The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-06
ALFALFA is GROWN
IN MISSISSIPPI
Wheat Crop Is Now Becoming
Staple Product
A NEW RAILROAD LINE
Line From HaIeyvilIe to Corinth.
New Train Service Also BY
the Southern Railway

| falfa apd wheat are Delng grown III Tins
| section In abundance. During the past
| two years enough alfalfa has been grown
| in this county to cause the Southern Al
| falfa company, concern backed by Guy
| c. Hamilton of Augusta, Ga, to select
Columbus as headquarters for them. They
will purchase lands near a railroad some
where in this section, build a plant on
this land and manufacture alfalfa prod
ucts adjoining the fields where the plant
is grown. The lands will be purchased
within the next few months. The COM
pany has ample capital. Many of the
farmers III this section are planting crop
after crop of the plant. A ride through
the black belt that is south of Okolona,
Miss down to Scooba, Miss, over the
Mobile and Ohio railroad, reveals field
after field of waving alfalfa, and reports
from each planter of it show attractive
profits.
From Steens, Miss, in eastern Lowndes
county, this state, u miles from Column
bus, comes the news that planters in that
section are growing wheat. The fields are
said to be in fine condition The plant Is
healthy anod the weather has been ideal
for its growth. Many acres are being
planted, for last season several farmers
pledged themselves to plant certain
number of acres each, and give the
scheme good tryout The result is said
to be Sc successful and will unquestion-
ably rebound so splendidly In saving
money fol- those who did make this exper-
iment, that next season will witness large
wheat fields all through this section.
Indeed, those who showed forethought
enough to plant this crop will realize
enough wheat to not only satisfy their
own farms from it's derivities, but they
will harvest enough to ship to other towns
for sale to foreign millers.
within the next II months there Is every
indication that the Illinois Central will
have a through line from Haleyville,
Ala, which, of course, will make compe-
tition exceedingly keen, and open up a
fertile country. John Cochrane, who
statted the Carrollton (Alabama) Short
Line at Reform, Ala, and ran 1t to Alice
vile, has extended 1t about 40 miles fur
Their south past Geiger, Ala, booming
town. Mr.. Cochrane's Tomhigbee Val
ley railroad is now running from Mobile
u OllaS, AID, o. fIllltS. IL 10 SdiQ iC
is pushing work on both ends of the
Short Line and Tombigbee Valley, and
when &C. miles have been put in these
roads will form one good line-Reform
to Mobile. This is certainty. Excur-
slons are being run over the Short Line,
south OF Geiger. and the country is being
opened and investors are welcomed, be-
! ing shown every attention.
| TO make the case more interesting, the
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| ly, unostentatiously and adroitly building
| their privat road northeast from Steens
Miss, 10 miles from Columbus. Haley
| ville Ala, Is said to be the objective
point of that line. The Illinois Central
Is said to be pushing the deal 1t looks
like an actual railroad. not paper kind
| The Southern Railway company In Mis-
sissippi has enlisted the approval of Of
| fcials of the Southern railway between
Columbus and Birmingham and a Pull
man buffet car service has been installed
on trains II and IL, Greenville to Bir-
mirghan. One Pullman leaves Greenville
$40 n. m. arriving Birmingham 7:20 p.
NJ, while the other car leaves Birming-
| ham in the early morning and arrives
| Grecnvile that evening 7:50. The service
travel for this direct line. Many improve
ments have been made on the Southern
| In Mississippi lately. A new cement coal
chute is being built here and many of the
ante-dated depots along their line are be-
| ing surplanted by new ones. Plans are
being drawn for a $4,000 depot at Green
wool. and 1t is also reported Greenville
| is after a modern structure.
julius C. Holmes, United States in
tspector Of public buildings, with head
quarters in Charleston. w. Va. spent yes
| te.day II Columbus, en- route from Yazoo
City to Montgomery The building at Co.
lumbrs. a $4,000 affair, is about one-third
completed. and will be ready for oc-
curancy about January 1. At Greenville
AMI Yazoo City. both cities in which SEQ,
900 buildings are going up. work has
again been started. and the postoffices
will be completed about same time the
Columbus building 10 ready. One hundred
thousand dollars worth Of additions are
being added to the Montgomery building
Mr.. Holmes was accompanied to Mont
gomery by T. NJ. Maui, local government
architect, who also Is superintendent oil
| the work In the Alabama capital.