The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-28

base in the valley to the crest of the ridge Then he discovered a hne spring of water gushing from twin neighbor of his mountain orchard He fancied the place because of the spring He bought the twin noun tain. cut away the oaks and planted peach trees He built summer house near ths spring for the Major Gener- al. as the farm Superintendent is call ed. The large force of worknen at the farm Is divided into squads like soldiers and they use >the army titles. There.is third mountain close by and Captain Elliott looked fondiy in It's direction when he spoke of the growth of his fruit business
 fsT don't know where it's going to | stop" he said half humorously. i've worked here five years and had 125 men employed most of the time I've put out lots of money here and this is the first year I've gotten any returns But myr' and satisfaction leaped into his face. I've gotten heap of fun out of it.,s
 The cannery. packing sheds. crate houses and stables lie at the base Of | the mountains and 1900 feet below | their crest. All of that green noun l tainside away up wonder in the clouds l is a myriad of peach trees. These black specks that dash in and out among the green are men and boys, hundreds of them, packing peaches, Each picker has a helper The picker is paid two cents a basket His helper gets one and a half cents a basket. 1 Across the mountainside at triangle and about every 200 yards a roadnsay | is cut and the helpers deliver the baskets of peaches to wagons. AS each wagon is loaded the, mules are | driven to one of the stations on the l trolley line--and each road has sta- tion--- where the baskets are suspend- ed to the moving cable to be whiried away to the packing sheds miIe pc. | low in the valley. Each basket of beaches weixhs an average of forty l pounds, ana this running cable Is load- I ed with them all day at distance or | about fifteen feet apart. The weigns l of the loaded baskets coming down the | mountain carries the empty pasAe.s l backup the mountain, on correspona- line cable. The trolley line would run | itself if 1t were not for the Iact tnas 7 1 thag cable goes over the rioge anu | down the other side of the monnea,a' es... | Tha fruit from this side of the noun .a,,, ro,,st he pulled to the top before l .t n.gins it's descent to the pachine .haa Therefore small engine ID .,ses to rropeI the cable and to reeu- ,a.s inc speed of the baskets ooWH s,as .e rs,,.,aa The stations at the mountain
 asa,avs are really towers, sittinh l thirtv-five to forty feet above tne sus face of the mountain Here so I ,nan,, is stationed whose duty .. .nS mass the baskets along tne Tbc to check them as they s ,ns crest ,,,en on the main towers ae .na .hs,
 nS ..s r,auntains have view tha' ts Svasns five or six North Aiaosna I
 couneies .u,o of these trolley lines, l nn each mountain. and the v,cea of four men are reduiree | csive the baskets of fruit at .ns psrn,,, | ,ne sheds. so fast do they comS a.st l the cables The cable line on .hsn nr..sas tba mountain. It Is one anu
 hsis r,iIe long, which means tnLes | ..sin. ~ cable The line on the seeonu l ,aountain is a fraction less tnah oAs
 ini.c ac Irnportant is 1t to move the peacn .ron rirht now that every avalia1.e | wason and team for miles arouna .a r.s I engaged and these wagons ano asasr l IIne the Ashville road from SausuS Srs. 1. | . .he. farm. The Gadsden trelsnt
 sonses are filled with crates or peacn.
 sna thev are going away m eisns s.a tan gar load lots on every treiShe
 sratr The fruit Is graded as extra 1 Sancv. fancy and choice. ana grading is done at the packing hoss~ n,', s,, s~parts. This fruit is selling nov
 from .so .to,. to sssp 2as ortpa, srt,si 'ea of
 sns ElI,ott farm was sold In adVancs
 tn @ ,rui, dealers of Newark. N J sns s pn1sIo. N. Y. None of 1t is to De hao in Alabama. .4,n s fea :
 And there is another interesting tea
 ,,ra of this great fruit farm; Every
 thing used there Is Alabama narssEisS prGes'i in
 Ixl..,s,lia n the crates and baskets are
 r,sae @ in Fort Payne. forty-nvc miles
 away and the handsome nsrs fGurCSOd9e In osds-
 ..o1 ASareover. Mike Casta. breezy
 vemne man of Italian ancestry, who
 looks ike college man, aIsos IS tss tss man sn
 whe sjinervises the packing and the shipping. Tha-A t,s no telling where 1t will end. With
 unlimited money to<give his play