The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-09

invite tho farmer. the intensive agri- culturist. the orchardist and the stock
 raiser to this Central South. These
 acres are now to be purchased al prices
 from $500 to $25.00 per acre, wtnou. dread of Tack of water" or "oiizzard
 or .'northers"; where cattle and sheep can and do gather their living through
 out the entire twelve months or the
 year without being stable fed. \
 The farmer of the Northern and
 Northwestern States is beginning to
 know that something besides cotton can
 be raised in the South; and as before
 stated, with the pleasant summers, with
 the mild, agreeable and short winters, it is not surprising to see large numbers
 of well to do farmers from those cold climates, Hooking to the South, the
 land of sunshine, flowers, health and
 happiness. The wide areas of the lower South, formerly timbered with yellow pine, having been denuded by the lumber men, are now being put into stock farms. The native cattle were small, descendants of those brought there by the Spaniard 200 and 300 years ago, as inbreeding and lack of attention had
 reduced their sizes individually. It has not been long since the belief that heavy beef cattle would not thrive as far south as the thirty-first degree. To-day, Herefords and Shorthorns; Durhams, Aberdeens and Red Polled may be seen in every direction. Sheep grazing is becoming extensive and is found immensely profitable. Berk- | shires and Poland China hogs are rap idly displacing the native "razor-back,' so that successful stock raising in the Central South is an established and in- Idisputable fact
 The railroads are lending helping hands and exerting every effort in .up- building the country, and aside from settling the vacant lands with "tillers l of the soiI' are encouraging, assisting and cooperating in the development and establishment of industries. The | iron of Alabama and Tennessee Is now being made into the best of steel, by lmills located in those States; the local production. of steel is being followed by | the concentration of other industries
 which rely on iron for their products.
 Thus is seen the smoke from factories on every hand, turning out the products that, but recently were supplied from the North.
 l What the iron industry is doing for,
 and in the South Is likewise being done
 by woodworking factories. that depend upon the timber and the many quarries | ITCH CldJt OlSB tdplAtSO
 and other minerals.
 | The building of the Panama Canal
 will make the Gulf of Mexico and Car
 ribean Sea the chief maritime waters of
 the world, and the cities of the Gulf coast will face the greatest and busiest | water activity the world has ever | known. This activity must of nec-
 essity affect most favorably the North
 and South railroads. The port cities will thrive and increase. which will influence and cause the interior cities and town to advance and grow in population, become sound commercial
 and financial centers.
 Manufacturing is but starting in the South. Industrial development means greater cities. Agriculture is follow | ing rapidly. and finding strong local the pasture. the tree; so 1t cannot be considered extravagant or over enthu-
 siastic in insisting that the South. es- pecially the great Central South. is at | the beginning of an era of development
 and upbuilding which nothing can with hold.
 The Louisville and Nashville Rail-
 road Company in every wise and reas-
 enable manner is doing it's share and
 taking the initiative in materially ad- ding to the Southern development in
 the wide territory whose rails it pene- trates for more than 1000 miles from the Ohio River, and whose resources 1t serves and hopes to magnify.