The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1870-11-25
Chr Marietta 9ullrnal.
MARIETTA, GEORGIA.
Friday Worn. Nov. 95, 1870.
LETTER OF H. R. FooTE, OF GILMER
COUNTY

The following letter, tor the JOURNAL,
from Ii. r. Foole, of Gilmer county, is a
description of that rich section, to be
penei a,ed by the Marietta and North
Georgia Railroad:
"Our climate is mild and and pleas
AM, particularly in spring summer and
fail. Oar winters scarcely ever so cold
as,o interfere with outdoor business,
am alone a mountainous portion of it.,
VARYING rom five to en- miles in breadth,
commencing on the East at the South
Carolina line and cunning West to Ala
bania, here scarcely ever occurs late
freeze ia spring or an early one ia the
fall, and the soil on these mountains is
peculiarly adapted to the successful cul
livation of grape, as indicated by the
luxn. ious growth and never failing pro-
duct Of The wild vine on them. Our
climate aad soil are well adapted TO the
growth and maturity of apples, pears,
cherries. plumbs, ounces and peaches
the making of corn, wheat, rye barley,
oats. upland rice, sorghum, and clover,
-turnips, beets, parsnips, carrots, cab
bage, sweet and Irish potatoes, and
many other vegetables, hemp, flax and
tobacco, all succeed we'll.
Springs of cool and excellent water
are found, at almost every turn, flowing
10 the valley, meet together, at short
distances from their source, and form
streams, within the counties specified,
with sufficient number of ample falls
and water, to run the machinery of the
world.
In mineral wealth, few counties equal
ours. We have an almost uninterrupt-
ed line of iron ore, commencing in Bar
tow county, opposite Cobb, and extend
ing distance of 90 or 20 miles to the
North Carolina line of this ore the very
best iron is made Parallel with this
and beginning in Pickens and extending
to the upper part of GiImer, there exists
an inexaustibe quantity of excellent
marble, and occasionally very large
quantities of building stone, shaped and
dressed, ready 70. use. AS if nature in
tended to be liberal in all needed mate
rials there are mountains Of good roofing
slate and abundance of fire proof soap
stone or talco slate. In Fannin county
several good copper mines have been
found, and one worked In each of the
above counties good gold mines have
been discovered and in several of them
silver and lead mines. Other valuable
minerals have been discovered, which
gives reason to believe there is correct
ness in the idea, often expressed by
mineralogists who have visited the coun
ty, that nearly all metals used by man,
except TIM will be discovered here.
In addition to all this, our FORESTS
abound with useful tmbers, such as wal
nut, cherry, mountain beech and oak
locust, holly, white and yellow pine,
hickory, poplar, gum, ash, white, red,
black and spanish oak, chestnut, mulber-
ry, lynn, dogwood, swamp bulch, syca-
more, cedar, backeye, and many others,
so that the common carpenter, the coop
er, the furniture and the wagon-maker,
the mill wright, the mill owner, the orch
ard man, the farmer, the iron monger,
the copper worker, the man who digs
the earth for minerals, and no who de
sres to invest his money SO as to realize
good profits. may all settle among us as
sured that with skill, industry and econ
omy, and by living moral andsober lives
they will find ours to be a country blessed
naturally far beyond most others, and
where they may enjoy the fruits of sue
cossful toll without disturbances"