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RESOURCES OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA. 



River in Coffee County suggests the possibility of utilizing 

 it as a source of caffeine (of which its leaves contain about 

 half as much as the best tea). 



POPULATION. 



This region was settled up more slowly at first than the 

 western division, on account of the less fertile soil and 

 greater distance from markets, but overtook it in density 

 of population about 1889. The principal changes in density 

 and composition of population since 1820 are shown in 

 Table 5. 



FIG. 14. One of the better class of farm houses in the eastern 

 red hills, about three miles north of Capps, Henry County. July 26, 

 1919. 



TABLE 5. 

 Population statistics of eastern red mils. 



The ratio of whites to negroes has varied from about 5 

 to 1 in 1840 and 1850 to 2 to 1 in 1910, indicating quite dif- 

 ferent social and economic conditions from those in the 



