. The heart of the South along the line of the Atlanta & West Point and the Western railway of Alabama . manufacturing enterprisesare the West Point Oil Mills, West Point Iron Works, WestPoint Manufacturing Company, Galeton Cotton Mills aiulLanett Cotton Mills, besides other smaller industries. The_Galeton Mills run five thousand spindles and o::e hundrtand fifty looms, using three hundred bales of cotta the iiroduct being duck and osnaburgs. Itemploys one hundred and seventj hands, with a monthlj^ pay roll of $3,000. The West Point Manufacturing Comjjany runs twelve spindles an
. The heart of the South along the line of the Atlanta & West Point and the Western railway of Alabama . manufacturing enterprisesare the West Point Oil Mills, West Point Iron Works, WestPoint Manufacturing Company, Galeton Cotton Mills aiulLanett Cotton Mills, besides other smaller industries. The_Galeton Mills run five thousand spindles and o::e hundrtand fifty looms, using three hundred bales of cotta the iiroduct being duck and osnaburgs. Itemploys one hundred and seventj hands, with a monthlj^ pay roll of $3,000. The West Point Manufacturing Comjjany runs twelve spindles and three hundred and thirty- looms, making ducks and osnaburgs; it employs three hundred and forty hands, monthly pay roll of $7,000. The Lanett Cotton Mills run twenty-seven thousand spindles and seven hundred looms, and consumes one thousand bales of cotton monthly, producing sheetings, drills, fancy ducks and sateens. It emplojs seven hundred hands, and has a monthly pay roll of $10,000. The combined industries of the vicinity have a monthly pay roll of about $25,000, and insure a lucrative business 40. RESIDENCES AT WEST POINT. to llic retail trade at all seasons of the year. West Point invites further investments in Poi;* ■i;^ ■ ■ Mnction of being the pioneer in the fruit-growing industry of the Stale, for was here that many years ago, John H. Parnell, brother of the Irish—- ,.airiot, planted the first extensive commercial orchards. He saw thewonderful possibilities of both soil and climate, and was (.juick to takeadvantage of it. Truck farming has proven very profitable here, as has alsopoultry farming and dairying. This being the most southwesterly limit of
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