About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1896)
4»h 484* 4^4 4>4 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 4H- 444 444 444 AV\ TrJrT 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 :M2 zkmmmmmw w: n k; lr •w* ^y* • THE SUNNY SOUTH. 100 FREE FARMS. The Seaboard Air Line Will Establish Experimental Farms. Produce Under Diversified Farming—A Tract Every Ten Miles. treating the sulphurets or refractory ores Is bound to work out wonderful results.” “What is being done up there by outsido parties?” "There has been a good deal of prospecting and a good deal of money has already been made. Experts are being sent into those sec-, tlons by capitalists from home and abroad. I think it no exaggeration to predict that with- few months there will be lO.uOO peoplft added to Georgia's population through these gold mines. The people of Georgia, will, I am afraid, sleep over their rights to such an extent that when they wake up they will find that all of this valuable property will have .passed into outside hands. "I know some of you may think I am an enthusiast.” continued Colonel Duncan, “but I do not think my -history shows that I am It Is Proposed to Show What_ the Soil Will K°^ n f 0 ln 0 " f^eij business standpoint. I have acquired proper ties and T have no properties to sell—certain ly not until they are worked sufficiently to I develop the fact that my talk about the , . , , . , , . , .1 wealth in Georgia gold mines is not moon- The Seaboard Air Dine is making plans to shine T have lnveeted my mon ey in these establish 100 experimental farms along the properties and propose to develop them bo- system. It is proposed to have the farms j cause T feel positive not only that they are ten miles apart. The tracts will be small. They will be under the management of the l>est experts, who will cultivate them to get •the best results and to show what the soil and climate will produce. Mr. St. John de sires to demonstrate that the country through which the Seaboard runs Is adapted to diversified farming. The company has shown that hops, for in stance, can bo successfully raised along the Seaboard. This crop was not cultivated at all in the Seaboard’s territory until recent ly, and the success met with in this ex periment has encouraged the company to do more in the same direction. These experimental stations will not be large enough to become a financial burden on the company, but they are to be sufficiently large to demonstrate what the soil is capable of producing and what crops would be best adapted to the several sections. It is planned to experiment with a large number of crops mot now grown along the Seaboard, such as New England beans, broomcorn, celery and sugar beets. The soutn Is a large consumer of these crops or their products every year, and they are all brought from the north or west, whereas they could be grown just as well at borne. These experimental stations will be object lessons to home seekers from other states who can see at a glance what the land will do. This, however. Is only a part of the plans of the Seaboard looking to the devel opment of the territory along its line. It is proposed to organize a department which will not only have charge of the experimental ■‘ttfrr •7Ttr^r‘'give'"ca BEAUTIFUL TAMPA. Hotel With a Grand Theatre At tachment. The Florida Season Opens This Year With Another Pala ial Home in Tampa—Ex quisite Flowers and Ferns. worth developing, but further than that, that they give -promise of great returns.” Colonel Duncan's modest reference to his .business career shows the character of the man. He said nothing about the fact that he was the organizer and at cjfferent times the controller of the great Tennessee Coal and Iron Company; that it was he who made a success of South Pittsburg, or that he has been the directing hand back of a number of important business enterprises. He is at the head of the Duncan-Kirkpatrick Company, of Nashville, a banker of note and a man who is known from one end of the country to the other as a safe and conservative as well as progressive business man. In talking of the gold outlook he talks as a man who has studied It from a purely -practical stand point. Ills coming Into the Georgia geld fields undoubtedly means a great Georgia. Tampa, Fla., Dec. 10.— winter of dis content ever comes to Florida. Each winter is made glorious summer by the flight of the winter birds to the South. And, to judge from present indications, the gayest of gay winter seasons Is now on In the land of flowers. The unusually large •tide of tourist travel, which has already set in. gives evidence that the winter resorts of the Peninsular State wil he crowded to their capacity during the forthcoming season. The people who have never visited the Pe ninsular State In w.nter time can have but stands for all that magnificence and splen dor signify In the modern world of American hostelry, has lately been opened for the sea son; and with it the new Tampa Bay casino and theatrical auditorium. This is some- tiling new under the sun. There is nowhere to be found another winter hotel with a reg ular theater opened each season, with reg ular bookings of plays, and operated in con nection with the hotel. It Is certainly a step in advance of all other American hotels. The opening at Tampa meant a great deal more, therefore, -this season than hitherto. The attraction at the Casino on the night of the opening was the Minnie Maddern Fiske company. The audience was large and enthusiasm and pride in the new casino ruled the hour. Unless one is familiar with the wondrous scope, the polossal proportions and the elab orate finish of such hotels as those which adc-rn the Florida resort regions it is diffi cult to imagine the full Significance of open ing night at these giant palaces each year. The Tampa Bay hotel and Casino, and the Florida exposition building. In which Mr. II. B. Plant, president of the Plant system, has stored the completest collection of Florida, products ever brought together, are sur rounded by a vast park. In front of the hotel, which extends over 1,000 feet north and south, through the center of the park, stretches a broad lawn decked with gayest of flowers blooming all the winter long. Around the northern end of the hotel is a flourishing orange grove, each tree burdened with the ripening fruit. The waters of Hills- | boro bay and river meet immediately In front of the hotel park, which borders the placid surface a great distance. The com manding towers and Moorish minarets crowning the great palace give an air of picturesque beauty to the general scene, smacking of all that is charming in the oriental. When opening night Is at hand and the great engine in the distant power house be gins to turn; when, the electric current flashes myriads of guttering lights about the place from me gleaming crescent on the highest flagpole to the cellars far below; when the liveried footmen stand with folded hands beside the shining doorways; when ■the musicians send the thrill of sweetest concord through the place, and the brilliant ballroom ech’oes with the merry laughter of the gay throng of revelers—wen all this life and light Is turned on at the Tampa Bay hotel, then does the -reign of pleasure, com fort and luxury 'begin in Florida for the sea- A word or two about the new Casino will probably be of interest. It is a combination clubhouse, swimming pool and theater. It has been erected on the eastern side of the great hotel and fronts westward on the broad paved walk or plaza that stretches alongside the hotel on the east front through a world of gay flowers, tropical shrubbery, ferns, palms, etc. The theater has been fitted with all the scenery necessary and of a high order. A stage of spacious dimensions is easily ar ranged and a proscenium arch will be pro vided. A large number of first-class theat rical companies have been engaged to play In t'he theater during the season. The thea ter has a floor space of laTxSS feet, sloping gradually toward the stage, and this will be fitted with handsome opera chairs for the performances that are to be given. There will also be a gallery around the walls of the theater, which will give more accommo dation to the amusement loving guests of the hotel. Tne seating capacity will be 2,000 The general appearance of the entire build ing is ornamental to a high degree, the roof being of massive cornice work, surrounded with parapet walls and pediments. The front Is decorated with heavy moldings and cluster columns of rare beauty. The rear of the Casino is directly beside the waters of the nock of Tampa bay and Hillsboro river. BREAD AND MEAT IN THE SOUTH And Cotton Is Being Manufactured Where It Is Grown. NEW “BELLEVIEW’’ HOTEL NEAR CLEARWATER, FLA. It has not been very many years since the south was satisfied to produce cotton only, 1 and to spend all its income so derived In buying from the northern states everything that It consumed. Including the supplies of -fcod required on the farms, where the cot ton was produced. This ruinous policy is be ing changed rapidly for the better. The “bread and meat,” and their cotton is being manufactured in sight of the fields where it Is grown. Under a reasonably low tariff it Is probable that "the south” would have re malned dependent upon “the north” for gen erations to come. The very discriminations practiced against their industries have driven the southern people Into fields of labor for ; which they had no inclination. They are I beginning to make the things they were | formerly content to buy. and every new door } of enterprise which they open closes one of the northern producer and manufacturer. deal ABBEVILLE. She Is Now One of South Carolina's Most Flourishing Little Towns. Among the promising young cities of South Carolina Abbeville is entitled to a prominent place. Situated on an elevated ridge be tween two streams. Its location is everything that can be desired. The climate Is unsur passed, free from the rigors of winter and the oppressive heat of a more southern lati tude. For healthfulness its record is renin rk- THE SOUTH AND THE NEGRO. Consider this: The whites actually hear 9" per cent of the school tax. and yet there are 6,000,000 negroes in the southland. Then con sider again that nearly as many negroes get schooling as white in proportion to actua' population, and that in the common schools the advantages for both races are nearly equal. The whites bear the burdens, supply ! the schools and offer the opportunities. And yet, we hear continually from northern negrophile sources wails over the downtrod den condition of the negroes of the south. The world does not show a parallel to what the southern whites have done for the negro race since the war. Nor is that all. The ! southern negro would 'be still better off had I he been delivered from the tender mercies of his false northern friends.—Augusta Morn- j lng News. attention to the study of the best markets to which such products should be shipped, thus aiding the farmers In securingthegreat- est returns. Included In this general work will also be special efforts to improve the grade of the live stock on adjacent farms. In connection with these plans there will also be an industrial department in charge of Mr. John T. Patrick, of Pine Bluff. N. 0\, who for some years was state immigra tion agent of North Carolina, and who has of recent years been Identified with extensive immigration and development work at South ern Pines and at other points along the line -of this road. This feature of the work will Include the question of making known the Industrial resources and capabilities of the country and of aiding to .the utmost ex tent in the development of manufacturing Interests. The Georgia, Southern and Florida estab lished and maintained the best experimental farm conducted by any road in this part of the country, and while the farm was ex pensive to the company, it proved to be a fine investment because it drew settlers The Seaboard's plan is to establish these farms Seaboard’s plan is to establish these farms every ten mile^ so that travelers along the road can see for themselves the nature of 'the country through which they are pass- GE0RGIA GOLD FIELDS. The Opinions of a n Expert on the Precious Metal in Georgia Soil. “Within a radius of three miles of Dan Jonega there is, in my opinion, more gold than is necessary to pay the whole national debt. The people of Georgia are simply sleeping over such an opportunity as seldom comes to a people of any state or any coun try. Within six months there will be 10,000 people from outside Georgia on these gold fields." The speaker was Colonel W. M. Duncan, of Nashville. Colonel Duncan Is one of the ablest business men of the south—a man who has been closely associated with a number of the south’s most prominent and 'most suc cessful enterprises, a man of means and one who, in this matter of eGorgia gold, is show ing his faith by his works. Colonel Duncan was on his way to his borne in Nashville after a business visit to Dahlonega. Wbile In the city yesterday he was the guest of his uncle, Dr. Amos Fox, postmaster of Atlanta. Yesterday afternoon he gave his views on Georgia gold fields. "I do not claim to be an expert," said' he, “but I think that the Investigations that I have had made by the finest experts will bear me out In everything I say concerning the wealth of the Georgia gold fields. This is my third trip to the Dahlonega country and I have studied the conditions there very close ly. I have had in my employ experts whose opinions I know are valuable and who have made a close study of the gold mines of Geor gia for some time acting for me. The result is. I have gone into the business of develop ment; have secured lands and believe that I have an excellent thing. “I have had associated with me. as I said, some experts eminently capable, and from their reports I have come to the conclusion that while gold mining at Dahlonega Is an old story, the development there is really In its infancy. Experts who have had experi ence both at Cripple Creek and in South Africa unhesitatingly say that the prospects In either -place are not in any way superior to those at Dahlonega. “I suppose The Constitution has a number of times told the story of the former gold mining days in North Georgia, when, after getting down to the water level, the mines would be abandoned. I presume that It has been said that the gold regions of Georgia had been exhausted. In my opinion gold mining in Georgia has scarcely begun. The new chlorination process now being used in rounded by handsome ranges of brick stores. On one side of it stands the large and com modious courthouse, in which are the va rious county offices, and just in rear of it is Daw Range, where the lawyers have their offices. Our city is noted for its many hand some residences and beautiful flower yards. Perhaps no place in the state has so many elegant and Imposing church edifices or a more commanding and artistically built schoolhouse. A large now cotton mill is just being completed, with a capital stock of some $200,0tX». It Is expected that the mill will be in operation in the course of a few months, with a hundred and fifty operatives. This will add to our population in all prob ability within the next twelve months a thousand or more people, as the operatives will bring their families with them. Abbe ville is surrounded by a thrifty and well-to- do rural population. The lands are fertile and varied crops are raised upon them. Our people are noted for their hospitality. Stran gers are cordially welcomed and are made to feel at home. The average of intelligence Is high. We have excellent railroad facili ties, haring two competing lines of railways —the Southern and Seaboard Air Dine. Our city has voted in favor of waterworks and the bonds are about ready to be issued. New stores are being opened, and enter prises of various kinds started. The legal fraternity is well represented, and the high standard of the Abbeville bar is being main tained. We are well supplied with excellent physicians, preachers and educators. Our merchants are active and progressive busi ness men, and their stores are filled with tastefully arranged stocks of goods. AVe have two newspapers—The Medium and Press and Banner. On the whole, Abbeville is on rising ground. WADTER D. MIDDER. Abbeville, S. C. That Tired Feeling Makes you seem “all broken up,” with out life, ambition, energy or appetite- It is often the forerunner of serious ill ness, or the accompaniment of nervous troubles. It is a positive proof of thin, weak, impure blood; for, if the blood is rich, red, vitalized and vigorous, it im parts life and energy to every nerve, organ and tissue of the body. The necessity of taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla for that tired feeling is therefore apparent to every one, and the good it will do yon Is equally beyond question. Remember Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the best—in fact the One True P.lood Purifier. Hood’S Pills ---* I—'• eas X.^°fake, 1 easy to operate. 25 cents! ble funds, leaving only $472,700 held by out siders, which sum is steadily diminishing. The state bonds are in demand at 112 to 325 Recapitulating, it is found that Florida has advanced: Per cent. 2S ,, .. 127 21* 41 In population.. .. ,. ,, ,, In assessed wealth.. ,. ,, In railroad mileage ,, .. .. In schools .. ,, , In school attendance .... .. This is as good a showing as any state in the Union can make, and full ol' promise fo» the future. It is not to be wondered that lands should he in demand in Florida, and that Immigration should be pouring intc that State from all portions of the Union.— New Orleans Times-Democrat. FREE CURE FOR MEM. A MICHIGAN MAN OFFERS TO SEND HIS DISCOVERY FREE. a faint idea of -the marked awaken In ^^^Mevideiwos of’r-ew life. r 7- fflrffrr^vrrrv part-d with t summer mo on the pumpkin in the north, then does Flor ida look up in the promise of winter’s busi ness. The railroaus. which have had more to do with the -State’s prosperity than all other factors combined, begin to put on their magnificiently equipped ves-tibuled trains; the great winter resorts fling open their pa latial gates; the countless hotels from coast to coast open wide their doors, and t'he nor thern tourist, fleeing from the chilly blast of severer climes, is welcomed with a hearty zest by everybody and everywhere. And when he comes he brings with him that which Infuses life and light the world over —money! And with him comes such trans formation in the state of Florida as no state In the union ever experiences In -the change of seasons, so pronounced Is the energy, life and action on all sides. The annual transformation on the west coast Is heralded by the opening of the Tam pa Bay Hotel, which is the leading hostelry of the Plant system. This hotel, which Claims To Be a Benefactor to Weakened Mankind. There is always more or lesa suspicion attached to anything that is offered free, but sometimes a man so overflows with generosity that he cannot rest until his discovery is known to the world, in or der that his fellow-men may profit by what he has discovered. It is upon this principle that a resident of Kalamazoo, , Mich., desires to send free to mankind a prescription which will cure them of any form of nervous debility; relieves them of all doubt ana uncertainty which such men are peculiarly liable to. and restores the organs to natural size and vigor. As it costs nothing to try the experiment, it would seem that any man suffering with the nervous troubles that usually attack men who never stopped, to realize what might be the lin'al result, ought to be deeply interested in a remedy which will restore them to health, strength and vig or, without which they continue to live an existence of untold misery. As the f recrfdvy 11 Arte —vesufl of' many years research as to what combina tion would be peculiarly effective in re storing to men the strength they need, it would seem that all men suffering with any form of nervous weakness ought to write for such a remedy at once. A re quest to IT. C. Olds, Box 1121, Kalamazoo, Mich., stating that you are not sending for the prescription out of idle curiosity, but that you wish to make use of the medicine by giving it a trial, will he ans wered promp'ly and without evidence as to where information came from. The prescription is sent free, and al though some may wonder how Mr. Olds can afford to give away his discovery, there Is no doubt about the offer being genuine. Cut this out and send to Mr. Olds, so that he may know how you came to write him. SCENE AT OPENING OF “CASINO THEATER,” TAMPA BAY. BIG PLANT IN BARTOW, GA. RICH GOLD IN NORTH CAROLINA. The report comes from Charlotte, N. C., that farmers in Granville and Vance counties have the gold fever. Some very rich gold- bearing quartz has been found on the surface of the ground and the owners believe tho region will develop into another Cripple Creek. Options have been taken on some of the land by outside miners and one man is reported to have sold his farm to a specula tor for $20,000, the speculator reselling for $50,000. A Rowan miner has pronounced the ore the richest he has ever seen. This re gion is in the midst of the farmers’ golden tobacco belt. GOLD IN THE SOUTH. A correspondent of tho New York Finan cier says: “In Georgia and Alabama there are miles and miles of veins carrying free gold from $2 to $20 per ton within forty feet of the sur face. and as many more miles carrying the same quartz that contain sulphates and by assay show $10 to $75 per ton within seventy- five feet of tho surface. “There are also large bodies of low-grade ores in disintegrated or decomposed veins i that are ten to forty feet wide and show by assay $1 to $5 per ton within a few feet ot the surface.” HARK HANNA’S PALATIAL HOME, THOMASVILLE, GA. Where President-Elect McKinley Will Be a Guest in January, and Where the Arrangements for-the Incoming Cabinet Will Be Definitely Settled Upon in all Probability. The same correspondent refers to the fact that in the Rand district of South Africa the most profitable gold mining region of the world, there are only low-grade ores, which can be worked only by the chlorination process and which often yield no more than $2 a ton. He predicts a great development of the gold region of the southern states. The New York Engineering News, com menting on this letter, says that tho South African gold deposits are uniformly distrib uted through great masses of gold-bearing rock, and asks: "Does this condition also exist in the gold mines and gold prospects of the south?” and goes on to say that its formation is to the contrary. There is in Georgia and Alabama a belt in which there is every indication of uniformly distributed gold, and in some localties it is being taken out at great profit. The gold region of the south is now receiv ing from experts attention which will in all probability soon result In large invest ments and great increase of mining opera tions in that quarter. FLORIDA’S PROSPERITY. The state of Florida is boasting of tho great progress it has made In every branch of industry. In wealth, population, etc., since the census, and It has good grounds for its boasts. Its progress in six years 'has been as rapid as any portion of the Union, and challenges comparison with the most prosperous states of the northwest, while its educational 'advancement has been such as to show that it goes forward mentally and materially at the same time. Take the population of the state, for In stance. It was 269.49.1 in 18S0. and 142,461 in 1885, an Increase of 2S per cent. This rat* of Increase will bring the total population of the state up to 438,337 by the next census year. The advance in wealth, however, has been greater than in population, the assessment of the state being $70,667,458 today, against $31,157,836, an increase of 127 per cent, more than doubling in six years. No other state In the Union has done as well as this in th<j midst of business depression. This showing Is as good relatively as in the aggregate, the valuation per capita being $115.50 in 1880 and $206.63 in 18S6. In this short period, the average assessed wealth of every man and woman in Florida has almost doubled. Coming to the railroads we see the same Improvement, keeping march with the ad vance of the state. In 1SS0 Florida had but 52 miles; today she has 1.68S, an increase of 1,160 or 218 per cent. Tho number of public schools 1880 was 1.131, with an attendance of 39,315. against 1,724 today, with 62,327 children in attendi ance. The bonded debt of the state is $1,067,400. the greater portion of which is held to the account of various educational and charita- It is reported from Cartersvillo that a con tract has been closed with capitalists o{ Utica, N. Y., by Junius George, of Rome, to furnish them with machinery and appli ances from his foundry for operating a plant In connection with the extensive beauxito properties, which they have purchased in this county. It is stated that the company will put in $30,000 to equip the plant and will push the business right along. The beauxite in dustry in this county has reached such an extent that the mines are inadequate to supply the market. The plant to be established will be wel' equipped for taking out the crude ore and drying and preparing it for market. The bulk of the output of the various mines in Bartow county is shipped to Pittsburg, where It is used in the production of alumi num. $100 IN GOLD GIVEN AWAY sDo You Want It? & You can get It in 3* :|The Sunni South’s Word Contest ^ % :♦ •2 How many English words can rou make 3# •5 from the letters in the word “McKinley” (our S8 SrJ next president.) ' i 1st largest list $20 in Gold 5 ! 2nd largest list 10 in Gold . 3rd largest list lo In Gold Jj | 4th largest-list in in Gold ** ' 5th largest list lo in Gold Jg For the next eight $5 Kach. S tor the next 25 largest lists, each will receive a S KODAK, price of which Is (4 each. 5* In order io enter contest it is necessarv to j send 50 cents for 3 months’ subscription to'The 2? J SUNNY SOOTH. Even If you make onlv ten I# words you will get a prize, as you will receive % tn addition to Thb Sunny South, a large, 192 % *2 page book. 'The Other Man's Wife,” a very J* I fascinating book, by John Strange Winter. Fifty cents is the least amount you can send jS j in order to enter the above contest, and for this & j you will be marked up three months. If vou £ prefer, send $1.00 for six months, or $2.00 for a % ! year, with your list. k Contest Closes March 1, 1897. % Address, Sonny Sooth Pnb. Co., j* > t'erte. Gr. 4*64 444 444 444 444 4<4- 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 464
