The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07
WHERE IS CHATTANOOGA?
A Great City That May Be in Either
Tennessee or Georgia.

Savannah News: There is scarcely.
a doubt that the city of Chattanooga
would be within the boundaries Of
Georgia if the state should claim the
territory to which it would be entitled
under a proper survey. If reports are
to be relied upon, a majority of the
people of that thriving city are in favor
of G change from the sovereignty of
Tennessee to that of Georgia. 1t is
probable, however, that the mountain
city will remain one of the bright
jewels in the diadem of our sister state,
but if GeOrgians knew Chattanooga as
its people know it they would not, if
their claim is not barred by the statute
of limitations, let SO rich a part of the
domain of the empire state remain
outside OF the states jurisdiction if its
erterprising citizens desired to become
GeorSians, and Tennessee were willing
to surrender so valuable a part of its
territory.
Chattanooga of today is not the
Chattanooga of quarter Of a century
ago. The casual traveller, who sees
only that portion of the city around its
railroad depots and hotels, has no con
ception Of what handsome and pro
gressive city it is, and what a mag
nificent one it promises to become.
From a Woe-begone town, not much
more than a conglomeration of rail-
road tracks and war relics, it has be
come we'll built and well paved city
: OF large and handsome business blocks
/ beautifully designed churches and pub
lie edifices, affOrdirg evidences on
every hand Of d people who have con-
| fidence and pride in the city of their
choice.
Chattanooga's prosperity is due to
many causes, and depends wholly upon
no one OF them. 1t is the market of a
most productive region, one which
combines the farm products of the
colder north with those of the warmer
| south. The tributary country is al
ready fairly we'll settled by thrifty
white farmers. The city is the home
of large iron and other manufacturing
industries, because of it's contiguity to
the iron and coal regions of three
states. 1t is the gateway through which
east into the southwest and the south
| the trade of which must return through
| the same channel. The noble Tennes-
see, with it's 1000 miles of water
breaks through the mountains of the
! Blue Ridge at Chattanooga, and every
day the river is being made to add tC
the commercial growth of the city.
Lookout mountain, Missionary Ridge
Chickamauga and every hill and val
the valor of the two armies of Amer
lean soldiery. Today these historic
places are devoted to pleasure, recrea-
ton and instruction. The population o.
Chattanooga is prosperous, industri-
GUS and orderly, as every one viii ties
| tify who has spent any considerable
time in the city. Look at the city from
any standpoint, and it is a question
whether there IS another that ha.
60; f.,1
that lies before the south, than thi
Tennessee Georgia city. If Georgia
wants to add another to its galaxy o
prosperous cities, it should use its en-
deavor to take within it's borders tn
mountain city that nestles under tn
shadow of Lookout. The subject i
worthy of more than a passing para
graph, for to have Chattanooga within
its borders would indeed make Georgi
pn171iTn stole.