The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-07-15
Our Georges Letter.
HOP, SKIP AND JUMP THROUGH GEORGIA
AND FLORIDA.


as the northerners do; possibly because they
are poorer down here. and when man is poor
he stays right at home and says that he doesn't
want to go away; that there is no place like
home and all that sort of Il thing. 1t gives him
a kind of contentment-is-bet than-weath
feeling. ! have been pervaded with heaps of
that feeling myself during my long and useful
career
We took the car on the Piedmont Air Line
to little station called LulH. and then changed
to the Talulah Falls branch, and after few
hours ride we arrived here. found that |
had tumbled on another chlsm, and if have
il hankering for anything it is chasmS. 1t
sometimes surprises me when think how
many years lived without being acquainted
with one. and that we met by chance then.
only two Years ago ut Chatcaugay, n Y.
1t seemed like meeting an old friend to tuln-
BILE on one of the Chasm family again even
though was not acquainted with il.
Taluah Falls is situated in the northeastern
portion of the state in the Blue Ridge range of
hills through which the Talulah river runs.
As the ears approach this place we begin to
climb The mountain and il seems like railroad
ing up on the Portland and O@dcn>hurg road
The road bed is cut through rocks and hedges
and the last mile Of it cost S1O,0oA and when
they got That completed they stopped and
don't blame them. Thc road just runs right
out into nowhere and cud>. There is nothing
here but two hotels. a depot and 4 dwelling
house The road is eventually to be the North
Eastern Railroad of Georgia and Will extend
from Athens, Ga. to Mary>Nie and through
to Knoxville, Tcuu. Nearly all of il i com
plcted now, hut there are s3Wc sections
yet to Ne built, hut when the connections
are all made. it is expected that there will
be Il large amount of travel over it. When
that time comes. which will be within few
years, the place cannot fail to become quite Il
celebrated resort. After we struck the noun
tain range we passed through part Of the
| Georgia gold mining region. There are one or
two mines Which are paving well, and there
are other mines that undoubtedly would pay
were they worked and capital put in. In order
/ to ret 4 dollar out of 4 gold mine it i. usually
necessary to put a couple in, consequently if
one has plenty of capital to eNpcud in opening
| and operating a mine, he cannot fail to got
! rich. We passed one place where we saw a
man at work with Il spade and pick. and tile
conductor informed Us that he was digging for
gold. He said that all the implements the man
| had to work with was shovel and pick, and
that he washed the gold out in Wooden
trough, where he could not save anything
smaller than pin head That he Mad no water
except what he could catch at night, when it
trickled down the mountain, and vet he matte
two OF three dollars day working under such
disadvantages.
About quarter of mile before We ARRIVE
at the terminus of the road. we rum along the
edge of the cha,m and look down some thott-
sand feet on a rushing stream below. We are
lust then more hungry for food than tor scent
cry and repair to the litl House where we yrt
good dinner and feel hraccd up for 4 tramp
through the cha>m. \ man to climb UP and
down a mountain path for an afternoon needs
something more than faith TO sustain him. bn
our ride up, we made the acquaintance of the
conductor. Capt Late johnson. d NrGimian
and one of the plea~ante>t and most courteous
gentlemen we ever met. The conductor ocr'-
pies the only house here. and is pa>>onatcly
fond of hunting and fishing, and keeps a tine
pack of deer hounds. He has laid on. nearly
all the paths through the chasm. and has res
cucd several visitors who have cot lost in tht
mountains, and he kindly offered to he oul
guide and show us the various sights, aud hE
for him we might as well have not come. for i
is impossible for stranger to lind his way
through the intricate paths here, which tWl>
about worse than = cork>crcM. Nm>ioW anC
| had left the ladies in Atlanta because >tIih
: ming up mountains AVID jumping over Prr'Ip"r
is not their forte WAs very glad thal we iri
them, because If there l. one pleasure ina
weighs man down more than another. 1t l.
carrying woman up and down mountain
= TaIluah Falls arc u >eiit- OF ta- formed b.,
the TalIuah river rushing down through
gorge in the mountains. For about two mile
the river tears through This gorge. some 20
feet in depth, (the gorge, not the river da>h
: ins over rocks and >WIrIinT and ioamih4 am
tlmbing in it, mat hurry to yet to the >ca' L
distance of about bali mile the river drop
oil about 800 feet and Wh"n YOU thlhh Nl@t
| passion water has for running down hlI, Ho
: can imagine how il must hump itself throug
this cha>m. There is lot Of wafer too, Whi'
/ makes it all the wilder. amt a. Yol stand on
= path ON the edge Of some elm scarcely wild
II enough for Il pair of number ten shoes to re-
II ON. and look down into the foanins water. an
Y think of the possibility Of trcndiny on banau
l. peel, feeling will come over you A. if Won
t foot was asleep all over Your body. The mom
G tain was thicky wooded and wild flowers Wrl