The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-04-25
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the movements to raise the money north
had not been made, I doubt whether
there would have been such an opportu-
nifty and such response from the south.
Every southerner felt Inundated that the
north had been appealed to, and mortified
that it had so signally failed.
But I started to write about the Carters>
vile boom-old Joe Brown had been
slipping around here and is buying up
large tracts of mineral lands. BE had
twelve thousand acres and has recently
bought four thousand more and paid forty
thousand dollars for the last purchase
keep your eye on the boss, for old Joe is
shy, and knows good thing when he
sees it. A rich syndicate has bought the
Etowah property, of seventeen thousand
acres, for one hundred and ninety thous-
and dollars, and are going to manufacture
on large scale. There is plenty Of first
class mineral lands still left all around
us. Our hills are heavy with the weight
of iron and manganese and slate and mar.
BILE. Our town is looking up and in few
months has planted gas works and water
works, and ochre mills, and an ice factory
and built many houses, and established
public schools and national bank. I
know there is boom coming, for | see
some Of the real estate men going down
to meet every train, and they look anxious
and scan every stranger who gets of. l
see them go to the hotel to watch the
register. I see them riding out with q new
man most every afternoon. I see them
in earnest conference in the back rooms
and around the corners and in the alleys
and as I pass I hear the word option,
option, option, until I am out of hearing.
The livery stables have bought more
horses and vehicles to ride their stran-
gers round, and everybody seems wide
awake and expecting to hear something
drop. A man who made ten thousand
dollars by promoting Florence told me
that Cartersville had more natural advan-
tages than Florence, or any other town
he knew of. Better lands for the farmer,
better water power, better health, and a
better climate, and as for mineral treas.
ures right at our doors, there was no place
in the south that could compare with it.
With the wealth of hard wood and long
leaf pine in our forests, be said ne ought
to manufacture everything that the south
needs. I paid two dollars and half
for wheelbarrow yesterday that came all
the way from Columbus, Ohio. I looked
at it and measured the wood and counted
twenty little bolts and l have no idea the
whole material would cost us half a dollar
and I am sure it could be made for anoth-
er half dollar. With a little machinery
one ought to make twenty-five in day.
But the Ohio man has got to send down
South for his timber and pay freight, and
then we pay another freight to get the
wheelbarrow back. But We are going to
quit doing that way. Towns are building
up rapidly and the map makers can't
keep up with them. You can't find Cor
dele nor Bluf1ton on the latest edition.
and yet Cordele has 1000 inhabitants
and a national bank, and Blufton has q
new hotel that cost $4,000 and several
brick stores, and has sold $4,000 worth Of
town lots in three months. Then there
is Fort Payne, that is capitalized BY l,7OO
yankee stockholders at $6.0O0,0Oo, and
the cry everywhere is still they come.
Let them come. Everybody is willing
except the darkies. Old uncle Jake says
he "don't like to work for dem yankees; !;
dey is so pertikler." He says "dey
don't hardly give Linn time to eat his
dinner when he is y orkin' by de day."
BILL ARR.