Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-08-22

is equipped with Simplex typesetting
machine, cylinder press, modern Job
bers, cutters, etc, and gasoline en-
gine. Mr.. Hill and his son not only
get out an excellent paper, but they do
good job printing also,
AT Whltwell extensive improvements
are being made for the more rapid and
economical handling of coal from the
tipple, which is at the top of the
mountain. A large power plant is be-
ing installed which will operate
double cable line to the tipple and also
furnish the energy necessary for the
installation of an electric light system
for the works and mines.
The old homestead. A stranger sits
upon the porch. The same grand old
white oaks stand across the way, and
the towering bluffs of Stones Heights
still look down in all their majesty; a
few stones have fallen from the dome
OF the Cave Of Delphi; lean hound
sleeping in the yard surely must be
grandson of old Buck or Eggdye; while
litter of pigs in the road show un-
mistakable evidences in their faces of
a relationship to the old breed of our
youth. We pass this spot with bowed
head.
At Dunlap the Southern Steel COM
pany, of Birmingham, Ala, have op-
ened up big vein of good coal and
have built a surface incline to the top
of Cumberland mountain, which is
4,700 feet in length They have also
constructed at the foot of the incline
mammoth coal washer, and three long
batteries of coke ovens. A large COM
missary building, church and hun
dreds of small dwellings are also i'm
provements of this company. They
now ship solid train load of coal and
coke from Dunlap each day, and hope
to double this output before the end of
the year
Mr.. Josh Farmer, one of the pioneer
citizens of Sequatchie and we'll known
in Chattanooga, is very low with cancer
at his home near Delphi.
Mr.. Frank Deakins, who resides on
the adjoining farm to Mr.. Farmer,
and who is in his Goth year, is also
! very feeble.
| Pikeville is decidedly the loveliest
village of the valley. The buildings
are of better grade, and especially
the residences. Pikeville once enjoyed
telephone system of forty subscrib-
ers, which gradually dwindled to nine.
On last Thursday the company owning
the instruments, without warning to
the subscribers, pulled out the re-
manning nine. This so aroused the
citizens that they then bought the out
fit from the Sparta concern and will
operate the system mutually. The ed
itor of the Pikeville Banner is the
''hello central, for which service he
is paid the substantial salary of $12
a month.
Through the length and breadth of
the valley we had many inquiries, us
ually in very familiar terms, of such
persons as Billy Mitchell, Sam Read,
Scott Raulston, Foster Brown, Judge
McReynolds and Jim Frazier AS these
parties were entirely unknown to us
we uniformly promised to look them
up in the city directory as soon as we
returned to town.
Morgan Springs is located on VALID
on's ridge, about midway between
Pikeville and Dayton, and is an excep-
tionally fine spring of mineral water.
Early in the spring an eagle was seen
| hJ lHS LlOul q buli UlOO uCul
and on chopping down the tree two
fine young eagles were captured. They
are kept in pen near the hotel, and
now stand about twelve inches il
height
From Buzzard Point, about five
miles from Morgan Springs, an extend
ed view may be obtained of the sur
rounding country, including glimpse
of the Tennessee river.
Dayton is an awfully scattered place
The business and residence section
should be compacted into about thu
space of six city squares, then the,
would have an interesting little tow
in which they could keep cool in sum
mer and warm in winter. 1t is strict
ly an iron and coal town until the ev
ening express comes up from Chatta
nooga, when it becomes rather dam
one for the space of few hours.
The run from Dayton to ChattanoOg
: on the Q. and G. train No l., is
spin without stops, which is by n
3 means conducive to meditation or a
: indulgence in the luxury of that tire
3 feeling w. NJ. Stone, in Chattanoo
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