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li: l?te years it was run tinder the company name of Milner. 

 Caldwell & Flowers, the two former being well-known Bir- 

 mingham capitalists and the latter 'the late John J. Flowers, 

 who retired from the lumber business with a large fortune at 

 the end of an active and successful life. 



But six years ago the mills were moved. The timber in 

 this section had been cut away and there was no longer food 

 for tie insatiable saws. The mill men had cut over some 

 60,000 acres of yellow pine land. What was to be done with it? 



It was good farming land. It is of the nature of the mixed 

 clay and sandy lands of East Alabama, which have been made 

 to yield such fine returns and upon which has been built perhaps 

 the richest farming section of Alabama. The strip of land, so 

 we are told, upon which Boiling is located runs through Cren- 

 shaw County and the prosperous country about Luverne on 

 to the farming counties' farther east. The yellow pine lands 

 of South Alabama are much the same everywhere. 



There was but one thing to do to make a farming country 

 of what had been a lumber country. But how? That was no 

 easy question. It was to be made a farming country bv 

 bringing in farmers and selling them land on easy terms, but 

 bringing in farmers to a new country is a task that demands 

 time, brains and energy. All South Alabama is interested in 

 this question, and the hope of a successful solution of it in 

 the coming of immigrants in considerable numbers grows 

 bright. 



NEED Ol? COLONISTS. 



A company was formed -to exploit and sell the lands here 

 at Boiling. The company bought in a body of 23,000 acres of 

 the "cut over" lands of the Milner, Caldwell & Flowers Com- 

 pany. The moving spirits of the company were Capt. R. F. 

 Kolb. Syd Tones and W. C. Shackelford, all of Birmingham, 

 and the company was organized and did business under the 

 name of the Sydney Colony Company. In time the company 

 dissolved and Mr. Shackelford became the owner of the 23,000 

 acres of land. Mr. Shackelford is one of the leading capitalists 

 of Birmingham. He is at the head of the well-known Ivy 

 Coal and Coke Company. 



Joseph L. Lee. well known in Montgomery, is the local 

 manag^er for Mr. Shackelford. The movement now on is to 



