The Alabama Manual and Statistical Register for 1869, Containing Information for Immigrants, Capitalists, Manufacturers, Planters, Mechanics, Agricultural Laborers, Merchants and Politicians...
Montgomery: 1869.
First Edition. Title continues: "With Reference to the Soil, Climate, Population, Topography, Productions, Mineral and General Resources of the State of Alabama." 8vo, pp. 18 (ads), [5]-154, xlvi (statistics); 1, 18b-68 (ads), index. Original green wrappers lightly soiled; spine with later paper over the original; contents clean with just a few spots of foxing. Very good. Noting that "there have been no civil disorders in Alabama since the close of the war," Hodgson (Editor of the Montgomery Daily Mail) invites "men of worth, from all sections of the Union, and in all parts of the world” to settle in Alabama, where they can take advantage of favorable tax laws and land for homesteaders. He provides considerable detail on Alabama's natural resources and industrial and agricultural activities—including timber and cotton production, iron works, and coal mining—and also advocates for the establishment of an "Alabama Water Line" (via the Coosa and Alabama Rivers to Mobile or Pensacola) to supplant the overcrowded Mississippi as the gateway for international commerce via the Gulf of Mexico. Owen p. 982.
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