The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-19
TAKERS in HOTEL LOBBIES.
A Thriving Southern City-Indiana Millers
and Natural-Gas Agitator of High Degree.

noon and talked enthusiastically of his
home city, the State of Tennessee and the
South. He is connected with the Empire
Lumber Company in the city named, one OF
few Southern companies that furnish
nearly all the white pine building lumber
used in indianapolis. Mayor Hewitt, of
New York, is right" said he. Chattanooga
is going to be one of the greatest cities in
this country. She is the gateway to the
South, and nothing can stop her growth.
We now have apOpulation of 5000 or 10000
and in less than five years we will have
100000 inhabitants. We have been adding
more than 10,O00tO our population annually
for three or four years. The people of the
United States are just beginning to realize
what future there is before the city, and
they are coming there from all parts of the
country. Our streets are now being paved
with asphalt. and cable and ELECTRIC rail;
ways are being constructed. What will
make it such great cityf Its location at
the gateway to the South and the natural
resources surrounding it. Our mines pro-
duce anything we want. 1t is a TACT That
coal iron and limestone are all being taken
from one mine a few miles south of the city.
Then we are near the pinerIes of Alabama.
The company l am with last year shipped
North and East more than 75,OO0,0O0
feet of white pine lumber: Ten
The city is destined to be one of the great
est manufacturing centerS of the world.
We now have the largest tannery in the
world, and perhaps the most extensive
smelling furnaces"
lis the same spirit OF progress pervadlng
the whole SOuth"
Yes, to a degree; but, of course it is
more marked in Chattanooga on account of
the city's superior advantages. The south
and nearly all the towns through TenneS-
see Georgia and Alabama are waking up.
Political prejudices are dying out. and
when a new man comes in the question is
not as to his politics, but as to his capital
are coming to Chattanooga from Minnesota,
Michigan and other extreme Northern
States, and they are all given hearty
welcome. The day. is coming when Chat
tanOOga will be to the South what Chicago
is to the Northwest"
Sidney r. Moon, of Rochester, who
represented Fulton county In the recent
Legislature, returned to the city last even
ing, and is stopping at the Bates House.
"As represent county that is strongly
Democratic, was very cordially received
at home," said he. There is a good deal of
objection to the partisan legislation, but as
all the bills were made caucus meas
ures we Democrats were compelled
to support them" Mr.. Moon has
many, years been engaged in the sale of
school furniture, and he believes he knows
as much about the public schools of InGi-
ana any man in the State. He thinks
they are being put upon higher
grade each year, and as one who supported
the new schoOl-book law he says it will be
satisfactory.
Amos Thornbaugh, of Martinsville, the
owner of one of the largest fouring-mills
in the country, was at the Bates yesterday.
1.-THE wheat market is peculiar thing"
said he. Wheat is now higher in Chicago
than at the seaboard. The result is we
have had to quit shipping -four east and
the market of Western millers is ham,
pered."
as there any difficulty in getting wheat
for milling purpOses!"
Eve can buy all we want, but there is
sometimes trouble in finding it. There is a
good deal of wheat in the granaries of
farmers, who can't be persuaded to
has been so very low for two or three years
that farmers who did not need money have
been holding their grain in anticipation of
higher prices. There is plenty of wheat
three years old held by the farmers of Indi
ana, and they have made money by holding
on to it,"
DO millers expect the price to go any
higher'"'
ave do not. 1t is undoubtedly at the top
notch now. We nave to pay about 81 for
wheat here, when it can be had at the sea-
board for about 80 cents That difference in
price ought not to exist, and the probabili-
ty is that there will be decrease in price
here
James H. Rice, the natural-gas agitator,
has returned to the Grand after spending a
week looking after his real estate interests
- tn III
that he is entirely out of politics." and
says he expects to spend the remainder of
his life in developing the natural resources
in the .'Muncie Natnral-gas Land Improve
ment Company" The company has been
formed for the purpose of buying. selling,
leasing, improving lands, erecting build
ings, sinking wells, obtaining, using. stor-
ing, piping and selling natural gas. The
company now owns and controls over 1000
acres of land in and around Muncie.
Yesterday. through the arrangements
of Mr.: Rice, several hundred ex-
cnrsionists from New York and Boston
visited the town. Mr.. Rice thinks that
| city, to profit by its natural-gas resources.
must be advertised, and must offer induce
mentS to manufacturers In the way of free
| land and free gas. The company of which
| ested in natural-gas enterprises. are much
| pleased with the law prohibiting the waste
| of gas passed by the General Assembly.
without that law we would have no gas
| in little WHILE" said Nh. Rice. People
were continually sinking dry wells and
| abandoning them without plugging them.
| The result was saltwater came into them,
| and. by permeating the Trenton rock, de-
| stroyed the gas. The new law requires that
| where a dry well is sunk it shall be plugged
below the Trenton rock before it is aband-
| Oned. 1t also provides that wells flowing
| gas shall be plugged unless they are in use.
| Enough gas has already been wasted to run
Indiana tor good many years.
Senator Shockney. of Union City, spent
| last night in the city. on his way home from
| the East, where he went Immediately after
the adjournment of the Legislature. Sem
ator Shockney made a good record as a
| legislator. Before the session had pro-
| crossed far, he came to be regarded as one
| of the clearest thinkers and best lawyers
| in the body and at the close he was one of
| the leaders on the Republican side. AS a
| member of the Insane Hospital investigat-
| ing committee he did some very hard work,
| and he says he was greatly disappointed
| because the investigation was discontinued.
| He thinks the committee had just begun to
unearth the rottennesS in the institution
when the Democratic majority in the
House called a halt
Think They Have the Right Man.
Detective Thornton yesterday arrested
Charles Mcfarland on a charge of burglary.
The police have been on his track for some