The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-08-18
THE CITY OF
MT. PLEASANT
Is Getting There in a Hurry
And in Great Style.
TEN MILES OF SIDE TRACKS.
1t Is Boom Builded Upon Solid
Phosphate Foundation.-New Hotels,
Etc.
The Mt. Pleasant correspondent to

The Mt. Pleasant correspondent to
the Nashville American says:
During the past week work in the
phosphate City" has been more
active than usual, and the many
valuable changes around town and
on the mines can easily be seen.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
new Hotel Margaret; the basement
has been dug and to morrow morn
ing the rock masons will begin the
erection of the foundations. Adjoin-
! ing the lot on which this new build
ing Is to be erected, is the lot of the
Presbyterian Church, and Harvey
Abrams, of Knoxville, who has the
contract for the new church build
ing, has large crew of men at work
on the foundations, ETC., of this new
edifice. John King, one of the en-
terprising business men of this place,
will begin the erection of three
handsome three story bricks on his
lots in the southeast corner of the
Square in the near future. 1t is un-
derstood that the old building known
as the "Owen" corner has been
sold to parties who will at once erect
a handsome three story office build
ing.
The Mt. Pleasant Real Estate
Company are to begin the erection
of six residences in the Frierson adj
ditiOn at an early date. w. l.. Har-
ris has had his home property, north
of the Square, divided into building
lots, with wide streets, and placed
the same on the market. The streets
will be opened up and graded, and
nice pavements laid at once, and the
section is most desirable one Tor a
residence. A brick sidewalk has
been laid from Columbia avenue to
the Howard Institute on Main
street, distance of several hundred
yards, and work will begin at once
on the sidewalks to be laid on Co
lumbia avenue to the depot. The
! Board of Mayor and Aid ermen have
crew of nearly one hundred hands
at work on the streets, and they are
being put in fine conuition. All
business houses will also be forced
to have brick sidewalks laid in front
ut once.
The new Kitson lights which the
board have contracted for will
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next week. Messrs. M. E. Wheeler,
of Rutland, VT, and w. D. Cooper,
p of this place, have made arrange
> ments to open large saw and plan
ing mill near the depot early in the
fall. The new Touring mill for Mt.
Pleasant is now assured and will be
+ put in before winter. Local capital
f lists are preparing to erect an ice
| factory, cold storage plant; ETC.,
near the railroad. DR.. r. r. Will
q liams and other parties are prepar-
q ing to open a new street from the
! southeast corner of the square, run
ming east to the railroad. The new
r street will open much valuable bust
ness property, which is now in great
demand.
Unusual interest Is being taken in
the proposed street fair for the fall
and a meeting will be called next
week for the perfection of plans, anC
: the appointing of the different com.
mittees. On the date of this affair
n the first public sale of town prop erty
0 will be made.
), Messrs. Adams Bros, of Aliens
v vile, KY, have purchased the store
: house and bakery establishment OF
g J. w. Petty, on Main street. The
10 lot is 25Xll0 feet, and the house is 6
: one story frame building. The price
d paid was SO 800. The Adams Bros
9 will remodel the house and put in {
# handsome line of dry goods.
e The work of grading the new
/, street from the square to the depot
< broadway" has been very nearly
l. completed, and preparations are be
/, ing made for the erection of mum
l. ber of handsome buildings.
v Each day something new 10 tn,
a way of Improvement for the towl
= develops, and it keeps even the in
IS habitants of the town on the run Il
# keep up with the new buildings, etc.
e that are going up.
g The idea prevails in many place
= that Mt. Pleasant is very rougI
1t town. and completely in the hand
l. of the tough element, which come
Is here to work in the mines. Such i
e certainly not the case. While it i
)0 true that there are thousands upoI
l. thousands of the miners around MI
Of Pleasant, the larger number of then
Of live i'm "shacks" from one to thre
v, miles from the corporation limits
a The town is we'll policed, and Capt
,s Friel, of the police force, inform
the American correspondent tina
the negroes here are very orderl
, while in town, and his men have n
- trouble in making them observe th
law. There has pever been, sine
." the discovery of the phosphate,
case of murder, TO bbery or anythin
a. of the kind in the town. Naturally
IN the negroes occasionally have scrau
m among themselves, but the white
st go about their business unmOlesteC
n. The work ON the new yards of ID
es Nashville, Florence & SOuther
he Railroad is progressing we'll, and
In few weeks the railroad will be in
u position to handle the phosphat
: business more satisfactorily tina
o. heretofore. When this new yard
com pleted and the sidetracks laiC