The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-07-17
AN INTERESTING LETTER
Nashville, Tenn. July, eth, 1908
Mr.. James MenZies,
Yale, Michigan.

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My dear JIM have been spending
the greater part of the past sixty days
south of the Ohio River, in the "Dear
old land of Dixie" where it takes plenty
of sun, showers and "niggers' to grow
tobacco, cane and cotton.
After making very careful survey
of the chief inland cities of the south,
L have at last decided on Nashville as
being the foremost of all, from man
ufacturing and shipping standpoint.
In company with three dyed-in-the-
wool Ohio yankees, | am starting
plant in this city for the manufacture
of corrugated iron culvert pipe, metal
roofing siding, cresting, etc. From
this point we will operate the entire
state of Tennessee, Southern Kentucky,
Northern Georgia, Alabama and Miss.
issippi.
We believe we have discovered a
splendid field for the sale of our product
here in this certain block, as extensive
developments are being made at every
hand and the entire country is taking
on high color all along the way toward
progress.
The South is no longer the slow, easy
country that we people of the North
have been picturing it for years past,
as the people here in the last quarter of
century have awakened and brought
themselves to fully realize that they are
living in the real splendor spot OF this
grand old United States, a country
abundantly rich in mineral, agricultural
and commercial resources, besides be-
| ing blessed with world of forest and
| flowers and the finest of natural scenery,
and together with all of this is blended
an almost perfect climate.
Now that the people have armed
themselves with plenty of commercial
energy and combined it with their civic
pride, and have gone still further by in
yiting the moneyed interests of the
| North, East and West to join them, the
entire South has cast aside its baby,
creeping clothes and has donned full
| heightened skirts, such as can only be
worn by full grown stately queens, and
she is now making a strong effort to
keep in the line of march with the
rest of her big sister states, which have
in the past met with and secured such
an abundance of high honor, wealth
and prosperity.
Nashville, centrally located in the
state, in the beautiful Cumberland
Valley, on the Cumberland River, is a
city of 10000 people Has immense
shipping facilities via rail and river.
The chief trunk lines are the Louis
vile IL Nashville sRy, the Nashville,
Chattanooga & t.Louis Ry., the Ten
nessee Central and the Southern Rail
way. These roads tap all the coast
cities and likewise all of the great in
land commercial centers.
At this time | am pleased to state
that the late financial crisis which
swept the country has not affected any
of the metal companies that | am in
terested in, in various parts of the coun-
try. So far this year our business at
Little Rock, Ark, Elyria, Ohio, Lyle
and Minneapolis, Mimi, has been near
ly double over that of 1907 in the same
period of time.
Thinking you might be interested in
knowing what the writer is killing time
at, am forwarding TO you herewith en-
closed clipping from the Nashville
Banner, giving notice of our business
venture here.
l have Just returned from week S
trip to Knoxville and the Eastern part
of the State, where we have been sue
cessful i'm obtaining contracts from the
Southern Railway Company for a guam
tity of our pipe work to be used under
new track construction i'm the Clinch
Mountain district.
l trust that you are well and meeting
with much success, and that you and
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