The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-23
IA GLANCE AT THIS CROW
 ING CITY OF OPPORTUNITIES.

IA GLANCE AT THIS GROW
 ING CITY OF OPPORTUNITIES. Florala offers more Inducements to the home-seeker than that individual can make a choice from in. a week spent in careful selection. The town fer the capitalist for investment. such that have brought even men like F; H. Hartman to a dead point when they Ao aid out in generous streets from the shores of beautiful lake Jackson, the aeids. s on % one side and the piney woods on the other, healthful. businees-iike and prosperous. Handsome residences along % the lake shore. and along the principal streets are stores that would look we'll in any community. In these stores Is the ond. town p5ssse tbst are tSenticai with those of the city stores. There Is not one article for sale Tn the stores of the big cities than cannot be nougnt n Fiorafa The streets are nghteds the place plentifully supplied with the purest artestan water and the houses have every convenience that Is founa 'h The 'IS pSroperty % is protected by fire department that for city or US sixe has no peer anywhere.
 In different parts of the town SniIt. and for order and freedom from crime crime and vice. Florala has no further degree to reach. sa srs and cosy ana conspicuousiy clean One of them Is on the snore ot tns lake and a. more charming little nos tiery it would be hard to ma i.s srast a niazzas are a haven of retreat. Tna cool lake breezes are ever presenI on them and from their shady luxury view of the entire lake ia had.
 lake Jackson Is an attraction to any lover of Natures most artistic work. As blue as tine Gulf Stream. yet trans formed into burnisned Siivsr Wnen ,1St ths ths lake is a delight to the eye. Every- where the wealth of barbaric color IS accentuated by the darker huss or , tns leaf pine forests. black against the s,nset the color scheme lightens 70 AiXs-green and to the shore runs the garAut of every known snaae oa sres" BEAUTIFUI. SAIL DOTTED
 LAKE JACKSON,
 Vet beauty is not all Lake Jackson haa to offer. The lake Is teeming Eltn trout and other fish. and when evehink set ont from the banks and the lake ts dotted for hours with the joyous Ang. iers Daily are exhibited trout caught in the lake: ,OI welsnh1ng hsauty rom that wiIi tip the scales at ten. The supply of fish ia inexhaustible. but the town people are taking no chances. for they order from time to time car loads of nsh from the Government fisheries to Keep fine evenings catch up to the mark.
 A more delightful winter or summer rNsort Is not to be found anywhere and the way new houses are sprtnglnE up on every side attest the attraction it has for those who wander here. pause awhile. and remain.
 
 BEAUTY NOT ALL THAT IT OFFERS.
 But the lotus-like charm of Florala as a resort for wealthy persons is not all that is to be found in this section of Covington County. Several years ago the knowing ones were told of the long leaf pine fsrests and the wealth the trees held. Out of hearing of the town, but with their smoke visible from the city limits. great saw mills are tearing dollars from the vir- ain forests. The mills give employ ment to hundreds and hundreds of workers their payrolls combined reach ing thousands and thousands of dollars a week.
 With the careful conservation of the timber tracts. that is the policy of the mill men. the supply of timber is practically inexhaustible. Only trees ot a certain size are cut and although the mills cut in the neighborhood of 100000 feet of lumber each day. they