Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1912 — BUYS FARM IN ALABAMA. [ARTICLE]

BUYS FARM IN ALABAMA.

M. L Adams and Sons Buy 520 Acres Near Demopolis. Marion I. Adams returned home Sunday from a week’s prospecting trip down in Alabama, where his sons Ray and Lee recently prospected and were attracted by a 520 acre tract near Demopolis, two miles from W. H. Pullins’. 'Marion wos also m)uch taken up with the tract, so much so that he closed a deal for same before coming away and paid a thousand dollars down to bind the bargain. 'The tract is all under cultivation but 20 acres, and is all alfalfa land, located' in “the black belt” lime land. Demopolis, the nearest railroad town, on the Tombigbee river, has a population of about 4.500, and the river is now being improved with locks by the U. S. government and made navigable above the tract Mr. Adams purchased. There are other smaller towns nearer by. The farm has a regular old southern mansion on it and twelve negro cabins. Marion didn’t know how many “niggers” went with the but eight of the cabins are occupied by “coons” of all ages and size. There is a flowing well on the place and all the buildings are of red cedar.

Mr. Adams bought the farm for his two sons, Ray and Lee, and Ray expects to go down there in October and put in a some oats, but will not take his family there until about the first of January. Lee will remain here until school is out. Mr. Adams himself will remain here. The fine farm occupied by his son Ray is advertised for sale elsewhere in The Democrat, to be sold at Public auction on September 24.