The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1900-03-05


Stop and Chicken and LaughinE9iai.
The region around Canton Is rich in
minerals Gold and copper and iron and
marble abound I'm her hills. Some OF
these have enriched many men and the
pursuit of them have ruined many more,
but lately new processes or mining nave
made the results more certain and now
northern and English capital has given
fresh vigor to the work of digging, crush
ing quarrying and reducing the ores and
finishing the marble Marble work is
especially being extended and now
quarries being opened. | was told that
only few years ago Judge Gober and
few associates bought a marble quarry
not far away for $1,000 and We're recently
offered $4,000 for 1T and refused 1t. Tine
Georgia Marble Finishing Company have
planted near the depot very extensive
works that employ over 100 hands. all
white and all Georgians, and most all
of them young men. Mr.. Brady, very
courteous Boston gentleman, is the man
ager and said he was pleased to say that
these Georgia boys were just as ready 10
learn the art of working and finishing
marble and just as quick and skLHul as
any he ever controlled. | watched them
at work i'm the different departments and
was proud to see their progress. This Is
a large plant and the marble was seen
Just from the quarries to the most beau
tiful of finished monuments and columns
and building blocks. There were hum
dreds of them and were all to fill orders,
principally from the norlh and east. IL
takes fOfty-eight hours 10 run the gang
saws through one of those huge blocks.
The saws are OF the hardest steel, but
have no teeth. They are moved rapidly
by steam power and work through sand
and water. Some of the men are working
with MALE. and chisel and some turning
marble IN turning lathes and some are
polishing on the horizontal planes of inn
mense revolving wheels that are flooded
with water and sand Everything there
Is up 10 date and is "a great Improvement
en- the old methods. up to date IS now
an expression that is heard everywhere
concerning machinery. / heard 1T at
Ensley at the iron and steel plants ana
| heard il i'm the cotton mills OF south
Caro4sna. All machinery now must be
up TO date or II will be rejected. The
pay roll to the workmen in this enc mar
BILE plant is 500 a week. and most of his
IS spent In Canton. Just 50 1t is with the
gold mines not far away. The gold min
ing companies are making money by up
10 da.e processes and Canton sets a good
share of that. Ii Is now certain mat
cotton mill is to be built right away. for
an order has been given for the looms
and spindles. ali up to date. and as soon
as the spring opens the work of building
the mill will begin.
Mining for gold and silver is, ! reckon
the Oldest indus rs in the world outside
of agriculture Moses tells US that in the
Garden of Eden there was gold. and it
Was good God and silver very soon be-
San TO be "A bimetallic currency. ADra-
ham bought a ourylnS ground with 4oo
shekels of silver that WAS current money
with the mfchant ana ~ IS remarkable
that a silver shelSei WAS worth 90 cents
and a gold shekei was worth $40. That
lsent very far from 10 to i. Maybe we
had bc1er fall back Oh those ancient
scriptural relations Of Une metals ahG
make ours 20 to /. They had both silver
and gold in great abundance, for Hacn-
ariah saith: They heaped up silver as
the dust and gold as the mire IN the
streets" And Moses satin Abraham WI
rich in silver and gold.
In the long ago used to know the good
people of Canton. but theyhaTe ali pass
.d over the river The ~ -fees, McCon-
nells. Wheelers. Gr!seams, Yates. Brooks,
Rusks. Mullins and .pyers Some OF their
sons ana daughters are there still anu
gave me generous welcome, ana l was
pleased to pa: their little ones on the
head and say be d good boy and mind
sour mamma.
saw the old time-honored Canton home
of Joe Brown, the place where NE lived
when, like Cincinnatus. he was called on
by a committee and Informed that he mad
been nominated for governor.
old Joe made his start right here in
Canton teaching school. Years aG) 4 me-
General Ira Foster and he said: yes. 1
knew Joe's parents before lie was born.
Is Sidney
old my washing when / was young man
living in Dahloncga. Joe cultivated lit
tie patch OF hillside land with a pair Of
bull calves ana every Saturday hauled
something to town To sell and take back
something 10 the family In 1893 l was
riding 20 Canton in a buggy and oVertoUk
a young man walking in very muddy
lane. lie had striped bag hanging over
his shoulder and looked tired. ! asked
him If he would not get up and ride with
me tie looked down at MS SHOES anu
said he was too muddy. But insisted
ana he broke of "a SPLINTER from ran
and cleaned the worS, OF the mud OH ana
or i'm learned from him that he was
the same Joe Brown and was gong 10
Canton to get something 10 do. Ana he
taught "a. / have kept my eye on nm Tor
ferry years and he Is sun wonder 10
my.
As / surveyed the time-worn premises
rose and rose and rose again ana never
fell. Everything that Midas touched
turned into gold ana just 50 every poiltI-
cal EFFORT that Joe brown made was
success. ,
recalled his long controversy with
Bob Toombs and how finally he de-
nounced Toombs in the press as mar
and "A scoundrel and TOomDs sent friend
10 ask him if his church relations would
prevent him from accepting challenge,
and old Joe replied: Go tell hlm To try
me" and TOombs never sent ii. recall
ed the time when Henry Grady was dis
cussing with Toombs the advantage or
disadvantage of a young man having
COLLEGIATE education and said; Ihere
were some very great and successful men
who never had any education TO speak or.
There was Patrick Henry ana Henry
CLAY and Tom Benton and there was Joe
Brown, who was so poor in his youth he
had to pillow a bull
'Plowed bull. you say, said Toombs.
Il never heard that of him. but If 1t
was SO YOU may set that down To his
credi. Henry, but it was disgrace to
the bull. -,
Bat | am pleased to remember that
these two great and notable men made
friends before they died. Old Father Time
j. a GOOD doctor and melows us all
down. bl'i' AM
A Wonderful Career.