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THE SHELBY REPUBLICAN.‘818GOME TO SHELBYVILLECharley Stallard Says Alabama is as Hot as Hades.The Rich are in the Mountains while the Poor are at Home Tending the Cotton Crop.Ind,be.flirtreofndorchbaasofowewmrailim-ionressatlootesrcbur-i vl-the idy ow-m,to ar-sis, )0r , as touo,-be*111uii-erl-ica,ilcdIza-les.thothetheforblc\1 at cot. /ear and otal rlod ited ent. fear 0.60 ex-ural he V fac-ear. a offol-lea, a ted and aleeH»rires-wallin lt;1Huntsville, Ala., June 20, 11)01.Ed. Republican r Huntsville, Alabama, a city situated in the heart of the Cumberland moun-tains, la just now one of tha hottest places it has ever been my misfortune to be in. The sun does not strike you at any angle at all but all over at once making you feel much liko you was continuously io a largo crowd on the 4th of July without an umbrella. However, the natives pay but little attention to the weather and go about their work as contented aa I suppose I mutt learn to be with the thermometer tt 101 degrees in the shade. Most of the people move their place of residence to the top of the numerous mountain peaks near here where they have cottages. There they find it cool and comfortable no matter how hot It may be In the valley below. These city houses are left in the care of servants whose duties are rather to eat to exist than to exist lo work for they certainly have a very easy time. One-tenth only of the population of the county la white, consequently you may expect to find plenty of color In any enterprise. Yesterday I drove to a little village tea miles away and out of the many hundred farms I pa-sed I found but two white farmers who did their own work. I also noticed their farms in better condition, their crops better and more varied and having a larger per cent, of com planted Ihan the others. Upon inquiring I learned that most all the lands or plantation* were owned by a few wealth/ men who : rarely see them and rent them lo the negroes requiring them to raise cotton. Constquently the renter must pay the owner forty and lifty cents a bushel for thecyrn he could raise on his own lands. As a rule the land U very productive when properly cultivated, but In most places it Is considerably run down. Many of the plantation owners permit the renter to choose his own crops. In such a ease the choice Is always eotUm. Th3 reason is, terhajs, that the ren -er muBt live while the crops are grow log. To do this ha places himself In a condition for credit by planting co'.Un aad giving the merchant a mortgage on the entire crop, resulting in moat of the crop being lived up before it is gathered. Live stock is very good, but more eo by accident than attention. Milch cows are fed on outon seed meal which make9 it yield a vary rich butter. Sheep fatten very quickly cn the meal which can be had for about twelve cents per bushel which Is equivalent to about a bushel of corn. Poultry and fruit are scarce. Grapes aro burned up by the hot sun before they geWipe. Peaches though are qulto plently this year and the local market Is already overstocked. Taking a general view the South is a very good place to In vest. It Is blessed not only by being a very pretty place to live, but by its resources o! coal and iron, lumber and depth of soil make it a very profitable one.In writing I must mention the famous spring that comes bubbling out from under a high cliff la tho center el the city, clear, pure and cold. The etrtam is as large or larger thao the old mill race and flows very swiftly, and id only a 9tonerd throw’ from our house.C. J. Stallard.lt;
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Shelbyville Tuesday Republican
Shelbyville, Indiana, US
Tue, Jun 25, 1901
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