The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-12-27
day not far distant, will become an ir-

portant factor in the future development
of that country. So, after our fence
laws have been SO changed as to fence
the stock rather than the crops, it would
be well for the landholders of Anderson
to pursue similar policy-cut up their
farms into small plats, and invite good
class of settlers from every region of the
world, by offering the most favorable in
ducements.
Georgia, perhaps more than any other
Southern State belonging to the Cotton
Belt, is enriched by her mines of iron
ore, gold, mica, copper, slate, &c. In
the limestone region, the burning and
preparation of lime will, at no distant
day, become an important branch of in
dustry. Her timber and water-power
unsurpassed, her soil fruitful, and climate
salubrious, Georgia presents the richest
attractions to the intelligent emigrant.
Factories are springing up in every di-
rection. Away up among the hills of
Chatooga County is one of the most sue
cessful cotton factories in the South. 1t
is sailed Tryon Factory, and this brand
of cloth and thread is popular wherever
tested. Hundreds of yards of cloth are
wove every day, and hundreds of hands
employed in its management, mostly
women and children. The slate quarry
at Rockmart, in Polk County, is Won
derful work of nature. The whole of
the interior of the mountain seems to be
filled with this valuable mineral. Hands
are employed daily in excavating and
preparing it for the various uses to which
it may be applied. For roofing houses
the slate requires the most skillful prep.
aration. Swiss workmen are employed
exclusively, and after taking out the slate
in convenient blocks, they skillfully rive
out the slate in proper shape for roofs Of
houses.
Towers Patent Plow is attracting a
good deal of attention in Georgia among
farmers, and took the highest premium
at the late State Fair. This Mr.. Towers
is son of Col. John Towers, formerly
of Anderson, and lives at Rome, Ga.
The plow possesses some advantages over
every other patent that we have seen in
its adjustability to all kind of work, and
all kinds of plows.
FINE wATER-PowER.
The finest water-power that we ever
beheld is to be found at the head of the
Auhailee Greek, in Polk County. The
creek bursts through gorge in the noun
tains with an abrupt fall of sixty or sew
enty feet. The wall of mountain rock
rise perpendicularly nearly hundred
feet high, enclosing the mill-site on all
sides but one, leaving beautiful road
way of easy grades in that direction. At
the foot of this fall is level space of an
acre or more, afording ample room for a
wool factory, merchant mill, cotton gin,
&c. The building for the factory is de-
signed for both cotton and wool, con-
structed of solid rock, three stories high.
The water for the wheel is conveyed by
a race constructed along the rocky sides
of the mountain-frst to the wool facto-
ry now in operation, thence to the mer-
chant mill, cotton gin, &c. This won
derful water.power is owned by an en-
terprising and wealthy gentleman, Mr..
Hightower, who proposes at an early day
to attach a cotton factory. We called
his attention to the new factory of our
friend, Col. F. E. Harrison, and urged
Mr.. 81. to visit Carolina and see its ope-
ration for himself, which we think he
will do.
T. H. R.