The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
BALDWIN IS BEST KNOWN
 ALABAMA COUNTY TO WEST


 wh4 Aeficailv 6SEfsd the entire acre. e4 the c0utftS alsshn|ered that they HAd acres fora 70 3 n about tho same time it dhfered that Northern cap4lA AAE Sakkh&rn settlerD would coM& &14zs yf s9ithble lands could be- 1esx an Ahxsous seller ssisnethiisr d 0iS& Ss1ethinE was doing n Baldwin, &6fne of the lumber conl- panies began &e sell their, cut-oyer lands. One company alone in 1898 sold eishty-1ve fhonsand acres to a land company made na of Chicago capitat- ixts Others sold theirs--some in large and some in small tracts The move4 ment had begun and Baldwin county began to growsafd develop. She is yet only ten to twelve years old. Tn that time she has made wondeftni strides.
 aRfisOe a51 pspu ESon of the entire county was i3.1s4. WoAay We have at 1eApt g sse9o q fps less sthah k5k years the assessed valuation 6f alisproperty, real and personal, has beeng more than creased expenditures made necessary by our rapid growth, and has increased the tax rate only from $1.30 to $1.35 per $l00. We have passed the experi- mental stage. We no longer think we can raise peaches, plums, pears. figs anu 6N0VtAs " e tkflVH It, " WG LUEntS0 the earliest and best peaches which reach the Chicago. markets. Baldwin produces cotton, snEnr cane. rice corn and oats, and riants thousands of acres each year. Here we raise and market the best 1giShssanR. fYeAt .potatoes fin the A sg s gs s9as & s3lgse s,Is pesatpss Tss BA fdwdh cSatFER Sweet pUtafo is in great dsHiahd' wherever it has been marketed.
 More than 300 car loads of cncnm- bers, cantaloupes, and melons were shipped from Baldwin last season with in fourteen weeks, and of these SS5 cars were shipped from four little sta- tkons Un the new road. known as the Ra- Minette and Foley branch of the great Louisville and Nashville system. There are more than 5000 acres set in peach orchards. Next season the acreage which will be planted to melons alone sin Baldwin county will exceed the total acreage of all crops in the county in the year 1898.
 = Rstn6n1hs tfia -hsassE aad various ,waysa Of, rsaeAi4g both the Pensacola and Mobile markets by faff ana water, and the, .innumerable points, along the bay and rfVer points from which d. rect shipments can be made. if will not seem so strange that no exact data can be given az to the quantity of truck stuffs and fruit which are taken each season into those markets.
 The value of our land is not nfea- sured by the nuh1ber of feet of timber on them. as heretofore. but by the pro- fits which can be made in fruit. grain, cotton. cane and vegetables. If such an enormous business can be done while we have but one person to every thirty-six square miles. and have but 'nnsl railroad dewn to ana etapping the best part df ouryeosAftys hwhat may be 0@hxns usfF pBfGiati6n is much .erAateRS asI Abr snrHsN win bd; and we have esuach tfFanRpo facilities as will meet actual greauifsments7 Being situatAd midway between two such markets and growing cities as Mobile ana Pensaeolas we are. destined to tor- ever sllpplv. their markets ' and taking their prospaeta Into consideration there will be no limit to the possibilities