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TABLE NO. 4, MISCELLANEOUS PHENOMENA.

====================================================================== FROST. || THERMOMETER. || PRECIPIT'N. | ---------------------||--------------------------||------------------| Year.|First. | Last. || Max.| Date. |Min.| Date. ||Greatest.| Date. | -----|-------|-------||-----|-------|----|-------||---------|--------| 1872 |Oct. 15| ..... || Observation Commenced Sept. 5th, 1872 | 3 | " 29|Mar. 6|| 97.0|July 5|14.0|Jan. 19|| 3.47 |May 1| 4 |Dec. 15|Feb. 11||103.0|Aug. 13|27.0| " 15|| 4.67 |Mar. 16| 5 |Oct. 8|Apr. 3||102.0|July 16|18.0| " 10|| 3.34 |Sept. 27| 6 |Nov. 10|Mar. 13||100.5| " 11|20.0|Dec. 2|| 5.97 |April 2| 7 | " 14| " 11||102.5| " 4|16.0|Jan. 9|| 4.65 | " 7| 8 |Oct. 19| " 5||100.0| " 22|22.0|Dec. 18|| 4.03 |June 13| 9 | " 24|Apr. 6||101.0| " 13|14.5|Jan. 6|| 3.46 |Oct. 17| 1880 | " 24| " 13||100.0| " 4| 8.0|Dec. 30|| 3.33 |May 27| 1 |Nov. 4|Apr. 15||106.9|July 7|24.0|Jan. 2|| 3.63 |Dec. 14| 2 | " 14|Mar. 23|| 97.6|June 28|19.2|Dec. 8|| 3.13 |Feb. 8| 3 |Oct. 26| " 28|| 98.6|July 17|25.0|Jan. 12|| 3.41 |April 9| 4 | " 17| " 16|| 97.1|Aug. 29| 8.0| " 6|| 3.62 |June 30| 5 | " 14| " 16|| 98.0|July 31|15.5|Feb. 11|| 3.13 |Jan. 23| 6 | " 28|Apr. 6|| 97.8|Aug. 16| 5.4|Jan. 9|| 3.66 |April 28| 7 | " 31| " 6||102.0|June 19|12.9| " 31|| 2.25 |July 27| 8 |.......|.......||.....|.......|....|.......|| .... |........| ======================================================================

============================ | DAYS. |--------------------------- |Clear. Fair. Cloudy. Rainy. |------|-----|-------|------ | ... | ... | ... | ... | 73 | 132 | 129 | 112 | 104 | 125 | 136 | 115 | 101 | 148 | 116 | 123 | 133 | 125 | 108 | 107 | 117 | 122 | 126 | 105 | 140 | 140 | 85 | 106 | 122 | 151 | 92 | 135 | 75 | 172 | 119 | 132 | 123 | 130 | 112 | 120 | 105 | 179 | 81 | 124 | 137 | 145 | 84 | 112 | 141 | 139 | 86 | 126 | 114 | 153 | 98 | 140 | 125 | 143 | 97 | 99 | 139 | 126 | 100 | 103 | ... | ... | ... | ... ============================

FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY.

CITY--LIABILITIES.

Bonded Indebtedness April 30th, 1888 $ 572,050 Bonds issued since for Sanitary Sewerage 150,000 --------- Total Bonded Indebtedness $722,050

ASSETS.

Total Assets April 30th, 1888 $221,745 Assessed value of Real Estate 5,500,000 " " " Personal Property 3,090,000 --------- Total Assessed value of Real and Personal Property $8,590,000

COUNTY--LIABILITIES.

Total Bonded Indebtedness $35,000

ASSETS.

Total Assets $100,000

Assessed value of Real Estate 10,063,374 " " " Personal Property 5,175,133 --------- Total Assessed value of Real and Personal Property $15,238,507

TAXES.

State Tax Rate 50 cts. County Tax Rate 35 cts. City Tax Rate $1.12-1/2 --------- Total Taxes for all purposes $1.97-1/2

INSURANCE.

Basis Rate for Standard Store Building 1 per cent. " " " Brick Metal-Roofed Dwelling 50 cents " " " Frame, Shingle-Roofed Dwelling 75 "

Industries rated according to the tariff of South Eastern Tariff Association.

STATEMENT SHOWING THE AMOUNT OF CAPITAL INVESTED IN MONTGOMERY, AND AMOUNT OF BUSINESS DONE, TOGETHER WITH THE TOTAL OUTBOUND TICKET SALES AND FREIGHT TONNAGE FORWARDED AND RECEIVED FROM JAN. 1, 1887 TO DEC. 31, 1887.

CAPITAL. AMT. OF BUS. Cotton Factors and Warehouses $2,490,000 $6,750,000 Cotton Mills and Factories 1,380,000 2,450,000 Groceries 1,680,000 6,900,000 General Stores 440,000 1,200,000 Hardware, China and Glassware 345,000 850,000 Foundries and Machine Shops 120,000 350,000 Plumbing 60,000 150,000 Carriages and Harness 70,000 220,000 Clothing, Hats, Caps, etc. 90,000 320,000 Dry Goods 960,000 2,850,000 Furniture 140,000 350,000 Paper, Twine, etc. 80,000 175,000 Coal, Wood and Lumber 160,000 750,000 Boots, Shoes and Leather 260,000 550,000 Drugs, Paints, etc. 285,000 450,000 Flour and Grist Mills 245,000 1,200,000 Cigars and Tobacco 80,000 450,000 Builders and Building Material 325,000 1,150,000 Printing and Stationery 140,000 270,000 Jewelry 70,000 100,000 Insurance Companies 300,000 250,000 Sundry Establishments, including Theatres, Hotels, Saloons, Auction Houses, Fancy Goods, Bakeries, Pickeries, Junk, Live Stock, etc. 260,000 2,200,000 Fertilizer Works 75,000 250,000 Residences and Business Houses 550,000 Oil Mills 250,000 Street Railroad 130,000 Furnace 175,000 Ochre Mines and Mills 20,000 Highland Park Improvement Co. 600,000 Riverside Improvement Co. 750,000 Banking Capital 2,600,000 Steam Boat Line 50,000 Water Works 450,000 Ice Factories 50,000 ----------- ----------- $15,680,000 $30,185,000

Total Passenger Ticket Sales $272,279.45 " Freight Tonnage forwarded by Rail 151,315 tons. " " " received by Rail 354,570 " " " " " " Trade Co's Boats 16,381 "

MONTGOMERY'S TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES.

A glance at the State map must convince even the most casual observer that Montgomery possesses rail and water transportation facilities, which not only bring her in easy reach of the varied resources of the State, but also connect her with the large commercial cities of this land, and with foreign ports.

The Alabama river, which is navigable from Montgomery the entire year, is her water way to the Gulf, and is an important factor in the question of freights. Connecting her with New York and foreign ports, it is a perpetual check to freight discriminations against her by railroads. When the obstructions to the Coosa river are removed, a matter now engaging the attention of Congress, Montgomery will have water communication as far north as Rome, Ga., which will open up to her a country rich in mineral and agricultural wealth.

The great Louisville and Nashville system, which has contributed so largely to the development of the State, reaches out from Montgomery in two directions. It connects her with the markets of the entire country, north, northeast, northwest and south, and supplies her with coal and other products of the mineral districts of the State, and lumber from the timber belts.

The Western Railroad of Alabama, from Montgomery to Atlanta, connecting with the Kennesaw and Piedmont Air Lines, is a link in the great line from New York to the Gulf. At Atlanta it connects with the Georgia Railroad, giving it a through line to Charleston, and at Opelika with the Central Railroad system, forming a direct route to Savannah, two of the most important ports on the Atlantic.

The Montgomery and Selma division opens up to her the rich agricultural districts of West Alabama and Mississippi, giving her a valuable trade.

The Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad, runs southeast from Montgomery, through rich, black prairie lands to Eufaula, where it connects with steamers on the Chattahoochee river. This road is a part of the Georgia Central system, and forms a direct line from Montgomery to Savannah. It offers unsurpassed facilities to Montgomery shippers, giving through bills of lading over its own rail and steamship lines, to New York and Europe. It is the most popular through route from the West to all Florida resorts.

The Florida and Northwest Railroad is being built south from Montgomery, and is now running fifty miles through a rich agricultural section to Luvern. From Luvern it will pass through the finest timber belt in the country, to some point on the Chattahoochee river. While this road will be a great feeder to Montgomery, it will also form the most direct route to Florida. Its extension from Montgomery, northwest to Maplesville, is generally conceded, where it will connect with the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia system, that great artery of commerce, that stretches its arms of steel from the Atlantic to the lakes, and from the mountains of Virginia to the plains of Texas. This system now enters Montgomery over the track of the Louisville and Nashville road.

The above is but a meager statement of Montgomery's transportation facilities.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Our public schools consist of the Boys' High School, the Girls' High School, the Capital Hill Grammar School and the Sayre Street Grammar School for white children, and Swayne College and Cemetery Hill School for colored children.

There are employed in the white schools, twenty-six regular teachers and one supernumerary, and in the colored schools, ten teachers.

There has been an attendance during this year of about nine hundred and fifty white children, a larger number than ever before, and about four hundred and fifty colored children. The expenditures for the session 1887-8 have been about twenty-three thousand dollars, besides about four thousand dollars for buildings and repairs.

The income of the schools is derived from an annual appropriation by the city, an annual appropriation from the State, regulated by the number of school children in this school district, and from the poll tax collected from the citizens in this district.

The schools are in a flourishing condition. The Superintendent is a competent, painstaking gentleman, and his assistants are for the most part well adapted and fitted to be his coadjutors in the good work.

The schools begin on the first Monday in October and end on the last Thursday in May, thus having an eight months' session. The children within the district who are able to pay it, are required to pay a fee of two dollars per session of eight months; those who are unable to pay this fee are admitted free. The students in the Boys' High School and in the highest class of the Girls' High School pay a fee of ten dollars per session of eight months, if able to do so.

We have every prospect of continued prosperity in the schools.

INDUSTRIES THAT WILL PAY IN MONTGOMERY.

Cotton Mills,--As shown elsewhere.

Bagging Factory,--From absence of any here, and the immense trade that Montgomery has in bagging for wrapping cotton, amounting to something like $200,000 per annum.

Iron Works of all Kinds,--As a furnace of fifty tons capacity will soon be completed in Montgomery, giving cheap charcoal iron of best grade; and unexcelled transportation facilities to reach the home and foreign markets.

Variety Wood Working,--Owing to cheap lumber of every kind, as shown elsewhere.

Paper Factory,--Owing to the large amount of cotton seed hulls to be secured from our three large oil mills, which hulls will make a most beautiful white paper; and unexcelled facilities for securing cotton stalks and other good paper stock, and inexhaustible water supply.

Tan Yard,--Owing to large number of good hides shipped from this point and towns in easy reach, and ease of securing barks, bitter weed and other material for tanning leather.

Plows and Agricultural Implements,--Owing to large home demand and cheapness of raw material, with splendid shipping facilities.

Glass Factory,--Owing to large deposit of excellent sand near Montgomery, and the absence of such a factory in this section.

Shoe Factory,--Owing to large trade, amounting to half a million dollars.

Cheap Clothing,--Owing to immense wholesale trade, supplying Middle and South Alabama and part of Florida.

Terra Cotta and Tiles,--Owing to large deposits of fine clays suitable for making such articles.

Flouring Mill,--As this is a large wholesale market for flour, and there is a good opening, with promise of large return, for such an enterprise.

Paint Factory,--Owing to the large beds of fine ochre within ten miles of the city, which ochre is now being shipped in the raw state to other points.

Paper Box Factory, Wool Factory, Hat Factory and Knitting Factory.

The above-mentioned enterprises are only named to suggest to the minds of business men a few of the manufacturing establishments that will pay a large profit on capital invested in Montgomery, while the field is open for sundry others that are two numerous to give in detail. Montgomery stands at the head of commercial cities of the South, with almost undisputed control of a large territory occupied by half a million consumers, and unequaled railroad and river transportation facilities for collecting all raw material to this point and delivery of manufactured articles to foreign and domestic markets.

For further information as to facts in detail in regard to the above manufacturing enterprises, write to any member of the Montgomery Real Estate Agents' Association, who will take pleasure in furnishing information and will secure donation of site for plant.

MONTGOMERY'S AGRICULTURAL ADVANTAGES.

The City of Montgomery is surrounded by a greater variety of valuable agricultural lands than any city in the South, being situated on the south bank of the Alabama river, just below the confluence of the Coosa and Talapoosa rivers, all of which streams are bordered by very rich farming lands. Some of the alluvial bottoms are subject to occasional overflows, but the second bottoms are above the effects of freshets and form beautiful flats, in some places several miles wide, of sandy loam with clay subsoil, making a most valuable land for general farm purposes, as it is easily tilled and susceptible of great improvement by manuring and a good system of farming.

The rich black prairie belt touches us on the south and certainly contains some of the finest and most productive lands in the Union. It is just undulating enough to afford good drainage. The prairie soil is naturally so rich that fertilizers have been used very little, and the all-cotton system of farming which has been practiced almost to the exclusion of every other crop since 1865, has impoverished the farmers to such an extent that large prairie farms have been turned over entirely to negro tenants. This has resulted in a complete failure as a system, as the negro without a white man for a director, is not capable of making a living for himself or rents for his landlord. These magnificent lands can now be bought for about $10 to $15 per acre, and are certainly better adapted to stock raising than any other section of the continent, being splendid grain lands for such crops as oats and corn, yielding from twenty-five to 100 bushels per acre.

Johnson grass flourishes here as a hay grass, yielding from one and a half to two tons per acre, without any trouble of re-seeding, and sells in home market for $15 per ton.

Bermuda grass for pasturage is unsurpassed by any grass in the world, as it affords good grazing for eight months in the year, and will keep fat one horse or cow per acre for that length of time. Another valuable characteristic of the Bermuda grass is that it never runs out as a pasture. Some pastures are now in fine condition that were sodded thirty years ago.

Another important advantage of this section, for stock raising, is that our winters are so mild that stock does not need housing, except that it is better to provide open sheds for protection from rain, and they feed on the cane which grows on all branches and streams, staying green all the year. When a specialty is made of stock raising it is well to provide some ensilage to feed at night through the winter, in connection with the cane pasturage.

While some of our farmers are paying more attention each year to stock raising, as a general thing the prairie farms are rented to negro tenents, and now is a splendid opportunity to buy them cheap and devote to grass and stock.

While 250 pounds of lint cotton, twenty bushels of corn and thirty bushels of oats per acre are considered fair crops for our white farmers, below will be shown what can be done with our lands under the intensive system of farming. The figures show the results on a four mule farm of 320 acres of our good land.

DR. CR. Wear and tear of mules, tools, etc., $200 00 Feed of mules, 200 00 Wages and rations 10 hands, 1,250 00 Extra labor during harvest, 200 00 Fertilizers, cotton seed meal and acid phosphate as adjunct to home manure, 2,000 00 Yield of 80 acres of cotton, 160 bales at $40 $6,400 00 Yield of 60 acres of corn, 3,000 bushels at 50 cents, 1,500 00 Yield of 80 acres of oats, 4,000 bushels at 40 cents, 1,600 00 Yield of 5 acres of cane, 2,000 gallons syrup at 35 cts., 700 00 Showing net profit of, 6,350 00 ---------- ---------- $10,200 00 $10,200 00

The above estimate shows the possibilities of good farming. It is not overdrawn, as five bales of cotton and one hundred bushels of corn and oats, respectively, have been grown on single acres. These figures show 225 acres under cultivation, leaving ninety-five acres of the farm to be devoted to pasture, orchards, etc.

MARKET GARDENING.

Market gardening, or truck farming, around Montgomery, offers a number of advantages over other sections. As stated elsewhere, we have a great variety of soils that are suited to growing fruits and vegetables, while our climate is all that could be asked, with a mean annual temperature of 64 degrees, the last frost occurring from the 5th to the 25th of April, and earliest killing frost in the fall, in November, with an annual mean precipitation of rain of 55 inches. The conditions are therefore favorable for growing all fruits and vegetables not natives of extreme northern or tropical climates, and we can have some crop growing all the year round for marketing.

With the good railroad connections that we have with such points as Louisville, Cincinnati and Chicago, and advantage in rates by being two hundred miles nearer to these markets than the Gulf coast, the Montgomery gardener is favorably situated to make his business successful.

LUMBER AND TIMBER TRADE OF MONTGOMERY.

Montgomery is favorably located for being one of the largest lumber marts in the South, owing to her close proximity to the immense body of long leaf pine in South Alabama, which, with good rail connections in operation and in course of construction, will enable her to control any amount of splendid yellow pine lumber for manufacturing into sash, doors, blinds, etc. On all the rivers and streams in this section abound hard woods of every kind, suitable for manufacture into furniture, wagons, tool handles and for every variety of wood working. These can be laid down in Montgomery at such a low cost that she is destined to become a great center for wood working establishments.

COTTON FACTORIES.