The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-11-17
esides her marble, has iron, mica

and slate.
Cherokee county has gold, iron
and copper. On tho road from
Pickens to Canton is a valuable
mineral spring, containing iron,
magnesia and lime. Mr.. James
Simmons, near Jasper, has a fine
mineral spring, said to contain val
liable curative properties.
Cobb county has high quality
of magnetic iron ore on the farm of
Mr.. Kerr, near Marietta.
On the line of the railroad, on
Telona Creek, Pickens county,
several quarries of conglomerate
sandstone have been opened for
milestone purposes. This is made
up almost entirely of compacted
quartz pebbles, which are so firmly
imbedded that their fracture is often
directly across the axis of the peb,
BILE, where it would be expected to
break out. The stone is adapted to
the grinding of Indian corn. They
are said to be better cornstone than
the French burrstone in grinding
wheat; the latter have always been
preferred, as they are far less liable
to heat the flour.
The mineral wealth of Georgia is
known to be immense, and it is just
as we'll that the world know it also.
In the development of these mineral
deposits lies, to great extent, the
future prosperity of the Empire
State. Let the statements 80 fire.
quently made in regard to the min
eral resources of Georgia be dissent,
mated through the country-it would
have a tendency to wipe out vast
amount of prejudice, besides being
the means of bringing millions of
capital for investment. The fact
has been demonstrated time and
again that pig iron can be made at
less cost in Georgia than it can be
further north. Pig iron is being
made in Tennessee at one half the
cost of Ohio aud Pennsylvania make,
or, in other words, at what Missouri
and Lake Superior ores now cost
furnace men-delivered in the Mid
die States. The same may be said
Georgia. We would say to the peo-
pie of Georgia, bring out your bur-
led treasures to the surface and ex~
hibit them publish your resources
to the world, of which it knows so
little, and let them be made available,
and you will soon find yourselves
surrounded by wealthy capitalists
and frugal, Industrious population.
The completion of the Marietta
and North Georgia Railroad to Eli
! Jay, the county seat Of Gilmer, from
Its central position to these vast min
eraI deposits-and surrounded, too,
by its broad, rich bottom lands, and
it's immense water power and salur
brious climate-wilI, at no distant
day, sustain twenty thousand inhab-
itants, who will be employed in min~
ing and manufactures. Honor to
the man who dares lead in an enter
prise SO important. His name would
stand besides the Lawrences of the
old Bay State, who not only became,
by their enterprise, rich themselves,
but opened the way for thousands
also to enter upon path Of prosper
ity and wealth.
Look at Missouri and Pennsyl-
vanis forty years ago, when they
were, like Georgia, a terra 1nc0gnttd
as to their mineral resources. Look
at them to-day, with the advantages
and results of railroads, and you see
their iron and coal fields developed,
and teeming with life and the busy
hum of machinery, their canals and
railroads grooming under the loads
of mineral wealth, long hidden from
sight, and their prosperous people
rejoicing in their prosperity whilst
Georgia, with MORE and RICHER iron
mines, with coal enough to supply
the wants of four millions of people
for two thousand years, exclusive of
her inexhaustble gold, silver, and
copper mines, her diversified other
valuable metals and minerals useful
in the arts, which Pennsylvania has
not; yet with all these facts paraded
before them year by year for half a
century, the people stand aloOf from
making these magnificent additions
to her wealth.
Georgia has an insuperable adj
vantage over Pennsylvania and the
North. west, by reason of proximity
of her iron aud coal and WATERPROOF
err, which, with fire clay, fire stone,
timber, food, hay, and all kinds of
fruits and cereals, gives her an adj
vantage which no other State or ma
ton, possesses in the world, and in
twenty years more will become a fix
ed fact.
The vast resources derived from
these immense mineral deposits will
be, for ages to come, great source
of revenue to the Marietta and North
Georgia Railroad, and in a few
years the stockholders will be hand~
somely remunerated for Their untir-
ing energy in bringing to light the
hidden treasures Of their now almost
unknown country.
NJ. +. TUTwILER,