New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-06

| Two who had failed at ranchng in the Northwest
| came here and set up livery stable. Two others
stranded by the collapse of Tom" Hughess
colony through shaky titles, turned dairymen
and drive about contentedly among their mix
cans behind a crack team of burroS. crying Milk,
ho" with beautiful British infection An
American country editor has abandoned his scis
sors and paste and plays Mantalini to his wife's
| Nfillner. Mayor Brooks Confederate cav
alryman, and crossed swords in the valley with
his present partners NJ. Leclero wrote that the
forrlar inhabitants were "clanS Of savage noun
taineers and bandits" and described the adjust
ment of feud by a marriage ceremony, during
which the clergyman had to draw his pistol
three times to reply to shots. (" The only brigands
now visible are energetic, pious danes in
search of subscriptions for stained-glass
chancel windows. There is no end to the
public spirit The daily newspapers are making
fortunes out of reading matter advertising" Last
week NewYork life insurance company offered
to build permanent office if $780, 900 insurance
were subscribed. The Chief of the Industrial
Propaganda took the matter in hand, and in ii
few days telegraphed
Have secured S336.O0O. VIII run it up to
$500, 600 to make sure.O
The people declare they have "ncver had
BOOM" With the normal energy at such height
they don't need it, What is BETTER thei police force
has cleaned out " the gamblers, and you no
longer as at Seattle year ago, can push aside
tent-door and watch rufians with suspicious hip
rocket protuberances throwing dice around green
table
"A this is the work Of one man. lie has moved
mountains changed the course Of rivers, and more
difficult still, directed the movement of the
$4,000 900 capital of THE American Associa-
ton, Limited, which is really very English as
region. He is known here the &C. NJ" or
Grand Mogul," and his name is Alexander A.
Arthur. He is a robust, long-limbed and big
brained Canadian The has taken out his papers j.
and comes near the old definition of Mr.. Cyrus
Field ne locomotive in trousers" He claims
tbo same ancestry as the late President Arthur and
as his portrait shows, curiously resembles him in
face. Mr. Arthur is not only pushing executive
officer He is man of sagacty and foresight;
even Imagination. Ten years ago, when prospect
inc in the Carolinas for some Scotch lumbermen,
ne found he could do nothing with river trans
portaton and asked for railroads to get timber TO
the mills and lumber from the mills 10 the sea
coast A railroad company offered to build him
branch if he would extend 1t through Cumberland
Can "Why Pr be asked. Because we hear that
the Southern Appalachian coal Held is there at lis
widest When his Scotch hackers heard what the
road WOulI cOSu, llltll S'"i" iVOViicu.'
he had ridden through this valley and far and
ncar among the mountains, and had seen SO much
that no went TO England and persuaded the rich
mon of Tbreadneedle Street TO form the American
Association. The association began by buying
% 400 acres of choice iron, coal and timber land
in Kentucky Virginia and Tennessee. They now
own as he expresses IL, over 10000 acres, To-
cnssed here in o ring fence" Since the pur.
chase il has been found that some well-known
Scotch ironmasiers bought the same property fifteen
wears ago, but the vendors quarrelled and they
got no title.
shall whip creation, said Mr.. Arthur when he had
secured his coal and iron and timber. His com
, plaisant associates promptly put up the money.
| THE valley site was picked out, a company formed
| for it's purchase and the town chrislened after
| Middlesborough in England. the thriving city
the Dee that in twenty years has increased in
| popuation from 5000 10 100, 900 Some of The
Enplsbmen came themselves, Others sent their
sons none seem 90 have brought their women
| folk At first there no railroad within forty
| miles The Louisville and Nashville, however.
pushed its lines south from Pineyile. During the
! Civil War President Lincoln OWNED the strategic
value of railroad through Cumberland Gap, but
tried in vain To get one built. Mr. Arthur, with
similar intention, was more fortunate. He bored
through Cumberland Mountain tunnel that eN-
tends under the corners Of three States. and then
c1rrie1 lines south 20 Knoxville. The railroad thus
makes a direct connection between Louisville and
Atlanta and, barring andslides, is good to travel
| pioneer now c0ntemplaies, beyond levelling the
oops of few mountains and taking millions OF
tons of coal and from the earth But he sits
down IN his desk at in the morning and stays