The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-06-08
THE FIRST NATIONAL
BANK OF OPP, ALABAMA

of Red Level, w. w. Cook of Opp,
and w. n. Powell of Green Bay.
C. A. O'Neal- is president of the body.
and J. E. Segars is clerk.
Tho county schools are in good
shape, and County Superintendent w.
Bozeman has done great deal
toward their Improvement.
There are a great many people in
Covington. however, who would like TO
see compulsory education in active
effect.
A fine, prosperous, promising section
like Coyington needs any-~number Of
bright, well-educated young home
folks to develop 1t to its fullest /ex-
tent during the years that are coming
on.
Farmers Are Wanted.
The only thing in the world that
Covington county needs is more farm
ers-men from the farming districts Of
the North and West, who vii. come
with the idea of developing the cut
over lands that are increasing with
such rapidity with the development Of
the timber business.
At present good land can be bought
for from SO to SIS an acre in the
farming districts.
This is an average price, for there
are lands bit higher and bit lower,
according to the precise locality in
The Yellow River the Conecuh
River, and the Patsaliga River, with
their tributary streams contribute to
the fertility of the section, a good stiff
clay sub-soil retaining moisture and
fertilization well.
The soil is gray sandy ,oarn, and
cotton and corn, oats, millet. sweet
potatoes, truck, and velvet beans grow
exceptionally well.
The farmers are beginning to turn
the velvet beans under for fertilizer
In place of commercial fertilizer, and
the really scientific farmer will plant
velvet beans one year and corn the next
If he has really set out to get his land
into good condition.
Truck farming and chicken raising
are two very glazing opportunities in
Covington, and man with only Few
hundred dollars capital stands fair to
make large returns from ordinary eff
fort
Some of the splendid Covington
county farms have been stunped and
present an appearance similar to the
best Illinois and Iowa farming lands,
so bushels of corn to the acre is con-
sidered good enough, and cotton "a
Of a bale to the acre.
With expert attention, almost any
one will tell you two bales to the
acre could be easily expected.
Covington already has a fine, thrifty,
friendly people, and the stranger ex-
periences the real southern hospitality
that one so often only reads about
in books.
! The hospitality, the cordia1ity, and
the fine courtesy that makes q pros
pector settler every time is really
there, and everyone works and piles
up fortunes for himself and for every
body else.
There is no absolute poverty.
The people are too free and gener
GUS minded to allow that in the first
place, and, too, there are too many
chances to make good" to admit Of
anyone being really poor"
A man with a few hundred dollars
and practical knowledge of farming
can come down among the good peo-
pie of Covington and live like king,
for. too, there is valuable demo-
cratic feeling abroad as almost every
one has made his money right there
during the past ten or twelve years.
The richest ones came and bought
up the timber lands, worked them for |
naval stores first, then. sold the timber
off, finally to offer the land itself to
farmers who know good soil when they |
see it.
When you realize well in three diff /
ferent directions Of the same invest |
nent, your pocketbook is liable to feel |
the good effect Of your judgement.
That is how it has been with some |
of Ccvington's wealthiest men today. /
The Covington county people are /
cosmopolitan.
Its small before the war" settle
mcnts furnished a splendid old Ala
bama strain; people come down from |
the Carolinas during the activity of
later years; and you will find Flor
ldiaus, gGeorgians, Alabamians and |
Tenn too, all working for the |
advancement of the section.
Upon one all important point every
one is in absolute harmony down in
they want farmers and |
they want them now.
Good lands fair treatment, and great |
opportunity await all who come.
The invitation is one to be consid-
cred.