The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-01-01
ALONG THE Pixies
Where EsHaiI Columbia" Comes In
Song, Good Roads Lead on TO For
time.

where ''Hall COluIuDld OOultS HI
song, Good Roads Lead on TO For
tune.
al was in Columbia last Monday"
said a man in another county, land
YOU ought to have seen the crowd he
continued. ~ had no idea there was
such a town. I'll tell you, lad, it is
not trotting or pacing; Columbia II
on a galIop. Nashville has seventy
five Thousand inhabitants, Columbia
seven thousand, they tell me, but
from what saw, the folks and friends
together meeting, I'll be darned II Co
lumbia a'int agOlng to be as big as
Memphis"
"Stranger you speak well, but not
as deep as you might, You came
FROM a country where they have no
ship,n and cOb-p1Fs spat and then
said, "a man in Orange UOuntv. New
Jersey made an independent fQI t'ne
| by buying little property ana max
| lug the road good. So on he kept
buying and improving until y auge
| City from nothing per front loot be-
came 81, 800 to toe the mark or tap
heel. There, is one AASand secret OF
COIumbia's success. ">1he coD-plpe
had another MACH and he further
said: "Do you Know any town IN the
OQlU6u States VI SSNOh -
habitants that has
80 MILES OF PIKE?
Well, 7 do, and that is the town you
were in last Monday"
That kind of common sense talk
| put your correspondent to lnVestlgat-
| ing not the mileage, but the pixies,
the result of which VIII not Tire
reader or a wagon.
ETrOTo tho COTITNRTA ii ERAID Office
90 down hill little and cross the
suspended iron bridge which spans
! the Duck river. 1t is the food giver
of Columbia's great reservoir. You
are then ON the Columbia, Spring
Hill, Franklin and Nashville pike,
where there is constant travel and
where can be seen many of the best
bred eouines in the South.
About a mile from Columbia there
is grand empailing water power
utilized by the noted
ASHTON MILLS,
| Fifty-five years ago, grist was
ground on the same site in little
modest mill and several buildings
have been swept away by fire and
| flood.
Sixteen wears ago Jno. B. Ashton
had no capital but that of energy, eX-
perienoe an6~ excellent reputation.
He bought foperty. which he
now owns, on creHt, and it has cost
him S45 900. 1t occupies two acres on
each side of Duck flyer, which grants
seven feet fall, prfpelling one Leffell
and one American turbine wheel,
which keep two mills in motion. The
| flour mill is a structure measuring 80
by so feet, twoand half stories high,
and the corn meal mill is the same
| A
ture is accomplished by the patent
roller process, the machinery being
from the Allis Works, of Milwaukee.
There are SIX double stands of steel
rolls, by II, four standard purifiers,
seven scalpers, eight centrifugal reels,
four -four packers and all the auxil-
iaries which aid in the production
the best wheat flour, to the tune of
100 barrels per miller's day. The
corn mill has also the roller process
and turns out 200 bushels of the
finest meal per diem. Shipments are
made chiefly to Alabama, and the
local trade is immense. The brands
of flour known as fashions Best, "
Summit" and "My Own" advertise
Columbia throughout the South.
The Ashton family is one of the
best reputed in the county. The late
James II. Ashton came to Columbia
from Oldham, England, and began
operations in the wool carding indus
try, which he vacated in favor of
flour milling. He had a first class
reputation as miller and a man, and
died in 1866.
A wooden mill would be good in
vestment in, or near Columbia, and
sheep farming is rapidly becoming a
very important industry in this belt
of country.
John B. Ashton, the proprietor of
We. Ashton Mills was born at Column
and has been in the milling bus
ever since boyhood. He has
emphatically that this is a
pr great possibilities, and his
rance and sterling principle
hing example to youth in the
Sghteous ambition. His
ss5sL. Ashton is the head
lis, and keeps up the
- as to ABILITY and