34 THE ALABAMA OPPORTUNITY. 



lumber Company, is one of the largest in Alabama. As these 

 saw mills cut clown the pine forests new settlers follow them 

 and put the land into cultivation. And this new land, like 

 the older land, 's susceptible to any kind of improvement and 

 there is no limit to what it can make." 



There are two or three show places about Enterprise. The 

 most famous of them is "Arlington." the country home of 

 Captain John Rawls, late of Virginia and South Carolina. 

 It is a beautiful home on an excellent farm, a large and com- 

 modious house with every convenience and every attention. 

 The people of Enterprise say that it is one of the very finest 

 country homes in all South Alabama. 



Then there is the model 'farm of Sam Smith, who has' gone 

 already into the stock business. Mr. Smith's specialty is the 

 raising of registered Berkshire hogs. The hogs he raises 

 are too valuable to be sold as pork in the local market or in 

 any other market. They are raised and sold for breeding pur- 

 poses'. A pair of those hogs sell for $io and Mr. Smith has off 

 and on sold several cars of them. 



When prospective land buyers come into Enterprise they are 

 shown some of the successful and paying farms of the terri- 

 tory, farms like those belonging to J. M. Heath, W. A. GofT, 

 C. C. Alberson,, Hiram Pridgen, Jim Baker, William Ormar, 

 J. W. Fleming, Bud Armor, W. H. Warren and Rush Hutch- 

 cnson. And several of this' list, it is said have farm property 

 worth over $10,000. 



The section about Enterprise must be a fine fruit country. 

 An orchard on the Rawls place did excellently. Station Agent 

 J. A. Middlebrooks of the Atlantic Coast Line is convinced 

 that the sand and clay soil, the climate is equal to the best in 

 Georgia or to that at Red Level where the Rumph orchard 

 did so well, and where the soil so much resembles that about 

 Enterprise. Mr. Middlebrooks' has gone in to demonstrate 

 the possibilities of peach growing at Enterprise. He wishes 

 to put the industry of peach growing on a firm footing there, 

 to create an interest in it that the section has not known before. 

 With this purpose in view he has planted fifty acres in peaches. 

 The land he has planted is almost within the city limits' of En- 

 terprise. The principal varieties that Mr. Middlebrooks has 

 set out on his lands are the Arp Beauty and the Elberta. 

 His extensive experiment is being watched with deep interest 

 bv the communitv. 



