The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27
WHAT LUMBER AND COTTON
 HAVE DONE FOR JACKSON

bolic of the transitory state in which the commerce and the industry or the south is now in. s.
 The old Land Marks.
 | The Alabama man can never forget the sign manual of the old time Southern village, the wooden building with the front porch where the doc tor. the lawyer, the farmer. who lives
 in the city, the village vagrants ana the husband of. the lady who keeps the boarding house, when they all meet in the shank of the long sum mer afternoon to talk of crops. the political outlook and the latest love
 afrair in the village The Southern man whose childhood memories cius- ter about the peace and beauty of such
 a town, may never forget, though he live and work in New York or San
 Francisco. cam never forget the wood- en building where the shirt sleeved
 crowd gathered of a hot afternoon and
 talked of the things of moment to
 village life.
 He calls to nina the unostentatiots
 structure with its sharp gable roof.
 its broad wooden door and the windows
 with the many panes of glass in them.
 He recalls the verandah with Its plain
 wooden pillars. the cut and nicked
 chairs, and the shavings littering the Ifioor the whole a few steps above the Iunpaved ground. He can shut his Ieyes and see the whole thing again, the
 men in shirt sleeves with their chairs tilted against the wall. and the dogs
 asleep among the shavings. And if he tries to, he can hear again the burst of Laughter that 4greets the latest sally or the village wit
 I Today. the wooden building with the front porch Is the vanishing sign Iof a passing civilization. It is the de-
 coying symbal of a dead order.
 Il The Cement Stores.
 | s.. far aFlH
 eement buildings nbw that run tip to lthe edge of the sidewalk There fs no Ifront porch for whiting and joke tel-
 ling And ie they crowd inside the lclerks jostle against them and the pro , prietor looks at them souriy The present is prosperous. the future IFS i. promising and there is no time for vain ! regrets. Cheek by sovl the new and , tthe old stand together in Jackson, but , Ii. is making its last stand. The new
 is crowding the old off the face Of the , earth. Even. now the old is weak and almost gone.
 E But youth must be served and energy : must come into it's own Progress is the greatest ieonoclast the world has
 ever known. Prosperity has but little , time for sentiment.
 old Jackson and new Jackson sit in the same place, but the appearance of one is not the appearance of the other. 5 mELeulOTpnOSfS The town has all but been rebuilt from
 center to circumference.
 If one forgets a few of the old resi-
 dcnces, If he overlooks the wooden stores and offices. for only few Of them remain. Jackson Is new and modern town. with cleanly built and ! handsome modern homes. Tn truth 1t has more the appearance of new and
 thrifty Alabama town. of which so many have come into being in the past
 few years, than one of the oldest pie
 turesaue villages which it was a few years ago.
 The Chinese, 1t is said, build their villages in the valleys, by the streams , and beside the morasses. They fear the Dragon of the Hill, which they be- ! lieve makes his chosen abiding place . on the hillside Tn this fear they con- ,, ,, struct their homes Tn the low place , , where the dragons of sickness and pes 1, tilence live. But the Chinese neither , know nor fear these twin dragons, SC
 real and fearful.
 , Built on a HIfi.
 The American is wiser. He chooses
 the hills to live upon and if there is a Hill Dragon to be offended, the Amer , ican never knows 1t. It is doubtful if any American ever went to finer hill I to pitch a town than the level plateau z which the town of Jackson crowns. 2 It is an island of land raised high . above the forests and fields of the . surrounding country. This plateau Is v as level as a billiard table, stretches { from east to west for a mile and from : north to south for a mile and half
 Three streams of water touch three . of it's sides, the Tombigbee River. Bas- 4 sett's Creek and Slave Creek.
 The name comes from the days of v Andrew Jackson and his marching and f lighting in Alabama. The town was ' originally along the crest of the hill n by the river. And naturally, for the F river was the highway of trade in the
 great steamboat days, and a river , towns commerce must needs be close ! to the boat landing.
 < But the plateau behind was level 4 pleasant and inviting. The rolling f country behind gradually became dotted : with farms, and the country roads which came into Jackson from behind 2 became more and more travelled each h year, until in time the country roads ], went more to the plateau village than Q the rIver under the hill, from which e it was gradually moving.
 !. In due time the Southern Railroad S built it's line from Selma to Mobile and e skirted the outer edges of the town of = Jackson. It ran by over a mile from e the town but close enough to make l. the place railroad town.
 l. Roads, Railroad and River. - Railroad. country and river have con d tributed to make this town of 2.70C l. people one of the most prosperous n places of it's size within the State. Il '- is more difficult for many reasons tC IS make of an old town a thrifty, ener. g getic and progressive community thar B. to invest with these qualities a new n place with a new start, but Jackson ii d one of several places in Alabama which
 shows that this can be done. And = when it's people begin to talk of the
 towns era of rapid development they
 date back six years which is of itsell interesting, for so many Alabama towni
 do the same thing. Six years, the pas
 six years, seems peculiarly Alabama'i , l finest era of development. So often il : the charmed six years alluded to tha o one is led to believe tha |. the new country is a sort of benin cent godfather to the State of Ala
 bama.
 . Jackson. of course. has been an i'm portant community to its section fo many years" said Mayor Boyles, 'bu it's greatest development has conn
 within the past six years. This is due
 no doubt, to both the high price a
 cotton and the high price of lumber
 Jackson is dependent upon both thes { industries and she gets prosperity iron ! ! their prosperity. High priced cottol ! has put more money into the country I has made the farmer independent am put us all on firm footing.
 So far as Jackson is concerned