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VOL. IX.
THE MINERAL WEALTH
Of Barlow County, Georgia-
Iron and Manganese.
Operations Before and During; tlie War—
Wliat is Now Being; Done by New
Companies in that County.
[Henry E. Colton in the Tradesman.]
To write in detail all of the mine
ral wealth of the county of Bartow
would take up more space in the
Tradesman than could convenient
ly be allowed me atone time, hence
now I shall only epitomize these
resources and state what is being
done with them.
The county of Bartow has long
b am known for its great wealth of
iron ore; previous to the war in its
limits were the only iron furnaces
in Georgia south of Lookout Moun
tain. Previous to the war there
were six furnaces operated in the
county, viz: Allatoona; the River
Furnace, owned by Mark A. Cooper
& Cos.; Stamp Creek Furnace, owned
by Mark A. Cooper & Cos.; Lewis &
Poole, also on Stamp Creek; Lewis
& Jones; another on Stamp Creek,
owne l by I). M. & F. M. Ford.
Above the lliver Furnace, also
owned by Mark A. Cooper & Cos.,
was a rolling mill where railroad
rails and merchant bars were made;
there was also a nail factory. There
is no doubt about the fact that here
were made the first railroad rails
ever made in the south.
The same power which run the
River Furnace also ran a large mer
chant mill which made two hundred
barrels of Hour every twenty-four
hours. The furnace, merchant miil
and rolling mill were also on the
Etowah river, the first being about
two miles above the Western & At
lantic bridge and the rolling mill
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cent water power can hardly be
surpassed anywhere in the world,
the fall in the four miles being
seventy feet. Some idea of its height
may be formed from the fact that
the water in the upper or rolling
mill dam was exactly on a level
with the top of the rails on the
bridge of the Western & Atlantic
Railroad. I have not at hand sta
tistics to compare this vast power
with others, but I have seen most
of those in New England and many
other states of the north and few or
none equal it. And a railroad up
the Etowah would develop others,
near or quite as good.
The idea has become prevalent
among many that Mr. Cooper oper
ated these works with his slaves;
in fact this has been published. It
is not true. Mr. Cooper did not
own, all told, over forty slaves, and
that number includes children and
women. In all the operations of
these establishments from three
hundred to five hundred hands were
employed, and around his works
sprang up a very considerable
town.
The history of these works is u
grand record of what energy, skill
ami pluck can accomplish. Mark
A. Cooper was not a man of large
monied means, but he conceived
the idea of erecting these works and
succeeded in interesting a Mr.
Wiley, of Charleston, S. ('., in his
scheme, and the works were com
menced in 1845. Mr. Wiley was a
man of very considerable wealth.
After a time he desired to wind up
the business, named a price and
proposed to Mr. Cooper to buy or
sell. Mr. Cooper said he desired to
buy but hadn’t the money. Wiley
agreed to give him time to raise it.
Mr. Cooper went over the state and
borrowed it from one and another
and bought the property. By 18b0
he had repaid all this money from
the profits of the manufactory, and
early in 1802 sold the works to
Quinby & Robinson, of Memphis,
for $450,000. Mr. Cooper never at
any time had in the concern over
$25,000 of his own money, hence
$125,000 of this amount represents
profits derived from the working
of the establishment.
Mr. Cooper at one time sent a lot
of iron to Sheffield, England, and
had it made into steel, and this into
r izors, files, rasps, saws, etc. He
also sent some of this same iron to
Colt’s Armory at Hartford, Conn.,
and had it made into pistols and
rifles. It is proper to state that
tliis iron was made from a mixture
of choice brown hematite and what
is called the grey specular ore.
When the work commenced Mr.
Cooper had just made a contract
with Colt to erect a branch of his
armory in Cartersville. Mr. Cooper
was a man of grand ideas, but also
of great prudence and executive
ability. If he conceived an idea he
the gourant-american.
immediately planned a means of
carrying it out, and did so.
This property hrs Hapr sold to A.
<>. Granger and Senator Gaxzam
of Philadelphia, and.they now have
about 100 hands employed in open
ing the various beds and veins of
ore so as to develop their extent
and quality. They state as their
intention to have out on the banks
fifty thousand tons of ore before
they commence erecting a furnace.
Mr. Granger is president of the
company and Maj. Tlios. Parks, of
Nashville, general manager.
Some Washington City capitalists
have lately purchased what is called
the Satterfield property, containing
iron ore and manganese. The com
pany is called the Georgia Iron and
Manganese Cos., of which Hon. M.
0. Butler is president and Mr.
Griggs, banker, of Washington City,
treasurer. The property is two
miles from Cartersville and the
owners are considering the propri
ety of erecting a furnace for the
manufacture of ferro-mangai 1 e-e.
There are now being worked in
the county ths two principal mines
of manganese—the Dobbins mine,
worked under lease by Messrs.
Dunn, Billups & Woodward; and
Chumley Hill, worked by Jos. E.
Brown & Cos. There are many
smaller mines, worked by farmers,
who bring in their product and sell
it by per centage. The Illinois
Steel Cos. has had an agent here for
months, for the object of buying
these little lots, as well as inspect
ing what they buy from others. It
is stated that this company is now
negotiating for the Dobbins mine.
No one who visited the Atlanta
Exposition who looked at the min
eral exhibit at all, could have failed
to have noted the great superiority
of that from Bartow, over any other
county in the State of Georgia. It
was great in variety, select in the
specimens exiiiuiwu *iud excellent
in arrangement. Much of the credit
of this exhibit is due to Messrs.
Aubrey & McEwen, real estate
agents here, and also your corre
spondent. While being the effort
of a few, not a cent being received
from town or county officials or
from subscriptions of individuals,
yet this exhibit took fifteen medals
and premiums, as follows:
Fullest and best display of min
erals.
Fullest and best display of min
erals of any State.
Fullest and best display of min
erals of any county.
Fullest and best display of man
ganese ores.
Fullest and best display of iron
ores.
Fullest and best display of clays,
kaolin, sand stone and other mate
rial for the manufacture of glass,
brieks, terracotta and fire bricks.
Best lime accompanied by speci
mens of the crude rock.
Best display of hydraulic cement
accompanied by crude rock.
Best specimen of ochre.
Best display of brooms.
Second best on wheat.
Second best bushel of red rust
proof oats.
Second best bushel of red wheat.
Second best bushel of rye.
Best bushel of meal.
There can be no doubt that as to
the quality of iron ore, manganese,
Bartow excels all other counties of
Georgia, and she also has marble of
great beauty, which is absolutely
undeveloped, and it can fairly be
said that not one-tenth of either of
the metal ores named above have
been developed at all. Still it is
somewhat of a shame that while
she had six furnaces before the war,
and the only ones in Georgia, she
now lias not a single one. The one
erected by the enterprise of Capt.
Rogers has long been silent and
while Mr. Ward succeeded in mak
ing the first and only ferro-manga
nese iron made in the south, yet his
furnace has long been cold and his
operations were a financial failure,
more from want of management
than from want of excellence in the
product. The Bartow iron works
failed most probably from the same
cause. However, such resources
cannot long remain idle or unnoted.
Within the last few days, a promi
nent representative of, Carnegie
Bros, and also of the Illinois .Steel
Company, have been in ( artersville,
looking into the possibilities of a
manganese supply and also with
view of purchasing manganese min
ing property.
Messrs. Aubrey, Smith and others
have, obtained a charter from the
legislature of the state of Georgia
fof the construction of a railroad
from Cartersville to the Tennessee
state line at some point near C’ona
sauga Postoffice, where they hope
to connect with a chartered com
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1881).
puny in Tennessee to go to the
Knoxville Southern near Cog Hill.
Such a, Imc would go through and
along a solid line of iron and man
ganese, while it would skirt one of
the finest agricultural valleys in
the world. It has been not inappro
priately called the Iron Valley.
Another road is proposed from Car
tersville to Gainesville, which
would develop a rich mineral region.
There is now only one large oper
ative mining works shipping ore—
that of the Dade Iron Cos., or really
Senator Brown. . From these mines
are daily shipped about three hun
dred tons of ore. A railroad nine
miles long connects these mines
with the main line of the Western
& Atlantic at Rogers Station.
The shipments of manganese
from all stations will, it is said, this
year amount to between four and
five thousand tons. There is every
probability that it will be largely
increased next year, as the Dobbins
mine has never been near worked
to its full capacity.
The minerals of the county out
side of manganese and iron ores are
graphite, ochre and baryta, while
there is found and used an excel
lent mill-rock and a first-class fire
resisting sandstone, a polishing
sand of finest grade, while, as stated,
there is a fine undeveloped marble.
What is to bo the future of Car
tersville itself should not be hard
to say if the citizens themselves
will puttheir shoulders to the wheel,
but like too many Southern towns
there is a good deal of that disposi
tion to wait for some one to come
and help them push the wheel along.
An excellent water works with
standpipe tank 100 feet high, being
in all 170 feet above the track at
the depot. The city has also been
amply supplied with gas w orks and
gas lamps. Messrs. Aubrey & Mc-
Ewen think the future of their city
is groat. The East- * I*B mil mad
is to be made a wide guage as fast
as possible, and the shops of that
company are to be located in Car
tersville. These shops will cost not
less than .$•’>0,000, and will employ
from 60 to 70 men. Should the road'
I have noted be built, and I see no
reason why it should not be, as its
entire route is in the edge of a val
ley where the grading in many
places will not cost SIOOO per mile,
with the East & West railroad wide
gauged, there would be formed
through Cartersville another great
trunk line from the north-east to
the South-west. Surely with such
advantages it only rests with her
own citizens whether Cartersville
shall become a large and flourishing
city, I neglected to mention that
the city also now has free schools.
The llev. Sum Jones.
[Greenville (Miss.) Times,]
The series of meetings of the
Rev. Sam Jones held in Greenville
have of course had full attendance;
drawn from all locations for a hun
dred miles around, Certainly his
preaching has lost none of its effect
iveness; people of all characters,
creeds and classes respond to the
magnetism of the speaker. The
nature of this attraction, of the
power this wonderful man exerts
will always battle analysis, even the
most critical and acute. Given
credit for all of his qualities and
methods, there is yet much to be
accounted for and to puzzle over in
summing up Rev. Sam Jones. For
tunately it is not essential, certain
ly not the chief essential. The fruit
of the tree is good and abundant
and that is the main, well nigh the
whole thing. It feeds the hungry
and nourishes the feeble, the fallen.
One thing is certain and to be
borne in mind by those who wish to
be fair and just, and not to dispar
age; of all men this one is not to be
taken or tested piecemeal. Quoted
scraps convey no true idea of the
structure of his sermons.
Probably the difficulty of compre
hension of the Rev. Sam Jones, of
reducing the source of his power to
set terms, which we assuredly do
not profess ability to do, lies in the
blending of apparently contradic
tory or inconsistent elements; and
in the absence of such gifts and
graces of eloquence, as we are ac
customed to regard as inseparable
from the sway of multitudes. That
he is an earnest and zealous Chris
tian all who hear him believe.
This quality supplies the method
and purpose of his oratory; which
is sustained by close, acute, and for
cible reasoning. He is at the same
time a master of slang, of illustra
tions which illustrate, and exercises
a never failing comic adaptiveness.
These are the arts by which he ap
plies and inculcates; they arednter
vvoven with and gloss his methods,
unfailingly point and implant his
purpose in such subjects of humani
ty as no ordinary pulpit preaching,
no word painting imagery, would
ever reach. So long life to Sam
Jones, say we.
A SICKENING SIGHT.
A Young White Man Horribly
Mangled Under the Wheels.
He is Cut Into Several Pieces and the Trac k
for a Considerable Distance is St rewn
With Human Flesh.
A terrible accident occurred Tues
day morning on , the Western and
Atlantic railroad, near the 47 mile
post, and about half a mile below
town.
A young w hffe man was literally
torn to pieces by the wheels of the
early morning south bound freight
train, and for about sixty or seven
ty feet pieces c" flesh, bones and
brains were strewn along the track.
A more sickening and horrible
sight could hardly be imagined.
The name of the young man was
J. F. Borough and liis home was
in Charleston, 8. C. lie was trav
eling with another young man by
the name of Joseph Letcher, whose
home is in Socket, It. I. The latter
was also bruised up, but he prevent
ed anything serious by jumping in
time. Letcher tells the following
o: the accident:
“The young man who was killed
this morning was mimed Jack;
that’s all the name 1 knew him by.
We have been traveling together
only about three days, having
struck up an acquaintance on the
A ernphis and Charleston railroad
about forty miles Above Chattanoo
go. This morning we got on the
train at Hall’s Mill and were put
off at Rogers where the engine took
coal. When the train started again
we both got on, sitting on the rear
of the tender of the engine with our
feet on the forward ear. Jack had
given a train hand a silk handker
chief and I had given him a pipe,
all we had, and therefore did not
expect any trouble in getting to
Atlanta. I several times noticed
that the coupling pin was not in
properly and tried to push it in
with my foot, but I did not think
anything serious about it. The
train was running at a rapid rate,
going down grade, and just below
town the pin came out, the engine
and ears parted, Jack was thrown
under the wheels and I jumped,
being thro yn a, considerable dis
tance and finally landing against a
telegraph pole. The horible result
of the whole business you see. Here
are some directions Jack gave me,”
and Letcher handed the reporter a
piece of note paper written on it in
a scrawling hand:
Take at Atlanta R, <ft I), railway to
Charleston, S. (J. If yon come will give
you a job. Respectfully,
J. F. Boeouuii.
Neeson’s Wagon Shops,
Continuing Letcher said: “Jack
told me that his home was in
Charleston and that he was on his
way there. lie had learned his
trade as a carriage blacksmith at
Neeson’s wagon shops, but for the
past five or six years lie had been
in Texas. His father had sent him
money several times to come home
on, but Jack had spent it foolishly
and the consequence was that he
had to walk or beat his way home.
The note I just handed you lie
wrote on the car and you see he
intended to get me a place with
him in the shops.”
Letcher seemed much affected by
the terrible accident and says he
will never again try to beat a train.
He claims to have been on the
road only about six weeks, in
search of work, and that he had
money enough to pay his way up to
about a week ago. lie was making
his way to Atlanta* where a sister
of his resides.
The scene of the accident was
visited by hundreds of our people.
.Mr. J. D. Wiikerson took charge of
the remains, had the pieces collect
ed and sent for the coroner. In the
pockets of tiie dead man was found
some false teetli and about half a
quire of noth paper, lie had start
ed a letter, directed to his sister at
Charleston, three times, hut had
not finished it.
At 1 o’clock in the afternoon Cor
oner Patterson arrived and imme
diately summoned a jury, as fol
lows: J. D. Wiikerson, foreman;
Peter Hammond, John C. Dodgens,
John A. Dobbs, John T. Owen, 1.
W. Alley and—Dodd.
The evidence” was to the effect
that the deceased came to his death
while stealing his way on the train
and that life had been ordered off
several times, and a verdict was
rendered in accordance with that
fact, the railroad being held blame-,
less. The remains were buried in
the city cemetery at the expense of
the county. Letcher was given
passage to Atlanta and left on the
afternoon train for that place.
PORTER l VfIUBHRN,
Now Closing Out Their Winter
Stock at Greatly Reduced
Prices.
TO REDUCE OUR STOCK BY JANUARY Ist WE WILL
OFFER THE GREATEST BARGAINS IN
NORTH GEORGIA.
“
Our Cloak Department has been a grand* success I—only seventy-six garments
left in our house, including
~ Modjcskas, Newmarkets, Jackets & Children’s Garments.
!2r J HESh Ml SI GO AT ONCE Lg| Now is your chance to buy a Cloak
at half value ! Price is not an object with us —we are determined to close out our
entire stock of Cloaks by January ist. Cloaks will be slaughtered in the next 30
days at Porter & Vaughan’s. .
DRESS GOODS! DRESS GOODS!
Porter & Vaughan's prices on Dress Goods are reduced to the 'lowest figures i
We are overstocked on Dress Flannel* They must be sold. Down ! down 1 down!
go the prices ! For the next ten days we offer extra fine all-wool 38-inch Tricot
Flannel at 33ffc per yard, worth 50c. Our cloth finished Tricot Flannels 3&-inch
wide, reduced to 40c., worth 60c. The handsomest line Black Dress Goods and
trimmings in the city to go at greatly reduced prices.
tJT Friday and Saturday only : Best Calicoes in all the Novelties, sc. per yard
Porter & Vaughan’s Low Prices for the Next 30
Days Will Astonish the Trading Public.
POH I hll & VAUGHAN’S SHOE DEPARTMENT making still greater
leaps to success. Good Shoes, stylish Shoes, at popular prices—all guaran
anteed, is the secret of our success in Shoes. Just received a full line of
Edwin Klapps’ fine hand-sewed $4 and $5 shoes for Gents—every pair sold under a
positive guarantee. Just received, full line swain’s solid, serviceable school
shoes for children. Just Received, full line of clement & balls’ fine shoes for
LADIES.
Ladies’ Glove Grain Button Shoes, SI.OO, worth $1.25.1 Ladies’ Kid Button Shoes, $1.75, worth $2 25.
Ladies’ Kid Button Shoes, $1.25, w orth $1.05. j Ladles’ Kid Button Shoes, $2.00, worth $2.50.
Porter & Vaughan’s $2.50 shoe for ladies made by clement & ball—in all
styles—is the best shoe in North Georgia for the money. This is our leader, every
pair guaranteed
Full Line Men’s Boots at astonishingly low prices. Men’s, Boys, Ladies and Chil
dren’s Shoes in all styles at popular prices.
All wool Jeans, extra heavy, 25c a yard.
Men’s Black Wool Hats, 25c, worth 50c.
Ladies’ Black Felt Hose, 5c per pair, worth i2^c
XBLANKETS ANB PbANNELS*
Porter & Vaughan have the largest stock of Blankets and Flannels in the city.
We have included this steple line of goods in our great reduction sale. Positively
the greatest bargains in North Georgia in Blankets and Flannels.
Full Line Bed Flannels Plain and Twilled,
Full Line Gray Twilled Flannels,
Full Line White Flannels in all Grades.
We guarantee our Flannels and Blankets to be 25 per cent, cheaper than
any house in the city.
I \ I>EHW EA It
For everyone at Porter & Vaughan’s, now going at cut prices.
Ladies’ Jersey Ribbed Vests, 37ie, worth 50c. Gents’ Under Vests, worth 40c, now’ 25e.
“ 50c, worth 65. “ “ “ “ 50c, now 40c.
“ “ “ 75c, worth SI.OO. “ “ “ “ 65c, now 50c.
“ “ “ “ 1.00, worth $1.25. “ “ “ “ 75c, now 60c.
“ “ “ sl-40, now $1.15.
hull Line Boys’, Misses and Children’s Underwear ... u “ “ “ $1.50, now $1.25
going at cut prices. “ “ “ $2.25, now $4.75.
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; Porter & Vaughan are'now offering, great bargains, in Gents’ Hats, Shirts
Hosiery, Gloves', Jeans, Cassimeres, Lite.- •
No trouble to show:our goods ! Our prftes will speak for themselves Polite
attention to all. v -•
I’orter & Vauglian.
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