The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-23

ana look DaCR over the beautiful city reach
ing out to it and beyond It.
Streets have been cut through the old
Notifications and the site Of Fort Sanders
is now covered with some Of the finest
residences Of Knoxville II is one compact
finely built city from there all the way in TO
Parson Brownlows house and away be-
yond. Fine business blocks occupy what
so short time ago was open country, and
from the business blocks radiate shaded
streets huddled thick with costly residences.
No MEAN CITY
The tall chmneys Of large factories spring
into the air in all directions. The rising
| walls Of other extensive manufacturing
| concerns in process Of erection are scattered
here and there.
| II is nothing more nor less than big city
that is spread before you-a big city prlsat-
ing with the vigor and energy that is every
day making it bigger city, a city that
probably in a shorter time than most
people dream will make this capital Of east
! Tennessee an inland metropolis OF over
10000 Inhabitants. Not, by any means
that Knoxville proposes to stop at that
figure.
She is only just beginning to wake up to
her; just beginning to appreciate the mean
| ing Of the resources that are all about her
the coal. the iron. he wide stretches of
forest with their vast supplies Of the finest
of lumber: the zinc. the copper. the lead,
and last, but not least, the unlimited sup
plies of that beautifully tinted fine grained
East Tennessee marble which is at her
very doors and on which the city il built
| Tho pntnrtial v-.al,h that liaa in all thaaa
! resources Of Knoxville warrant dreams
Of the city's future development which
would seem extravagant were they now
put in words, but in decade or SO more
will not seem the taseless fabrics they
now may appear.
Knoxville is conservative and hard
headed and does not believe in fances.
Knoxville business men haven't time for
dreaming just now. They are too busy
planning new manufacturing enterprises
and working for more railroad outlets
doing the things, in a word. which ere now
| in this great country Of ours have led 10
the realization Of very wild dreams of cit y
growth and piled-up riches
MARBLE HALLS AND ROADS
The evidences Of Knoxviles wealth In
marble are Immediately apparent The beau
tiful stone CLEANS white in business blocks
and public buildings in all directions IT,
beautifully tinted and polished surface
adorns Railways and vestibules. II i.
marble everywhere. oven TO the broker
stone with which nearly two hundred mile,
Of highways In Knox county are ma cadam
lied.
The Marble City they call Knoxville
; The name is abundantly justified. And i
: is not merely buildings that are made o
marble. Large fortunes are made out Of i
and many more are going to be made on
Of It in the future,
4 The demand for marble in the fine offic'
, buildings hotels, business blocks. and ever
= private residences, that this great tide o
D prosperity is strewing all over the countr,
= Is already enormous and is every da,
I growing.
To these quarries Of East Tennessee
;, large percentage Of this demand is coming
n One Of the most interesting sights for
4 stranger here is the great concerns wher
h the huge blocks of marble fresh from tn
v quarries are sawed into slabs of any de
i sired thickness by batteries OF saws.
{ Then the slabs are polished by machiner
: and even carved by machinery and turne
:, out like no much woodwo rk ready to b
IS shipped to all parts Of the country to 8
d into buildings Of all kinds. Knoxville
;, output of finished marble is now valued a
& about 81. SOC, 900 year and the industry
d which is steadily growing. gives employ
= ment to hundreds.
a The marble is shipped into nearly ever
y State in the Union. and, although railroa
e freights are sufficiently high. the deposit
h are so immense and the stone is q married. S
cheaply that it is sold at a profit even /
n places AS remote as San Francisco. Mi
II lions Of tons Of 1t are shipped annually, I'll
4. greater part Of the output going to Me-
l. York, Boston, Baltimore and Chicago.
l. All told, there are fifteen marble quarrie
It within a radius Of twenty-five miles aroun
e Knoxville and all Of them but two or thre
1t are in active operation. In coiors III
Z. marbles are dark and white gray, a dar
lie and light pink. dark and light variegate
Is pink and dark variegated. These coloi
e run in all grades OF delicate tints and III
As producers have given different names I
Q. them just rs do cigar-makers with the
10 cigars The dark varieties are used Il
n. interior decoration, while the light varieti'
10 are used for both interior and exterior VOL
ID and for tombstones.