The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-24

 come. the way is open, the hour has struck.
 The tide of progress Is getting south ward Go West young man." was the advice of thirty years ago. But times chance. Go South young man" Is the advice of today. It is the South and not the West, which is now so ripe in. chances. The tide ,of progress moves southward. it's volume augmented with every month. The South has become ProspsFity's chosen place of abode.
 Montgomery Is the heart of the South. With due respect to every oth- CT interest, agriculture more than any other one thing makes for Southern prosperity. It has been estimated that 90 per cent of the wealth of the South
 is of and immediately dependent upon agriculture. And as fast as manu
 featuring, as fast as mining. as fast as commerce has grown. they have de- velnped no faster than agriculture. No Southern city Is so we'll estab- lished to get the best from agriculture as Montgomery. It Is in the richest farming section of Alabama The most fertile fields of the State are at the very gates of the city. A hundred towns built up from the trade of tho farms draw their goods from MontEom- cry. The wfregrass section. famed for the farmers prosperity throughout the South, is the acknowledged trade ter ritory of Montgomery. Right or left | whichever way one may turn the same is true of other parts of the best of Alabama's soil
 The Farmers Good Days.
 The Alabama farm has never known l the prosperity that 1t knows today In the palmiest days of Plush Times. ! in Alabama" the farm was not so rich | as it is today. No such chapter of ag- ricultural prosperity has ever been
 written as that of the past four years | In Alabama and in the South. Cotton gas at top notch figures and 1t has 1 lCt sunk to any figure that prevents q man from making money in growing
 It. The Alabama farmer has made more | money than he ever made before. Ithere are more of him than there ever ! was before, the country merchant has | sold more goods than he ever sold be- | fore, he Is carrying more goods than | he ever carried before, and MontgonI- | cry, the head fountain of commerce for | the Alabama merchant and the Alaba-
 una farmer is sending forth more goods | than she ever sent out before and talk l ing in more money than she ever took l In before.
 But is Montgomery getting the best 1 she can from this splendid situation? She Is not. She is not reaping In full I people for 1910" Is an aggressive or ! ganized movement to bring her into 1 her own. It Is a determined effort to [ get what is hers
 The mineral district Of Alabama has been well advertised and in being ad- | vertised, it. advertised Alabama. Com pared to the agricultural resources of 1 the State the mineral district has | been over advertised, but 1t Is all to the | general prosperity of the State.
 But the mineral district is just beyond 1 the doors of Montgomery. A few dozen miles, is all the haul that coal has to have. Which means that Montgomery | gets cheaper coal, perhaps, than any | other city which Is not located tmme- | 5iatelv in the mineral district. The situation has an important bearing upon l Montgomery as a manufacturing cen | ter Water is to be had for almost nothing Coal is at the city's doors | Fuel coal Is brought from the mines on q dollar-a-ton rate. In reaching the
 goal in attaining the 1910 mark Of loo,- ] GOO people, the development of he[ manufacturing interests will be one of | the most important works that Mont | gomery will have undertaken
 Her Fine Advantages.
 1 As for railroads, Montgomery c1n 1 compete with the most favored oi
 Southern cities. From her situation on | the Alabama, railroads radlate Tn every l direction She is as a hub with every
 spoke a railroad. Or as heart from | which radiate great arteries, along
 which the life blood of commerce i'ows and pulses. She is linked to the out
 side world m closeness and in conVen- | fence -
 Her rates are the very best I'eI
 river is respon sible for this Ana ho' | only has the river contributed this F direct blessing upon Montgomery, on' l it has given the city a great highway
 of commerce through the richness ol
 middle and South Alabama The oofts
 that ply the Alabama bring her money | and carry her goods.
 Montgomery, in the language or gre
 street has the goods.
 She has every essential for the ouilo- | ing of a great city. That she mas ln | the harder times of the past failed tc
 wage her to her great advantages, tha' she failed to grasp the best of her op- portuniti IS is nothing that should stand
 in the way of her rapid development
 Had she been as live to her own inter
 ests, as wide-awake to her own ad'
 vantages as she now Is, there wouI1
 at this time be no call for city o'
 100 900 people Tho people would haV'
 been here already. But she wash
 fully alive; she wasn't fully awake
 Aid as much as was done in the past
 Montgomery never touched the com
 pass of her field. To give her dues' t