The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-02-24
CHE Marietta 9onrnal.
Marietta. Georgia. FEBRUARY "a, 1871.
COBB COUNTY.

ton county, in which Atlanta is sit
uated and separated from it, by
the Chattahoochoe River. Its few
mountains are isolated spurs of the
Southern terminus of the Blue Ridge
range. Its surface is hilly and
rocky. Its water courses numerous
and rapid, with the exception of its
large southern River, they are gen
orally small. Its soil is mostly poor
and uninviting to the agriculturist ;
no more attracting for farming pur-
poses, than the other counties in the
N. w. part of the State; but much
more so, than the greater part of the
New England States. Its climate
and water are celebrated for their
pleasantness and purity-few coun-
tries offering more attracting homes
to those who desire health and
long life; the driness of its atmos-
phere, fits it for the home of the
Northern consumptivc patients /; its
invigorating properties give strength
and vigor to the laboring man, and
well qualities him for the labors of
the field and the work shop. Its
population is about $4,000, consist
iEg mostly of small and independent
farmers.
The soil of this county, although
mostly poor by nature, is susceptible
of the highest state of improvement
the many experiments which have
been made on some of these lands,
by the use of proper fertilizers and
skillful cultivation, have demonstra-
ted their capacity for producing
large crops; lands which would not i,
in their natural state, with the old
fashioned mode of cultivation, yield
pr acre, over 7 to 10 bushels of corn,
and the same Quantity Of wheat and
oats, nor over $50 lbs of cotton lint !;
have by recent and improved modes
of cultivation, been made to yield
40 to 80 bushels of corn, the same
quantity oats, 80 to 40 bushels of
wheat, 500 to 600 lbs of cotton lint,
and from 2,to . tons of clover and
grasses for hay-with such capacity
for production in the lands of Cobb
county, can they be properly c!assed
among peor lands 7 yet these are as
poor as any of the lands in the Cher
okee region of our State. The bot
tom lands on the Rivers and smaller
streams, have, without the use of
fertilizers, yielded over 100 bushels
of corn pr acre. Such high lands
as those, have described would sell
in New England from $75 to 500
pa acre, in Cobb County they can
be bought nor at S. to SO pr acre
a few years hence their money val
ue must exceed the lands of New
England. The many streams in
this comfy, so well adapted for pro-
pelling Machinery, cannot remain
much longer neglected, but soon will
invite capitalists fran abroad to avail
themselves of these valuable water
powers to erect factories and work
shops among us, and thus enhance
the value of landed property.
Water powers il, this county, arc
numerous, and many of them of suf-
flcient capacity for working the most
extensive factories and all of them
available for practicable purposes in
propelling Machinery, and in in
creasing the wealth of the State
now with a few exceptions, the val
ue of them is almost entirely lost,
alike to the individual owner and
the State; running wild and useless
to the Ocean. In New England, each
of these powers would be employ
ed to their full extent. The valua-
bic powers on the Chattahoochee
River are unemployed; those on
Vickeries1 Creek only partially in
use by the Roswell Factory and the
Ivey Mills a mile below, being now
nearly completed for operation; on
Soaps Creek none but the Oakley
Mills Manufacturing Company and
the Marietta Paper Mill are profting
by its powers; on NickJack Creek,
the Concord Factory is working to
great advantage, and turning out
superior quality of Wooden goods
These Factories are yielding much
money to the State; yet for want of
capital, the many other water pow
ers in this county, remain in idle
ness-the art and energy of man
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