The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-01-26
ARP STARTS A BOOM.
What the People OF North Georgia are
Doing.

| What the People OF North Georgia are
Doing.
atlanta Constitution.
Last summer 1 overheard two men
talking as they were digging away in the
mines, and one said: "Jim, they say
thar. is big bum up at Rome"
"What's that7" said Jim.
"why hits a kind of thing whar one
Teller gifts something for. nothing and
another feller gifts nothing for something.
"Why that's faro bank or lottery,
amt its" said Jim.
"No it amt. I tell you its bum-a
kind of q new tradin' business what
swells and shrinks and the swe,,er and
shrinker stays doEn in cellar and works
the machine. They trade in stock"
"Horses and mules ?" said Jim. "No,
hits all on paper and nobody can see
what he is buyin'. You put your money
in and wait for swell. If it comes you
are all right, but if shrink comes you
are busted, and you feel SC shamed that
you don't say anything about, and it
never gets into the papers-nothing but
the swells gifts In the papers"
Well, the booms have about subsidized
IN Rome and Birmingham and Decatur,
and those thriving cities have settled
down to business. When man buys
real estate there now he means business
not speculation but business, and that
is right and honest and healthy. A slow
and sure growth is the best. That lis just
what we want here in Gainesville and
the signs are good. There is not house
to rent and many are wanted right now.
But we are building and will soon have
some manufactures here that will enliven
the town. It is the prettiest town Of its
size now in the State, except Marietta,
and does more business than any. There
is one dry goods house here that sells
more goods than any retail house in
Rome, and one hardware house that does
more business than any hardware house
in Rome, and one wagon and carriage
factory that makes more vehicles and
sells more than any in the State, and a
man told me he sold twenty thousand
dollars worth of family groceries last
wear and never lost but two dollars and
forty-6ve cents. We ship manganese
across the ocean and to Corneige, in
Pennsylvania. We ship yellow ochre to
New York and iron ore to Tennessee.
The fact is we have enough minerals
here to keep 5000 hands busy for hum
dred years. T see that Tallapoosa
boomer says in an interview that he
found more ore at Tallapoosa than he
did at Gainesville. Well, am not
going TO slander Tallapoosa. That New
York Herald man told enough lies on
her to do for awhile, but there is more
iron ore iu one hill in Barlow than there
is within twenty miles of Tallapoosa.
Barlow is the great reserve, the mineral
.storehouse, and it is the granary, too.
We make more grain than any county in
the State, more in quantity and more to
the acre. Our taxpayers return their
lands at higher rate per acre than any
county in the State. We have more
rivers and creeks and bridges and mills
than any county. We have most every
thing that anybody wants. Why, / saw
four men from Rome over here yesterday
with their dogs and guns, came over. here
to find game. Our doctors play back
CANNON half their time, and the sexton
is so poor he can't 60 to circus, Nei.
tber epidemics nor contagious can live
here, for it is round, rolling country,
with drainage in every valley and rich
valleys between all the hills. There are
seven streams and Ave springs and a
creek upon my little farm of 200 acres.
a traveller can stop and water his horse
every two or three miles, if he wants to.
We have street railroad that splits the
town in the middle, and runs from
Rogers to stegalls and from Stegalls to
Rogers, with ten trains day-.not 8
horse car line, nor dummy, but sure
enough steam line, with palace car
attachment. We can go anywhere ne
wish to as cheap as we can stay at home
and do it in less time. We have the
best weekly paper in the State excepting
those that are better than it is and l
don't know where they are. If any
friendly man away up among the biiz-
yards wants 10 come South either for
good health or good morals, let him send
dollar to the Courant american and be
can learn all about old Barlow and Car.
tersvile. But he needn't come If he is
opposed to Mr.. Lamal's confirmation.
We don't want that sort of cattle.
We are getting choice Of our company
now. We don't care cent whether a
man is republican or not. He won't be
80 very long after he gets here. It is
astonishing how soon Northern man
becomes Southerner after he has lived
here awhile. 1t is not put on either, for
they were tried during the war-sorely
tried. 1 was sorry for them and would
have given them kind farewell if they
had gone back, but they wouldn't 60.
was thinking about Captain Dwinell,
who died in Rome the other day, and !
wanted them 10 pay tribute to bis
memory. With parents and brothers.