Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-04-28

and longings to return, but Conk.
ling has gracefully retired to the
practice of his profession and is
accommodating a handsome fortune
in the pursuit of his lucrative bust.
ness.
FACTORIES WANTED HERE.
The Banner, in speaking of the
rapid advancement Tennessee is
now making in home industries,
says, GAINESVILLE, Columbia and
Murfreesboro each have large estab-
lishments of different kinds that
are continually improving" This
is true, as regards to GAINESVILLE,
but we need more factories here and
larger ones. No place in the South
is better suited, on account of loca-
ton or other particulars, to become
manufacturing center than this
city. In fact, It Is as a manufactu-
ing town that GAINESVILLE must hope
to become great, and it is time that
something was being done to at
tract the attention of capitalists
hither and to induce them to invest
their money here. We invite the
attention of the leading citizens of
this place to the state news we pub
lish this week. The spirit of prog
ress is abroad in the land and all
over Tennessee the people are talk
ing about manufactures. Clarks-
vile must not be left behind in the
onward rush and with all the in
ducements that our city can offer,
some of the capital that is now
seeking investment in Tennessee
should be drawn this way.
GAINESVILLE is most advantageous
ly situated. 1t has high and
healthful location at the point
where the Memphis division of the
Louisville 81 Nashville railroad
crosses the Cumberland river, Civ
ing direct rail and river connections
with all the important cities of the
South and West. The speedy con-
structiOn of the new railroad from
Evansville to Mobile, to pass
through this place, may now be re-
garded with a degree of certainty.
This road, as has been often urged,
will make GAINESVILLE the interme-
diate and connecting point between
ineXhaustible beds of iron ore and
the extensive coal fields of Ken
lucky. Such a location with such
means of transportation must, of
necessity, become cite for manu-
factories.
There are still other advantages
that must contribute to the prosper
ity of GAINESVILLE and make 1t de-
sirable place of residence. The
city, with immediate suburbs, has
a population of nearly six thousand,
the society is excellent, the people
are enterprisIng and no place has
better reputation for peace and or
derby conduct. We have churches
of every denomination and our
public school should be an
attraction to settlers. No
town in the Union has better school
or better regulated schools.
And besides, our public schools,
there are several very excellent
private schools here, and the South
Western Presbyterian University,
now more prosperous than ever, is
one of the best known institutions
of learning in the South. Added
to all these, we have the further adj
of good gas and excellent
water works, a telephone exchange
and telephone and telegraphic con-
nectiOn with all the world.
We have thus summarized the adj
this city offers to bring
them more forcibly before the minds
of the people and to demonstrate
the fact that we need be no laggards
in the progress that infuses the
New South. Would it not be
good idea for the city to have an
pamphlet prepared, set.
ting forth the numerous advantages
Of GAINESVILLE, with cuts of the
Court house, the Female Academy,
The Howell School, the University |
the Tobacco Exchange,
and some of our. handsome church |
edifices? These pamphlets could |
De scattered over the North ana |
East and would aid greatly in
the town. 1t is by this
means, chiefly, that the great West
has been blown into such unparalel-
ed prosperity. a we'll written and
we'll distributed pamphlet of this
Kind might be of untold benefit in
inducing the investment of capital
lere.