The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-11-14
THE TRUTH
TOLD BY A BRISTOL EDITOR AT.
TER SPENDING ADAY
johnson City, the "COming Hub" Of
East Tennessee.


Wilder is boomer and Lyle is his
prophet!
Johnson City is booming and every
citizen of the town is its prophet
That's right.
l expected to make a business trip
Tuesday to this coming hub, but af-
ter waiting around for over two hours
| got tired and hungry and the train
left before got back; but l was not
quite SO late Wednesday and | got
there.
All the subscribers had a kind word
for the daily Courier as they paid up /;
said that there was only one trouble,
their neighbors bothered them to get
it to read. Several new subscribers
were added to the list, and a large
number said they would subscribe,
but they got to see it ever day any
how. Several wanted to know why it
was not moved down-"For Johnson
City is going to be a town."
II heard this expression once l
heard it forty times johnson City
is going to be a town" That is the
open secret Of their present success
and prospective development. They
have a unity of purpose coupled with
harmony-ot action, and they blow
their ho. increasingly. They cuss
one another about politics, and con-
duct their business on business prin-
ciples, but they are as one man in
talking for Johnson City.
G. H. Lyle, the energetic and pros,
pering editor of the COMET, brought
around buggy and drove me over
the town and through the new addi-
tions. He is thoroughly conversant
with the plans of the different COM
panies, and delights to tell of the con-
templated improvements. and direct
your attention to local points of inter.
est. He has daily paper in view.
The Cranberry railroad gave birth
to Johnson City. The road extends
thirty miles to the steel ores in North
Carolina. Although it costs but thir-
ty or forty cents per ton to mine the
ores, the company has fixed an mini.
mum price $3.50 per ton. AS a
consequence, none of the ores are
shipped now, it being impossible for
the consumer to meet competition
and pay the freight on unreduced
ores. The Cranberry company will
build furnaces by The time the sc can
furnish them with coke, and reduce
their mine output topig.
The big steam tannery accelerated
the growth Of the infant town; and
numerous wood working establish.
ments and other factories aided very
} much too. was told that all of the
factories were so pressed to fill their
orders that they had to work at night
The towns recent boom has come
: from the almost complete realization
OF long-cherished hopes in getting the
sc road. The road is under contract
for hundred miles to its connection
at Rutherfordton, N. G. Gen. Wilder
says that the grading through Wash
ington county, eighteen miles, will b.
8 completed this month. From John
! son City to Kigsport, in Sullivan coun
ty, the work goes bravely on, both da!
and night. Track laying was com
,, menced this week, and will be prose
cuted with yigor Gen. Wilder say
: the sc will reach the coal fields be
: fore the S. A. & o. gets there.
!, The boom brought the real estat
i SPECTATORS, the agents and the Ian,
y companies.
The Carnegie company, with tw
" thousand acres, has taken the leaC
! The streets in this addition are broa
+ and are being permanently graded
9 The SO depot will be there--and a
the others eventually. The compan
is providing liberal things will bull
hundred thousand dollar hotel mex
year donate large market squar'
and throw open an immense park, {
natural forest. Already. foundation
are being laid for four story bushes
: blocks, and the brick are making
Gen, Wildersays that the "ompan
will give site and water ever
, brick machine that comes along, an
make contract with the proprietC
for million brick. The GenerI
added: eve expect to lay twent
million brick xtyear."
Some Of the local spectators hay
; done well. That is another thin
everybody owns some real estate thl
they will sacrifice at profit. Sal
Crumley, ]. A. Martin and Ralp
Boyd, who started on comparative
nothing but gall and hustle thr'
; years ago, have cleared ten thousar
: dollars up to this time-and are ju
getting their hands in. Others haV
done equally as well-some bette
and some nothing at ALL