The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-17
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
 IN SOUTH ALABAMA

Is doing its work neatly and we'll. It labor famine which prevails through !, out Alabama.
 But this is only fraction of what the railroads arc doing. For one thing there is the excellent publication The North and South of Louisville. given to the exploitation of the riches and l opportunity of the South. Perhaps no other single thing has so adyertis- l cd the Southern States, and still 1t Is railroad publication, issued under the auspices of the Louisville and Nash vile.
 All of this gradually leads up to the most important detail or the develop 1 ment work which Is the Industrial De- partment of each of the big railroads entering Alabama This is a perennial work, going day after day. It Is 1 department of trained men watching two chances on the one hand. the op- ! portunities which may present them selves along the lines, and in the terri tory of their roads. ana on the other, l the moods of the men with capital and men who may be considering change of home and business. n other portions I of the country. They are the men who see chance for a colony. for an in- l dustrial plant. for turpentine and lum- Der works. for the extension of new railroads, for the bringing in of new people They are the selected agents l for carrying out the far seeing policy | of the railroads who spend money this year in this way that they may two l years from now begin to get new busi- ness of passengers and of freight. 1 The Industrial Department of the 1 Southern has been especially active in 1 this sort of work. There are existing l results of this work now In Alabama l For one thing there may be noted. a I newly inaugurated enterprise at the l station of Mellow Pine on the main l line. of the Mobile and Ohio. between
 Mobile and St Louis. Yellow Pine is l an Alabama station jam up against the l Mississippi line. A cattleranch has been planned there and several thousand acres purchased for it's establishment. | At Fruftdale. nearer in towards Mo- 1 bile is an established and thrifty colo lny of western people They are rais- ing fruit and vegetables and are to all appearances prosperous. Then there is the famous winter resort of Citronelle, | one of the handsomest villages in the State. Today 1t Is filled with northern tourist. The growing of winter vege-
 tables as well as of fruit has been in- augurated here and in the surrounding country.
 l At Lambert is the Italian colony l which grows such excellent grapes. There are there, some fifteen families of Italians growing grapes on Ala
 bama soil On this recent ! trip through the South the Italian Ambas- | ted Lambert and expressed himself
 gratified at the evidences he saw of satisfaction and thrift.
 Between Mobile and Citronelle there are at every station visible signs of Improvement and development. There is not perhaps single station but what has received new settlers and increased | it's population in recent years. The l people are Loyalty engaged in growing winter vegetables, for this enterprise is i, fostered and aided by the railroad au- | thorities. The settlers have found the raising of winter vegetables for north
 ern markets quite profitable
 i The same condition prevails along | the branch line which runs to Coden. 1 At various stations vegetables on this l line are grown and shipped in early i spring. The industry has assumed con- ] siderable proportions at Theodore, l where practically everybody is engaged I in 1t. But for that matter Mobile with 1 it's splendid climate. and its fit and | appropriate soil has become a great l vegetable producing country. It grows l today and 1t ships northward more l vegetables than any other county of | the State. Just how much the rail- , roads have assisted in bringing about | this condition can hardly be set down.
 further achievement of the rail- l road people is the establishment of a new colony town in Washington County | on tle Selma branch of the Southern,
 the town of Calvert. It is brand new 1 place, having been thrown open to set | tiers only few months The company | which is behind this new enterprise is 1 the Tombigbee Land Company and it
 has bought 102,000 acres of the South l Alabama pine lands. The settlers are l going to raise vegetables and cane. The l company proposes to put up first
 class sugar mill to take and work over
 the cane products from the farms of
 the settlers. A party of twenty-two 1 homeseekers went up to Calvert no
 later than last Friday. J. S. Terrell of
 Chicago is the President of the com | pany and s. B Henderson is its Mobile
 agent with offices in the City Bank.
 Near Calvert the new railroad built
 by John Cochran of Tuscaloosa, the | Tombigbee Valley Railroad joins the
 Southern. This road has already been
 constructed to Healing Springs, a
 distance of forty miles. and work on
 1t continues
 Two Pennsylvanians. Messrs Herrod
 and Mckee. have recently purchased 5000 acres of land in the fatwoods
 in the southern part of Wilcox County.
 It is fine timber lands and the Pennsyl-
 vanians have already put up a modern
 lumber mill.
 After I had gone over a few of the
 principal results of the development
 work of the railroads in South Ala
 bama, w. L. Henderson, holding a prominent position with the Industrial
 Department of the Southern, said:
 Tn addition to these things, in ad-
 dition to the immigration work done 1 by the Birmingham Bureau, we have
 been able to furnish a number of inn
 migrant laborers to various industrial
 plants in South Alabama. For one
 thing large number of Italian labor
 CTS in the lumber mills at Maplesville
 A number of Italians are also employed
 at various lumber mills and from these l mill owners we have received glowing
 accounts of the satisfaction that both
 the Italian and Hungarian laborer 1 gives. These immigrants are satisfied
 and are writing to their fellow coun-
 trymen 10 come to Alabama.
 The labor question is getting more l and more acute. Tn farming and in
 industrial plants it grows. keener. l
 have letters on my desk asking for at
 least 500 laborers.'