RESIDENCE OF O. O. NELSON
In the heart of this Agricultural belt, sits Montgomery, with her river and six railroads. She is the commercial emporium of this farming region, while a few miles north or south brings her to the cheap fuel and the cheap lumber of the Mineral and Timber regions of a State more richly endowed in these respects than any State in the American Union.
These rich farming lands, already recovered from the revolution in the labor system, are still to be had for from $3 to $15 per acre, while vast bodies of timber lands are still in the hands of the government, at $1.25 per acre.
Montgomery only asks that the man of enterprise and the man of capital shall come and see for himself. Cheap iron, cheap fuel, cheap cotton, cheap lumber and a consuming population of 500,000 farmers hold out inducements to the manufacturer, unsurpassed on the American continent.
MONTGOMERY AS A HEALTH RESORT.
We have long believed, and are now prepared to show by facts, figures and an experience of twenty-one years in the Health Department of Montgomery, that it is entitled to rank amongst the healthiest cities in America. We make this assertion in no boastful spirit, but with security born of experience, and sustained by the following carefully prepared statistical tables, compiled from data furnished by a number of American and foreign cities:
| AMERICA. | POPULATION. | ANNUAL DEATH RATE PER 1,000. | |
| Baltimore, Md. | 400,000 | 19.63 | |
| Brooklyn, N. Y. | 600,000 | 20.46 | |
| Boston, Mass. | 375,000 | 19.46 | |
| Buffalo, N. Y. | 150,000 | 16.52 | |
| Cambridge, Mass. | 60,000 | 23.51 | |
| Charleston, S. C. | 60,000 | 28.68 | |
| Chicago, Illinois | 500,000 | 14.19 | |
| Cincinnati, Ohio | 300,000 | 12.84 | |
| Cleveland, Ohio | 170,000 | 21.50 | |
| Elmira, N. Y. | 20,583 | 18.69 | |
| Erie, Penn. | 200,000 | 13.35 | |
| Fall River, Mass. | 50,000 | 20.39 | |
| Lawrence, Mass. | 40,000 | 23.80 | |
| Lowell, Mass. | 60,000 | 16.73 | |
| Lynn, Mass. | 35,000 | 18.96 | |
| Memphis, Tenn. | 80,000 | 16.08 | |
| Milwaukee, Wis. | 150,000 | 21.55 | |
| New Haven, Conn. | 80,000 | 15.50 | |
| Norfolk, Va. | 25,000 | 19.82 | |
| New Orleans, La. | 220,000 | 22.78 | |
| New York City | 2,500,000 | 22.74 | |
| Philadelphia, Pa. | 100,000 | 19.37 | |
| Providence, R. I. | 105,000 | 21.20 | |
| Richmond, Va. | 100,000 | 18.11 | |
| San Francisco, Cal. | 350,000 | 16.04 | |
| St. Louis, Mo. | 600,000 | 18.94 | |
| Washington, D. C. | 175,000 | 31.12 | |
| Worcester, Mass. | 55,000 | 22.07 | |
| Yonkers, N. Y. | 20,000 | 15.33 | |
| MONTGOMERY, ALA. | 30,000 | White | 9.50 |
| "" | .......... | Col’d. | 18.00 |
| "" | .......... | Total | 13.00 |
| FOREIGN. | |||
| Amsterdam, Holland | 289,982 | 33.01 | |
| Antwerp, Belgium | 150,000 | 19.07 | |
| Basle, Switzerland | 49,158 | 17. | |
| Belfast, Ireland | 180,412 | 28. | |
| Berlin, Germany | 200,000 | 23.9 | |
| Berne, Switzerland | 40,168 | 20.2 | |
| Birmingham, England | 400,436 | 28.5 | |
| Bombay, India | 42.7 | ||
| Breslau, Germany | 260,000 | 25.9 | |
| Brussels, Belgium | 173,000 | 20.2 | |
| Buda Pesth, Hungary | 60,000 | 39.6 | |
| Calcutta, India | 892,000 | 49.4 | |
| Christiana, Norway | 80,000 | 21.4 | |
| Copenhagen, Denmark | 200,500 | 24.6 | |
| Cork, Ireland | 580,076 | 41.6 | |
| Dublin, Ireland | 334,666 | 31.7 | |
| Dundee, Scotland | 145,600 | 31.5 | |
| Edingburgh, Scotland | 220,729 | 28. | |
| Geneva, Switzerland | 46,783 | 19. | |
| Ghent, Belgium | 127,653 | 32.6 | |
| Glasgow, Scotland | 560,933 | 24. | |
| Liverpool, England | 600,000 | 32.6 | |
| London, England | 3,560,802 | 25.7 | |
| Madras, India | 397,352 | 98.6 | |
| Manchester, England | 360,212 | 19.8 | |
| Messina, Italy | 80,136 | 16.8 | |
| Munich, Bavaria | 200,000 | 32. | |
| Naples, Italy | 907,000 | 25.7 | |
| Paris, France | 2,500,000 | 25.4 | |
| Rome, Italy | 286,000 | 21.3 | |
| Rotterdam, Holland | 125,097 | 28.2 | |
| Sidney, Australia | 60,079 | 25.5 | |
| St. Petersburg, Russia | 210,000 | 45.80 | |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 165,677 | 27.2 | |
| The Hague, Holland | 105,000 | 29.5 | |
| Treiste, Austria | 127,936 | 41.1 | |
| Turin, Italy | 225,488 | 32.2 | |
| Valparaiso, Chili | 111,500 | 44.3 | |
| Venice, Italy | 140,796 | 29.8 | |
| Vienna, Austria | 1,500,000 | 32.24 | |
| Warsaw, Poland | 300,000 | 21.58 | |