The Twin Sources of Bibb County^s 

 Prosperous Growth 



'^T'wo fountain heads there are, two sources of the stream of 

 ^i»' the State's commerce. And they dififer as one star diiifers 

 from another in glory. 



The mine and the farm are the heads of the two streams 

 which unite further down and make the vahmie of the State's 

 commerce. The factory grows more and more important. It 

 looms' up larger each day. Time will be when the factory will 

 be ?s vital to the commerce of the State as the farm and the 

 mine, but that time is not now. There be millions and millions 

 of dollars turned over each year in Alabama's commerce, but 

 most of these millions are turned over in business streams that 

 flow forth from mine and farm. 



There must be a ridge, a watershed, dividing these two com- 

 mercial streams, a something which stands between and con- 

 nects. 



In the rejuvenated town of Andalusia, a good many mi'es 

 away from here, the courthouse stands in the middle of the 

 public square. It is the crest of the dividing ridge between 

 two watersheds'. The Andalusian visitor is invariably shown 

 the courthouse and told how the water which runs off one side 

 of the roof flows to one river and makes its way to the sea 

 while the water which flows off the other side of the roof flows 

 to another river and takes another route to the sea. 



THE MINE AND THE FARM. 



A short distance from Centerville. a distance s'o short that 

 Centerville itself might be identified as the place in mind, is 

 the crest of the ridge which divides mineral and agricultural 

 Alabama. To the north is the mine, to the south is the farm. 

 .^nd here, on this spot, mine and farm dove-tail into each other. 

 It is all wit^'in the Countv of Bibb, and Centreville is all but 

 upon the line of demarkation. 



