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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 • i • i- mi.: „:<? tWU Uiiic.i iiigiiCi Ujj. 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. '\——, - ’’ ' ; 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. NO. 24.