The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-08
LETTER FROM CHATTANOOGA.
A LIVE AND GROWING orTY-IcE AT ONE CENT PER
POUND.

A LIVE AND GROWING CITY-IcE AT ONE CENT PER
POUND.
Dear B,atetira-I was made glad this morning
by the receipt of a whole lot Of BULLETINS, and
what feast of reading l have had? NV bless
ings (?) since Saturday last have been literally
bestowed, because did not see your familiar face
in this, to me, city of strangers
Aladdin with his wonderful lamp has been
hereabouts and Chattanooga of to-day bears but
small resemblance to Chattanooga of war times.
1t is enterprsing little city of rapid and SUBJ
stantial growth, a real live place, possesses q
population OF about H. 900, is the centre of the
great mineral field OF the South-the market
place for large and rich farming country has
river navigation all the year round /; has railroad
facilities equal. if not superior, to any place in
the South, and more are being added.
1t has good public schools, which are in opera
ton ten months in the year, and are the pride of
the city. The people, gathered here from every
state in the Union, represent all political and
and good feeling prevail. By railroad, communi-
cation is easy and rapid with Atlanta, Charles
ton, Savannah and the south Atlantic coast over
the Western and Atlantic Railroad. You may go
north east by way OF the Virginia and Tennessee
Air Line, extending from this point to Norfolk,
and thence by water to new York and other
points, or by all rail through Washington and
Baltimore. To New Orleans and southwest, by
the Alabama and Chattanooga Air Line, which are
now running trains through it's whole length, or
by way of Atlanta, Montgomery and Mobile to
New Orleans, or again by the way of the Mem
phis and Charleston Railroad, running from this
city to Memphis, distance of 80 miles.
My experience is that this is the poorest road
Of the lott less civiity OF employees, less accom-
mediation, and more discomforts than all the
others combined. Changing cars at Grand juno
ton from the New Orleans, st. Louis and Chi
cago Railroad the contrast ia remarkable The
Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis Road opens
up direct route to the Northwest. The Cincin-
natl Southern, now being built, is great trunk
line, connecting Cincinnati and Chattanooga, the
completion Of which is promised by July 4, 1876.
Chattanooga has large capital invested in man
ufacturing. somewhere about three million dol
lars. A blast furnace has been recently bulls
and equipped here entire, without sending away
from home for anything. They have facilities for
making pig iron, railroad iron, bar and strap iron,
cars, Car wheels, axles, railroad supplies nuts,
bolts, ETC.; stationary and portable engines, boil
ers, locomotives, all kinds Of mills and mining
machinery, and castings in iron or brass. Recent
tests have demonstrated that the best qualities
of pig iron can be made here at minimum cost,
by mixing the varions kinds of ore be had in the
greatest abundance in this immediate vicinity.
The facilities for making lumber are superior
to almost any other place in the South. There
are five saw and planning mills within the CITY,
and large amounts OF lumber manufactured at
contiguous points on river and railroad are
brought here FOR sale and shipment; have .
splendid water works located on Battery Hill,
supplying abundance OF water all over the city;
have two gas companies, and competition is
lively; price OF gas is three dollars per thousand,
with discount Of ten per cent for prompt pay
ment; have a line Of street cars on the principal
street, which is yet new institution here; they
have an ice factory, too and retail ice at one cent
pound and give weight. / may tell you more
OF this ice machine at a future date. believe it
is the same order Of machine that Stewart, Jones
Il Sargent are erecting in our city.
There is a cotton and wooden factory here
capacity two thousand spDdles; furniture facto-
ry with forty thousand dollars capital and extern
sive wooden pump and pipe factory, friedrich
works that turn out 1000 brick daily, two large
Touring mills, soap, broom and candy factory,
marble works, two wagon and carriage factories,
and many more industries too numerous to men,
ton in this one letter, az space reminds me that
/ have written a long letter. when sat down
merely to apology for having blessed you when
You were not altogether at fault.
WV O. H.