The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-09-24
CANTON MASS MEETING.


ed last week, in regard to the rail
road meeting and barbecue at Can
ton on the 10th inst, the Atlantis
| Constitution furnishes the following
Gen. VIM. Phillips read the re-
port of the directors of the Marietta
and North Georgia Gailroad. The
original proposition was to subscribe
$25, 900. the assumed distance be-
tween Marietta and Canton being
twenty miles The amount sub
scribed was SAT, 900, and the dis
lance ascertained to be 23d miles.
OnIy $4,000 was collected; $4,000
or IS 900 will cover all expenses
The road owns $4,000 of real
estate. A contract for iron and mo
tive powe has been made, To get
the road ready for the iron will res
quire so coo cross ties and 500 feet
Of tresle, at cost # 81 1000. The
irou and motive power will be fur
nished for first mortgage bonds. The
iron will cost $4,000 He suggest
ed that he road be placed ready for
the iron TO Canton that the road
work the convicts themaelves, and
the present force continue the grad
ing, Ten miles had been graded in
five months, at cost of 81, 900 per
month, or $4,000 per mile. lie
visited Murphy, n. G., and found
the people willing and anxious to
cooperate.
Col. Thos. Hardeman said, as vast
as the resources of this section Of
Georgia. what are they worth unless
developed 7 What value Its miner
ais or water? What use is the
rocks of MarIbah if there is no Moses
to strike the hipty sides !
The man in Gimer county who
makes 40 bushels per acre has to
pay half the value of the wheat to
get it to market. Transportation
eats up the profit. Reduce the cost
of transportation, and you increase
proiuctiveness, There is no in
ducement for labor when there is no
reward. If you would increase the
p,oductiveness of your industries,
you must open up market to your
section.
You want population, for popula-
ton is wealth when it is educated
and energetic. If the State road
had never been built, Georgia never
would have occupied the high posts
ton she now does There are one
million acres along the line Of the
MARKETS. & North Ga. Railroad. An
increase of 81 per acre will give
$1,000, 900 increase in values.
He wanted TO see free education
brought to the dor of every child in
Georgia, bat he would educate the
white child with the white mans tax,
the colored child with the colored
mans tax.
Gen. John b. Gordon responded
and showed that in six months OF one
year the Western and Atlantic rail
road has carried into Atlanta from
the west over 81 900 600 pounds of
bacon, 2 600, 600 bushels of corn,
10000 mules and horses, etc. This
was a shame, when the statistics OF
1860 show that the South was the
grea, corn section of the country,
aud that during the war N. 4. Geor
gia and even southwest Georgia was
the Egypt Of the Confederacy.
We have a great State, and If the
map ofthe world we're spread out be-
fore him, he would point to Georgia
and perhaps to North Georgia, as
the country he would select for bis
children. We did not have the rich
praries of Illinois, nor tho all"vlals
Of the Mississippi bottoms but we
have a better country--can make
more clear money per acre, and do
not breakfast on pills, dine on cnilis
and sop on feveTs. thank God tor
such a country. Develop it, build
your railroads erect your factories ;
feed them upon your own corn aud
bacon; get good government, feder-
al us well as state vote the radicals
out of pnwer; strike do~nitheir sys
tenn of finance; cultivate a broad
patriotism ; let peace reign between
sections and racss; and then we
shalt see this old commonwealth
radiant with hope, proud, grand and
free, and crowned with a boundless
prosperity.
CLEAN CULTURE. Every farmer
knows the Importance Of clean cul'i>
ya,ian, where the growth Of weeds