Real Estate Agents' Association
Published: 2016-08-13
Total Pages: 52
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Excerpt from Montgomery, the Capital City of Alabama: Her Resources and Advantages Alabama has three sources of wealth - agricultural, mineral and timber. The Mineral belt lies across the Northern third of the State, and there more than a hundred million of dollars have been expended within the last five years in opening coal and iron deposits that surpass those of Pennsylvania. The Timber belt lies across the Southern third of the State, and there billions of feet of yellow pine stand untouched in the forest, while a hundred saw mills are humming along the railroads and rivers. The Agricultural belt lies across the center of the State from East to West. A belt of prairie, fertile as that of Illi nois, is separated from the Timber belt on the south and the Mineral belt on the north, by wide stretches of fertile up lands. Along the streams and in the uncleared forests of this central belt are vast quantities of hard woods, suited to every purpose of manufacture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.