The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-13

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 The officers of the company are: Ben r. White, president Henderson, KY, .. H. Judkins, secretary and treas lrer, Cleveland, O.; E. l.. McDonald, vice president, Henderson. Ky; Larkln White general manager, Henderson, Ky.
 The cost of the land on the initial trans- action is given at s250,Ooo It is proposed 10 spend an amount equal to the first price in various schemes of betterment, principally the construction of model city near Randolph In Bibb county which Is the southern line of the new proper ties.
 Statement Is Issued
 The formal announcement as to She new company issued by a member of the Chamber Commerce committee says:
 Though the instrumentaly of the 'Bir- mingham Book issued by the Chamber of Commerce committee, the Birmingham Farm Garden company has been formed of Kentucky and Ohio financiers. The has 10000 acres of land reaching from Randolph, on the south, to Oakley on the north in Bbb county. That point is 30 miles from Birmingham. The entire length of the property is eight miles. The is traVersed by the Southern Railway company and is also reached by the Mobile and Ohio railroad with To trains per day. There are now 75 families on the land purchased and 2S00 acres ap- are under cultivation. The present crop purchased by the new com pany is $50 bales of cotton with corn and other commodities. The company will cut up the land into small farms of 10 acres, 20 acres, and 40 acres. The land is fine for truck gardcnina and is cut up by
 The purpose of the new movement, en- couraged by the Chamber of Commerce is to import here well 10 do truck gardeners from Ohio and New York state. These men will be given every en- couragement and will be asked to supply with the truck that is now being imported It is manifestly detri- mental to this city, that annually we spend 5000 000 for garden truck imported from other states. When that time comes when we grow all our needs here, the district will have accom- pished something worth while for the average man."
 The Chamber of Commerce committee having in hand the bringing of immi- grants to this city through one of it's has carried the purchasers of the land over the property three times at his own personal expense. The for nation of the company was accomplished, 1t Is said, only by the book on Birming- ham issued by that committee composed of John II. Adams, G. B. Mccormack and s. w. Lee.
 Prominent Men Interested
 It was announced along with the fore going that the organization now in charge of the developments contemplated is only temporary and that within few weeks the directorate will be announced, dis closing some of the very best known and most responsible men in Ohio, Kentucky md New York who are interested in the truck business.
 It is said the new company will at once begin it's movement to populate the ands purchased and that steps will be taken so rapidly that Birmingham will spring. In this connection. it is said plan will be suggested and worked out whereby the truck growers at Randolph will be asked to cooperate with the pro- posed city market in Birmingham. It is said to be feasible for all garden truck grown on the new properties to be sold at the Birmingham market and disposed of 10 the ultimate consumers at a less price than otherwise. This plan, 1t Is gathered, will be taken up with Commissioner James Weatherly, father of the market suggestion. within a few weeks.
 The company has under contemplation , few requests to be made of the South srn railway upon which the new com pary will largely depend for proper ta- ,ilties for quick transportation to Bir- ningham. Inasmuch as the Southern 'ailway is deeply interested in such plans IS are to be worked out by the new com amy. their cooperation Is confidently ex- 1ected.
 Randolph May Have Boom
 u IS prODdDle lildt lle llttle town CT which lies rather central to the general situation optioned and otherwise, Will be centered upon as the model city. The new company has in operation saw mills, gins, and other agricultural propo- ,itions like them and these will be util- zed to the end that the general scheme nay be a success
 The most progressive men in Birming- nam, among them George Gordon Craw- ord, Frank H. Crockard, W. H. Has singer, l.. l.. Brown, A. H. Ford, John l.. Parker. Robert Jemison, Jr., and others have long deprecated the condition in where all the garden sup plies are imported from distant states.
 FROM THE "MAGIC CITY" TO THE GREAT METROPOLIS tNEW YORK CITY) ON THE BIRMINGHAM SPE- rIAI.." THE CLASSY TRAIN EAST.