The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-04
ROOM HERE FOR CAPITAL AND SETTLERS.

point an engineer who was called here
to make the survey reported more than
5000 horse power available.
Ready Market in Chipley
For Electrical Power Now
An electric plant would find a ready
market for its output in Chipley now.
for the town. as yet. has no electric plant
and one is in demand. There are also
several small enterprises in the icommun-
ity that would be glad to utilize an
electrical driving force. and there would
be no dearth of market for an extra
supply of current after enough had been
used to light the city streets and build
.ings.
Like other towns in western Florida
and southern Alabama. Chipley is de-
sirous of having interurban trolley car
connections and would contribute its
share to the building Of these roads as
well as adding its quota Of business.
Chipley already has close on to 1000
white inhabitants. the majority Of them
being settlers who have come in from
Michigan. Indiana. Ohio. northern Ala
bama and other states.
Very Few Negroes In And
About the Town Of Chipley
Chipley is peculiarly blessed. for a
Southern town. in having SO few ne
groes, "Cufy" is conspicuously absent.
as well as all other INDECENT people.
for in Chipley one must work to stay
there and the lazy negro does not find
it an attractive place to loaf As most
of the farmers are Westerners. they do
most Of their own work. cultivating
farms of from forty to two hundred
acres. doing the work themselves with
the help Of their families and some hired
white help.
Only in the big turpentine districts
are negroes used to any extent and the
turpentine land has been used to such
an extent they will only give the negroes
employed there work for a few more
years.
Chipley is not partial to negroes.
mainly because of their total indifference
to sanitary laws and refusal. as long as
they can dodge. to take any steps to
preserve good health in a community
or prevent the advent of any contagion.
The shiftless habits and general unclean-
illness makes their absence preferable to
their presence in western Florida.
Chipley Is One of The
Prettiest Towns in Florida
AS result of the absence Of negroes.
Chipley is one of the prettiest towns in
western Florida. The streets have all
been carefully laid out and graded and
long ago great shady oaks were planted
along the sidewalks that have grown
to great stately trees that add home
touch and beauty to the place that very
few towns. even much older than Chip
ley, can boast of.
The residence portions of the town
are made up Of very comfortable cot
tases and houses. all with beautifully
kept grounds, the people vieing with
each other to see who can have and
keep up the prettiest home. With the
aid Of orange hedges, palmetto trees.
roses. and hundred other beautiful
specimens of plant life. the grounds
about the Chipley homes will compare
favorably with those Of any town its
size in the country.
Chipley is a Business Center Of No
Mean Commercial Importance
Being so favoraby situated on the
railroads. Chipley has come to be recog-
nized as one of the headquarters towns
Of the section and has built up a splen-
did mercantile trade for its more than
thirty business houses. All the stores
and Office buildings are made of brick.
and practically all of that brick is FIRE
proof. The big deposits Of 6reproof
clay for brick making near Chipley make
the advent Of common bricks in town
unnecessary.
This brick business promises to be
a great industry in a few years. for
orders for this 6reproof brick are COM
ing in to the local kilns more and more
rapidly as the class of brick becomes
better known, and as the supply is prac-
tically inexhaustible the industry prom
ises to be permanent.
Chipley has two strong banks. both
doing fine business with the town peo-