The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-06-06

8HQ llvcE COu0cCtiOoS- ~ ooc o'S'
thing to speak for il bright future;
already link in the great through
line OF railroad from the 1Atiantic 70
the Pacific has been built, This road
is now called the Rome and Decatur
Railroad, and is completed with rolf
iog stock on the Rome end. l wish
to call attention to 40 offer made by
the company to capitalists.
One hundred and ifty thousand
dollars have been taken by bona tide
subscriptions. The road. as far IS
completed, and the rolling stock on
it, have all been paid for The State
Of Georgia endorsed for thirty thou
sand dollars on condition that the
company, would keep the annual TO-
tercst kept up. The company now
offers to give any man or men, or
company cootrol Of all the subscribed
stock, the road he'd and rolling stock
on il, that will secure the payment Of
the interest annually on the $50, 600
endorsed for by the State OF Georgia,
and for building and completing the
road ali the benefits arising there
from. Here is, without question. .
good openiEg for . profitable invest
meut Of money. The establishment
of direct trade lines with Europe from
Savannah, Brunswick. Mobile and
New Orleans is only question of .
little time, aud this road is bound to
form line in the chain Of the great
through route from Ocean to Ocean,
because it is on the natural line.
But it would pay from the moment it
was completed from Rome to Deca-
tur because it connects these points
with the present net work ofthe roads
of the country and sbortens the dis
tance from east 10 west eighty miles
over any established route. 1t taps
Valhermoso, the future Saratoga Of
the South, about mid distance. But
/ must speak little more about De-
catur. Here ] found that red soil SO
famous for its grains and especially
for wheat growing capacities. And
I was reliably informed that the land
in and around Decatur was a trne in
dex to the land Of the entire Valley
which is about eighty miles long by
an average of twenty wide, . under
. different system Of culture would
return as large yields as any other on
the Continent. Under their present
system of poor culture they yield
from so to 80 bushels Of corn per
acre, 80 to so Of wheat, and like pro-
portion Of ell other small grains; 3 to
5 tons of clover and hay of sll kinds;
sweet and Irish potatoes from 8 to
500 bushels, and peanuts, peas,
beans and all kinds Of vegetables
grow in great luxurisnce. The lands
in the valley are for sale at an aver
age of $40 per acre. The reason
they are so low is the inability of the
present owners TO eultivate. They
are owned, for the most part, 10 large
tracts by persons who were slave
owners before the war and who were
left in poverty by the war. The low
rate of prices for these lands is not to
be attributed, hs has been done
throughout the North and West, to
want of health and to political and
social ostrscism. The health of this
valley compares iavorably with that
of any of the rich land sections OF
either tfe North or the West; and,
in fact, statistics show q less death
rate from local causes than do Indi-
ana and Ohio or any of the States on
that latitude. The outrages that
have been inflicted on these people
by changes of their social and politi-
cal ineivility to Northern people are
simply too monstrous- to describe
The mildest thing l can say Of them,
Judging of them on so short an
acquaintance with the people here,
is to say they are falsehoods without
any excuse. A more liberal and So
cial people in both political and go
cial relations are Dowhere to be found.
Indeed the reverse is the extreme in
political feeling.
On the contrary / find that every
one enjoys as perfect q liberty of
opinion here as at the North. The
people here do not censure he Ad-
ministrstion, which listened to, be-
lieved in and acted upon the outrsges
of southern carpet.baRgers. They
all uphold the policy ol President
Hayes. One gentleman whose opin-
ion is worth much told me that be
was, on the whole, better satisfied
with the election of Hayes than he
would haye been had Tilden received
the offi:e, although be had voted for
Tilden; and that Hayes could do
more for the South than Tilden
could have done had be been elected.
The people of the South want those
from the North to come here with
their energy and enterprise ard mon
ey, and invest it where larger yields
will crown their efforts, and Q more
cengenial climate will add pleasure
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