Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-03-07
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The following letter was perhaps
not intended for publication, but it is
so droll and altogether typical of the
effusiOns of certain inhabitants of GER
tain towns in the State resort to in
raising the wind, that we cannot re-
frain from giving our readers the
pleasure of its perusal:
TULLAHoMA, Feb. I'd, 1885.
Mr.. w. F. HORNIsH, NATION,
Ill. Dear Sir: You wish to estab-
lish foundry and machine shop in
the South. Your name is familiar
to me, and l take the liberty of adj
dressing you. My name is Barnitz,
from Hanover, York'county, Pa. In
that vicinity l have known people Of
your name, and presume l know you.
Now, sir, we are building Yankee
town here: we have erected % brick
business houses here in Is months.
We have three planning mills, the
largest wooden factory in the State,
the only file factory South of the Ohio
river, hub and spoke and handle
factory, and felloe bender, a rubber
stamp factory, steam grist mill and
need another badly. An organ facto-
ry is being erected, the first organ
being finished few days ago. We
have three hotels, and a fine three
story brick just being finished, which
will be run by New York man who
run-to his damage-the Warren
House at McMinnville last year.
Population of TullahOma in 1870,
$50; in 1880, 1,1SO; in 1884, 1854
today not less than $500.
The Faulkners at McMinnville de
sire to sell out and locate here. All
the farms within five miles of this
place are owned and worked by
Northern men. There are but five
towns in the South where a Northern
man will succeed in business; they
are Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta,
Knoxville and Tullahoma. Any
where else, as far as know and have
heard, you will not find much SYM
pathy. In passing through this town
you can see but little of this place
the factories, with their tenant houses,
are west of the town on Rock creek
Our location is unsurpassed for trade
save by Nashville and Chattanooga
and being the highest town in eleva
ton (l100 feet above tide water) in
the State, our town is great health
resort, thousands of people coming
here during the summer for the bene
fit of the sulphur and other medici
nal waters in this vicinity. Let me
hear from you before you locate, as
you will regret it immensely if you
T do not. We want a foundry and ma
chine shop here badly. Eighty-fvt
engines have been sold within a ra
dius of 25 miles of this place the pas
four years. Car load after car load O
, stoves, threshers, agricultural nipple
ments and machinery arrive here al
most daily. Immediately south o
us are Lincoln, Moore, Bedford anC
: Franklin counties, among the riches
and most productive in the State.
you desire it, | will give you thu
names of Northern men who tried Il
do business in McMinnville anC
failed disastrously. forgot to men
ton we have a college at the head 0
which is j. w. Pierce, A. NJ, DID.
of New York, a female seminary anC
a normal school and business college
We have a Northern Methods
: church, Southern Methodist, Cumber
land Presbyterian, Baptist, Episco
palian, Christian, and an Old Schoo
Presbyterian church will be built thi,
| summer. Our town is well known
: as except Nashville, ChattanoOg;
t and KnOXYille) the most enterprisine
town in the State. We have a Re
, publican and Democratic paper, vot,
about equally divided. There vii
be an excursion to this place from