The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-07-19
FROM MURPHY.

The Railroad Will Soon Be Completed
...CherOkee Furnishes the Finest
Marble and Tale in the World. per.
sOnal Mention, Etc.
Especial to STATE CHRoNICLEl
MURPHY, N. O., July 12.-Murphy is
the county seat of Cherokee county, the
extreme western county OF North Caro-
lima, situated in the angle, formed by
the confluence of the Hiawassee and the
Valley rivers just above their junction,
IN one of the most fertile and pictur.
esque valleys in the mountain section of
the State:
This beautifully situated town is ap-
preached by the Marietta & North Geo.
gla railroad from Atlanta, and the w.
N. @. r. r. is already graded to within
tive miles and will soon be completed to
this town. It will then be connected
by rail one hundred aud twenty five
miles south with Atlanta and one hun
dred and twenty five miles east with
Asheville and is destined at DO dis
tant day to be a railroad centre
OF Importance. Marble and tale of
the finest quality are found in vast
quantities in all this region. The Valley
river valley, in which Murphy is situ-
ated, has been found to be underlaid
with marble of the most beautiful and
finest varieties found on the American
continent, from the purest white to the
most magniicently variagated and deli
cately tinted flesh color. Borings have
been made at great many places from
twenty-five feet to one hundred and fifty
feet into this marble bed, and its thick
ness is still unknown. Col. Charles N.
Hickerson, who lives some eighteen
miles east of Murphy, showed us some
specimens that were exceedingly fine,
taken from his place, and gave it as his
opinion that the valley was underIaid
with marble and tale, very nearly, if
not its entire length, and that he
thought the beds would average three
miles in width. This however, he said.
was mere guess, as no living man
knows the extent of this marble and
tale formation; but the indications are
that even this is far below the facts.
Prof. VIM. Beal. of Murphy, who is en-
gagged with the Murphy Land and Mar
BILE Improvement Company, taking out
| 1000 tons of the Brown Hematite iron
ore, found in great quantities here from a
mine about four miles east from Muir
ply, for the purpose of shipping North
that thorough test may he obtained,
has 400 tons out awaiting the approach
of the railroad.
Murphy has a number of promising
young men, and many true and tried
older ones. Among those who had very
pleasant things to say about the CHRON-
IoLE are DR.. j. S. Abernethy, Messrs.
Ben Posey, L. E. Mauney, S. w. David
son, Attorneys at Law. The last named
IS the mayor and the uncle of oul
esteemed Attorney General. The editor
of the Murphy Bulletin, with
many others we met had very kind
and pleasant things to say of the editor
of the CHRONICLE, and Mr. r. A
Aiken, a prominent merchant, as
sured US that just as soon as
the w. N. O. railroad got through
so that the papers would not be too ole
when received, he wanted the CHRONICLE
We met at Murphy and travelled par
of two days with Messrs. J. T. Bosti,
and D. D. Suttle, of Asheville, who hav,
about closed purchase of some eighteeI
hundred acres of land in the midst o
this marble and tale belt on the Vale,
river. They have bonanza indeed.
This far western portion of Nortl
Carolina is indeed a grand country o
! vast resources. The class of peopl
flowing into it now, indicate that il
twenty five years it will have the mos
select population that the world has ey
!, er known. This, however, will probabl
be largely the case all over the South
The fact that less than four per cent @
> the population of the thirteen Souther
, States are foreign born, while that of
i like number of Northern States is NOR
than twenty per cent Is an attractiv
: feature that strike the people We wan
u among us. Let them come. All th
people welcome them.