The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-04-10
HIS ENTHUSIASM GROWS.
COL. PAT DOMAIN RENEWS HIS PRE-
DICTIONS OF THE SOUTH'S
WONDERFUL FUTURE.
Overwhelmed With InQuirers About
the South Since His Letter in the
Manufacturers Record.
baltimore Manufacturers Record.

baltimore Manufacturers Record.l
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 26. 1890.
If you want a certificate as to the
far-reaching, marvellous efficacy Of the
Manufacturers Record as an adver-
tising and booming medium, call On
me. l am ready to give you one as
big as whole circus poster of ver
million. am prepared to make my
affidavit on a stack of Patent Office
reports or Congressional Records as
high as the steeple of an average
American statesman's reformatory pre-
tentions, that everybody takes it and
children cry for it as they do for Mrs.
Winkham's soothing syrup and DR..
Givemftz's worm lozenges.
AS in the case of that &c Dakota Val
entine," depicting the womanless con-
dit;on of the great American North
west, which appeared in the New York
Sun five or six years ago, | am COM
PEELED to cry "Hold, enough" That
semi -jocular and demi-semi-sentimen-
tai effusion, as you may perhaps re-
member to have seen or heard brought
me, in six weeks, something like five
thousand letters from young girls,
old maids and widows all over the
country, wanting me to find them hus
bands in Dakota and the Northwest.
| had to call on the editor of the SrN
! 1,o
tolary inundation by announcing that
was not matrimonial bureau, female
immigration society, and readymade
husband dispensatory all in one; and
that it would bankrupt anything short
of Gould or Vanderbilt to attempt
to pay for stenogfaphers and type
writers and buy and lick postage
stamps enough to reply individual
ly and separately to all my legions of
husband seeking correspondents. So
now am forced to appeal to you to
save me from the swarm of inquiries
and inquirers you have stirred up, and
permit me to answer them briefly in
the lump.
From near and from far they write
to ask if what said about the resources
of that Southern region of which l
spoke and its chances for profitable in
vestments is to be taken cum saek0
sails as a Dakota wheat story or a
Clover Club banquet extravaganza.
One old chap wants to know, you know,
if think I can &C stuff such yarns down
sensible peoples throats?" If were
doing that sort of throat -stufing l
think his throat would be safe.
The simple fact is in the freeand
easy talk which your evidently widely
circulated and closely-read paper re-
ported, l was not guying or attempt
ing to guy anybody. l was not doing
the spread Eagle act. l was not jest
ing or joking. l spoke the words OF
truth and soberness IN the town named
for George Washington and his little
hatchet. l gave you facts simple and
unadorned. If people do not know
enough about their own country to
recognize the truth in regard to it
when they meet it in the road how can
l help it? | can give facts, but | can
no more give the faith to accept them
than | can the intelligence to appreci-
ate them.
l have said, l say again, and say it
underscoredly: The South is the great
boom lana Of tie 7oorlH to-day! From
the Potomac to the Rio Grande it is
one vast treasure re-house Of undeveloped
and until recently almost unknown
and undreamt of riches. On all God S
bountiful and beautiful earth there is
no country of equal area that rivals it
in natural advantages. To say nothing
of the other parts of it, the border re-
gion of Virginia, North Carolina,
Tennessee and Kentuckyis is the mineral
centre of the continent. A territory
of 100000 square miles, beginning in
the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia
and North Carolina, and extending a
degree or SO west Of the Cumberland
mountains in Tennessee and Kentucky
will include the richest part in the
United States. 1t is not surpassed, if
it is even equalled, in all the world.
1t contains vast cloud-capped ranges
of mountains of almost solid Bessemer
hematite iron ore, both red and brown.
1t contains other huge ranges of noun
tains which, from the roots of the giant
oaks and pines and poplars that crown
their SUBMITS, to the lowest depth a
prospector's shaft has ever reached,
are unDroken masses of as fine Coking
coal as ever went into a furnace. Ala
bama gets some of her best ore and
much of her coke from this region OF
wondrous wealth, and from it Andrew
Carnegie obtains a large part of the
manganese for his great steel works at
PittsDurg. 1t contains millions OF
acres of bituminous and cannal Goals,
some of it so rich in oil that one can
light a mountain of it with match.
1t has infinite stores of lead, copper,
zinc, manganese, kaolin and gypsum.
The track of one Virginia railroad is
laid for eight miles on bed of solid
marble, as fine of grain and pure o:
tint as ever wooed the chisel OF a
sculptor or served for emblazoning the
imaginary virtues of the dear defllncts.
The Jail at Estillville, Va, is built Of
rose colored marble, and the streets
are macadamized with it. The Clinch
hsaSs aaf