The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-03-23
HARDEMAN COUNT z.

The Bulletin is not acquainted
with any county in Tennessee pos
seSsing superior faculties or re-
sources for manufacturing, industrial
and agricultural wealth over those
of Hardeman. Water power is
abundant, the very finest sites for
tactSry plants can be found on al
our streams, and fuel for the feed
ing of furnaces covers hill tops and
valleys, and can be bought cheap
Timber, for the manufacture Of
lumber, doors. sash, bin DIS, shin
giles, household furniture, BUCKETS,
barrels, etc. Is net surpassed in
quantity, quality, or variety by any
other county, The river and creek
bottoms are studded with towering
cypress which can be cut and RATED
to any peint, Ash, Oak, gum, and
maple crowd the spots unsccupied
by the cypress. The hills and table
lands are oaded with poplar, chest
nut. Theses majestic forests are
penetrated by we'll kept roads
which make access easy.
Iron ore prevails to sorHs extent
in Eastern Hardeman as evidenced
by surface findings. If boring were
made, they might Develop rich beds
The white iron ore (spathic) found
here Is the finest known, and is
found in only two other places In
the United States.
Pipe~clay beds prevail along the
slopes that skirt the rich valley of
PineY Creek, also in the country
adjacent Grand Junction. The
quality of the cay in each of these
sections is not surpassed anywhere.
The clay along the Piney Valley is
said tS be as pure and far mole
abundant than that at Grand juno
ton, and our readers are fully ac-
quainted with the expressions of praise
given the Grand junction clay by
the Northern capitalists recently,
and also their purchasers there, and
high prices paid, A clay factory
that would employ about 500 opera,
tives would do an immense busin ess
about Huddleston's mill. All that
Is needed is the building of the
projected railway from Jackson to
Middleton to expertsthe ware. This
railroad is also needed for the Ium i,
Der factories which would thrive
beyond estimation in Northern
and Eastern Hardeman. The sand
beds absut Salisbury are attracting
universal attention just now. We
understand that some gentlemen
with capital are favorably consider
lag the Orectisn and operation of a
glass factory at that point The
sand is SAID to be the purest ard
best in the South, and is being
shipped now by the carload to
Decatur, Birmingham, ChattanSo
ga, Memphis and ChIsago. A glass
factory would bring great wealth
to the citizens abSut Salisbury and
it can be had, if the people there
will properly exert themselves:
If our people will go to work and
secure the proposed railway from
Whlteville oriTemple Station through
Bolivar to Middleton Or Corinth, no
better point can be found fer a cot
ton factory than Bolivar. Cotton
could be obtained right at the doors
Of the institution, Spring Greek fur.
nishes water sufficient to turn a
million spindles, and the laborers
would be abundantlY furnished with |
a. van EAACS ~ tbs 1aEu GrS at /
very rea ssnable prices. Hardeman
produces not less thaa 10000 bales
Of cotton every year with favora-
be seasons, with a compress and
cotton factory at Bolivar, we could
saSily command all this cotton and
more besides. Furthermore, tive
IAN get cotton factory at Bolivar,
he people OF cur county and contigu
ous counties could purchase cotton
goods very cheap. They would not
nave to pay freights, nor the per-
,enls incident to goods passing
through the hands of several dealers
Ne have Superior advantages for
htEe withdrawing Industries.
NO could obtain them, ii we posses
E / the proper measure Of public
pint. The Bulletin believes that
little less political and ofIice-scek-
" clap trap ana a little more de-