The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-23
RICHNESS OF BIBB COUNTY
BY WALTER HARPER

1 his private waterworks and other con- veniences.
 Charlie Yeager has only 13 acres, but
 he is making a handsome living on them l growing vegetables and some fine stock.
 He is putting his land in a high state
 of cultivation and is bound to make
 more clear profit and better living than
 some farmers I have seen in Alabama on
 five times as many acres.
 The old w. H. Cooper farm is one
 of the finest in the section. The old l gentleman has retired from active work but the farm is still being run by his
 sons. One son, Robert F. Cooper, grad
 uated from Johns Hopkins university with high honors two years ago and re- turned to his fathers home and his na. , tive county. He is president of the Bibb
 county high school, which is located
 just across the road from his father'f
 farm in West Centreville.
 J. D. James Is another farmer worthy
 of mention. He grows fine corn hay
 and oats. He makes a speciality of
 raising fine Berkshire hogs and many people visit this farm every year to see | the hogs. MT. James is one of the
 most progressive farmers in this sec
 tion. You can easily recognize this | fact by the clean, well cultivated fields
 and the store of improved farm ma- chinery out on the fields or stored in the
 barns.
 | South of town is the old plantation
 and home of the late Gov. E. H. Moran. The widow, who married sometime after
 the death of the governor, still lives on the farm. It is in high state of cultivation and Is one of the finest for i,, ha
 MT. Lavendar himself is a farmer as well as legislator and legal advocate. l His farm lies down the Cahaba river | some miles below Centreville. I am 1 told that this is one of the most pro-
 ductive farms in the section. It grows corn and cotton bountifully.
 | Two miles south of Centreville we l visited an enormous spring of pure wa | ter that is said to be as good as Tate. | The spring has a capacity of several i million gallons per day. dam just below the spring forms a magnificent
 woodland lake and furnishes power for | the electric plant that furnishes light and power to the town. This plant is | perhaps the most economical In the state One negro watchman who tends the plant at night claims the only op- erating expense.
 | At the foot of the hill not half mile from the county courth ouSe the Cahaba river dances along over series of
 shot trying to apprise the citizens of
 the municipality of the untamed power
 in its flow. Engineers have ascertained
 that 15O0-horsepower Is here running to waste.
 | Nelson Fuller, himself a good farmer,
 and. by the way, the grandfather of the
 famous Fuller bill, is mayor of Centre | vile. It is said that Mayor Fuller Is
 not in sympathy with the reputation his | son brought the family. But he Is a good citizen of the town and county
 and Is making good mayor.
 1 Bibb is one of the richest counties l in the state in natural resources. Its wealth of coal and iron is well known l to all the people. It's timber resources
 are second to none in this section and
 is yet to be fully developed. There are
 also rich deposits of fine marble that
 will some day be developed on large
 scale. These developments will follow
 when adequate transportation has been ] established through the county.