith in the city's fu- tnre, nor have they invited outside cap
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