Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1892-01-21
Letter From Georgia.
TALLAPOOsA. Ga. Jan. Il, 1892

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Mr. Editor
As you and were once shipmates.
think thirtyseven wears ago and are now
the only two of that famous crew " no re-
side in the state, write you few lines
Having confined myself to business in
Franklin for the last twenty Ave year. and
my wife being out of health, made up my
mind TO take a trip In the south for few
months, After stopping in New York five
days We left there at 430P NJ on Dec
29th Tor this city. 1t rahed when We left
there and so on through Philadelp hia, Bal
tlmore and Washington; but on arising
the next morning We found ourselves in
North Carolina, near Greensboro, with the
sun shining brightly and the weather warm.
This Richmond and Danville road runs
over the northern part OF the state and is
high M on the divide IT, s~n ~. % +.
reddish cast not looking very fertile All
along between the stations are small hous-
es; not one in twenty is painted; now q
corn field and then cotton patch: occa-
and what seems queer to me that in the
dry hot weather, fires do not catch ard
burn them all up. but you hardly ever see
piece of land that has been burnt over.
On We went through South Carolina,
stopping only at few stations, such as
Spartanburg, Greenyille and Seneca and
then along into Georgia
We arrived at Atlanta at dive NJ, CEN
trail time, twenty-five and one half hours
from New York, and there We only stopped
ten minutes and changed 10 the Georgia
Pacific for this place, sixty-f miles west
of Atlanta and three miles from the Ala.
bama line
Tallapoosa is rather pretty, small city.
They claim thirty-fiv hundred Inhabitants,
not more than one eighth colored. Most
OF the remainder were formerly from the
Northern, Middle and Western states.
The town is twelve hundred feet above the
sea, and intermingled in and all around it
is q forest of pine, oak and hickory. Most
OF the buildings are new and some are very
nice residences. In fact, it has grown from
six hundred to this number in two years.
There are some good brick stores. but the
houses are all built of wood and In fact
lumber is cheap; Maine cannot touch it in
that respect. Framing stuff and out
boards are put on the spot for seven dol
lars per thousand, good matched four inch
flooring and ceiling are fourteen to sixteen
dollars, and oak and hickory boards and
plank can be bought at fifteen dollars; also
pine and oak wood for fuel at two dollars
per cord Evidently they don t value their
time much as have seen load Of wood |
sold, drawn two miles with four small |
oxen, for one dollar.
The crackers, as they call the poor |
whites here, are easy going clever fellows,
and you never hear one swear. but evident
ly they do not try to make the most Of |
their resources There are good MANY
OK and mule teams here and they are all
very poor in flesh and small in size ASH
was walking out in the outskirts of the
town, came to a hill where | saw a man
with four small oxen with about eight hun
dred feet of lumber on and what we call
stuck. He was not fretting bit-hs said
the cattle were not right smart or they
would take 1t along. l told him was
somewhat of teamster and IL he would
take hold Of the wheel we would make
hem take it along. l hauled them into
he road by the bow and placed them to
pull and sang out haw and cracked his
whip and up the hill they went He said
lie thought must be a right smart COW.
BOY.
This Is prohibition county-not
'aloon in town, and the hotels and apoth-
'caries are not as much as allowed to sell
ager beer.
There are several industries in operation
low. such as foundry and machine shop.
hair factory, iron furnace, stone and
mery wheel, and lots more that will be in
'peration 10 course of three months, I
hould judge. such as a wagon factory.
lass and bottle works, powder mill and
artridge mandatory. They say these
viii employ six hundred hands, and should
hey all meet with success see no reason
Thy the town should not double its popu-
ltion in the next two years.
| forgot to mention that they have three
,lneral springs here. the Lithia springs,
called. I think they compare favorably
nth others l have visited. It has rained
lore or less here tor the last I've days and
, the meantime the sun has not shown
self. II it continues SO much longer /
hall not have such favorable opinion of
ne sunny south. Yours ETC.,
J. p GORDON,