Excerpt from Mineral Belt of Alabama: The Favored Section of the South, For Agricultural, Mineral and Timber Lands

The Alabama State Land Company, owner of the lands of the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad - now known as the Alabama Great Southern Railroad - has for sale in North Alabama over six hundred thousand acres of agricultural, timber and mineral lands.

These lands are situated convenient to the stations and on each side of the Alabama Great Southern Railroad, a division of the Queen and Crescent system, which runs from Cincinnati to New Orleans and from Cincinnati to Shreveport, via Meridian, Mississippi.

The Alabama Great Southern Railroad traverses the entire State of Alabama from the northeast to the southwest corner, and follows the centre of the great mineral belt of Alabama for its entire length.

This mineral belt is about fifty miles wide, and extends from the northeast corner of the State toward the southwest, for about two hundred miles. It is within this great belt that all the coal, iron and rock mines, furnaces and manufactories of all kinds are located, and where the future wealth and natural increase in the value of real estate will be found.

It is here where the great towns of the State will be situated, as they are now springing up within this territory all along the line of the Alabama Great Southern Railroad.

Here, too, employment of all kinds can be found, and every pound of produce raised from the land can be marketed at a high price at the nearest station.

Good farming lands can be purchased fr the Company within this region for from $3.50 to $5.00 per acre - one-fourth cash, the balance in one, two and three years.

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