The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-19
RICH SOURCES OF , BREWTON'S WEALTH Frank V. Evans Writes on
 South Alabama ESCAMBIA'S FUTURE Bewton Is Second Wealthiest City, Per Capita, in United States.
 Money in Lumber Manu-
 facture
ESCAMBIA'S FUTURE
By FRANK V. EVANS

l Brewton, November 1S.-(Speciai)- obseryant. well travelled Alabamian can easily agree with the distinguished oniciai | of the agricultural department at Wash- | ington, who recently gave utterance to the opinion that the south is the one section of the universe that could live
 within itself If stonewall were built around 1t and 1t were impossible to ma egress or ingress. I go further than that' and without fear of contradiction, say that Alabama could handsomely sustain her
 citizenship were the state encompassed about by such a wall.
 am almost persuaded to say that any one of the 67 counties of Alabama could
 stand alone in the work of self sustenance; but will not go so far as that. lest I should shock the reader with the cruel thought of disintegration of this great commonwealth, so magnificently proportioned, so diversified in the natural wealth, beauty of scenery; and so gor- geously adorned by mountain, hill and plain, by gnarled oak, towering pine' blooming magnolia with the whispering breezes from the mountains meeting to KISS the WluQS lIOlll lhS ooAAs N-N~' s'-~
 aroma of dainty flowers. sweet scented
 blossoms of upper strata, waited by the winds to temper the buoyancy of the greater blossoms that feed upon the zphyrs from the sea.
 And then, too, I would not suggest a decree of divorcement by the rock ribbed, ore-bearing hills of North Ala
 bama, with their teeming millions of | wealth. from the cotton fields of the black belt, nor yet would countenance a sundering of the chords that bind to them the pines, the live oaks, the magnolias and
 the palms, and the splashing seas which
 wash our southern shore. The vision is l too perfect, too serene, too beautiful, toe rich, too powerful for even a suggestion of stone walls to shut out or wean one
 from the other. It's all Alabama!
 Summer in the hills of the state and | winter under the charming influence of
 these South Alabama pines, affords a
 divinity which adds to ones willingness to bear the burden of work every day of the year. and to prove that if there be 'an Elysian on earth, 1t is this; it is this"
 I find myself now in the beautiful, buoy ant, hospitable and refined little city of Brewton-in Escambia county-just on the
 Florida line; and it does not require a very severe stress of imagination to ac- count myself in the Land of Flowers for verily I am Roses. japonics, violets and other fragrant flowers like unto them, greet me on the by ways In my daily walks to and from my desk of duty and the rustling of the lplamettos, and the
 winds that make power of speech for the l towering water oaks that magnihcently shade the beautiful streets of Brewton are daily reminders that there is life as vel as beauty here.
 | Be it known that Brewton, according | to statistics. Is the second wealthie5t town per capita In the United States,
 ara told that this citizenship Is native to the heath, and that yellow pine timber was the source of this wealth. know of no town or city in all the southland where there is greater evidence of home care, home comfort and real home delight than Is here apparent. Nearly every dwelling
 here speaks cleanliness and comfort, and
 not a few of them are inspiring, palatial
 mansions, gorgeously adorned within and
 without. and would do credit to the great
 CT cities of the land These homes con-
 stirute encouraging signs of Alabama's
 ability to do and to live within herself.
 I asked a prominent man here what
 would Brewton feed upon when all the
 great pines are cut into lumber and
 shipped away His answer was. it will re-
 quire 15 or 20 years more to exhaust this
 timber. Log roads run out in each di-
 rection for many miles and these lines
 will be extended. The great mills will
 remain here for the natural environments
 are such as to make Brewton the economic
 site for manufacturing and shipping. Two