The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-04

Chipley. Washington County. Flor
ida. Is brand new town. Is years old.
New. because it IS just beginning to
take hold Of things. just realizing its
strength. although il has been in exist
ence twenty-five years.
twenty-five years ago there were
thousand people in the town, one year
ago there were fourteen hundred, to-
day the town is estimated at more than
fifteen hundred and they are still COM
ing in.
Chipley and the surrounding country
have something TO offer the capitalist
and the settler. The capitalist can find
a dozen things that will pay splendid
returns. and it IS safe to say that the
settler can find no better paying asri-
cultural territory. anywhere.
As home. Chipley, offers health in
the FIRST place. and plenty Of it. The
town is not masquerading as health
resort. for it does not want mass Of
INDECENT. helpless or dying people to
pour into it. but the fact remains. sick
people who come to Chipley get well.
One explanation that is given Of the
places healthfulness is that the water
is good and there is plenty Of it. Wash
ington County is underlined with lime
stone, it crops out in many places. and
the stone forms natural filter. that
makes practically every deep well total
" pure.
The slightly rolling land makes a per-
feet drainage system and therefore the
standing water that is mosquito breed
ing place and cess pool for the sermina-
ton Of disease in so many places. is abb
sent in the vicinity Of Chipley
Chipley has FIVE principal assets
health. good land. timber. transporta-
ton facilities. and good people.
The several lakes in the vicinity OF
the town. lakes in which the water is
constantly changing. because they are
really big springs, make the place ex-
ceptonally attractive to the capitalist.
because there are many ideal factory
sites. The town is on the direct line Of
the Pensacola and Atlantic branch Of
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
but ten miles from the Atlanta and St.
Andrews Bay Railroad. running d.
recty north and south. and will soon
have its own north and south road.
making direct connections between the
Louisville and Nashville. The Atlantic
Coast Line. and the Central Of Georgia
Railroads through Chipley to St. AN
drew's Bay. the port that will control
the Atlantic Seaboard trade. when the
Panama Canal is open.
Through these railroads, Chipley is
in direct communication with every city
in the United States. and through the
port on the Culf~of Mexico it is in d.
rect communication with South Amer
lea and Europe. and when the canal is
open. it will have the whole mercantile
world at its door.
But besides its advantages as a man
ufactrring center. Chipley has another
great drawing card to play. Farm land.
farm land that produces. and produces
at profit often of fifty percentum to
the investment annually.
The farms about Chipley produce all
the great staples in profusion. this sea-
son the corn. principally because of the
advent Of the Williamson Corn Method,
will average for the entire section over
40 bushels to the acre. many of the
farmers will get eighty bushels and those
who fall below the 40 bushel average.
will do so only because Of lack Of at
tention to their fields. for the land will
yield the corn if it has the proper care.
and proper care does not mean lavish
fertilization. but cutting grass and some
cultivation with a plOw. when a plow
is needed.
Cotton. although making nearly
bale to the acre. on an average. on the
lands about Chipley. is not the mainstay
Of the planters. The good corn yields
and the ready market for corn in the
vicinity, and also the wonderful results
obtained in forage and truck growing.
has eIbowed cotton for a place. Be-
sides there are so many western farmers
living in the vicinity of Chipley who
have introduced new crops that pay
more than cotton and are more to be
relied on. that cotton. in this section Of
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