The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-01-13
Ole Salarietta 5uurnal.
Marietta, Georgia, January, IS, 1871.
NATURAL RESOURCES OF GEoR

In the articles which have beer
published in the JOURNAL, have
represented New England as it wa'
in a state Of nature. and as it is now
through the agency Of artificial
means. BY nature, poor, barron
and unattractive-by art and ener.
gy, highly and profitably cultivated
with its arabic lands advanced in
value to $50 and 500 pr acre pos
sessed of great wealth and of a po-
litical power which rules tho ma
ton.
| now propose in future articles
to represent our own State, more
particularly its mountain region, in
its natural and present condition
AID suggest the means requisite to
place the State in advance of New
England in population and wealth,
and to enhance its lands now salea-
bic only at $40 per acre, to the pres
ent high value of the lands of New
England.
No State in the Union, is possess
ed of a greater variety OF soil than
our own, none surpass it in its natur-
al resources for becoming the
wealthicst and most influential. Ma
ture has bestowed her blessings lib
orally upon it. 'Ample navigable
water courses it has, with outlets on
its coasts forming deep and COM
modious harbors for the safe accom-
modations of the largest ships of
commerce to facilitate its inter
course with distant Nations. Its
pine forests abound in the best pitch
pine for ship building, and which is
now so extensively exported to New
England and to Europe for that pur-
pose. Its mountains abounds in
Iron, superior to the iron of Swed-
en-in Coal, superior to that of the
Northern States and England-in
Slate of the best quality-m Marble
but little inferior to that of ltal in
in granite and lime rock Of gooC
quality, and in gold enough to slim
ulatc the energy of the gold hunter,
and to demoralize the people. Its
soils, varies from the rich and mex
haustible Rice and River bottom
lands to the light land of the pine
barrens-its high lands productive
and of easy cultivation; the differ
ent qualities of its soil, adapts it for
the profitable cultivation Of nearly
every agricultural product of the
world-from the orange and banana
of the torid zones to the apple and
clover of the Northern States-like
China, the State of Georgia can
erect it's wall around it, and live in
dependeEtly of the outside world, for
the needed comforts Of life. Its soil
and climate make it, congeniaI
home, for nearly every living animal
tho horse, the COW, the swine, the
sheep. all thrive and improve. Its
climate, as various as its soil; the
winters on its sea coasts and in it,
pine lands, so moderate as seldom t
admit of the formation Of ice; rem
dering its natures home for the con
sumptive patients of the frozen re
gions; the winters Of the elevated
mountain lands, cold enough to sat
isfy those who love the northern
winters and afford a summer eli
mate for health and comfort unsur
passed by any portion of the Union
with abundant springs Of cool ant
pure water, needing no adultcratioI
Of Intoxicating liquors to improve it
healthful qualities; and minera
springs enough to assist in recuper
ating the falling physical man.
winter home in the seaboard or mid
die counties of Georgia, and a sum
mcr home in the Cherokee counties
: provides safe barrier against mos
of the physical ills of human life; a
distance of 300 miles and of cas-
access by Rail Road communica
ton.
Its water powers are numerous
aud many of them possessing all thu
capacity needed for the most extep
siye manufacturing purposes, Th'
most of thom are in the mountain
Gus part of the State, where healtl
is safe, available Iaborers for facto
, ries ample, food abundant an'
cheap; and yet nearly the whole o
these valuable water powers, ar
t either remaining quietly in a state Q