The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-11

l e,innings to fill up with ''wildcatters, who always drop into town in advance of an oil boom. And they all seem to have plenty of the worlds goods in their pockets X In the harbor this week are IT foreign vessels loading and unloading cargoes and | the piers presented busy scene, surely. 1 This is the nearest port to the Panama
 canal, and great things are promised. 1 Another big thing which has been land- | ed by Gulfport is the Carter Automobile l Manufacturing company which has the ground broken for it's large site. So eager was this city to land this concern l that it made them present Of the | fairgrounds. Two thousand men will bel employed to start with, and the promoters promises to be working seven thousand by \ 1 the end of two years. Ten new brick stores are in course of erection, two of whichs !are small office buildings. A new $lO0.Wo | theatre is about completed This will seat 1500 people. The Gulf Park Female college is half completed. This VIII l consist of three-story building foo feet Hong with a class room 200 feet long and two stories high.
 The federal government, in cooperation | with the state and county authorities jhas put in a drainage system in this | UIarrison) county which has eliminated the mosquito question, and as conse- luuence we have not been bothered with l this pest in the last six or seven months since the drainage canals were finished. met B. c. Cox, the Birmingham I realty man. on the street New Years Day. He is the fellow who is respon- sible for all the Birmingham acreage holders down here. But if this oil boom
 has rainbow finish, he can move back here and be elected mayor by his home folks votes alone I understand he only lacked + votes of being mayor here q few years back. He also told me that 1.-the last few ads placed in The Age-Her- aid had brought him more inquiries Tor coast property than any he had run for years.
 This is a great country for chickens. am getting $l a dozen for my eggs now, ' and they come after them. Some day IL lis my intention to have 1000 laying hens down here among the hotels and boardlns houses. If I had them now they would Ibeat an oil well, as 1t would be sure money Several new poultry farms have llately been started here. The climate Is ideal for this line, and compares 1aVor- | abiy with Pasedena, Cal, where the ricn have many large poultry farms But ! this place is for the little fellows who have to start from the ground up, instead of from the top down, like many moneyed fancers do-and lots of them get heavy | jolt when they light too.
 The truckmen have just finished snip ping their first radish crop. About the .fth of this mOnht ground Will De Dfokeh < l for the big spring crops. Many of these tillers of the soil claim they made as much as s10C0 an acre last season. They ought to- as they can truck down here |, F months of the year. Some 3.VuUo !, ssatsuma orange trees were put out last seas son. and the nurserymen tell me that fully as many will go into the ground lrext month, as February is the best 8 month in which to put this citrus fruit
 out
 We have a beach front here % miles T llcng, which extends entirely through the ! county. This has the street ear line ana
 a paved highway the entire distance. be
 sides this beautiful drive there are nun
 dreds of miles of shell roads runninS n
 all directions A bridge to cost $svo,oV-
 is now being built across Bay St
 3Iouis. and when this Is cornpleted there
 will be a magnisicentt roadway 6S miles
 Unto New Oreans--do you get 4the idea
 New Orleans? NY
 Well. the best I can wish to all my
 old Birmingham friends Is that soin'
 morning during the next few months a'
 they pick up The -sAge-Herald, they VII
 discover they have grown rich over nis 1T
 the first gusher having been nroush
 ir I've always been q dreamer, pu
 h long before we moved down here 10 pu
 out an orange grove, I had hunch
 that some day this would be an oil field
 and always believing it best to play tn
 horse you think will win, we. headed thi
 way.
 Oh, boy. wouldn't it be a grand am
 glorious with apologies to Briggs ieel
 ing to wake up an oil magnate So Nee
 your ear to the ground, as my heA
 special may spread joy in Birmlneham.