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For the ECHO.]
Ml SIXGS
BY FBAN K O’L15AKY.
How little we prize the bright jewels—
The treasures a round us to day—
And many a full cup of pleasure
hi thoughtlessness dash wc away.
With eyes looking backward or forward,
We heed not the beauty around
Until by oar footsteps so ruthless
Theflow’rets are crushed to the ground.
The bird in the branches above us
May carol and warble in vain
To ears that arc strained but to listen
To sounds from a far distant main.
The brook flowing near to our pathway
Its soft soothing murmur may make,
And fail with the charm of its music
The soul sleeping dreams to awake.
Great wealth of devotion on tombstones
IIow often so many disp!a\,
Who failed when the dear ones were present
With kindness to brighten their way.
The fond cheering words of affection,
And sympathy given in gloom
Arc sweeter, by far, to the living
Than thoughtsjof a grand sculptured tomb.
So the violet wo wear on our bosom
Should yield a more fragrant perfume
Than the far distant tropical blossom,
Though gorgeous indeed be its bloom;
And heart-songs around the homo “ingle,”
Awakeu more melody sweet
Than the orchestra’s grand crashing music,
Though heard from an opera-seat.
'Twerc vain to look backward in mourning
O’er mistakes wo cannot repair;
But let the transgressions of yester*
For actions to-day give us care.
To-morrow belongcth not to us—
God only its mystery knows—
Then let us be watchful and earnest
E’er ’round us the twilight shall close.
Watchful indeed that we stray not
In paths Where the tempter would lead,
And earnest in doing each duty,
In binding up wounds that may bleed,
In gathering the treasures around us,
With heart full of holy desire;
That we, by the help of our Master,
Each day may climb higher and higher.
GRUMBLING AGAIN.
SIR RICHARD FINDS SOMETHING
ELSE THAT DON’T SUIT HIM.
‘ i F«rni<‘r , i«i” fierier SetM Ilim fo Thinking and
Writing About. il»e Public Schools. He
Hat lie i* lakes to Semi Hi* Children loTown
to School.
They’ve got me down as a sorter
chronic grumbler, Mr. Editor, and I
reckon they’d he doing wrong to let me
up if I was lo say I wasn’t. But some¬
how or other I see lots o’ things that
don’t suit me; things which I believe
ought to be writ and talked about until
there’s improvement in them. Since
these sort of things needs somebody to
look after them, and since the other
sort of things will pretty generally look
after themselves, I don’t care if the
folks do give me the job of grumbling;
of noseing around to find things that
don’t suit me nor nobody else much
save them what is profited by them or
gets some pleasure out of keeping them
going.
When I set down to drap you these
few lines I was intending to write you
one of these here mealy-mouthed let¬
ters, running over with sweet things,
true or untrue, and surprise them what
gits after my style of writing, but I’ve
come to the conclusion that I couldn’t
do the subject justice. Besides while
I was thinking I picked up the Echo
and the fust “Farmer” thing my eyes about fell upon
was what wrote pore
folks and public schools. \\ hoevor
“Farmer” js, he intends to he right,
but to do like be wants things done
wmtld be a heap o’ trouble and cost lots,
Schooling has been out of my line o’
business from my early childhood up,
(I reckon tbo readers of the Echo is
aware of the fact) but then I can look
at some things in a right way and draw
my own conclusions.
From what I ve seen of the public
schools of this land, I in ov the opinion
that it would be mighty hard to make
them any worse than they’ve been be
fore this. If any change is made in
them they will be apt to still be as good
as they was or better. >S line., as • T ar
mer” holds, in the past a teacher and
twenty scholars was all that was neces
sary to get a school anywhere, its been
my observation that it wasn’t at every
one of those kind o schools that inuch
learning was packed into the ehillun.
It might have been different in I arm
er's” neighborhood, but lie’s been one
of the luey ones. Irony my way of
looking at the matter, I believe the
School Commissioners is on the right
line, for while they will keep some from
having a school right at their yard gate,
they will give some othersschools what
is schools at which something is taught;
something that will be of some good to
the little uns. Mv chaps may yot be
good examples in this line, but I know
1 ve lost lots of their time ironi work,
and Mrs. Rambler lias had to teach ’em
pretty much all they learnt besides.
They’d go to the school house every
day and say like parrots what their ina
had into their hat the
night before. abler My walk ehillun three may "four he stout- miles
er and to or
to school than is “Farmer’s,” and
mav see it better to pay a little more
for'their schooling and have them to
about the trials and tribulations of the
pore country cracker. Poor fellow!
He’s to be pitied. These here
smart town folks is always imposing on
him. They won’t sell him
and everything he wants just because
he won’t and can’t pay for ’em. They
build school-houses and put
schools right at his door just because
don’t pay none or a mighty little of
the tax They’ll that"goes make towards him send keeping his ehillun them
up. school for the simple
to town to reason
that he can't afford to have more than
one or two ehillun while there’s dozens
in the towns: and wust of all they do
(iu tlife minds of tlie cracker) poke fun
a £ ),j s ehillun because he ain't got on
Mine dose and all sorts of pies, cakes
and fancy doings in bis bucket. His
lot is hard his road through life is rough
—just because in his imagination he
makes it that er way. And besides if
the town boys do have some fun out’n
“Farmer’s'' they boys do onct each in a other? while, is
that niore’u for If
“Farmer’s" Chilian do have to goto
school in jeans close, they’ll be more'n
apt to learn ns much in them as they
would in fine ones, and they’ll be more
than apt lo find several town hoys with
no better ones than theirs.
This “Farmer” and a great many
more of the country folks have mighty
funny ideas about town folks, anyway.
They is skeered of them seenis like.
I’ve been to town a few times in my
days, and I never was treated half as
bad there as l have been by some coun¬
try folks who had gone up a little in the
world. sensible. As a They general thing, town folks
is know which side of
their bread is buttered, and that they is
looking for living. to the country of folks generally
a Truth the business is,
town folks most always treated me too
good. If they’d treat me worse I ’speets
I’d stay at home more and get ’long
better. They always shake hands
mighty the ole hearty with ehillun me, inquire after
’ontan and and mighty
particular When about my crop when I’ve got
one. I ain’t got one they’s
I’m mighty going anxious have, to know how big a one
to how thany hands I’ll
work and so on and so on. That makes
a fellow feel good and lots o’ times lib¬
eral like. It makes me feel rich some
times and 1 go right to work to carry
out my follows feelings. keer much I don't reckon the
town about how rich
I do feel generally.
’Taiu’t been many days since I was
in town, and was struck with how much
concerned about weeouutry folk s some
of the town folks was. They had al¬
ready found out pretty much "how mo
and every one of my neighbors was
getting along fixing "for a crop, and
what proceeded they didn’t know about us they
forthwith to find out. They’s
the kindest-hearted folks I know of—
The? ’specially about this time o’ the year.
seem to be so sorry when it rains
and we can’t break up our ground, or
when it freezes and kills our oats, or
when its too dry to make the corn and
stuff "
come up. It seems to bother ’em
much that sometimes 1 can’t help
from feeling sorter sorry for them. Is
it that way with you, “Fanner?” I
don’t have the least doubt but what it
is.
The truth is this is the time o’ the
year when they is most interested; for
it is now that, we want all things with
nothing in sight to stand for them; and
it is now that they must form their cal¬
culations and find out yours to keep
them together. One depends a great
deal on the other, you know; just like
we depend on theni for things to live
on at this time of the year and they de¬
pend on us for the pay for them in the
fall. Then they nor their ehillun nor
their anybody can’t afford to poke rid¬
icule at us and our ehillun much, and
they Somehow ain’t going to do it either.
or other I like to mix with
town folks and I’m mighty glad if I can
git a chance to let my cliilhin come up
sharp among ’em, for they’s generally mighty
ling along fellows, and know all about git
don’t keer if through (ho world and 1
my boys ketch on to a few
of their tricks, I mean of course the
good tricks. The bad ones they can
learn enough of out here in the coun¬
all try. I know Grumbling I learnt is one bad one, and
r in the old fields and
among the briers of the rural part of
our inhabitable globe. I’ll be in town
to-morrow and hope to git something
in the strength of what I’ve writ above.
; Richard Rahuler.
A Boy on a Farm.
11 T . . ,s ol "' impression . ..... that a farm with
out a would very soon go togrief. What
a boy does is the life of (lie farm. He
is the factotum, always in demand, and
" ;
always , expeefed .... to do the . „ thousand and ,
one things that nobody else will do.
Upon him falls the odds and ends, the
most difficult things. After everybody
e ] sc j s through lie is to finish up. His
work j s ]j ku a woman’s—perpetually
wailing on others. Everybody knows
how much easier it is to cook a good
inner than wash the dishes afterward,
Consider what a hoy oil afann isrequir
e d to do—things that must he done, or
fife would actually stop. It is under
stood, fi j in errands, the first place, tothostore, that he is to do
a ( le to go to the
postofliee and carry all sorts of inessa
,, M . jf ] le fi : ul aH ,„any legsas the cen
tipede, they would tire before night. He
it is who spreads the grass as the men
cut it; he drives the horse to cultivate
the corn up and down the hoi. weary
rows; lie picks up the potatoes when
jfiey ,i are dug; i he picks splits cotton; he brings
woo ail( water a ,„i kindling; be
gets up the horse, turns out (lie horse,
In the house or out of the house, there
is always something to do. Just before
H(:llool ] ie ha8 to (]o 0()(] ; ob8 all(l Ktu()y
And yet with Jus mind full of
schemes of what he would like to do,
and his hand full of occupation, lie is
an doubt !k> .. much has nothing if to do. Yet
we very anv bay ever
amounted to anything who didnH have
p, j,,, through such a routine of work
discipline. Home of the most Slle
cessful men were once farm boys. God
ble.ss the farm boys; they make the
country blossom and bloom as the rose.
I.ilu* IS I i 11 <1 H»ur* It ti If.
... . "/"inall'v „ ... 1,ko Wind , man’*
«
buff? H is feeling for our fellow ereat
ur, ' H - And vie should all advise those
j
—They had been promenading in the
moonlight “I)o for smoke, some Mr. time Ruelier?” iu silence,
you I’m
‘ Oh, yes; quite a lover of the
| weed. “Then don’t hesitate
1 on my account
to “Thanks, light a cigar.” I won’t; I feel just if
! as I
! were alone’”
A Doctor IalK«* « Wolo.
j You Why is track a poor him doctor by his like holes a mole? in the
can
i ground. If from the effect of coughs,
cold or cramp colic, how much better
to have taken Taylor's Cherokee Rcm
e iy of Sweet Gum and Mullein.
GEORGIA'S FUTURE.
GREAT THINCS IN STORE FOR OUR
BELOVED COMMONWEALTH.
What the State Agricultural Society in Doing
to Develop and Advertise the Resources of
the State. Advertising Cars to he Sent
Through the North and West.
The Georgia State Agricultural Soci¬
ety is coming down to business. It has
never before been so valuable to the
farmers and the State as it is to-day.
The State fair in Macon last October
under the most adverse conditions, in
the face of the most fearful weather,
was after all the most successful enter¬
prise of the kind in the history of Geor¬
gia. The premium list and expendi¬
tures were the largest ever undertaken
by a Georgia Slate fair, amounting to
over $17,000. And yet the result shows
a net profit of at least .$4,000. The so¬
ciety now has about $10,000 cash on
hand and financially, as well as in all
other respects, is at the highest notch
iu Us history.
A great part of (he credit for this
cheerful condition of i(s affairs is due
to President W. J. Northern, of Han¬
cock county.
Mr. Northern is now engaged in de¬
veloping plans which will make the ag¬
ricultural society of immense practical
benefit to every citizen of Georgia,
whether he be a farmer or a merchant.,
capitalist pr professional man.
lie is working out a scheme of his
own and lias it now sufficiently near
success to justify allusion to it.
llis idea is to make the work of the
society more thorough and to organize
a general support of its efforts through¬
out the State. There arc ton vice-pres¬
idents of the society, one for each Con¬
gressional district. Hitherto these have
been merely honorary distinctions, but
Mr. Northen proposes that this subdi¬
vision shall mean something. He be¬
lieves that by a free interchange of
views and comparison of methods the
farmers of Georgia can learn a great
deal from each other and afford mutual
aid toward better results for their work,
lie hopes to induce in every county in
the Stale which lias the intelligence to
appreciate the situation and the enter¬
prise to cope with it an agricultural
club. These clubs are to have monthly
meetings to discuss all questions hear¬
ing upon the interests of their members.
A free interchange of views and a full
discussion of all practical questions are
contemplated. have its annual Every fair. county The stimulus ought to
which the spirit of local competition
would afford could not fail to produce
excellent results. The monthly meet¬
ings of the county clubs would undoubt¬
edly result in benefit to all the members
by the exchange of theories and a com¬
parison of their results. But this ben¬
efit will be greatly increased by (he dis¬
trict institutes which Mr. Northen pro¬
poses. llis idea is to have one of these
institutes in each Congressional district
every summer. They would bring the
representative farmers of ten or twelve
counties together to do on a largerseale
the work that has been kept up in each
county through in the local might farmers’ learn club.
Farmers one county some
very valuable hints from their neigh¬
bors just across in the practical county agriculture line. Any
improvement which bad been discovered and
would practic¬
ed in one county thus bestow its
benefits upon the entire district. All
these sub-divisions would enliven the
interest and in the general semi-annual State organiza¬ meetings
tion make its
of much more value to the whole State.
President Northen has done another
thing which we believe guarantees that
there will be in Macon next October
the grandest exhibit of the resources
and products He of has Georgia succeeded that has in indu¬ ever
been seen.
cing the Central railroad system, the
Western and Atlantic and the Savan¬
nah, Florida and Western railroad to
agree that they will transport free of
charge Vo the next State Fair all agri¬
cultural products intended for exhibi¬
tion, including stock. This applies not
only to the collective industrial exhibits farmer of coun¬ whfi
ties, but to any
may have anything that he cares to
show at the State .Fair. Hitherto the
freight lias been a serious drawback to
would-be exhibitors. The railroad au¬
thorities have risen to a liberal view of
the situation, and are now willing to
bring and return all agricultural pro¬
ducts to and from the State Fair. We
say all the railroads because the com¬
panies which have already made, this
generous offer comprise and most confident of the
lines of the State, we are
that the others will not refuse to join in
such an agreement. railroads It is clearly to the
advantage of the to encourage
tire agricultural interests of the State'.
The increased production would which aionglheir otic
grand lines will state fair than cause them
more compensate freight
for the apparent loss of tariffs
on the exhibits they may haul, while
their prospective benefits from an en¬
livened Georgia an improved incalculable. agricultural sys¬
tem in are But
I liis view does not derogate from the
credit that is due the railroads in this
matter. So far as they have been con¬
sulted they have acted with the most
commendable generosity and the peo
pie of Georgia vv.il appree.atek
They have not on y offered to bring
and return a I agricultural exhibits tree
but they will probably give substantial
subscriptions to tno has next agreed State r air.
The Central system to place
one or more freight ears at the disposal
of to the State for Agricultural their transportation Society, and all
arrange Georgia, anil point outside
over to any
the State where it may be believed that
an exhibit of Georgia products will hen
efit the These agricultural interests he labelled of
State. cars are to so
as to signify their use, and they
serve as the best
ment Georgia ever bad They will con
vey to Ohio dairy produrtsof tins State
which will prove to the Ohio farmer
that he can reach about the same
sults with cows iu Georgia on laud that
costs $5 to $7 an acre, as he attains in
Ohio on the land that sells for from
The Echo is the only Paper Pub¬
lished IN ONE OF THE BEST COUNTIES
in Middle Georgia. Its circulation
is second to none of its class.
Reasonable Kates on application.
S100 to $125 a h acre. One of these
cars will loaded with Georgia Tennesseean raised that mules lie
suggest to the
can.go io McIntosh county, Georgia,
and find grazing lands, nearly which all will the year
round on cheap ena¬
ble him to raise mules high-priced at $25 a head,
which at home, on his land,
cost him twice as much.
The proper appreciation of the re¬
sources of our state by our borders own people would
and those outside of our
open a great future for Georgia. Noth¬
ing has yet been said which promises
to cmuc so jiear a full and complete ex¬
position of Georgia as it is and as it
might ident Northen be vis the enterprise developed. which Pres¬
has
We have sketched it briefly and im¬
perfectly, but we hope we have said
enough to indicate that there are great
possibilities in it. Prom time to time
we shall watch the development of this
great if live scheme, Telegraph and we shall be very glad
can, in the slightest
degree, Telegraph. aid in this great work .—Macon
A CUP OF COFFEE.
Oiiyhi, Growth, Filed * of nml Injuries
From lhc Aromatic Derry.
“In searching for the origin of coffee,
said the professor, “authors haveagreed
to assign its birthplace to Ethiopia.
When it was carried to Arabia it soon
became naturalized. In a search for
the earliest mention of it, one writer,
inspired with that reverence which lias
sought lo find out all things in lhc Sa
crct Book, assures ns that coffee is men¬
tioned in the history of King David
where it is staled that this was the po¬
tion which was offered by the hand of
fair Abigail localm the excited monarch.
The proof urged in favor of this Bibli¬
cal claim is that the drink offered was
something roasted.
“While visiting Paris,” continued the
lecturer, “I was agrcably surprised to
find in a museum a portion of the orig¬
inal coffee shrub which was brought to*
sample France. Probably no more precious
of this berry exists in the world.
Coffee, at the time of its introduction
into use, was very expensive, pound. Such selling
for from $20 to $25 a a
price led to its general cultivation, and
soon, instead of if being (lie monopoly derived,
of Arabia, whence it was and first West In¬
it was grown in the East
dies, Bengal and South America, and
now large amounts of it are grown in
Java, Ceylon, Mexico, Guatemala, Cos¬
ta Rica and Brazil. Tlfh production of
the latter country quintals is the largest, annually, being
about 4,500,000 one
snek holding about one quintal. While
coffee can only be cultivated in a warm
climate, yet it cannot bear great heat.
The seed is first planted in a cool, sha¬
ded nursery, the infant plant being scru¬
pulously "screened from the rays
of the sun. destined It is next transplanted growth and to
the fields for its
there it is carefully Hie cultivated for nearly
five years before product is sulli
einnily shrub abundant to he remunerative.
Tlie tisun lly reaches a and height well of
from twelve to fifteen feet, is
covered by leaves of a dark, glossy green.
Small dowers of snow-white color spring
from the stem at the foot of (he leaf.
When in full bloom the appearance is
exceedingly transformed charming. round, The flowers are
soon into green ber¬
ries, which, ripening, present the ap¬
pearance of red cherries. Front two to
three crops of mature berries may be
gathered annually. The work of prepar¬
by ing hand the berries and partly for by market machinery, is partly Each done
berry should have two grains m it, yet
sometimes but one prized is found, and commands and this
one is especially
the highest price. Thu pulp of the ber¬
ry is sweet to the taste.
“A chemical analysis of coffee, after
being burned, shows that it contains 20
per cent, of water and about.50percent
of cellulose—a substance resembling
starch—and grape sugar. The agents
which especially distinguish it are caf¬
feine andcoffeone. chemical Theforinerbeloiigs called
alkaloids. to that group of agents
Coffeone is a volatile oil, the
result of an essential change in coffee
and produced fugitive, by principle, roasting. the To this of subtle cof¬
aroma
fee is due, and in roasting this oil per¬
meates the entire grain, but if the heat
he too great, or continued too long, it is
dissipated and lost. Experiments show
that caffeine and coffeone have different
effects on the transient animal body, the caffeine while
acting the coff as a is prolonged stimulant, in its ef¬
eone more
fects and exercises a sedative or tran
qtiilizing ordinary action. coffee But in drinking an
cup of two actions are
obtained, stimulation proceeding sedation for fif¬
teen minutes the stage of or
repose.”— Hue. ram an to Jlee.
—At breakfast— Lady Lent,
Waiter, bring me a cup of tea. a crack¬
er and an egg'.
Waiter—Dis ain’t Friday, mum.
Lady Lent, recovering—It is Thurs¬
day, isn’t it? Well, bring me a beef¬
steak, a inptton chop, some liver and
bacon, hot rolls, corn bread and a cup
of coffee.
...
—Mr. Softly (a very conceited man)
“You are. looking at me very what closely, do
Miss Austin. Pray tell me J
remind you of?” Miss Austin—“A riv¬
er, Mr. Softly.” “Whya river?” “Be¬
cause vour mouth is larger than your
head.”
A Miiatiiiff Tbrftnl.
what throat is the best for a singer
to U; . u:h IloU . s willl? A soak
lh roat. If it becomes loo sore, u , ( .
Tav!orVs Chcrokw , K eme,lv of Sweet
aiM , Mullein, ’ which cures hoarse
am , ;i !iu * ky J Vo icc.
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TO MAKE STEEL
GEORGIA HAS THE FINEST BESSE¬
MER ORES.
The State’s Wonderful Wenltti of Iron. The
Finest Betmeiner Ore In the World. An In¬
terview with an Expert Mining Engineer
Who in in* pec ting Them.
On the map of Cape Colony, in the
Encyclopedia the liritannica, appears a trib¬
utary of Orange river, which bears
the name of Prof. J. D. Caldon, a min¬
ing engineer who had sixteen years ex
perience with Sir Daniel Frazier in the
exploration of South Africa, and was
made second in command by that great
mineralogist. The forty town of Caldon, on
the coast, about miles east of the
Cape of Good Hope, is also named for
Professor Caldon.
This gentleman has spent the last six
years in the Piedmont region, and he
considers it the richest iron country he
has ever seen, Since last June he “has
made headquarters in Atlanta, and has
explored a number of counties in North
and Middle Georgia.
“Take an area of one hundred miles
around Atlanta, Northwest, Northeast,
and take it fifty miles South, Southeast
and Southwest,” said he, “and the iron
ores in that region are wonderful in
quality the and qumil ity. \V r e have some of
very best Bessemer ores in North¬
east Georgia, Northwest Georgia, and
even The witlup in Northeast five or six Georgia miles of Atlanta.
cipally ores magnetic and micaceous are prin¬
lar, which low phosphorous, specu¬
whereas the are very in m
ores Northwest specular Georgia
arc limnnitcH and micaceous
ores. These are found in the vicinity
of (’arteraville. Northwest and North
of East, again, we find in the vicinity of
Tunnel Mill and Dalton some very iine
equal nianganiferous ores and red hematite
to the Swedish red hematite ores.
“What Atlanta needs to-day is aRteel
plant, and Cartersville should have a
ferro-maugauese ferromanganese into furnace pigs for shipped making
to be
here to the steel furnace. They have
been shipping manganese for some t ime
from that county to Carnegie Brothers,
of Pittsburg, aifilhave been gottingvery
little for it. If the ores were sorted in
three different grades of manganese,
there is no doubt that they would get
more; but the proper process for them
is to have it smelted into ferro-manga
nese and have it all shipped here to a
steel furnace. I find that Atlanta is the
Center of the belt. It is much cheaper lo
haul ores from Northeast, Northwest
or North Georgia, over one road, than
it is to haul coal over several roads. Wo
have the Georgia Pacific, which runs
from Atlanta into the coal region, and
can supply us with coal over one load,
and the freight for hauling Lhc ores to
Atlanta, for a distance of 20, (it) and 100
miles comes generally over one road.
Therefore I think that the plant in At¬
lanta would pay well.
“The manufacture of steed rails and
of steel wire, of which there is a great
deal used in our ports for the rigging of
ships, also for proportions machinery and the nails, South. will
assume large doubt in
I have no that the day is very
close at hand when there will he very
little turned out in pig. It will be prin¬
cipally will bo steel. principally Even steel. our common Steel nails nails
now cost only ten cents a keg more than
iron nails.
the “I must for say that for class Georgia of steel.” that she has
ores
“Cherokee Georgia has some very fine
ores; Lumpkin, Bartow and Eloyd coun¬
ties have some very fine ores. You go
into Polk and Cobb counties and find
Bessemer ores also. Then you go into
Catoosa, and she lias very fine red ores
—as I said, equal totheSwedish. Bar¬
tow. Lumpkin, Cherokee, Cobban'd De
Kalb counties have the best Bessemer
ores, Fannin and Gilmer counties have
some high grade liinonites, cqtisl to
those in Bartow.”
“It is much better to ship the ores
one road to Atlanta and haul the coal to
it than it would be to ship the ores over
three or four roads to the coal. I find
the right very here highest Georgia—just class of Bessemer good ores
in as as
the ores shipped from Spain to make
steel points in England, the Clyde. at Harrington Coal fuel and is
on or
hauled to those places from Sunderland,
South Shields, the North of England
and from Cardig, South Wales.”
“I also think that a good rcfinci would
pay well in Atlantafor refining gold ores.
When you go down to the water’s level
in this country the gold is so mixed
with Hulphureltes that itcauuotbc used
sliow without going sulphates through a refiner. from Cher¬ I can
you of copper
okee county which will run $400 of gold
to the ton, and yet it can’t be saved be*
cause there is so much sulphur. sulphur The re¬
finer can save it, and sulphuric the acid. can
be used in making
Then we have some very fine gen
tfiife, an ore from which nickel is made.
That ore can also he worked in a refiner.
We have also argentiferous Allatoona, galena in
Murray county, and near
which is so refractory fliat it cannot be
worked without a refiner. A lower
grade of these ores is being worked in
the west. It containsti strong percent¬
age oi zinc blende, which makes it very
refractory. have also chromite in Towns
We some
county, an ore which they are now ship¬
ping from California to England.
This class of iron is used for pigment
and for making chromitic steel. Then
we have an abundance of corundum,
.... 11>‘‘of 8 , "‘'iLf ,, Atlanta AiS - do l not , realize „
1,10 m'portance of the Bessemer ores
which are found a North Georg,a m
8 "E'j # rw » l a«»utlanda ice.
I lie people ot ( nattanooga are about
l ? railroad l ® ^undiy. N. C.,
(he <; htef purpose of which istoget the
«'~er ores from the northeast part
of the Georgia belt in the vicinity of
Murpliv, while in Atlanta Towns and already Fannin conn
l ' c8 i has access
to some of those fields over the Marietta
and North Georgia railroad. This road
will of be completed to Murphy id by the first
April. Atlanta seems be sleeping
ov £ hur fortune.
''!* ? h \°' . cre IS »«**«• " for Chattanooga, in
vn as we f ,B
ies. Pittsburgh We , or ship any of the , other iron cit
ran our ores to Chatta
I nooga, and they are worth from live to
seven and a-half dollars a ton.”— At-
1 Itmta Journal.