The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-28
Profile Mills Are Typical
 of Industrial Jacksonville
By DIR. GEORGE ROWAN

Up to about 10 years ago the little vil- lage of Jacksonville depended solely on it's agricultural interest for support when some eastern capitalists impressed with the fine cotton staple grown in this section, the bountiful supply of pure spring water flowing through the town made overtures for a site and co-opera- tion of the citizens to the erecting of an industry and there sprang Into existence, as if by magic two large yarn mills of 40o00 spindles. From the Profile Yarn mills a nucleus, industrial Jackson- vile has grown at the present time into quite a little city of paying industries, to-wt: A weaving mill, a cotton seed oil mill, a fertilizer factory, a flour and corn mill, with milling and transit rates an electric light plant, heading mill blaming and sawmills, all of which are good size plants in active operation and making money. In addition to these there are quite a number of small indus tries, several cotton gins, bottling plant, etc
 The Profile Yarn mills, under the pres ent management, probably the best equipped mills south of the Carolinas Everything is electric driven and every thing is as bright clean and sanitary, under the watchful care of Superinten- dent w. P. Hazlewood as modern hos ptal.
 Mr. C. B. Henry the owner of the Profile mills and allied industries the Vellina Weaving mills, the Jacksonville Oil mill, and the Jacksonville Fertilizer factory, is a native of New Hampshire, where his name is a household word, his family owning and operating the largest paper and wood pulp plant in the United States.
 For few months in the winter of each year Mr. Henry, with his family, resides in the south, he having built for a win ter residence two miles south of Jackson- vile a palatial home, Hill Crest Farm, a home surrounded with several thou sand acres of fertile land, and equipped with every modern convenience. Under the supervision of MT. Harry Finch the farm has been stocked with fine grade of Tanlworth hogs, large herd of Holstein cattle a stable of trotting horses sired and dame by a strain of noted Kentucky horses. Finch is rap idly demonstrating that the rolling hills and fertile valleys of Calhoun county can grow grain and grasses equal to any portion of the country and is as fine section for stock raising Ten nessee and Kentucky. The writer has heard expressions from many citizens appl ec,ative of Mir Henry's unsolicited generosity since he came among them for his purse is ever open for the ma terial advancement of the section and for every worthy charity
 His large industrial interests have been committed to the watchful care and guidance of Mr. w I. Greenleaf, who has demonstrated that no detail is too insg- nifieant for him to give to it the full est attention. with a result that what ever he doeth is-for time. MT. Green leaf in accepting the management of Henry interests in Alabama, quickly rec CeniZed tine herculean task he had as sumed to bring order out of chaos and the writer has watched with both inter- est and curiosity how it would end Com ing from the east, the natural supposi- tion was that the end would be accom- plished by drive and a grind but not so from the start, the human factor was that around which all evolved and he locked filst to the health happiness and contentment of his employees, giving to them well kept shaded streets, clean,