The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-01-23
BILL ARP.
The South Adding to its Wealth Daily.
atlanta Consultation.

country2 Verify, it looks like the an
cient Aladdin had come to life with his
lamp and was just going about building
cities. Two weeks ago l was at Cross
Plains, q little place fifty miles from here,
and there wasn't anything there much
not very much-just wide place in the
road and range of high hills a mile or
two away. There was some good cotton
land stretching out in broad, level acres,
and there was creek not far away.
There was little settlement of unpre.
tending cottages and q few stores, where
the merchants sst upon the boxes and
Whitfield and talked politics and watched
the trains go by, and that YVES all. There
wasn't a blank acre in town that I could
not have bought Eor 5000. We'll, Aladdin
hasn't rubbed his lamp yet, but he is there
fixing to rub it. Millionaires have been
there since T was, and they have bought
out the whole concern-everything but
the women and children and graveyard,
and they have stocked the $500 acres at
a million dollars and have laid off city
and actually sold three hundred thousand
dollars worth of city lots in three days,
and the cry is still they come. am told
they haven't sold hundred acres yet.
Three thousand dollars an acre. Just
think of it'll I wonder what the poor
fellow thinks who sold it for fifty.
But he got all it was worth and ought
to be satisfied. BE couldn't make it
worth any more-but capital can. This
is the power of money. Money is going
to put machinery there and build fur
naces and rolling mills and banks and
magnificent hotels. Why, they have got a
bank already with a hundred thousand
dollars capital-all paid in. Had to have
great big iron safes expressed there to
keep the money in until they could build
a bank. Some Of the Vanderbilts are in
this ring, and lots of monied men from
all over the north. They say that in
twelve months there will be FIVE millions
invested at Piedmont. That is the name
they have given the new city. We used
to think that such things were just an
artful scheme to fleece the lambs, but it
does not look that way now. The whole
South is on boom. Look at Florence,
only two years old and twelve millions
invested. Look at Sheffield and Decatur,
aud Fort Payne and Middleboro. Yes,
Middleboro, only six months old and ten
millions invested Look at Birmingham,
only ten years old and fifty millions in
vested-and this thing is going on from
Virginia to Texas. The mighty north is
moving this way, niger or no nigger.
They send down their agents to spy out
the land, and before we know it they
have squatted somewhere and Aladdin
goes to rubbing his lamp. What is to be
the outcome of all this thing? Within
the last twelve months one hundred mil
lions in capital has been added to the in.
dustrial and commercial values of the
south. They will take wide place in
the road and buy up $500 acres Of land
for twenty-five thousand dollars and
"presto change" in week is worth a
million. Well, Of course, there are min
eral treasures behind all this. The
mountains or the hills are close by and
they are full Of iron, or coal, or something.
Now will these movements make break
into the solid south and help US solve the
rice problem that seems to disturb the
country 80 much? Will ne become
yankee6ed, or will they become Dixie
fed, or will it result in harmonious
mixture {? A year or so ago, some Boston
yankees settled little town, not far from
US and went to work. For awhile they
were shy and peculiar, and when one of
them was introduced to one of our folks,
he reached his hand out at arms length,
but by aud by, they got acquainted and
found out we were very harmless and
clever people and we found out the same
about them, and now they shake hands
right up close and tell jokes and anecdotes
just like we do. They have got news
paper in their little town and have EN-.
ployed regular South Carolina rebel for
an editor, and sure enough, when Jefer-
son Davis died, be slapped the black
mourning lines all over whole page, and
they said it was all right and just human,
and the paper went to Boston on the ex.
change list, and Boston paper saw it,
and now wants to know by what legerde.
main or hocus pocus or transmogrifcation
a Boston republican can 60 to Georgia
and live year or so and become JEFF
Davis rebel. Well, that is all right. He is
not JEFF. Davis rebel, but he is high.
toned, liberal hearted gentleman, and had
respect for the feelings of the people he
lived with, and expected to die with. In
the first place, if he hadn't been gen
tleman, he wouldn't have come here at all
A gentleman is not afraid to go anywhere
A true gentleman can get along with any
people. 1 have observed for forty years
that the northern men who come south tt
stay are among the very best citizens We
have. A young man of our town told me
the other day that when he had made W
his mind to come South his perilous ven
ture was made the subject of earnes
prayer in the family, for they believed ht
was risking his life, and they feltas much
concern as ifhe was going to the Gambia
islands as q missionary. We are glad hi
came, for he is a gentleman, too, and
wish some more Of the same sort would
come. Right now it does look like WI
were harmonizing, Even Ingalls, is re
penting and is going to make speech
for peace and pay tribute to Grady. Ht