The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-01
COUNTY HAS FERTILE FARMS Is Imperial Agricultural
 Center. REAL ESTATE PRICES FIRM Soil of County is Very Pro
 ductive. aa Farms Peculiarly Adopted to General Agriculture sad Truck Farning Makins state Desirable For
 Thrifty Immigrants.

Montgomery. the imperial agricultu- ral county of the State, boasts the greatest civic asset of the farmer in the South,-good roads. This asset challenges the admiration of the whole Southern States. Why should 1t not. when 1t is recorded that more than sixty per cent of the countys roads are improved at e cost of $2,o00. 900. The total public road mileage of the county is $50. ani of this 337 miles are improved presenting the greatest of delights to the traveller and valu- able transportation advantages to the farmer of the community and the mer- chant of the city. It is but another guarantee of cheaper living in future than in the past.
 Certainly no real estate in the State is enjoying more stability in price than that of Montgomery county. Her acres have only smiled at the worldwide disasters of the industrial panic, and sures from the fertile soil.
 Real estate in the county is valued at $19.032.0e5 by the tax assessor. and personal property Is totalled by the same officer at ss.s75.so In the past ten years the total taxable values of the county have increased from $20.- 006.6s to s2s.057.s0s which is about forty five per cent.
 A county offering thousands of acres of very fertile farming lands adapted alike to general agriculture and truck farming .traversed by roads running into the city of Montgomery in sixteen different directions. belted with trunk lines running in half as many directions themselves,-it Is a combination that will some near day become the Fl Dorado of the anxious and desirable immigrant.
 For 1908 1t was shown that the pro- ducts of the county gathered from the farm amounted, with the livestock owned here. to s7.3o6.s45 of which s2,- 700, 900 was derived from tfla cotton crop. and sss4,o00 from cotton seed alone.
 TO be exact. there are under culti- vation in the county 2e5.000 acres. This includes no less than sixteen tractive and valuable type is the Houston clay which may be mis- leading term to the non-agrieulturist, since 1t is best signifed by the local name of black prairie'' soil.
 whiieAa good portion A6t the county partakes of the prairie formation there are fconsiderabia stretches that are more than rolling. Some places attain to an elevation of goo feet apoVe sea ieyei Whlts tne general average of the county is about 800 feet The valley lands are chiefly on the Alabama and Tallapoosa river. The county otherwise abounds in small CT streams and creeks that furnish a water shed of extreme fertility.
 The surface of the black belt Is level to gently rolling with a relief of twenty to forty feet from ridges to stream trough. The lie of the land in this county while not of the rough. bluff, broken type. is still sufflciently unduiating to furnish system of splendid natural drainage which has a tendency to evenly distribute the rainfall. All portions of the county are made accessible by good roads which have been built at a great expense to the county and there is not a space of two and one half miles in which there is not school house.