The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-23

and so cover greater territory and In less time than even the six or seven allow.
 FloraIa is booming, not the mush- room growth of a typical land boom town. but with steadiness that in- result of this achievement and worth. the real estate prices are advanoing.l not in a prohibitive measure, but land that six years ago brought s1o an s2O0 to $500 a lot. and 1t is being bought rapidly.
 There Is nothing cheap about the way things are being done. All the business houses are made of brick or stone, and the streets are laid off with an eye to a great development.
 Most of the thoroughfares are 100 feet wide. from curb to curb. and many of the sidewalks are already paved
 The streets and houses are all light ed with electric lights, big arc light being placed at every crossing. The town has complete tile end concrete sanitary and storm sewerage system. telephone company operating nearly 500 phones and making connections with the long distance lines every where.
 EVERY CONVENIENCE.
 A person coming to Florala would not miss a single convenience that is found in the largest cities. and would find manX things that cities cannot get for love or money.
 The climate is all that anyone could ask, mild, both in summer and winter, and there Ia scarcely summer night the other hand q killing frost, out of season. has never been known.
 TWO BIG RAILROADS.
 ln00 Hm hnG been the making of /Florala. IL was known as e most. desirable resort be- fore they came. for It's healthful clt- mate and mineral springs drew inva. lids and pleasure seekers from all parts of the country. but the railroads opened 1t for business. and opened 1t wide.
 place has bred a town spirit that com pels a cohesive business relationship between the men of the communitv. commonwealth in way that would make even an unattraotive and aA- setless. place grow. but this spirit. Floraia has, is advancing the place and its industries in most remarka- ble manner.
 But outside of the commercial op- tiveness of the lake and Its agricul. turals and manufacturing openings" Florala has other assets.
 GREAFI UNExPLORED CAVES.
 A few miles from the city in each direction, are two huge caves. parts of which are still unexplored. Men have penetrated for over four miles in one of them and the end has not beeu and this material has been extensively used in building the foundations of many Of che he houses, houses 3f coylnEson
 What the area of these. great caves is Is a mathematical problem that u would take a corps of engineers years to solve.
 awe inspiring natural beauty that it Is worth trip across the continent to see. Beginning in a series of small rooms. the great openings grow lar ger and larger until chambers are reached that resemble the naves Oe the grand cathedrals of Europe.
 Nature has decked them In wealth of stalactites and stalagmites that in the glare of the pine torches scintiiate and reflect the light in chaos of prismatIc color, making the plac" seem veritabIe fairyland.
 Through a side way In one Of she caves. the explorer reaches the brink of a ehaam. the depth of which can only be guessed at. No light, no mat. ter how powerful. has ever penetrated the great depth. and although some hmSro uuwound ball after ball of cord In an sndeavor to reach che bottom.