The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-01-26
DECATUR
The Brain and Drawn that is As
semhling There.

The Brain and Drawn that is As
sembling There.
The Prospects Brighten for the City Of
Magnificent Landscape Beauty.
Decatur was crowded last week
with prospectors, Notwithstanding
the weather. The Urbana people
are on the grond and at work.
From all over the north men are
crewding in, and they do net come
on an Idle visit of inspection for
pleasure, but they come with money
to invest and they go to work.
She is getting some of the Drawn
lest and brainiest men in the coun-
try.
Recently the writer was intro
duced by Judge Bond to rough
handed man with dirt on his clothes,
weather beaten and commonly clad.
He had just been at work across the
street and came over to ask Judge
Bond something. We thought he
was boss of a gang of carts or 8
contractor. When he left the Judge
said
"That man sold out his lumber
interests in Michigan for $500, 900
cash and came to Decatur and is
building several houses"
There are scores Of such men
there-men who have made for
tunes with their hands and who
are pushers and beavers themselves;
men with great broad shoulders,
veritable Titans who can carry a
city on their backs. No city or en-.
terprise of any kind can go down
when such men are under it and
backing it with their muscle and
money.
Decatur, as we have frequently
said, will have the widest diversity
of manufacturing and commercial
enterprises of any city in the south.
Her latest big acquisition-the fuel
gas plant-will have more effect to
make that statement true than any
other one cause. 1t has been dem
onstrated beyond peradvventure
that fuel gas can be manufactured
at cost of less than one dollar per
ton for coal; that is, a dollars worth
of gas will go as far as a ton of
coal. When you get coal down to
dollar a ton and have it in such
shape as to be always on hand and
at the place needed without hand
ling, why then you have almost
reached the ultima thule of economy
the very ideal limit of retrench-
ment.
Pittsburg, Penn, will actually
support laundry since she got
natural gas. The dirty smoot that
impregnated the atmosphere from
her dingy smokestacks and settled
in the ears of her fair women and
on the shirt-fronts of her brave
dudes is thing of the past. The
sun shines there now and a man
may wear a collar week without
having to have it plowed.
The elimination of coal dust
from any city is a dis:deratam and
Decatur has realized it. The ease
and cheapness and cleanliness at
tending it's handling are other con
siderations in estimating its value,
and then it's abundance and always
accessibility fill the measure of its
value.
This will give mighty impetus
to the location of all manner of in
dustries there and coupled with the
further fact, which we have before
Ieluc.dsted, that all the prime ele-
ments that enter into manufactured
goods will be produced right side
by side and thus cheaper their pro-.
| duction by the saving of freights
and handling, there can be no
doubt that Decatur will rapidly de-
velop into the central manufactur-
| Ing CITY Ol tne sOutu.
She is already the central car
construction point in the south and
the very fact that railroads and car
making companies have settled their
colossal interaats there is evidence
of her coming supremacy. Even il
she had not the advan tages she has
otherwise, the railroads could make
her city. and they would be com
PEELED to do it now after having ia
vested so largely there.
And Decatur is welding q
mighty influence all around her.
We know not of other points, but
The CITIZEN has sung Decatur's
praises so persistently that Giles
county people have investigated and
believe in her and they were never
before so alive to their own interests
and so eager to get our own coun-
ty into position to get her share of
the advantages that are coming to
this country. 1t has spurred our
people to action and every man is
on the alert. If Decatur is city,
Giles county will be garden.
When Birmingham was at the
stage which Decatur is to-day there
was fear and trem bling. There was
absolutely no confidence in her up
this way. And yet she went on
from conquest Il conquest and
from glory to glory and from boom
to boom until it almost rained gold
True she is settling back upon o
more reasonable basis, but none of
her value is gone. The goods are
all there. DecaGug is jpst on the
threshold. You go down there to-
day and price lot and stagger at
the price, and you go back to,mor-
row and inqaise end it stuns you.
You exc!aim:
what fool | was that I didn't
buy yesterday while it was cheap"
o We of little faith. It's to-mor-
row and tomorrow; and when the
morrow is come, behold the oppor-
tunity is gone.
Out of 5000 acres upon which the
city is LOCATED only 2554 acres had
been sold when the sacrstary re-
ported, and the income was $780,
100.S6. More than enough money
to pay for everything is already on
hand or in good paper, and but a
minim of her estate exhausted.
The balance will be nearly all prof
it. When Birmingham passed this
stage the world never heard of such
dividends.
| The Count of Monte Christo's
treasures were bagatelle and Ri
dor HauUard,s fortila ;,oa r;ao+;o,