The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-03

1 valuations last year amounted to about | S200O0 000 running the total up to $344,- 1 O00000. This showing is a good one for the | whole state and there are many who be- l lieve that the year ending next October ! will show a great deal more than last.
 The board of assessment assesses the 1 roads in the state on rolling stock, tracks, l main line and sdings, and right of way. | It does not take into account the depots,
 section houses or depot equipment. The 1 value shown by the last assessments are given as follows: Railroads, $53,926,026;
 telegraph lines, $572, 274; long distance tele-
 phone lines, $21S,S20.
 l Davis Named.
 Clarendon Davis of Madison county was
 today appointed vice president of the Ala l bama Cotton association to succeed Dr.
 J. A B. Lovett, whose office became | vacant when he announced a few days l ago for state commissioner of agricul- ] ture The announcement was made by l resident Seymour, who considers that he
 has a good man for the p1ace in all es- l sentials
 MT Davis is a young man and a pro | gressive farmer. He has run his place on | advanced lines and has increased its pro- l ductiveness 100 per cent since he began to 1 work it. He Is a practical crop diversitier, | raising wheat, corn and cotton as staples,
 but every other thing he needs to keep
 the place going. He is also a stock raiser | and has made marked success at it. He 1 was member of the Alabama executive | committee of the cotton association last
 year and has attended every meeting of the state association as well as the New 1 Orleans conventions.
 Mir Davis will assume his new duties at
 once. President Seymour notified him of
 his appointment today.
 Wheeler Memorial.
 The Wheeler memorial held at the city
 council chamber this evening was one
 of the most elaborate things of it's kind | ever held in the city and state. In his l talk of the general in Congress and in | the Spanish American war, Gen. w. C.. Oates spoke of many interesting inci-
 dents not heretofore made public. Gen
 eraI Oates had the honor to serve with General Wheeler in the Confederate army, 1 iH Congress and then with like rank in l the Spanish-American war.
 There were several other speakers who l paid high tribute to his worth and life 1 Besides Commandant Tyler Goodwin of i the local camp, there were present George | w. Duncan, commanding the Alabama division, and Dr. Thomas M. Owen, com mander-in-chief of the federation. Mrs. 1 Leon Well recited ''Wheeler at Santiago" and Miss Georgia Thomas, young daugh- 1 ter of Judge William H. Thomas, "Old | Joe N1eeleT. mTS. .. h. NdSHDuIu SiIlB 1 'Dixe' and male quartette rendered 1 Maryland. My Maryland"
 Five-mnute talks on the life of Wheeler were made by a dozen veterans of the war including Col Harvey Jones' adju- tant general of the Alabama division.
 To Fathers Funeral. 1 The warm heart of the Governor was shown again today when he paroled j..
 w. Long of Mobile county that he might l go home to the burial of his father, T. A. l Long, who died at Mobile yesterday. Long is a convict serving since 1903 8 sentence of five years for assault with | intent to murder. Application was made l to allow him to go home. The message reached the office of the governor yes- i terday and was at once wired by Private l Secretary J. Kirk Jackson to Governor l Jelks at River Falls, where he is spend | ing a few days. Today MT. Jackson re- l ceived notice from the executive to grant l the application, the free time to extend
 to February 12 The following endorse ment was made on the papers:
 This man. convicted from Mobile l county for assault with intent to murder, and who has served three years of his
 five years sentence. is hereby paroled | for a period of ten days, to-wit: Until l the morning of the 12th instant, to at Ptend the funeral of his father, T. A Long, 1 who died at Mobile on the 1st instant. l l Sunday"
 Poole Will Not Run. | Commissioner of Agriculture R. R. Poole has announced positively that he will not be in the race for any political l office at the coming primary. He states that he is satisfied with his l political honors and that now he proposes l to go back to his plantation. Mir Poole is large and wealthy planter of Mar engo county and is one of the most popu- | lar men in the state.
 He was frequently mentioned in con- nection with the office of state treasurer l but he declines to run. Walter Seed of l Tuscaloosa county, who made a splendid race for the place at the last election, is now out for the office. He is a popular and well known citizen
 Negroes Subscribe.
 There was good attendance at the reg lilar monthly meeting of the Montgomery County Cotton association at the county i court house this morning.
 MT Gay reported that after a canvass | of half of the country beats in the county l by County Organizer Williams, Major A. B. Brassel and himself nearly $15,000 of l stock in the new warehouse company of the county association had been sub scribed at par. by bona fide farmers 1 Some of these were colored farmers, who appear very much interested in this move 1 ment to get fair price for cotton pro- l ducts, by the men who toll to make this world wide necessity, cotton.
 l It is the programme for the producers of cotton. in this county, to be thoroughly 1 identified with the Cotton Growers ware house, to be located in this city, to own $S0 600 of the $50000 of it's stock. and there l is no doubt but that complete canvass of the country beats will produce this 1 much desired result.
 Offers have been made by local capital l ists and by large landowners, who reside | in Montgomery, to take all of the $50 900 stock, but the policy of the association | is to place a majority of the stock with acfnal producers.