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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
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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
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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.
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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*
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