The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-06
GREAT STRIDES IN
 GENERAL INDUSTRY
[. M. LOVeIaCe of BreWton Talks
 on Prosperity
LUMBER TAKES THE LEAD
Alabamian Tells of Industrial Develop nent of the State and How Good Crops and Other Resources
 Are Helping Progress.

 Perhaps none of the industries in Ala bsma has gone forward with such big strides as the preparation of lumber for the manufacturing concerns of this coun- try and Europe" said E. M. Lovelace of Brewton, Ala, president of one of the states big lumber corporations, at the Raleigh last night. MT. Lovelace. with 1 the members of his family, is in Wash l ington for a few days, after having visited the Jamestown exposition, Atlantic City and New York.
 Industrial conditions in Alabama are keeping pace with the general evidences of prosperity throughout the country" continued Mir Lovelace, but in my own line the development has been something phenomenal. Throughout the timber lands of the south lumber companies are fourish.ng, and the men engaged in the business are making money, but De- neve the business has reached the heyday of it's wealth-producing power. The prlce of lumber today probably is as hish as it will go; I might say that l believe the price of lumber is too high, and just what has forced it up is question nave
 
 found a lumberman who was able to give me a satisfactory reason as to the re- markable advance in the value or this product. It certainly is not due to the scarcity of the product We are getting today four times as much for our output as we got during the days immediately following the Spanish-Amercan war. And yet with this increase in the value of lumber the cost of the manufactured goods has not advanced correspondngly.
 My company owns several large tracts of t.nher lends. and wa are to'r'ng Cat about 100000 feet of lumber everv day chiefly yellow pine. Probably half Of our product is exported and the rest goes into the interior, to the furniture manu- featuring centers. Not many years ago vast areas of timber lands in the south could have been purchased anywhere from S1. .60 to $2. 50 an acre These same lands and others of similar grade are today worth around $40 per acre. Some day these lands will be utilized for the pro duction of crops, but now they are chiefly valuable for the timber that Is on them, and so great is the demand, both in our own and the foreign markets, for the southern yellow pine that 1t is difficult for the mills to keep up with their or ders.
 "A similar condition of prosperity is found in the south in other industrial lines We will have a big crop of cotton this year. Prices good and the south ern planter is making money. Our tex tile mills are scarcely able 10 obtain all the la bor they need and there is no occa- sion for the man dependent upon his labor to go without work Money is piling up in the banks. much of it the savings of the wage-earner. and on every hand there is abundant evidence of the prosperity the south is now enjoying"
  what occurred is the memory they enter tain of the delusions which they had al the time.
 He told of the system of the conduct of the wards and the reasons for the chang L ing of patients from one ward to an other. He stated also that he thought f. quite probable that the surrounding of a. patient with other patients was not at all hurtfu to his condition; that 1t probably home, among them being.
 l pr. Partlow also furnished the com mittee with much information on vari- ous subjects.
 Foster on the Stand.
 Hon. ]. M. Foster of this place next took the stand. He stated that he was one of the trustees of the institution that Dr. Searcy had always been in 0 choice of the trustees for superintend- ent while he was there, and that at the last election he was unanimously l chosen. Judge Chiffon stated that he introduced the witness for the purpose of correcting a rumor to the effect that Dr. Searcy had last been elected by only one majority
 pr. J. l.. Williamson was next put on the stand. He testified that he is one of the trustees. that he had often ex- amined the institution by going over 1t and looking into It's affairs that he thought it was well managed. When asked if he tn ought things could be improved he replied yes, but said that it would require great deal more money: that he did not think 1t could possibly be better managed with the same amount of money; that he re- garded Dr. Searcy as unquestionably the ablest man he knew for the place, and that his life and labor had all been for It's good and benefit that there was no desire on the part of the auth ori- ties to retain patients here; that on the contrary they were always glad to let them go when they could. He said that he was present at the time Harton was released, and that Dr. Searcy was unwell and that he represented him. that he told his attorney that if tn ey could be assured of his being put where it would be agreeable and not dangerous to other people, they would be glad to have him go; that he thought this was perhaps resisted but not by Dr. Searcy.
 After pr. Williamson, A. B. Me Tachin, Jr., a justice of the peace, was called He testified that he held the inquest over Hines body and that the verdict had been that he came to his death naturally from a fall on bench.
 pr. George Law of this place also testified that he was present at the in ouest and examined the body of Hines and reached the same conclusion.
 The committee then adjourned and left this afternoon on the $40 train for Birmingham.
 Reaching for Territory.
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