The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-12-30

} building Is getting under way. sites have
BEEN selected for hotels. schools and some
I stores. AL the shops and living places
1 now are temporary, although some com
fcrrsbie homes are IN course o. erection.
There has been very little sickness, al
though some Is 20 be expected from the
exposure TO which the settlers risk them
selves. They sleep In shaclNs buiit of grsen
piae board. and the cracks are not tightly
scared. .lany are sun ira tents. Numbers
OF the coionis;s have their wives and chii-
dr-n with them. but the wisaSt those
who came ahead L. prepare Tor their fam
. iliee.
Tho arrival 81 the mail IS a great event
IN tho town. Every inh4biLant of the camp
goes regularly 10 the I-osso..ice. ? f--v
weeks aso the pouch that Travelled between
Swan and .lbbeville seldom knew what it
was to carry dozen letters at a time.
Now tie bag has The fulincss % Consist
tu-ion mai sack. Eight hundred letters
. iLav- been sent off in a batch.
Everything Is the colony" II IS the
Colony bakery" the Colony hotel" the
Colony drug store che Colony meat
shop tie "C5,o0y barber shop and SO
on. down street after street.
The states come nest ana such s's-s arc
frequent as the Chicago Grocer. the "in-
i ana Restaurant" The "Atiehi.,sa Store
the Nebraska Hotel" etc. There is no
discoNcTable home sickness. but the re-
larse IS :rue. These people seem gial 10
te Gown here safe from the terrible cold or
the west
'T would rather be down hero in my
shi-t sleeves than in a warm mousse IN
Dakota" said one OF The settlers. Tie
added that hs name was Dunbar II Min
uesoia- Ills sentiment met The approval OF
Ill Nho heard f..
.-Hcw viii yOI get alonE?' one OF the
IsfiiSiS WIS asked
~Fy harf work. re replied. ''Bu: expect
&c ser better results from my work here.
IL Nebraska, Kansas. the Dakot;-s and
that section. man las "A constant fight
with nature lie has a terrible struggle 20
make enough 20 keep himself ami family.
Talk about the south being one-crop
country. what is Dakota? Up there me
farmers grow wheat and / expect Il is
bringing about - cents = busnel there r1Sht
low II you make forty bushels or n 20
tho acre you only have Sl2 gross. a ETeat
many 81 the western farmers want TO come
soarh. They ali 70 largely into the cui-
tunc % fruits and vegetables some o. us
who haze fecn looking around here, be-
heye THAI We can raise hay at "A pront
ana raise cattle for narisct. This ought
e. d. q. splendid section fJr Crearncries. 1
ana ;c.d thar there are Ncrv few IN O,cor-
ga, hut 7 hear that their butter brings
q good price and is in constant demand.
Some men who came down here from a-s-
sour puilcl Cp q quantity OF rel-tco
clover and carried it back. They said tnat
when they SHOW il at home their neigh
. hOrs wouli say that the soil was all right.
Yea can make wheat corn and oats whore
. you ind clover. You may have "a make
the soil. but that g. an easy matter. No
can make soil. but we can't make climate.
I'VE want a railrBad ia here and under
stand that we viii get one very soon ana
a SECOND probably 10y spring. Hundreds o.
men Who are here have Pioneered before
and had IL ten times harder at the start
than this is"
Speaking OF railroads recalls the promises
81 assistance mace hy the different lines.
Major = Pope. general freight ana passen-
ger agent az the Georgia and Alabama,
writes me that his line is anxious 70 90
everything possible % assist tire coloaists
facilities. He says that ali the details or
this colony al Fitzgerald have been care
fully planned and that the colouists. so
far as he has been able 20 judge, are or
the t---t class of farmers and mechanics.
The ,icnrss - and Alabama g the nearest
through line % the colony. when tho TIT
ton ana Northeastern builds about ten
miles more 10 Will h.s into the new settle
Ineut and then the coloaists VIII have
another outlet by way Of the Southern IN
all directions. u is essential THAI the rail-
roads shall help the settlers in the south
era part OF tine state. so FAR as they can.
Enl.s5 the ff1Ilt growers GET advantageous
rates they viii not be able TO continue IN
the business. And as the orchards increase
and the annual output grows. the rail-
roads viii be the better enabled to give
finer service at lower rates =. W.