The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-26
BRISTOL, TENN.
The Famous Erwin City" of the Ne 7
South.

South.
To-day probably no part of the new world
offers as many tempting inducements for the in
vestment of northern capital, as the southern
states, most particularly Tennessee and South
west Virginia The hitherto hidden mineral
resources of this section are simply inexhaus-
table.
Southwestern Virginia and East Tennessee
are beyond doubt, in their natural resources,
the richest section in the entire south. 1t is a
land that is now exciting the wonder, the ad-
miration and capital of investors, who desire to
discover fields rich in mineral and timber ad-
vantages. and in this glorious region they
abound to an unlimited extent
Bristol, the metropolis of this modern Ell Do
RADIO, has very appropriately been
called the Twin City as it is
composed of two municipalities, the one
being in Tennessee and the other in Virginia.
In addition to being at the terminus of three
important railroads, the principal of which ar 9
the Norfolk and Western and East Tennessee,
Virginia, Georgia, Bristol has the general Office
If the South Atlantic and Ohio Railroad Com
pany, which corporation gives employment to
large number Of persons. 1t already pos
sesses population of about 1900, and the
people are pushing, wide-awake, industrious
energetic and progressive, 1t possesse5 two
systems OF water works, with a capacity to
supply water for the 10000 people which it
will contain within the next few years; has an
electric light plant, three banks, street cars,
and is soon to have q belt railroad, eleven
churches, two systems of public schools, be =
sides several private institutions Of learning a
beautiful open house. one wooden factory, cot
ton factory, several planning mills, etc., etc.
Located as it is between the coal fields and the
iron mines, it has all the benefits of cheap ma
terial without the inconvenience prevalent to
mining places. In fact, there is more mineral
wealth within the radius of seventy-five miles,
with Bristol as a center, than any other given
locality of its size in the United States. Con-
tiguous to the enormous coal deposit, covering
over hundreds of thousands of acres are equally
extensive supplies of red and brown hematite
iron ore rich in metallic iron and with remark
| ably low percentage Of phosphorus. Near Bris-
toll is the magnetic iron ore containing from so
| to 20 per cent. metallic iron. enough to furnish
| the world with steel for ages.
The Bristol Land Company, will on May u.s.
49, and II, 1890 offer for sale, at auction, 1000
| business ana residence lots from its additions
| to the city of Bristol. This sale promises to be
| one of the most eventful that has ever taken
place in the south, aud early purchasers of lots
| will reap abundant and quick profit for their
| investment. The management of the company
| is in the hands Of some of the ablest business
| men in America, who are locking up the enter
| prise with their millions. Among them such men
as President Norton Of the Louisville and Nash
| vile railroad, VIM. P. Clyde, John II. Inman,
\ George S. Scott, James and Abbott, Nathaniel
! Thayer, Cordley & Co., Lee & Higginson, Jack
son & Curtis, and a score of other millionaires,
| bankers of Boston.
Ample hotel accommodations