THE ALABAMA OPPORTUNITY. 61 



INCREASE OF LAND VALUES. 



The increase of land values, even in the past fifteen years 

 has' been nothing short of phenomenal in and around Geneva. 

 Much of this land has increased a thousand per cent. As 

 indications of the ways in which land values are rais- 

 ing in Geneva and adjoining counties the interested visitor 

 comes across various impressive facts. The Geneva Reaper of 

 last week, for instance, carried a local story of the return of 

 Taylor Hutto, who left here over a quarter of a century ago, 

 to move to Talladega. At the time Mr. Hutto moved away the 

 family owned eighty acres of wooded land a few miles from 

 town. When other holdings were sold this land was not con- 

 sidered of enough importance to warrant an effort to sell it. 

 It was thought that probably the land would bring at that time 

 about 75 cents an acre. 



Tales' of the growth of Southeast Alabama having reached 

 Mr. Hutto, he thought that the eighty acres of land he left in 

 the woods might be worth the trouble -of a trip to Geneva. 

 He found on coming here last week that the land was easily 

 worth $io an acre. And noting not only the substantial growth 

 of Geneva, but the rapid settlements of the country districts 

 which he had left almost a wilderness Mr. Hutto decided that 

 the land could be well let alone so that it might continue to in- 

 crease in value. 



