The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-06-08
OPP EXTENDS
WELCOME To
ALL WHO COME
LOCATED IN ONE OF THE BEST
FARMING SECTIONS OF THE
WiREGRAss SECTIONS, IT'S PEo-
PIE WANT MORE FACTORIES
AND MORE FARMERS.

ne nuStllnS l1II16 city OF OPP. Ala
Dana, third largest of the Covington
county towns, with its 1900 inhabi-
tants, and situated in one of the very
fertile farming sections of Covington,
IS a town worth knowing about.
In the first place, 10000 bales Of cot
ton. by wagon, are weighed there an
nually; good roads are connecting it
with the other sections of the county
TO excellent advantage, and the gray
sandy loan, with its red clay subsoil,
is yielding the finest kind of results to
the husbandman.
Velvet beans, corn, cotton, truck,
potatoes and sugar cane are being
raised with much profit; cotton, If
properly cultivated, goes bales to the
acre. low average being IL bale to
the acre, while corn Yields 60 bushels
to the acre.
The increase of cotton weighed at
OPP was 1000 bales last year over the
year 1911, when only 5000 bales were
weighed.
government soil survey man. N. e.
Bell, of Auburn, Ala, says that the
OPP farming section is the best in the
county, and has proved that he means
what he says by building two houses
for rent in the city proper, each valued
at $4,000.
There were more brick buildings
built in Opp last year than in any other
town in southeast Alabama, and no
less than II brick stores and as many
SONNNA
ing the past Is months.
Besides its prosperous business dis
trict, Opp has splendid banks, a fer
ti,izer factory, cotton gins, and an
oil mill is soon to be erected.
Opp has a splendid water works and
electric light system owned by the city,
and is the only city in Covington coun-
ty that can boast of as much; the L.
and NJ railroad. which opened UP the
territory in-1900. has, indeed, reaped a
harvest as a reward for its vigilance
and good business insigh into the flu
ture possibilities of the then wholly
undeveloped country which surrounded
Opp.
w. w. Champion, Mayor. /.
w. w. Champion is mayor of Opp
under it's present administration;
Henry Clark is city clerk, T. E. Hub
bard is city treasurer. and J. j.
Rhodes is city marshal.
The council is comosed Of J. g. Con-
ner. L. j. Deal, DR.. ]. C. Mcleod and
Henry King.
The Masonic, X. of P. and W. o. w.
are all well represented in Opp. and
its one hotel, the City Hotel, is well |
managed by Mrs. Daniels.
There are three churches: the Meth
odist, Rev. Mr.. ]. B. Tate; Baptist, |
Rev. Mr.. C. T. Culpepper, and Chris !
tan. Rev. Mr.. w. t. Order.
The Opp Messenger, with e. E. John |
son, editor and proprietor, keeps track |
of the comings and goings of the good |
people of that city.
Opp is, in fact, one of the most thor |
cushly progressive towns in southeast !
Alabama.
A warm welcome is given to farmers |
and to all new enterprises, for Opp |
" ants more farmers, more factories
more people.
It's two good banks, the First Ma
tional Bank of Opp, and the Covington
County Bank, are able to take care of |
the needs of all who come, and both I
do a thrifty business at the present
time with hundreds of satisfied people /
in the surrounding territories.
Chicken raising, trucking cattle rails
ing and diversified farming is all in
the hands of white farmers, who Gull
tivate tracts of from 40 to 100 acres
each.
While a great deal of the surround
ing land is owned by a syndicate of
milling men, it is being sold off in
small tracts at very reasonable prices.
The Opp division of the L. & N. i
claims to be the best paying division
in the section, and the people at Opp.
viii tell you that the company delivers
more goods there than at any other
point on the A & F. division.
Model Town.
Educational matters are receiving
their full attention at Opp, the Opp
city schools, of 10 grades. being under
the very capable direction of Prof.
Grady Corbett, who is superintendent.
He is assisted by the following
corps of teachers: Misses Matte Paul,
Inez Johnson, Leonora Conway, Laura
Nichols, Eloise Searcy and j. F. Sco-
field.
The main business streets are Main
street and Railroad avenue, the prin-
eiEaI residence streets being Hart and
Ida avenues and College and Barnes
streets
Z. A. McFerrin is postmaster at
Opp, and the postofffce receipts show
a material increase each year.
Farm lands near town are offered
from SIS to $50 per acre, and cut ever
lands further out at $40 per acre.
Opp, in fact, is as fine and thriving
a little city as you will find anywhere
in the South, and its invitation to the
prospective settler to come and be one
of u.s. is worthy of careful considera-
ton and, better Still, of a personal in
vestigation.