Show A LESSON FROM THE SOUTH the chamber of Com commerce meroe of the town of huntsville alabama at to is an organization that seems to be bent on filling the purpose and of its creation and it has a secretary who may properly be called a hustler from the start off under date of at the of january he writes write to one of the best known wholesale merchants in this city and state in the following breezy and inviting strain are you fl flo on the removal of your plant to the south if so the huntsville chamber of commerce invites you to come and investigate for yourself the superior advantages this city offers for textile manufacturing 1 exemption from taxation for ten years both municipal county and state 2 one of the best inland cotton markets in the south fifty thousand bales per annum 3 cheap coal from to per ton 4 high claw claas native white labor in abundance no labor organizations hence no strikes wages one third less lees than in the east 6 sixty six hours per week stan standard darI working time 1 6 fine railroad facilities two competing railroads making low rates average freight rate on manufactured manu aured goods but five sevenths of the rate on oa I 1 cotton to eastern markets 7 abundance of water at no cost 8 free site given for locating here with side tracks and water furnished free of expense 9 we represent that the unparalleled success of our three large cotton tn nu here is sufficient evidence of our grew great advantages 1 1 1 10 we have the enviable reputation of being the most healthful locality inthe south 11 our city has people and an all modern improvements write us if you are interested ana aaa we will be pleased to make you W proposition in the foregoing invitation and aad argument axe are some inducements which the chamber of commerce of this athla a city cannot offer and would not want to it if it could but there is a suggestion of get up and work and a fine flavor of enterprise accompanying the letter that will be received with a po positively relish by those of salt lakes business men who believe that their own seini slumbering city has the best resources resource a and prospects of any spot on the continent huntsville alabama may not be all that its promoters say s i it to la but blaw if it does not make a winning att chamber of commerce cannot be charged with the blame salt t r at t city is all and more than its claim for it but it would be ua kind to carry cabry the comparison further |