The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-17
Comparative Cotton Prizes


 "The price paid in Gadsden yesterday 13c for a new bale of cotton-does not measure up to the Huntsville prices" said a former cotton merchant.
 q am rather surprised at that for the cotton marketed in and around Gadsden has always commanded full prices and often a fraction higher than many in terlor markets. One reason for it Is that the Sand mountain staple is longer than the average upland and the great thread manufacturers once made a speciality of buying 1t. Then the bottom products, which were marketed there, were S1so very desirable for their color and staple. Most all red clay lands produce cotton of a rich. creamy color. The river bot toms product is nearly dead white as is the wax lands product of the prairies. After cotton is open, or just when it Is about to open, a fall of frost will tinge it; also where much cotton falls on red soil before being gathered 1t colors it red tinge in passing through the gin.
 If we have late frost 1t is highly probable the crop in this state will go to 100000 bales. or near the high-water mark of 1904-5.
 "It has been an adage of the black belt that the blooms up to September 25 are as good as bolls of cotton, therefore, we may expect the top crop to turn out well. There are three crops and they develop and mature in their order, all things being normal: First the lower crop, next the middle crop, and lastly the top crop. Rust, shedding and other things affect all these to a degree"
 Safety Raxors Bane of Barbers "The safety razor has hit the barber business a blow that I don't think 1t will recover from said a popular barber. 'I used to shave from 100 to 150 men two or three times a week before the safety razor became so much in use; now I am doing we'll if I get 90 to 40 customers. The barbers are being forced back to hair cuts, shampooing and beard trimming. Before the safety razor came first-class barber could turn in checks worth to him $40 to $50 on Saturday nights, now he is doing well if he shows s3O. Barbers receive 50 per cent of the | money they earn for the shop. No, there is no prospect for barbers to use safties' on account of the dif- | hculty in keeping sharpened blades, the different faces the skin. beard, etc" EdgewOOd Line Nearing Completion The construction work on the Edge wood Electric railway is going forward rapidly and the four mile stretch, from the end of the ear line at the head of Twentieth street, through the Edge wood additions in Shades valley, will | be ready for operation within a few weeks. The grading was completed dur tng the summer. The rails have been | laid a good part of the way and the trolley wires are now being strung. The railroad construction is high class | in every respect-solid roadbed, heavy ties, heavy rails and heavy ballast. The rails were made by the Tennessee com pany
 Edgewood is a residence park in the most beautiful part of Shades valley. The streets and drives are being con- structed according to modern models and the sanitary sewers have been built on up-to-date lines.
 A visiting railroad official whose home Is in the east was in Birming- hom this week and spent an afternoon