The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-06
FROM THE BANKS OF
THE TALLULAH.
Rnbun County is Developing in
Every Direction.


Every Direction.
Clayton, Ca, March 4.-Our little
mountain town is not on what YOU
would call a BOOM" but the extension
of the Tallulah Falls Railroad to this
place makes us a little "upity." The
trains now run within seven miles of
us and the grading is practically all
done to this point. There are 200 hands
grading within corporate limits and
the iron horse is expected early in
June.
The extension from Tallulah Falls
is along the Tallulah river to the mouth
Of Tiger creek and thence up that beau
tiful little stream to Tiger postoffice
and thence across to Stecoa creek on
through this place to Rabun Gap.
Ascending the Tallulah the county
is very much like that from Asheville
to Paint Rock, N. c., along the French
Broad, and is one of the most pic
turesque routes in Georgia.
The country is already showing signs
of life. Three miles above the Falls
Fred Wagner has planted 10000 apple
trees along the line of railroad and
the base of Rock Mountain, and saw
AilllAo clIC NUMEROUS all over the Sec
ton. Large tracts of timber lands
have been purchased by tanning
companies and tannieries and tanic
acid plants are assured in the near flu
ture.
A bobbin and shuttle factory is al
ready in construction in the Tennessee
valley, and will begin work soon. The
abundance of hard wood in this section
makes its success assured. The Ten
nessee valley has some of the finest
clay known and fire brick and other
plants for its consumption are now
being worked up, and by midsummer
we hope to have them well under way.
With all these things bringing money
to our people and employment of every
kind at their door makes money plenti-
full and our people prosperous and con-
tented. To the extension of this rail-
road Samuel C. Dunlap of Gainesville,
while it's general manager, bent all his
energies and aroused our people to ac-
ton, but it was left to his successor,
w. S. Erwin, to carry out the plans,
and he is pushing the work along with
all possible speed. He was born and
raised in GAINESVILLE. Ga, is quite a
young man now, and knows the noun
taineer perfectly, and there is no fric-
ton between the railroad and the peo-
Incorporating and pushing the en-
terprise, and we think we have now
the best county in the state.
While other places are getting out
candidates for delegates at large to the
st. Louis convention, we think the
Ninth Congressional District ought to
be entitled to furnish one of the Big
Four. We therefore place in nominal
ton Hon. Samuel c. Dunlap of Gaines
vile, Ga. He was United States mar
shall for the Northern District of
Georgia under Cleveland, an able law
yer, present receiver of the G., j. and
S. r. r., and a man of affairs. The
Ninth District has never been honored
with a delegate from the state at large
and we now come to claim our own,
believing honors should go round.
On this same principle our county
was carried by Hon. ]. H. Estill for
Governor two years ago, and we will
be for him again two hears hence. We
honor him still more since he declined
to attempt to break the custom of
giving two terms to Governor, for no
reason except the other fellow wants
the Office.