The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-30
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industry of DeKaIb county.
How is that for great county
Thirty thousand dollars is what
it takes to pay the granite work
men every pay day at the little vii.
lsge of Lithonia alone-and if we
mistake not that pay day happens
every two weeks But to be sure
that we make no overstimate we
have put the pay roll for the coun-
ty at $75.0O0 though 1 presume
that the pay roll at Stone Noun
tain is fully up to that at Lithonip
and this is every two weeks instead
of monthly the amount above
should be doubled, though my
mind is confused on this.
People at distance are liable to
conclude that Stone Mountain is
the source of supply of this gran
ite of our country. This is not
true. Lying south of Lithonia for
miles are vast fields of this granite
while from any vantage ground of
Lithonia itself, the eye can scan
vast plains of the granite with a
mountain here and there to the
number of five or six-however all
this is known in the commercial
world as "Stone Mountain gran
ite."
Travelling south from Lithonia.
in a region known as Arabia, the
traveller is amazed with the appear
ance and quantity of granite that
meets the eye. One naturally ex-
claims: Granite granitew and it
is the best in the world. AT differ
emit places 40 level rock surface
stretches out for q mile before one.
gray and grim, in the impression
it makes. In the distance to the
right and the left, in front and be-
hind. mountains of this grim gram
lite look down just as they have
looked through the centuries of
time and as they will look till GEN.
turtles shall roll us to the end. Man
may come and man may go but
these same gray sentinels will
stand defying the elements and
creating wonder among men.
We had passed out of this region
proper and had come to the flour
ishing farms along South river.
when our attention was attracted
to a mountain away in our front
and in another county, the county
of Henry.
The sun was sinking low in the
west and lowering around this
mountain of Henry like land in
distance where millions upon mil
lions of bats These bats were al.
ready in countless numbers around
the mountain, but they were still
pouring from the depths of the
thing in a roaring stream of fury
We learned that this was known
as Rocky Mountain and that for
time beyond the memory of the
Oldest this same stream of bats has
been appearing on the afternoons
to return with the coming of morn
ing's light. These bats spring from
a great cave in. this mountain and
no man could guess just how long
bats have made it their den-per-
hsps since the world began. In
time these bats by the millions
have died and gone to decay inside
cave and is strange that some en-
terprising firm has not thought of
devising some means to get this
animal decay from the cave as a
commercial fertilizer. 1t would be
asgreat, perhaps, as the guano of
Peru, and all of us know the value
of Peruvian guano. The day will
come no doubt when this will be
accomplished and add another
source of revenue to the secticn
and to Georgia.
There are strange things in this
granite region of DeKalb. just as
there are strange things and great
opportunities all over the south
that the stranger at distance never
dreamed of. Even thousands OF
Georgians do not know Georgia,
We devote columns to matters at g
distance when we could find things
here at home as strange as any,
and romances spiced with the soft.
ness OF pathos or thrilled by the