The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-09

and directed the aiming of the first Fed
eral shot at Chattanooga. He has since
told me that at the first sight of this
mountain walled plateau he felt it in
his bones that here was to be a great
manufacturing city. Here he located as
soon as the war closed, and here he has
made and lost I know not how many
fortunes.
Business Enterprises.
He has always been too much Of an
optimist to realize on his remarkably
good foresight and business capacity
In the army be was always feeling that
eve are on the eve Of some great vic
tories, - and when iron is up it is al
most impossible to convince him that it
is liable TO soon go down. One year he
cleared $751;, 900. He promptly extend
ed his business to correspond, and 9TH
ers reaped the benefit Of his labors. He
established the first coke furnace in the
south He has explored all the hills
valleys and plateaus Of east Tennessee
and gotten up some of the best geologic
al and geographical maps I ever saw.
He has founded towns, promoted rail-
roads, opened mines and built hotels,
but other men now own most Of them.
He built the big hotel on top Of Roane
mountain, N. G, the highest hotel,
think, east of the Rocky mountains. He
founded Chickamauga, town at the
extreme south end Of the battlefield at
Coffee Springs, and then built extern
sively at Carnegie, but after all has
been compelled to start anew, and some
folks say at bedrock, at johnson City,
northeast Of Knoxville. He engineered
the railway up Lockout mountain and
opened the great coal mine there, and
his latest project is for the erection of
an altogether unique monument, $50
feet in height, to commemorate the part
his brigade took in the battle of Chicka-
manga.
I celebrate him at this length not as
a man, but as a type of the brilliant
band which located here in 1865, deter
mined to make a great city. 1t was then,
except that it had not been burned like
Atlanta, pretty near the worst looking
place in the south, with perhaps 5000
fixed inhabitants. 1t now has so, coo,
including those suburbs which are con-
tinuous with the city proper The lat
ter covers but four square miles Tor a
few years it was singular1y unhealthful
III SDAt6 VI It's HlSA 4OCdU1Ou LIS aELuy
left the streets in quagmires; water
stood in stagnant ponds i'll many places,
and hundreds Of tons of waste matter
lay and rotted where the war left it, The
death rate, it is now claimed, is the
least of any city in the country. 1t has
gradually become a place Of fashionable
resort. Missionary ridge is dotted with
handsome suburban residences, several
of them occupied by men who took part
in the battle there One can ride to the
top of Lookout mountain with as little
inconvenience as across Washington city
and almost as cheaply, and thousands
Of visitors to the exposition at Atlanta
have taken this trip. And yet the citi-
zens are modest, for the strongest ex-
preston I heard, and that from an Ohio
man, was in these words: "Chattanoo-
ga is slowly recovering from the panic,
and all her manufactures are solvent
except the Malleable Iron works. That
has lately gone at receivers sale, and
the men who bought it in intend to re-
organize and operate it. -
Manufactured Products.
Chattanooga manufactures aggre-
gated 81, 900, 600 in the decade ending in
AooO. III lAde oAuAAS Ia 4oSV tueJ Were
50, 500, 600. Then came the depression,
and it is not claimed that the city has
yet regained its old rate of advance.
The manufactures are chiefly in iron
and wooden products. as little has yet
been done in cotton. A wooden mill Of
$50 feet front is just completed, and
the machinery is going in; likewise
big lead pencil factory. The cedar for
this purpose is in great plenty all
through east Tennessee and western
North Carolina. and foreign manufac-