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Share-cash tenants, 23.
Cash tenants, 202.
Tenure not specified, 12. Native white tenants, 2,307.
Foreign-born white, -
Negro and other nonwhite, 284.
Farms Operated by Managers.
Number of farms, 14. Land in farms, 3,022 acres. Improved land in farms, 511 acres. Value of land and buildings, $36,925.
Live Stock Products. Dairy Products:
Milk: Produced, 1,753,739; sold, 9,734 gal- lons.
Cream sold,
Butter fat sold, 25 pounds.
Butter: Produced. 609,701; sold, 34,476 lbs. Cheese: Produced, Dairy products, excluding home use of milk and cream, $109,060.
Sale of dairy products, $8,595.
Poultry Products.
Poultry: Number raised, 235,156; sold, 66,- 321.
Eggs: Produced, 687,754; sold, 417,071 dozens. Poultry and eggs produced, $164,225. Sale of poultry and eggs, $83,007.
Honey and Wax. Honey produced, 24,759 pounds. Wax produced, 1,442 pounds. Value of honey and wax produced, $3,098.
Wool, Mohair and Goat Hair.
Wool fleeces shorn, 4,004. Mohair and goat hair, fleeces shorn, 12. Wool and mohair produced, $2,250.
Domestic Animals Sold or Slaughtered. Calves-Sold or slaughtered, 1,171. Other cattle-Sold or slaughtered, 6,801. Horses, mules, and asses and burros-Sold, 1,093.
Swine-Sold or slaughtered, 25,943. Sheep and goats-Sold or slaughtered, 1,783. Sale of animals, $262,838. Value of animals slaughtered, $220,524.
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Methodist Church, still standing, opposite the old Pleasant Hill School, Jefferson County
Pleasant Hill School, Jefferson County, taught by Prof. I. W. McAdory, and where Thomas M. Owen, historian, Governor Hogg of Texas, and other public men were pre- pared for college.
HISTORIC RURAL BUILDINGS
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Value of All Crops.
Total, $2,212,734. Cereals, $837,889.
Other grains and seeds, $7,714.
Hay and forage, $133,807.
Vegetables, $163,154.
Fruits and nuts, $68,906.
All other crops, $1,001,264.
Selected Crops (Acres and Quantity). Cereals: total, 75,619 acres; 1,017,529 bush- els.
Corn, 71,026 acres; 963,862 bushels.
Oats, 3,962 acres; 48,577 bushels.
Wheat, 603 acres; 4,513 bushels.
Rye, 8 acres; 77 bushels.
Kafir corn and milo maize, 20 acres; 500 bushels.
Rice,
Other grains:
Dry peas, 734 acres; 3,616 bushels.
Dry edible beans, 58 acres; 214 bushels.
Peanuts, 26 acres; 344 bushels.
Hay and forage: total, 10,877 acres; 8,913 tons.
All tame or cultivated grasses, 3,897 acres; 3,353 tons.
Wild, salt and prairie grasses, 1,232 acres; 996 tons.
Grains cut green, 5,510 acres; 4,204 tons. Coarse forage, 238 acres; 360 tons.
Special Crops:
Potatoes, 509 acres; 38,753 bushels.
Sweet potatoes and yams, 445 acres, 41,169 bushels.
Tobacco, 11 acres; 4,796 pounds.
Cotton, 26,793 acres; 9,602 bales.
Cane sugar, 14 acres; 53 tons. Sirup made, 804 gallons.
Cane-sorghum, 467 acres; 1,717 tons.
Sirup made, 17,600 gallons.
Fruits and Nuts.
Orchard fruits: total, 177,879 trees; 98,368 bushels.
Apples, 74,134 trees; 45,111 bushels.
1840
13,868
1,852
15,715
1850
11,754
2,334
14,088
1860
14,811
3,472
18,283
1870
16,350
3,060
19,410
1880
21,074
4,033
25,107
1890
24,179
3,840
28,026
Quinces, 349 trees; 47 bushels.
Grapes, 8,363 vines; 42,260 pounds. Tropical fruits, 94 trees.
Figs, 94 trees; 3,705 pounds. Oranges, - -
Small fruits, 10 acres; 9,662 quarts. Strawberries, 9 acres, 9,285 quarts.
Nuts: 40 trees; 260 pounds.
Pecans, 19 trees; 110 pounds.
Labor, Fertilizer and Feed.
Labor-Farms reporting, 1,428. Cash expended, $64,862. Rent and board furnished, $13,320.
Fertilizer-Farms reporting, 2,379. Amount expended, $51,032.
Feed-Farms reporting, 1,195. Amount expended, $48,639.
Receipts from sale of feedable crops, $119,- 481.
Domestic Animals Not on Farms.
Inclosures reporting domestic animals, 778. Value of domestic animals, $99,369. Cattle: total, 1,607; value, $28,060. Number of dairy cows, 764. Horses: total, 401; value, $43,709.
Mules and asses and burros: total, 163; value, $20,980.
Swine: total, 1,652; value, $6,260.
Sheep and goats: total, 190; value, $360.
Post Offices and Towns .- Revised to July 1, 1919 from U. S. Official Postal Guide. Fig- ures indicate the number of rural routes from that office.
Alto Maxwell
Aspel
Milan
Bass Station
Narrows
Bridgeport-1
Nat
Dutton-1
Olalee
Estillfork
Paint Rock
Fabius-1
Pierceton
Fackler
Pisgah-1
Flat Rock-1
Princeton
Francisco
Rash
Gonce
Scottsboro (ch)-5
Gray's Chapel
Section-2
Greerton
Smilax
Hollytree
Stevenston-1
Hollywood-1
Sunset
Hytop
Swain
Langston-1
Trenton
Larkinsville
Wannville
Letcher
Woodville-1
Lime Rock
Yucca
Long Island-2
Population. Statistics from decennial
publications of the U. S. Bureau of the Census.
White
Negro
Total
1820
8,129
622
8,751
1830
11,418
1,282
12,700
Peaches and nectarines, 84,897 trees; 48,- 911 bushels. Pears, 2,874 trees; 1,346 bushels.
Plums and prunes, 14,014 trees;
2,791 bushels.
Cherries, 1,560 trees; 141 bushels.
1900
26,860
3,642
30,508
1910
29,666
3,136
32,918
1920
...
35,864
Delegates to Constitutional Conventions .- 1861-John R. Coffey, J. P. Timberland, W. A. Hood.
1865-Bailey Bruce, W. J. B. Padgett, James Williams.
1867-Charles O. Whitney, Alfred Collins. 1875-Jesse E. Brown, John H. Norwood. 1901-P. W. Hodges, John F. Proctor, Milo Moody.
Senators .- 1820-1-William D. Gaines.
1822-3-Robert McCarney.
1825-6-Robert McCarney.
1828-9-Samuel B. Moore.
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1831-2-William Barclay.
1834-5-William Barclay.
1837-8-Joseph P. Frazier.
1840-41-Thomas Wilson. 1843-4-Thomas Wilson. 1847-8-Joseph P. Frazier. 1851-2-Joseph P. Frazier. 1855-6-Thomas Wilson.
1857-8-William A. Austin.
1861-2-F. Rice.
1865-6-John H. Norwood.
1868-C. O. Whitney. 1871-2-C.O. Whitney. 1872-3-A. Snodgrass.
1873-A. Snodgrass.
1874-5-A. Snodgrass.
1875-6-A. Snodgrass.
1876-7-L. A. Dobbs.
1878-9-L. A. Dobbs.
1880-1-P. Brown.
1882-3-Preston Brown.
1884-5-1ra R. Foster.
1886-7-J. L. Sheffield.
1888-9-W. W. Haralson.
1890-1-Wm. W. Haralson.
1892-3-W. H. Bogart.
1894-5-W. H. Bogart.
1896-7-G. J. Hall.
1898-9-George I. Hall.
1899 (Spec.)-George I. Hall.
1900-01-Floyd A. Bostick.
1903- Floyd Alexander Bostick.
1907- J. A. Lusk.
1907 (Spec.)-J. A. Lusk
1909 (Spec.)-Samuel Philips.
1911-C. W. Brown.
1915-J. A. Lusk.
1919-John B. Tally.
Representatives .-
1821-2-William Barclay; Booker Smith; George W. Hopkins.
1822-3-William Barclay; Alexander Du- laney; Thomas Bailey.
1823-4 - William Barclay; Samuel B. Moore; Daniel Peyton.
1824-5 - William D. Gaines; Samuel B. Moore; Daniel Peyton.
1825-6-Philip H. Ambrister; Charles Lew- is; Daniel Peyton; John Baxter.
1826-7 - William Barclay; Samuel B. Moore; William Lewis; Philip H. Ambrister. 1827-8-James Russell; Samuel B. Moore; William A. Davis; Daniel Price.
1828-9-James Russell; Stearnes S. Well- born; James Smith; Philip H. Ambrister.
1829-30-James Russell; William Barclay; James Smith; James Roulston.
1830-1-William Barclay; John Gilbreath; John B. Stephens; Daniel Price.
1831-2-Henry Norwood; John Gilbreath; John D. Stephens; Daniel Price.
1832 (called) - Henry Norwood; John Lusk; Benjamin B. Goodrich; Caleb B. Hud- son.
1832-3-Henry Norwood; John Lusk; Ben- jamin B. Goodrich; Caleb B. Hudson.
1833-4-Henry Norwood'; Edwin H. Web- ster; Samuel McDavid; P. H. Ambrister.
1834-5- Robert Jones; John Gilbreath;
James W. Young; Benjamin Snodgrass; Philip H. Ambrister; Wyatt Coffey.
1835-6-Henry Norwood; Joseph P. Fra- zier; John Berry; William King; Stephen Carter; Washington F. May.
1836-7-Robert T. Scott; Joseph P. Fra- zier; John Berry; William M. King; Benja- min Snodgrass; Samuel McDavid.
1837 (called)-Robert T. Scott; Joseph P. Frazier; John Berry; William M. King; Ben- jamin Snodgrass; Samuel McDavid.
1837-8-Robert T. Scott; C. M. Cross; Alva Finley; William M. King; Thomas Wilson; Daniel Lucas.
1838-9-William Mason; James Williams; Alva Finley: F. A. Hancock; Thomas Wilson: McNairy Harris.
1839-40-Robert T. Scott; James William; F. A. Hancock; Thomas Wilson.
1840-41-G. R. Griffin; E. W. Williams; Joshua Warren; James Smith.
1841 (called) - G. R. Griffin; E. W. Wil- liams; Joshua Warren; James Smith.
1841-2-William L. Griffin; Philip H. Am- brister; Wm. M. King; James Smith.
1842-3-Robert T. Scott; E. W. Williams; Alva Finley; James Munday.
1843-4 - Benjamin Franks; James Wil- liams; Joseph P. Frazier; F. A. Hancock.
1844-5-Robert T. Scott: James Williams; Moses Maples; Williamson R. W. Cobb.
1845-6-C. F. Williams; James Williams; W. R. W. Cobb.
1847-8-Robert T. Scott; James Williams; F. A. Hancock.
1849-50-Benjamin Franks; Thomas Wil- son; J. C. Austin.
1851-2-Joshua Stephens; Thomas Wilson; J. C. Austin.
1853-4-Robert T. Scott; James M. Green; H. C. Cowan.
1855-6-W. R. Larkins; Moses Maples; F. A. Hancock.
1857-8-John B. Talley; J. S. Eustace; J. M. Cloud.
1859-60-P. G. Griffin; Jonathan Latham; J. M. Hudgins.
1861 (1st called)-P. G. Griffin; Jonathan Latham; J. M. Hudgins.
1861 (2d called)-John B. Talley; Jona- than Latham; T. T. Cotman.
1861-2-John B. Talley; Jonathan Lath- am; T. T. Cotman.
1862 (called)-John B. Talley; Jonathan Latham; T. T. Cotman.
1862-3-John B. Talley; Jonathan Latham; T. T. Cotman.
1863 (called)-P. Brown; J. W. Young; W. H. Robinson.
1863-4-P. Brown; J. W. Young; W. H. Robinson.
1864 (called)-P. Brown; J. W. Young; W. H. Robinson.
1864-5-P. Brown; J. W. Young; W. H. Robinson.
1865-6-W. J. B. Padgett; James Wil- liams; Henry F. Smith.
1866-7-W. J. B. Padgett; James Wil- liams; Henry F. Smith.
1868-J. W. Daniel; W. F. Hurt.
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1869-70-J. W. Daniel; W. F. Hurt. 1870-1-W. F. Hurt; J. H. Cowan.
1872-J. H. Cowan; W. F. Hurt.
1872-3-J. E. Brown; J. H. Cowan. 1873-J. E. Brown; J. H. Cowan. 1874-5-W. J. Higgins; W. M. Maples. 1875-6-W. J. Higgins; W. M. Maples. 1876-7-Wm. McFarlane; Samuel Butler. 1878-9-G. D. Campbell; James Evans. 1880-1-W. H. Robinson; J. H. Vaught. 1882-3-S. H. Glover; C. W. Hunt.
1884-5-W. H. Bogart; I. P. Brown. 1886-7-P. P. St. Clair; W. M. Maples. 1888-9-W. H. Bogart.
1890-1-W.H. Clanton; T. B. Parks.
1892-3-S. W. Frazier; J. H. Roach.
1894-5-W. McC. Maples; J. H. Roach.
1896-7-P. B. Timberlake; Virgil Boul- din.
1898-9-Milo Moody; Calvin Rousseau.
1899 (Spec.)-Milo Moody; Calvin Rous- seau.
1890-01-J. R. Johnson; G. W. Bullman. 1903-William Henry Bogart; Samuel Wi- ley Frazier.
1907-James Armstrong; James S. Benson. 1907 (Spec.)-James Armstrong; James S. Benson.
1909 (Spec.)-James Armstrong; James S. Benson.
1911-J. T. Brewer; W. J. Martin.
1915-C. W. Brown; P. H. Whorton.
1919-J. C. Austin; P. H. Whorton.
REFERENCES .- Toulmin, Digest (1823), index; Acts of Ala., Brewer, Alabama, p. 282; Berney, Handbook (1892), p. 299; Riley, Alabama as it is (1893), p. 29; Northern Alabama (1888), p. 92; Alabama, 1909 (Ala. Dept. of Ag. and Ind., Bulletin 27), p. 138; U. S. Soil Survey (1912), with map; Alabama land book (1916), p. 81; Ala. Official and Statistical Register, 1903-1915, 5 vols .; Ala. Anthropological Society, Hand- book (1910); Geol. Survey of Ala., Agricultural features of the State (1883); The Valley Re- gions of Alabama, parts 1 and 2 (1896, 1897), and Underground Water Resources of Alabama (1907).
JACKSON HIGHWAY. See Roads and Highways.
JACKSONVILLE. Post office and incorpo- rated town in the east-central part of Cal- houn County, and on the Southern Railway, about 12 miles north of Anniston, about 50 miles southwest of Rome, Ga., and about 20 miles southeast of Gadsden. Altitude: 720 feet. Population: 1870-958; 1888-2,000; 1890-1,237; 1900-1,176; 1910-2,231. It was incorporated in 1836. Its corporate lim- its were enlarged to their present dimensions in 1860, and in 1907 the town adopted the general municipal code. It has a city hall and a jail, erected in 1906, a volunteer fire department, and several miles of cherted streets. There are parks and playgrounds covering several blocks. The city installed a waterworks system in 1868, which was later sold to private persons. It also has a privately owned electric light plant. The city tax
rate is three-fourths of 1 per cent, and its bonded indebtedness $32,000-$10,000 for waterworks, $10,000 for State normal college, and $12,000 for city high school. The First National is the only bank. The Jacksonville Record, a Democratic weekly established in 1906, and the Bulletin of the State normal college, a quarterly established in 1905, are published there. Its industries are the Profile Cotton Mills, capitalized at $1,000,000 and spinning thread only, cotton ginneries, cotton warehouses, fertilizer plant, cottonseed oil mills, heading mills, 2 flouring mills, grain mills, waterworks plant, electric light plant, and iron ore, kaolin, and lead mines in the vicinity. There are also marble and limestone quarries nearby. The Jacksonville State Normal College, established in 1884, is lo- cated in the town.
In 1833 Jacksonville built the county courthouse in the center of a large square. When the county seat was removed to Annis- ton in 1895, the Jacksonville people placed a handsome Confederate monument in the center of one square.
Among the early settlers of the locality, were the Forney, Foster, Crook, Stevenson, Abernathy, Gardner, Pelham, Walker, and Ellis families.
REFERENCES .- Brewer, Alabama (1872), pp. 152 et seq .; Northern Alabama (1888), p. 111; Polk's Alabama gazetteer, 1888-9, p. 440; Ala- bama Official and Statistical Register, 1915.
JACKSONVILLE, OR CHOCCOLOCCO MOUNTAINS. A high range of mountains extending from Piedmont to Oxford, in Cal- houn County, a distance of 25 miles. Their highest peaks range from 1,800 to 2,000 feet above sea level. These mountains are sepa- rated from the Coldwater Mountain to the southwest, by the narrow, faulted valley be- tween Oxford and Anniston, and from the Terrapin Mountains, to the northeast, by the similar valley between Piedmont and White Plains. In the top strata of the mountains there are many deposits of limonite.
REFERENCE .- McCalley, Valley regions of Ala- bama, Pt. 2, Coosa Valley (Geol. Survey of Ala., special report 9, 1897), pp. 18-19, 679.
JACKSONVILLE, ROME AND DALTON RAILROAD COMPANY. See East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway Company.
JACKSONVILLE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. A "Class A" normal school "es- tablished by the State of Alabama to prepare teachers for its public schools." It was chartered February 22, 1883, and as appears by the act, was "permanently established in the Calhoun college building at Jacksonville." A board of directors, consisting of S. K. McSpadden, John M. Caldwell, James Crook, W. P. Howell, Wm. M. Hames, D. A. Ader- holt, H. L. Stevenson, W. J. Alexander, J. Y. Nisbet, L. W. Grant and John D. Hammond, and the superintendent of education, was named in the act. Mr. Hames was subse-
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quently chosen president of the board, and John M. Caldwell, secretary.
The board was directed to organize the school "upon the most approved plan," and authority was given to establish "a public school or other school" in connection with the institution. The faculty was required "to establish a course of instruction with special reference to educating teachers in the theory and practice of teaching." Students were to be admitted from any part of the State, and "shall receive instructions free of charge for tuition, upon signing a written obligation to teach at least two years in the public schools of Alabama." Graduates were empowered to teach in the public schools of the State without further examination. The sum of $2,500 annually was appropriated "out of the general educational revenue apportioned to the whites." While the charter contained many other general provisions the foregoing illustrate the attitude of the legislature at the beginning of this form of educational enterprise.
The school opened in the fall of 1883, with James G. Ryals, Jr., as president. The first class was graduated in 1886. Through the assistance of Dr. J. L. M. Curry, $300 an- nually was granted by the Peabody Education Fund, which sum was later substantially in- creased. In 1899 an experimental garden and field was established in connection with the study of botany and physiography. In 1903 the trustees arranged a system of scholar- ships, whereby one person from every county in the State might receive tuition free of charge. In 1910 Mrs. Fannie Atkins made a donation to the school of 123 acres of land and the dwelling thereon in memory of her husband, David Atkins.
Legislative History .- The original charter provided that the directors should hold office at their own pleasure. This was changed by act of February 15, 1897, the governor was added to the board, and upon him was con- ferred the power of appointment. The leg- islature, December 9, 1900, ratified and con- firmed the action of the county commissioners in donating to the State for the school, the old courthouse and the lot on which it was located, so long as "used by said school for school purposes," but a later act of August 2, 1907, empowered the trustees to sell the old building and the grounds for the use of the institution. On September 9, 1903, the legislature increased the appropriation to $10,000. A still further appropriation of $60,000 was generously made, April 20, 1911, to meet "a balance due for permanent im- provements heretofore made [for] equipments and buildings for said school, and to aid in further erection of necessary buildings for the same; and for improving and extending the grounds thereof."
Library .- The school was one of the first of the educational institutions in the State to appreciate the value of trained librarian- ship. In 1908 Miss Susan Lancaster, a gradu- ate librarian, was engaged. The library at once took its place as a laboratory of real
service to both faculty and students, standard rules were substituted for haphazard use, a love of reading was stimulated, and courses offered in library methods and in the use of books. The library uses the Dewey decimal classification, and is carefully catalogued. It is kept open every day except Sunday. It numbers about 2,500 volumes.
General Details .- The courses of study, organization of departments and general ideals conform to the requirements prescribed by the State Normal School Board, estab- lished in 1911. (For details see Normal Schools. ) Public lecture courses are pro- vided during the sessions. Three literary societies are organized among the students: the "Calhoun" and the "Morgan" for men, and the "Sidney Lanier" for women. Active branches of the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. are maintained. A summer school of 12 full weeks is offered as a permanent part of the school plan. Physical culture courses are required, modeled upon the Ling-Swedish system.
The department of rural school work is designed to meet the growing demand for teachers with special preparation for rural work. "The course includes such subjects as the organization and management of the rural school, grading, daily program, physi- cal environment, rural school methods and rural sociology. Opportunity is given the stu- dents to observe work of the rural schools near Jacksonville. Two of these schools are used as model and practice schools, one at Merrillton and one at Cedar Springs. The effort is made to use the county rural schools of Calhoun as training schools for the teach- ers of the State enrolled here. A lyceum course is maintained for them, school asso- ciations encouraged, industrial work stressed, county supervision had, better teachers, fewer schools, longer terms, and better roads advo- cated. The efforts put forth by the school in this work are discussed with the pupil teachers. The vital problems of the rural school which are met and dealt with furnish valuable lessons to them. A county com- mencement and a fair demonstrate the re- sults obtained and furnish a strong incentive to get the work started in their home coun- ties."-Catalogue, 1916-17.
On September 30, 1916, its report to the State superintendent of education showed buildings and site valued at $80,000; equip- ment, $12,000; 15 teachers; 436 pupils, of which 173 were in the model school, and 261, in the normal work; and State appro- priation of $20,000.
Presidents .- James G. Ryals, 1883-1885; J. Harris Chappell, 1885-1886; Charles B. Gibson, 1886-1892; Jacob Forney, 1893- 1899; Clarence Wm. Daugette, 1899 -.
Librarian .- Miss Susan Lancaster, 1908 -. PUBLICATIONS .- Catalogues, 1883-1915; Nor- mal Bulletin, 1905-1916, 11 vols .; and Purple and White (student), 1911-1916.
REFERENCES .- Acts, 1882-83, pp. 520-522; 1896-97, pp. 1033-1035; 1900-0I, pp. 131-132; Gen- eral Acts, 1903, np. 238-239; 1907, pp. 544-545;
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19II, p. 586; Clark, History of education in Ala- bama (1889), p. 256; Weeks, History of public school education in Alabama (U. S. Bureau of Education, Bulletin 12, 1915); and Publications supra.
JACKSONVILLE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL LIBRARY. See Jacksonville State Normal School.
JAILS. See State Prison Inspector.
JAMESTOWN TERCENTENNIAL COM- MISSION, THE ALABAMA. See Centennials and Expositions ..
JASPER. County seat of Walker County, situated in the center of the county, on the "Frisco," the Northern Alabama, and the Alabama Central railroads, 9 miles northwest of Cordova, 44 miles northwest of Birming- ham, 56 miles northeast of Tuscaloosa, 210 miles southeast of Sheffield. Altitude: 322 feet. Population: 1880-400; 1890-780; 1900-1,661; 1910-2,509. It was incor- porated as a city February 6, 1889. It has electric lights, waterworks and paved streets. Its banks are the First National, Jasper Trust Co. (State), and the Central Bank & Trust Co. (State). The Mountain Eagle, a Demo- cratic weekly established in 1872, and the Nazarene, a semimonthly established in 1912, are published there. Its industries are a flour mill, a gristmill, a tannery, a harness factory, a concrete-block factory, an ice plant, a sawmill, a planing mill, a woodwork- ing plant, a wagon factory, coke ovens, a light and power plant, and coal mines. It is the location of the Walker County High School. Its public buildings are a court- house of granite, which cost $150,000, and the Federal building now under construc- tion. The town was named in honor of Ser- geant Jasper, a Revolutionary soldier. The first settler was Dr.
E. G. Musgrove, who laid out the town and presented it to. the county, on condition that it be made the county seat.
REFERENCES. - Acts. 1888-89, pp. 290-303; Brewer, Alabama (1872), p. 571; Armes, Story of coal and iron in Alabama (1910); Northern Alabama (1888), p. 173; Polk's Alabama gazet- teer, 1888-9, p. 443; Alabama Official and Sta- tistical Register, 1915.
JASPER WATER, LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY. A public utility corporation, in- corporated in August, 1904, under the laws of Alabama; capital stock-authorized, $50,- 000, paid in, $45,100; shares, $100; funded debt, $50,000; serves the town of Jasper under a franchise which will expire in 1934; and property in Alabama consists of its plant at Jasper. It is controlled by the Cranford Mercantile Co., which owns a majority of shares of the stock and all the bonds. Offices: Jasper.
This company had its real beginning in 1913 when J. H. Cranford, now its president, conceived the idea of sprinkling the streets
around his stores from a water tank on the roof of one of them. Water was secured from a spring about two-thirds of a mile away and the plan put in practice, and with such success that the owners of the adjacent property wanted it extended to include the streets in front of their stores. From this small beginning the present plant has de- veloped. It now has about 400 consumers of electric current and 375 water customers.
REFERENCES .- Jasper Water, Light & Power Co., Contract and rates of water department, pp. 1. 11; Poor's manual of public utilities. 1916, p. 297.
JEFFERSON COUNTY. Created by an act of the legislature December 13, 1819. The territory from which this county was formed taken from Blount County. Since 1890, however, a portion of Jefferson has been annexed to Walker, and a part of Shelby to Jefferson.
The county has a total area of 719,360 acres, or 1,124 square miles.
The name was given to this county in honor of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States.
Location and Physical Description .- Sit- uated in the north central portion of the state, on the "southern extension of the Ap- palachian system and in the center of the rich iron, coal, and limestone belt of the south," it is bounded on the north by Walker and Blount, on the east hy St. Clair and Shel- by, on the south by Tuscaloosa, Shelby and Bibb, and on the west by Tuscaloosa and Walker Counties.
Elevations range from 240 to 1,400 feet above sea level. The average mean tempera- ture is 64ยบ F. The annual precipitation is 57 inches.
Thirteen types of soil are found which are characteristic of the Appalachian province, and represent eight series, "The Alluvial soils are the Wabash clay, Huntington gravelly loam, and Huntington silt loam. The residual limestone soils include the Decatur clay loam, Hagerstown stony loam, Hagerstown loam, and Clarkville stony loam."
The county is divided almost in half by a long narrow valley ranging from four to twelve miles in width, the upper part be- ing known as Jones' Valley, the lower half as Roup's Valley. Northwest of this valley, are the "coal measures of the great War- rior field." (q. v.), and on the southeast is the Cahaba field (q. v.).
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