Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-22
ANXIOUS INQUIRIES.
What's clarksville Going TO do Towards
Advancement

What next? What is ClarksYille
going to do to secure some OF the
emigration and capital that IS flow
ing to the South? These and many
other such questions are propounded
to the writer on all sides. There
seems to be a restless spirit pervading
our people, an anxiety for aggressive
movements looking to development,
yet no one is doing anything iE that
direction, all waiting one for an
other and a general settling down
that nothing can be done until the
Mineral railroad is completed and
the Gracey- Woodward furnace is put
into operation, or the ClarksvilIe
Land Company starts boom. This
inactiOn is a great mistake. Every
man should be up and doing, all
working Systematically together.
We are simply losing the cream OF all
the good things that are coming this
way. Certainly a town that can
break its banks for a million or 50
and readjust them again better than
ever in few months can get move
on any time she tries, and this is
what CIarksYille has always been
able to do.
1t will be observed that all stran
gers--capitalists-cOming into the
South hunting investments, strike
for Knoxville, Atlanta, Chattanoo
ga, Birmingham, Admission, Sheffield
and Florence, and either invests or
branches from these parts for cheaper
locations in the vicinity. All of this
comes from the advertising that has
been done by these several towns.
We notice in the Manufacturers
Record, an article written by Robert
p. Porter, superintendent of the Cen.
sus Bureau, giving the marvellous
growth of these cities in the past ten
years as shown by these statistics,
that is simply astonishing. We also
notice that Mr.. Porter, Senator Car
Isle, Senator Harris, Judge j. M,
Love, of Iowa, Mr.. Butter
worth, of Ohio, and many
other prominent men are now organ
izing a company with capital of
$4,000, 900 to be paid up on the Build
ing and Loan Association plan. to
build a manufacturing city some
where in the South, not, however, in
GAINESVILLE, but many Clarksvillc
people are subscribing stock to it as
an investment. Now when we look
over the map and observe GAINESVILLE
as one of the thriftiest and best
commercial towns in the South, with
railroads spreading out in every di-
rection; the finest iron lands in the
world on one side in twelve to fifteen
miles of the city; vast acres of the
best timber to be found; bub
bling springs; the Cumberland
affording the finest river trans
portation; the vast deposits OF
limestone, marble, fire clay, pipe
clay, etc., with incXhau,tible coal
fields within fifty miles on Ournorth,
and all surrounded by great agri-
cultural country that supplies mil
lions of grain and seeds, and from 81
to 80 thousands hOgShoads Of tObac-
co to the market annually; seeing
this vast and unequaled opportunity
for development we are amazed at
the lethargy OF our people. What
GAINESVILLE needs is advertising and
cooperation on the part OF our citi-
zens upon some well organized plan,
concentrating every effort to gain a
certain object. We need to have a
survey and map, a profile OF the
iron lands, showing location OF
ore banks, coal, stone, timber,
springs, creeks, rivers, railroads, etc.
one man can't do all of this, nor can
a half dozen. We want some organ
lied system by which the money can
be raised in monthly instalImenls,
Some $1,000 or $4,000 to have this
work done and maps with general
description printed and circulated by
thousands. If we do this then we
shall turn part Of the tide of emf
grafton down the l.. Il n. railroad,
looking for cheaper property and bet
ter investments. If we wait and
neglect this, new towns are sure to
spring up at our expense. Who will
move in this matter?
For SALE.-A good house and lot
on College street. Apply at this Of
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