The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-02
GADSDEN A REVELATION
 TO ALABAMA EDITORS

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 csadsden Is revelation. The man who goes there with vague idea of sleepy city in the hills of North Ala bama, too near Birmingham to De oI first rank importance i,sn In the sndda,r'al hlra
 When one learns that seven or the many industries of Gadsden have in- vested S21.25o.000 and that the monthly pay roll approximatss ssoe'eyo ms s,,at oim capital of Etowah County is swept away. When he learns that nearly sSos- l 900 00o is invested In coal mines, lime- stone and lime quarries, and ore mines l in the Gadsden district and that the an- nuai mercantile trade of Gadsden ex- elusive of manufacturing IS S5,Vov,Vov, he begins to take notice of the import l coosa valley The visitor looks about I him and sees a well edudipDed electric street railway system. five lines or raii- ] roads, gcod street lighting system, paved streets and sanitary sewerage, | substantial business buildings of mod [ ern design. thiee barks. Carnegie IT. i brary. numerous public school build- 1 ings. handsome churches. fine resi- I dences with broad, we'll kept lawns, and he begins to realize that Gadsden 2 | clain1 ats one of the chief cities of the 1 State has good foundation. These are some Of the haa,i things jsa rns5 .nai when they visited Gadsden last week :, I The loyal people of Gadsden will tell you that the population Is 14,oee. the 1 Government census notwithstanding ] They win declare that the receipts of l the Gsdsdsn rostoffice give It foursn l place ir the list of Alabama cities. 1 This shuts out Selma, Annistcn, Hunts ] vilIe and Tuscal,,osa, but you cant ar- | gue with a Gadsden man when he Is ] marshalling the advantages of Cadsden. Therc was d postofiice on the site ! of Gadsden as early as 1856, but II was | called Double Springs. In lS4s the I foundatIon os the present city was laid I by Gabriel Hughes. Joseph Hughes and | John $. Moragne. Their descendants are now prominent men and women m | ed for the South Carolina patriot. Gem | eral Cadsden.
 The location of the oity is ideal. U ] is at the base of Lookout Mountain i which towers on the west. The wind 1 ing Coosa iaves it's eastern border. The | city nestles in this fertile valley wnoss | Here we fnd wheat. corn, cotton, to-
 bacco and all kinds of fruits ana mel l ons growing as ncighbors. Before th. I awakening of the dormant mineralss ol ! Alabaraa Gadsden was trade centel for farmers of seven or eight coantleS l In developing the minerals the agr..
 saltnral interest a, was not oneriooke, onfr oS,
 bales of cotton. but oadsden receives I SO.000 bales annually and it is Gads'
 den's boast that 1t is the only manu
 
 five on its trade from the country
 aiggsi Tsis coosa vaiiey from eadsden t' I AttaIla six miles distant. seems to b'
 alive with industries. They range f
 importance from knitting mills, em ploying girls to the immense steel plan
 Of the Schulers with its millions in vested. This big plant is at Alabami II Clty half way down the Valley iron Il Gadsden. Here also is the great cot ton mills of the Dwight Manufacturfns
 Company with It's ceascless hum Q loom and spindle, is said tna5 a sn'
 steel mill and cotton mill are oper
 ated side by side.
 An electric car line connects Attalli
 with Gadsden and cars run up an.
 down the valley on either side of whicl
 are thousands of comfortable homes Q
 white people. This is a White Coun
 ty,'' you know, and not great man
 Hew They Get Industries.
 The business men of the Gadsder 1 district are an enterprisinE Not. Thes l learned long ago that to build theil
 country they must work In harmons
 money. They realized that to bring 1T
 new people, they must have industries l to give these people enployment Ant l SO Ihe man with a bona fide proposi . l ton to increase the pay roll of Gads l den can get a quick trade. high now Gadsden is batting, itself on th'
 back Sbecause t has succeeded |, !,
 had been sold to the southern Railway
 It will not only keep the big plant
 but It's capacity will be doubled. l | took sg,0O0, they say to turn the trici
 but what is $S,000 when Gadsden get
 an assurance of a pay roll Of S9O,oo'