FOSTER its first secretary and tax assessor B. The value of town property has advanced ten-fold in the last eighteen months.
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It is an active and bustling place, full of hope and enterprise. Its population is now about 1,500, and is daily increasing. Jasper has two churches - Methodist and Baptist - a Masonic Lodge, twenty-five business houses, including a bank with a paid up capital of $200,000 and two hotels. In addition to the above named industries, there are twenty other companies owning valuable coal mines in Walker County. This company owns, in Walker County, 70,000 acres of mineral lands, and has a capital of $800,000. Also, a coke plant, at a cost of $500,000, is now breaking ground. There are now going on negotiations for a furniture factory, as well as a large lumbering outfit also for a rolling mill, and a plant for pit cars, wheel-barrows, etc. It promises to be an important railroad center in the future: that is to say in addition to the two roads now here, there will be a connection with the Georgia Pacific, and Tuscaloosa Northern, and the Sheffield & Birmingham Coal. Jasper is centrally located in the county, coal-fields extending in every direction for about fifty miles. The growth and prosperity of the town depends on coal, timber, and agriculture in the valley The country around Jasper is like most of Walker County, broken and mountainous. Jasper, county seat of Walker, is located at the junction of the Kansas City, Memphis, & Birmingham, and Sheffield & Birmingham Railroads, forty-four miles west of Birmingham, 210 miles east from Sheffield, and fifty-six miles northeast of Tuscaloosa. Smith & De Land, 1888 - Transcribed by Veneta McKinney
Northern Alabama: Historical and Biological by Henry McCalley Birmingham, Ala.
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