The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-03-29

tales they have been told have been
found to be false, and now they are
coming. The objective point is De-
catur. All eyes seem turned that
way. Manufacturers and working
men, spectators and capitalists,
brokers and .shop-keepers are seek
ing to locate there, and farmers and
stock-raisers want to get near by to
get advantage of the market the
new city will afford.
The time is coming when the
Tennessee will be lined from Chat
tanooga to Sheffield with villas and
villages and towns and cities. 1t is
a beautiful and picturesque coun-
try and it's limpid waters wash
more fertile land than any river in
America. 1t is lined with coal and
iron and timber, inexhaustible, of
the most superior quality, and Oh
both sides the land is rich and pro-
ductive. Nature left nothing to be
done by art in these respects.
Development is now the thing to
be done. A searching investiga-
ton has been made to find the nat
ural center of these things for site
for the central metropolis, and the
universal judgment is that Decatur
is the point. 1t does not lie in the
mere assertion nor yet in prophesy
or speculation: the men and means
and money are on the ground now
and coming and the work of max
ing it the central metropolis is fai
advanced.
The reader would be astonished
to go down there now and see the
work being done by the water works
company. They are making plant
to cover a city of 100000. Mile af
ter mile of water pipe is stretched
ont over the site of the new city and
the work of laying them is proceed
ing. The sewerage was laid upon
the same scale. Every public en-
terprise is projected upon that scale
showing the confidence that money.
ed men have in the future of the
place.
A lot on Bauk street in old town
sold last Saturday for $1,000 thai
Is months ago could have beer
bought possibly for $500. The re-
cord of transfers is astonishing
Lots range from $3.50 to $4,000
and the sales are numerous and con
tinually increasing.
A Decatur gentleman came tt
Pulaski last Saturday to see hi.
wife and she asked him, "Has Mr.
Bailey concluded to build that house
he was speaking OF last week.
The gentleman looked at his wife il
establishment and said, "Concluded
Why, he's about ready to move in
The same gentleman said he rode
out to a part of the city he had no
visited in several days and stood il
one place and counted II house
just going up. Make a contrac
this evening for a house and mex
morning the contractor is there witt
his material and his men and in
few days you may move in. Anoth
er building company was organized
last week with capital of 5000, OO'
to build houses.
These things and scores of other
like them that could be told evil
dence the confidence that capitalist
end manufacturers have in Decatur
They have studied the situation an,
see the natural and acquired ad
vantages that this point possesse
over ell others in the south for ]
manufacturing and commercial me.
tropolis and they gre Fastening t,
get in first and have their privat
fortunes to grow up with the city.
Maj. Gordon got back from al
extended trip east last Saturda,
where he went to answer in persol
some of the inquiries that had beel
made of him touching Decatur
prospects and the desirableness o
that location for the removal o
manufacturing plants from tn
north. He reports the over-crowd-
Ell east on is ears about moying
south. They are the shrewdes
men living, these yankee manufac-
turers, and they see il plainly tina
the sceptre is about to depart from
the house of Brother Jonathan.
Southwark the star of empir,
goes. We copied what Col. Nc
Clure said about it last week in tn,
lugubrious plant he made ovel
Pennsylvania departing monopoly
of pig iron production. 1t has
been demonstrated beyond cavi
that iron can be made perhaps {
fourth cheaper in Alabama and
Tennessee than in Pennsylvania anG
that timber is finer and closer ant
more inexhaussible. These two ell
ementary substances lie at the bot
tom Of manufacturing. These
shrewd yankees know these things
and they are seeking to get advan.
tage of them. We hear OF one after
another of them loading up his ma
chinery and coming south. Others
sell out to men who don't READ the
papers and still believe that the
south is Inhabited by bandits and
infested With desperadoes and ku-
klux lying in wait on The street cor
ners to murder negroes, and they
get this FOOLS money and install him