The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-03-22

try from Aberdeen. Scotland. ana
when he caught sight Of the granite
along the Georgia railroad he said =.
here stop this j. the land -
This Scotchrnan was an expert in
>;pnc cutting and Ancw til" value that
should be placed upon rich fields Of
granite. He settled down in l.thonia
and cut ont the first stone now -
co,nmon on the street. OF Atlanta aud
other cities. lie is buried in the
cemetery At l.ithonia AMI lii- ronn-
,.yincn have decorated his ro>tin.
,,,ac" ina most suitable manner rs
Tie erection in rranitc If unique
s,a,ni,> III The place where he sleeps.
.pnY before this man "f Aberdeen
,..ei lc >aw Il .criication ol his ruo'i
alignment on the comm. Importance
o: thi- Granite. In few short years
he had gathered alvn, I.i,hona a col
ony Of Scotch .c"rle 80 numerous n
- make one feel in ~tlnlliMg there
that they wrrr along the hanks aud
bvacs of bonny Doom, OF listening to
the ilurner Of Alton : Swrct Wa
t,r>.
i;cforc Wilson $ death experiment
had been begun to find something to
take the place Of granite but hc al
ways toldihis friends to never mind,
that they might go off for Il while but
that they would return to the use of
granite, rs nothing could take its
place. This prediction has been full
filed. For some time the world has
been struggling to find something that
woui take the place Of this granite,
and so successful did the experiments
seem at one time that the industry
was dead and many people fled the
region, and capital was withdrawn,
but return to granite has begun, the
industry has taken on life again, capi-
tai and people are returning and De-
Nalb now gives promise Of being
speedily what She should be, the
richest county.;n the world from hat
rral resources
One has Lu, small conception Of
this granite supply who cnnlinc their
ideas TO Stone Mountain and the
region thcrcah"ut Miles away from.
Stone Mountain to every point Of the
compass stretches great fields Of gran
lie and hills ot granite only called
hills lrcans" Of the grra, Stone
Mountain itself which ovcrshadows
everything of its kind and stand rs
one oi the greatest wonders of the
world. Away down on the line of
Clayton from any vantage ground look
ing into l)cKalb, miles upon miles of
granite can be seen, sometimes stretch
ing in flat acres like gray prairics, then
rising in "hills' like grim scntincls
keeping watch over world that is
passing. to tell the tale when all else
has passed away.
Never touching the great mountain,
enough granite could be had to build
Il Chinese wall around the world, and
then seas Of rock, if it be proper to
call them seas, would remain unscar-
red by the hand Of progress, only
waiting to be turned into channels of
usefulness and to things Of beauty.
Along with the predictions of the
man from Scotland, there is another
story of a man and his faith that these
mountains are to be scattered to the
four winds, but it will be remembered
that in Wilson we had the judgment
nf Il clear, strong man Of travel an
expert in rock work in the other we
have the dclusion you so choose to
call it-of an cid man bent with age
and smarting under what he took as Il
wrong which crcrt upon him in the
sarb Of progress and opened the eyes
Of those whom he wished to ever keep
in the stumbling path Of darkness.
Long, long ago. before the hammer
OF the Scotchman was ever dreamed of
and before these rocks had ever had n
scar, this strange old man owned land
and lived northeast of the Stone
Mountain. He had raised family
here, rs innoccn, a. they were igno-
rant in their backwool> Scclusion.
The old man himself was rated an
iniidcl, but his family were believers