The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-23
COTTON.

COINONs
 Tn spite of the awakened interest in truck farming and other land culture, cotton still holds sway to great ex- tent with many of the planters. With the advent of the Panama canal and the Orient laid open. this great staple will be increased in acreage instead of reduced.
 Railroad, now terminating at Lock- hart, a saw mill town mile from Florala. will be run through to the roads main line that will soon be built. to Pensacola. and Florala will be in close touch with the road on its way from Pensacola to the Atlantic Coast
 The Louisville and Nashville Rail- road now passes through Florala on its way to Eastern and Western Flor ida and the competition between the roads being keen. rates for freight are obviously low.
 WATER POWER.
 The Yellow River, ten miles from Fiorala, gives promise of extensive water power development for electric purposes and when 1t Is opened up will furnish the town enough electric drive to run half dozen plants that are be- ing contemplated
 The first of these plants. or the one that is drawing the most attention, Is a cotton mill. It Is understood that the lumber inerests are contemplating the
  cleared areas and will plant the same in cotton. That there Is room for a cotton mill in the vicinity of Florala Is understood by the business men ana the local newspaper and thinking men are advocating the idea.
 Hundreds of bales of cotton are handled through Florala every year and much Of the staple Is planted near town. The prospect of electrical pow CT from the Yellow River and the fact territoTy s oM1 and aiso ss tSe avai"biIity of much mill labor has about convinced the people of Floraia that cotton mill IS what they 5H now oda.sL,,o.,on need; |. novelty works and furniture manu- factory: Besides the yellow pine, there Is much hard wood in Southern Ala would keep the furniture factory busy for more than hundred years
 manufactory for boxes is also be- cause of the good results that have been achieved from eattle-raising. derbfusS feed the ene ysnr en around for cattle, but at present this industry Is somewhat overshadowed by the better known industries.
 The greater part of the land about Florala has been divided into building lots for the enlargement of the town, and most of the land has been more or less cleared The land about Lake Jackson Is ideal for summer and win ter homes, part of 1t being in Florida. some fifty feet above the surface of the lake the elevation of the lake being tho highest in Florida, and wooded thick with oaks. pines. hickory and many hard woods.
 REAL ESTATE.
 Since last October nearly fifty new homes have been built by people who have come to Florala for their health. staid at the hotels e few days, and then decided to build their own homes and live here-some for a part of the year, but most of them making Flo rala their permanent home.
 These houses are all of tine first class. few of them costing less than S2,000. and many of them costing many thou sands Of dollars. Some of the pretti- est homes in Alabama are to be seen in Florala and their appearance. set way back in great oak and pine groves, lends the place, an elegance that assures per- maneney.
 Realizing this. an automobile speed way and boulevard are being built en- tireiy around thA lake, a distance of many miles. and the good roads of the vicinity have already drawn many mo- tor cars to the town. The roads are SO good and so well kept that many of the travelling salesmen who reach the town come in their own motor cars.