Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-18
SPRING CITY, TENN.
THE IRON CENTER, TBE GARDEN CITY
OF THE SOUTH.

in the South, and the prediction is con-
6dently made, with Q shake of the head,
that the "bottom must drop out" sooner or
later. The very word boom" has q kind
of suspicion of chorlatanry about it, and il
Is often inappropristely used to describe
strong and vigorous growth entirely healthy
in character. When one reflects that in the
East there are $40 iron furnaces, and that
$50 OF them are now idle because the price
OF pig iron on the market is lower than it
costs them to make it; and when one further
reflects that all the furnaces in the Chatta-
nooga and Birmingham districts can make
iron and carry it to market at from 81 to S4
a ton cheaper than the Eastern furnaces,
a reason begins to be apparent for the so
called "boonls" of many Southern local
tiles. AS compared with the $40 lur-
naces of the Eastern States there are but 81
in the whole Chattanooga and Birmingham
districts, and every one can go on making
iron at a profit long after low prices have
driven every Eastern competitor from the
field. These facts can easily be demon
strated, but the most eloquent certificate Of
them is found in the situation as it is-in
the East $50 out of $40 furnaces being idle
30 per cent-and in the South { or local
eauses) out of 31-31l per cent. There is q
very general feeling among the iron men OF
the East that a material reduction OF the
tariff rates on iron cannot long be post
poned, and if the market price of iron
should be lowered Southern furnaces must
be indefinitely multiplied.
Of all the new cities Of this favored region
Spring City, Tenn, is, by actual count, the
most favored. An energetic body Of capt.
talists of large means have bought 81, 900, 900
worth of property in the thriving little city
and the rich mineral lands adjacent-and
al fho pad
to give permanent value to their possessions.
SPRING CITY
is a remarkable combination of pastoral
beauty, of picturesque scenery, of agricul-
tural and horticultural richness, of wonder
full mineral wealth, and strategic industrial
and manufacturing situation. 1t stretches
out, beautiful level plain of 5000 acres,
between Walden's Ridge on the vest and
Wi'nell Heights and Laura Hill on the
east, its fair bosom cut in twain by the great
Texas, New Orleans and Pacific Railway,
and washed by the ever hmpid mountain
waters of Piney river.
The sum total of its advantages over all
other locations in the favored region Of the
Tennessee Valley, when weighed in the
sensitive scales of industrial com petition, is
sufficient to turn the eyes of all thoughtful
business men and capitalists toward it.
Read a brief and temperate summary Of
Its advantages as location for manufacture
ing and industrial enterprises, ior residence,
health-seeking or investment:
First-Two ine1haustible fields of iron,
Shin Bone Ridge and Iron Hill, the former
one-half mile, and the latter six miles from
Spring City, from which ore is being mined
in large. quantities daily. Spring City's
iron ore is no experiment.
Sec0Od-Tha Cincinnati md
Central Tennessee Railways meet here, the
latter striking the Walden's Ridge coking
coal at two miles and the newly discovered
Andrews or Pocahontas eoking coal.
Third-The best eoking coal in the world
(yielding vi 4 per cent OF fixed carbon), at
a distance OF 27 miles, made available by
the Central Tennessee Railway, and the
opening to the market of the wonderful
block coal through the same medium. This
block coal, the only coal in the world that
can make iron without being converted
into coke, exists in vast quantities in the
line of the Central Tennessee extension.
Fourth-Cheaper iron than any other 10
cality-Spring City's iron ore supply and
her coking coal are nearer together, and by
the extension of the Tennessee Central six
miles to Iron Hill, her transportation Of ore
and coal, without breaking bulk, is neces-
sarily secured cheaper than any other To-
calitv.
Fifth-Cheap transportation to market
Spring City is nearer to the Eastern market
by rail than Chattanooga by % miles, than
Birmingham by 135 miles. She is only six
miles from the Tennessee river, which af-
fords cheap transportation to the OHIO.
Sixth-A cheap river outlet for manufaet-
ured goods by Piney and Tennessee rivers,
the former stream flowing on the outskirts
of the city, with power enough to run many
factories, and navigable for one and one
half miles from its mouth, affording splen-
did natural harbor for a dozen industries.
Seventh-The most beautiful town site In
the State certainly can be claimed for Spring
City. 1t is high and dry, perfectly level.
dotted with blooming orchards, marked with
comfortable and substantial dwellings, and
surrounded by productive farming lands.
Eighth-ExtensiVe farming lands
Fields, pastures, meadows, orchards, vine
yards, nurseries, gardens, etc., surround
Spring City. Peaches and strawberries and
other fruits grow in great abundance, one
farmer for the past two years having shipped
2. 900 crates OF fine peaches per year from
14H acres of trees.
Ninth-Wonderful Rhea Springs are but
two miles from Spring City, approached by
q beautiful drive from the latter point. Here
surroundings that nature can bestow, and g
mineral water that has become celebrated
throughout the South for equallzing the
circulation and restoring the secretory Or
gans. Rhea Springs is a noted summer re-
sort for inyalids and pleasure seekers.
Tenth-Large deposits of fire clay and
metallic paint. The finest building stone
and inexhaustible limestone. A thriving
city OF 1000 inhabitants with excellent
schools, churches, and business houses.
The Anglo-American Association is COM
posed of practical business men OF large
means who, after the most careful examine
tion, have settled upon Spring City as ths
most advantageous point in the South for
the manufacture of iron, and for the estab-
lishment of a great industrial center. They
factories and furnaces, as well as q
city of beautiful homes. Blast furnaces,
a $4,000 hotel, water-works, cleo
tric lights, street cars, etc., etc., are
some Of the things that will be set on
foot Immediately. The first auction sale Of
business and residence lots takes place June
8, 4 and 8. Lots for sale privately until
MAY 26 at very low figures.
For fuller information see prospectus OF
address
THE EANoLo-AMERIcAN Assn, LIN.
Spring City, Tenn.
MANY thousands of dollars have been
made by hundreds of people lately by small
investments in the so-called booming
cities OF the South. Have you few hun
dreds, or even less money, that you would
like to have doubled or quadrupled in 30
days? Ii so, by going down to Spring City,
Tenn, now, before their great sale OF lots on
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