The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-26

or by-gone days, ana look ike ola
shacks in contrast with the massive
mill nearby and the hundreds of white
cottages on the hillside. The mill is $50
feet in length by $50 in width and
| nearly all of the building is five stories
| high, though a part of it is six stories.
| There are ten acres of floor space in
the mill. The total investment amounts
to $l,250,000, which represents $500, 900,
the surplus earnings of the other Pa
colet mills, after paying two half yearly
| dividends of 10 per cent. each, and new
When in operation the mill will give
employment to 1900 people, all white,
many of whom have already come in
! from the surrounding country, await
| ing the opening. The mill will make
standard brown sheetings.
Another recent addition to the in
dustries of the city is the Gainesville
| Cotton Mills, with a capital of $780,
OOO This mill was formerly the Vesta
Mills of Charleston, S. G., where the
experiment of using negro labor in
the manufacture of cotton goods met
with such a dismal failure. 1t was
| removed to Gainesville, and with white
labor is making money for its stock
holders.
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! Col. G. c. Sanders, president of the
State Banking Company, who is Il
gentleman fully alive to the POSSIBLE
tiles of manufacturing in Hall county,
told me that nowhere could there be
found more intelligent labor than
among the small farmers of Northeast
Georgia. The climate, he said, was
so healthy that families of 10 to 16
children We're nothing remarkable, and
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raised families make the best factory
operators. Col. Sanders said that It
was this labor that brought the fac
tories, and for years to come it would
continue to be an inducement. North
Georgia had everything necessary to
start and operate, probably, any in
dustry-brains, Drawn and bricks. All
that had to be brought there was the
machinery.
Those who visited the State Fair Of
Savannah Will recall the shoe exhibit
of Inman, Smith & Co., whose tam
yard and shoe factory is located at
Gainesville. / had a desire to see how
shoes were made, and in company with
Col. w. f. Findley,' was shown
through the factory by Mr.. J. G..
Hynds, the general manager, who es-
tablished the factory in 1887, and sold
it to the present owners two years
since. An idea of the extent of the
plant can be had when it is stated that
1t employs 175 hands. all white, and
makes and sells a quarter of a million
of shoes a year, the wholesale prices
of which range from 90 to 49, so a
pair, embracing 100 varieties of
shoeware. 1t uses two carloads of
hides every week from it's own tan
yard, not to count leather and other
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of course, is nearly all done by ma
chinery, operated by home people as
manly lot of men, and as comely a
gathering of women as can be found
anywhere in Georgia. Among the OPP
orators on one of the hundred intri-
cate shoemaking machines is an al
derman of the city.
Gainesville also boasts of the fine
quality of bricks manufactured from
the clay of Hall county. The several
brick yards make twenty millions of
brick a year. Mr.. M. B. Hudson, who
is well known as one of Gainesville's
prominent citizens. a self-made man,
is the leading brick manufacturer.
Near the city are several lime kilns;
they are called perpetual" kilns, as
they are forever burning. I was told
that the only stone in the state that
will make the celebrated Portland ce-
ment is to be found in Hall county.
The pride of the city is Brenau Fee
male College-the first word means
pure gold"-at which there are 200
boarding pupils, besides scholars from
the city. The building is handsome
and extensive, with a spacious campus,
Profs A. w. Van Hoose, H. ]. Pearce,
and NJ. NJ. Riley are associate princi-
pals of the college
The horse-car track from the South
ern Railway station to the city has
been removed to make place for an
electric road, the Gainesville and
Dahlonega Electric Railway, which is
to run between the two cities, a dis
lance of twenty-five miles, with
miles of track in the city and SUI
burbs. The dynamos are to be driven
by the waters of the Chattahoochee
river.
Though 1t is midwinter saw
a number OF herds of fine cattle
in the fields and pastures, and later had
a further opportunity of seeing what
kind of beef cattle was raised by in
speeding beeves in the markets, and it
is my opinion that there was not a
quarter of beef on the hooks that was
not as good as the best Western meat.
This can also be said of pork and
smoked meats.
In my rounds visited by invitation
of Mayor Pro Tenn Pickett, Gaines
ville's new City Hall, a handsome
building we'll adapted for its purposes.
In the lower story is located the ex-
ecutive offices of the city, and the po-
lice and fire department. Chief Dun
bar gave an alarm, and the horses
showed they were fire horses, and the
men that they were fire ladies The
second story Of the City Hall is an au-
ditorium capable of seating about 800
to 1000 people The building cost $15,-
600, some people think 1t cost too much,
but not knowing the cost of labor and
material in Gainesville, l cannot pass
judgment in the case. However, it is
my opinion that the same building
built in Savannah would have cost
$25, 90 Dor $4,000.
1 don't pretend to have given all of
Gainesville's enterprises due credit, or
even mentioned them; this letter is
simply intended to give a faint outline
of what is there. There is an ice man.
ufacturing company, several machine
shops, wagon and carriage factories
as well as all those many other bust
nesses that tend to make up a city.
The newspapers of Gainesville arc
the Georgia Cracker, edited by A. S.
Hardy, Esq, and the Eagle. edited by
w. H. Craig. Esq. Like all newspapers
they are doing their best to build up
their city and the surrounding coun-