Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1889 — All desiring to move South are invited to investigate FLORENCE, ALABAMA. [ARTICLE]

All desiring to move South are invited to investigate FLORENCE, ALABAMA.

In the selection of a business location, a pleasant home is also desirable, and m no place will the intending settler meet with a more cordial welcome than is offered by the enterprising citizens ,f Florence, Alabama, and Lauderdale county. The soil is diversified and yields readily, as is shown by the variety and quick growtli of crops, consisting of colton, corn, tobacco, wheat, oats, sugar cane, Iso apples, peaches and grapps. Fioreuce ex-. cels in beauty of location, being situated on the gently rolling plateau banks of the Tennessee River —navigabfe soi r the largest class of steamboats. The records show singular exemption from malarial diseases,and the mild temperature, pure air and water make it a desirable resort, both summer and winter, from the extreme heat of the South ond the rigorous cold of the North. Aside from this it is on the basal line of the new iron and coal discoveries, and with abundant water-power supply, favorable transportation facilities, by rail and pa ket, and by virtue of close proximity to valuable ores not found in other localities, Florence is destined to become the metropolis of the State, and will necessarily concentrate the bulk of industries in this region. The eomntry north of Florence is covered with a primeval gro vth of immense poplar, white oaks, maple, hiekory, pine, and walnut trees, and within a few miles large quarries of beautiful marble found. Building stone and limestone abound all over the county. The erection of the finest college building in the Sonth was commenced May 13th, and at this time there are over 250 houses i 1 course of ereotion. For excursion rates and full particulars address, E. u. McCormick, Gen’l Pass’r Ag’t Monon Route, 185 Dearborn St., Chicag, 111.