The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-18
Bic TRANSACTION
IN MINERAL LAND
Jhattano gl Men Buy Property
in Walker County, Georgia
,iICH IN RED IRON ORE
Considerable Speculation Is INDUCED
In Among People of Chattanooga
Regarding Terms of Cap
tain Shipp and Others.

Chattanooga, November 17.-(Special)-
AS result of negotiations which have
been pending for some time, Messrs G.
H. Miller John Fl. Hill, o. f. James and
F. L. Miller have become the owners of
valuable mineral lands in Walker county,
Georgia. The above gentlemen have filed
application for a charter for the Shin
bone Red Ore company, the same having a
capital stock of $1O0 coo. There are $500
acres in the tract, and it is situated 20
miles south of Chattanooga on the South
from the Central of Georgia railroad The
land is said to be rich in red hematte
iron of the highest grade. This ore Is
the best yet found in what Is known
the Chattanooga district. Before the pur-
chase was contaminated the veins were
opened and experts called in to examine
the ore and to give their opinions as to the
probable amount that may be available.
The promoters of the enterprise will not
call for outside capital, but go ahead at
once and commence to mine the ore and
sell 1t to the furnaces About 80 men will
be employed at the start but as soon
as things get to going in real earnest be-
tween 15O and $50 men will be given
work.
Considerable speculation is being in
dulged as to the likelihood of Captain
Shipp and his fellowprisoners being re-
- Atafr
practice in federal courts is for g. SEN
tence to carry Judgment for costs, the
sentence being for given time and RE
main" This means that the convict be
held pending payment of costs. At the
end of sentence a prisoner may swear to
his inability to pay costs, when he is held
for an additional 80 days. If at the end
of that he again swears to the same he
is released without payment of costs. If
this rule applies In contempt cases all the
Shipp case prisoners may be held 30 days
In addition to their sentences. But 1t Is
believed none of them will serve their
full sentence, to say nothing OF remain
ing" IL a. movement of Tennessee repub-
,can leaders Is carried out successfully.
all six if it is found the President has au-
thority in such cases. The heads of the
state organizations are interested, as are
local officials. Such a movement promises
| to gather much strength.
Anplication has been filed in this city
for a charter for the Citizens Trust COM
pany, with a capital stock of 100000.
The incorporators are G. N. Henson. Her
bert Bushnell. ]. B. b. Lowery, e. NJ
Ellsworth and c. E. Kirkpatrick All of
the incorporators are either officials or
employees of the Citizens National bank
| It Is said the Citizens Trust company will
start with q capital stock of Sl00,0oo, and
| that 1t proposes to conduct general
trust business, such as acting as trus-
| tees for estates, as guardian, ETC. 1t Is
| said the new company will take over the
| trust business of the Citizens Bank and
Trust company, which some time ago be-
came a national bank. and as such is not
allowed to transact that class OF busi-
ness.
| Booker T. washington will be In Chat-
| tanooga Friday and will deliver an ad-
dress at a gathering in the Auditorium
| If the use of that building can be secured
! For the occasion. This will be a part of
the tour washington is making in the
| interests of his race.
| After one of the longest and hardest
| chases in the records of Hamilton county,
| Noah and Scott Patterson, two miners OF
| Soddy, have been locked up IN JAIL mere
charged with robbing the postonlce at
| soddy on the night of November g. The
| officers secured enough evidence against
the brothers last Tuesday to warrant the
arrest and Immediately took up the trail
| After the robbery the men left for Polk
| county. Too many postage stamps in the
| nossession of the men led up to their UNI
! doing
| Tn the whirlwind campaign by the NJ E.
| church. south, for the extension fund, to
raise $40. 600, their expectations and hopes
| were more than realized, for the effort
succeeded in securing SIS, ooo-S5Ooo more
| than was expected.
! principally through the efforts of one
James C. Cheatham. laborers are unus-
ually hard to find in Chattanooga. Cheat
| ham is in the employ of the Southern
! steel works, and from the results of a
| crusade conducted by him during the last
| two months he must be unusually indus
! trious. He secures day laDorers for the
! Southern Steel and sends them to the
| works of this corporation in Georgia and
Alabama. and SO thoroughly has he COW.
cred this city that local contracting firms