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The Cartersville Courant-American. YOL. VIII. BILL ARP AND THE BOOM. He Is in the Midst of One of Them- Property Fast Advancing, But tin* Tax Asmsnmh- lijih His Oflf-Kye on it Real Estate Men Buying Options— The Ball Started at hast. Atlanta Constitution. It is pretty hot around these parts, but we are fixing to make it hotter. The fur nace work has begun. We are going to cook iron and then make it into stoves to cook bread and meat and make it into steel rails for our railroads to haul us something to cook. It takes a power of hot work to keep these poor carcasses of ours in good condition. 1 would have been a rich man but for this everlasting cooking business that never stops nor tires. But we are all built that way, and so the business goes on. The furnace ball opened yesterday, and Dr. Pratt and Mr. Martin are busy look ing over the ground and directing the surveying and Leveling and platting and locating. Very soon the grading will be gin, and there will be plenty of work for the toilers. The white man will plan and the negro will execute. He will shovel and dig and lift and drive the steel and mine the ore and lay bare his brawny arms ami sweat and toil, and crack bis jokes and sing his song and eat his.hum ble fare and enjoy his rest and never com plain. It is most astonishing how much life and vigor these manufacturing indus tries instill into a community. Even the prospect of them is awakening and stim ulating and everybody moves around with a livelier step and a brighter coun tenance. “Major,” said an old lady friend to me, “do'you think the boom has come sure enough?” “Oh, yes,” said I, “there is a right smart boom down town.” “And can I get more tor my property?” “Oh, yes,” said I, “good property like yours is in demand, do you want to sell?” “Bless your soul, no I don’t want to sell. I expect to live and die right here, but I just wanted to feel like my property was worth more than it was.” “Oh, yes,” said I, “the tax assessors will convince you of that. I expect they will nearly double your taxes for the next year.” So there is no pleasure with out its pain. The real estate men are circulating pretty lively now trying to get options. That is anew word to the children and so I had to explain and tell them that if I was willing to sell my home for five thousand dollars, I would say to one oi the real estate agents: “If you sell my place within ten days you may have all you get over five thousand dollars.” So then he would have an option for ten days. These real estate men are all so anxious to get hold of property to sell for other people that they pay some thing for these options. One asked Air. AVhite what lie would take for his lot and workshop, and he said he would take eight hundred dollars. “What will you take for your option?” said the agent. “Twenty-five dollars,” said Mr. White. “For how long?” said the agent. “Until sundown,” said Mr. White, as he ham mered away on a bureau. Our people won’t givelong options now for property is rising pretty fast. It is now up to just about its prime cost. Two years ago a storehouse that it cost two thousand dollars to build, could have been bought for fiftten hundred with the lot thrown in. That same storehouse and lot will bring twenty-five hundred now. ’ But property can’t be boomed beyond its lair value in Cartersville. There is not a town in Georgia that has such beautiful suburbs for improvement. Situated on a high plateau with gently rolling sur face and good drainage and beautiful views of the surrounding mountains and fast flowing streams on every side, she offers inviting homes and good business prospects to those wjio are seeking homes, no matter whether they come from the North or from the South. The Pratt Henderson company that have just located their steel works and manganese works here are delighted with their selection. Mr. Martin said to me yesterday: “You have the loveliest and most attractive country I have ever seen.” That company made a thorough inspection of all * inviting localities around us, from Sheffield to Birmingham, and chose Cartersville, and will invest $150,000 here at once. Within three months farming lands adjacent to the town have risen from S4O to SIOO an acre, as was proven by a guardian’s sale at public outcry last Tuesday. There will be a demand for the products of these lands, and the last crop of cotton is now upon them that will ever be seen. These mechanics and laborers will want something to eat. There will be more consumers than producers. Mr. Camp, who farms near Rome, planted ten acres in sweet potatoes last year and netted eight hundred dollars profit. What en couragement is there to a hen to lay eggs at ten cents a dozen? Cobe says she is too much ashamed to cackle, and just drops it and goes along. Now, we ex pect to see before long a hundred teams hauling iron ore and manganese to our furnaces, and hundreds more digging and mining and working in the furnaces, and they and th* ir families will be hungry three times a day, and want watermelons or peaches or apples between meals. The stove factory is to follow the furnace, and we are going to make horse shoes, and nails, and axes, and stone hammers, and most anything else that can be made out of iron. Evan Howell says the finest turnout he saw at Long Branch last summer was carrying a man he supposed was Van derbilt, or Astor, or an English lord or a French count, and so he got out of the way quick and took off his hat as the fellow' passed, and then he found out he was a Connecticut chap, w r ho had made a fortune making hairpins. I believe I will make some hairpins or fish hooks or car pet tacks or buckles or buttons or some thing. They say a man can make more money out of little things than big ones. I think that I could keep busy making such things for my own family. Good gracious! If I was a merchant what a splendid trade I would have from one family. We have contracted for waterworks and gas works, and the next thing will be an ice factory and a street railroad, and we are just obliged to have a rail road to Gainesville with a branch going up to Coosawattee. One industry calls for another and all of them will help the farmers. They need help. It looks like everything gets help but farming. I see that those everlasting rascals up North have formed a bagging trust to put up the price three cents a pound, and that w ill take a million and a half more out of the farmers’ pockets. Most every busi ness has a trust, a pool, a combination to speculate upon the people, but the farmers can’t get trusted at all, unless they mortgage their crops and pay about fifty per cent, for advances. The mer chant advances forwards but the poor farmer advances backwards. A mer chant. told me that he had to charge big interest on account of the risk he took in advancing—the risk of drought and storms and caterpillars and boll-worm— the risk of dead horses, and stolen mules, and the farmer dying, and his widow gobbling up the crop, apd lawyers’ fees, and doctors’ bills tor the last sickness, and a money panic, and a war in Europe “That will-do,” said I; “I see it all now. I didn’t know it was so risky. 1 don’t think you charge enough. You ought todo like Dr. Wildman did whenhe cured a nigger ot the smallpox. He just took the w’hole nigger for pay.” THE GROUND ABOUT TO BREAK. Survey of tlie Furnace Property Made— Location Will Sliortly l>e Determined. The present as w ell as the future of Car tersville seems to be trembling in the balance and the oft repeated query is heard from Pettus Creek to the Hurricane Mountains, w hen will they break ground? The survey has been made it is true, but then there are so many ups and downs in a togopraphical chart that a decision can not always be made at a glance, and the widom of a judicious selection for a fur nace site can only be determined by a thorough inspection and reinspection of the plans furnished by the engineer or surveyor. So many tilings have to be considered that it is of the highest importance to use the greatest care at the beginning, con nections with railroads; an easy grade, with the least curvatare conformable to the contour of the surface; where to. ob tain the straightest line with the least cut and fill, avoiding expensive trestle work and at the same time to make a substantial road bed for the rails that will bear over them the product of the two steel furnaces to be erected; not only their details must have the highest con sideration, but they must all conform to the general plan which will require in the first place the correct locus for the foundatkn of the furnaces, with their ueccessary complement of stoves, boilers, pump house, to say nothing of the stock houses which must be conveniently 7 situated for the handling of thousands upon thou sands of tons of material. And yet this is not all, for to the liberal men who have come forward and con tributed so largely to put Cartersville w here she belongs, it is due that in mak ing approaches to the furnaces with a railroad, that the value of the magnifi cent residence property belonging to them should be enhanced, as it will be by any improvements made by the lurnace com pany. The improvements have but begun and they will go on, as they have l>een insti tuted with all the earnestness, all the en ergy and all the haste that judicious fore thought can dictate or good judgment support, there will be no mistake, aud the ground will be broken just as soon as the managers of the Furnace company feel that they can go on continuously with the work. CAKTEKSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST lli, iSSS THE OLD CONFEDS ASSEMBLE. ' Seventh Annual Reunion of the Eighteenth Georgia Regiment. Cartersville Gives the Veterans si Royal Reception—A Delightful Hand-Shak ing—lnteresting Exercises. A large crowd gathered in this city last Friday to witness the annual reunion of the Survivors’ Association of the 18th Georgia regiment. After registering and receiving badges at the council chamber, the veterans were formed in line by Capt. Ford, presi dent of the association, and took up the line of march to the tabernacle. They were followed by many, and when they united with those that had preceded them at the spacious shelter, it looked like old camp-meeting times. While the members and the crowd were being seated the Cartersville brass band, which had accompanied them to the stand, discoursed their delightful music. A prominent figure was the old battle flag of the regiment, faded by time, torn aud tattered by many a bullet and burst ing shell, but held in reverence by the remnant of the brave and gallant regi ment which had so often followed it to the thickest of the fray. Before opening the exercises, the wives, widows and orphans of the members of the regiment were invited to seats on the stand, and quite a number took places with the old soldiers. The chaplain, Rev. E. Hurling, offered a fervent, touching, appropriate prayer, which was followed by the soft, sweet notes of “Nearer My God to Thee,” by the band. The president then introduced Doug las Wikle, Esq., who delivered the address of w-elcome —eloquently voicing the feel ing of Cartersville’s great heart, in eulo gizing the valiant deeds of the veterans and their fallen comrades, and welcoming them to our hearts and homes. It was a splendid address most happily delivered, and made the veterans feel entirely at home. The address of welcome was responded to by Capt. Stewart, of Conyers, in a most feeling and eloquent manner. While not a practiced orator, and without ef fort to do more than “talk” his senti ments, yet the captain thrilled his hear ers by his eloquent response, and the earnest manner in which he set forth the sentiment that “Whatever is, is right,” and that he would go to his grave feeling that he and his comrades battled for truth and right as they saw it. Next Mr. AVarren Akin was introduced, and, after paying a most eloquent tribute to the women of the Confederacy, and to the brave men who went at the call of duty to offer their lives, if need be on the altar of their country, he presented the veterans with a beautiful banner, as the gift of the ladies of Cartersville. It was a large, magnificent silken banner, with the following inscriptions in beautiful gilt letters: “Presented to the Survivors’ Associa tion of the 18th Ga. Regiment by the Ladies of Cartersville.” On the reverse side: “We honor our Defenders.” Col. Joe Armstrong, the last com mander of the regiment, received the banner on the part of the survivors, in an address that touched every heart. The bosoms of the old veterans heaved, and their eyes were suffused w ith tears as he went from scenes of noble daring- to those of sadness, tenderness and mercy> and here his glowing tribute to the noble women who cheered on the men in times of danger and failure,, held the vast au dience spell-bound. He fully appreciated the gift of our noble ladies, and his heart was in his speech. After this the colonel related many in teresting incidents of the war, which w-ere richly enjoyed by the veterans and their entertainers. During the delivery of the addresses a number of lovely little girls went among the soldiers pinning to the lapel of each one’s coat a sweet little bouquet. The dinner came next, and it was in keeping with the occasion—a grand suc cess. The local members of the associa tion had used fin’e judgment in making their arrangements, and this part of the programme passed off in good style. After the veterans had partaken of an elegant dinner the vast crowd was in vited to file in to the table, and there was enough for all. After dinner the routine business was attended to. Conyers was selected as the place for the next meeting, and Maj. J. A. Stewart, of that place, was elected president; Capt. J. F. Esny, of Jefferson, vice-presi dent; Geo. W. Maddox was re-elected sec retary and Capt. Jesse R. AVikle assis tant secretary. Letters by the secretary from Jefferson Davis, Gen. Longstreet, Gen. Young and other dis tinguished citizens, acknowledging invi tations and expressing regret at not being able to attend. Three cheers were given for Gen. Long street when his letter was read. Thanks were voted to the press and railroads for favors shown. -NOTES. Ninety-nine members of the old regi ment were present. The ladies crowned themselves with glory. The 18th Ga., was the first oid regi ment to hold a reunion after the war. The last colorbearer’s name was Win. O. Rogers, and after Col. Armstrong had stuck his sword in the ground and broken it off, the colorbearer tore the flag from the staff and hid it in his bosom; and though federals offered fifty and a hun dred dollars apiece for Confederate flags, he held to it. A motion to meet every two years, in stead of annually, was promptly and unanimously voted down. Capt. Maddox was unanimously re elected Secretary, after strenuous efforts to decline the office. We infer from his remarks that he is insufficiently paid, and we suggest that the citizens of those places where the reunions are held, should aid the veterans in meeting their ex penses. We give below a list of the survivors who were present at the late reunion: Eli Jenkins, J W Headden, F M Green, C W Cunningham, FM Ford,MonroeCox, D H Underwood, Stephen Underwood, R S Malnn, R B Wright, Tom Dawson, J R Brandon, Albert Smith, J M Tanner, William Hight, I I? Gaines, A A King, Joe Ballard, Geo Kay, J F Hays, J J O’Neill, A J Nally, L J Nichols, T J Woodal, J J Kennedy, Alex Fergurson, Joe Armstrong, F M Durham, J C Wof ford, J W Alrnand, Sr, Jason Walters, Geo A Smith, Fountain Whitaker, J 0 A Hickman, W S Stancell, R A Guinn, Jno Ward, M J Guyton, I) P Brantley, C W Pyron, Jno Brown, W H H ”Waters, E Harling, William Byers, .T M Dysart, R R Grant, A M Auehors, Vesta Harwell, W H Jackson, S C Weems, W F Brown, W B Reagin, J P Fitzgerald, J S Goodwin, Grogan House, F A Boring, Henry House, W P Stanley, J L Lemon, P C Priest, E ,T Roach, N Atkinson, J M McLain,4K T Anchors, R Hollingsworth, G S Owen, C C Phillips, C T Dabbs, J M Overton, J W Garrison, C J Leach man, J A Stewart, J R Wikle. Jno Guinn, A Nichols, J B Stancell, J P Durham, James McLain, W W Cotton, A M Boring, W J Tanner, M M Phillips, W H Barron, H W Gregg, B T Ritchie, A L Barron, C P Anthony, G S Hull, T J Hardage, A A Dobbs, J S Cook, H G Guyton, J C Roper, Geo W Maddox. BARTOW’S WEALTH. What the Tax Digest for 1888 Exhibits in Values, &e. Our county tax receiver, Mr. Nat Dun nahoo, has completed his digest for the year 1888. Upon examination of the book in the i rdinary’s office, we find it shown; Polls, whites, 2,519; blacks, 533; total 3,072. Daguerrean artists, 3. Lawyers, 24. Doctors, 24. Dentists, 2. Superintendents railroads, 2. Number of hands employed between 12 and 65, 269. Total number of acres of land, whites, 318,382; blacks, 6,399; total 324,781. Aggregate value of land, whites, sl,- 852,015; blacks, $25,072 ; total $1,877,- 087. Amount of money and solvent debts of all kinds, including notes, accounts, etc., whites, $398,233; blacks, $736; total, $398,969: Merchandise of every kind, $157,345. Iron works, foundries, etc., SI,BOO. Capital invested in mining, SSOO. Value of household and kitchen furni. ture, pianos, organs, libraries, pictures, etc., whites, $172,755; blacks. $8,082; total, $180,837. Watches, silver plate and jewelry of all kinds, $17,398. Horses, mules, sheep, cattle and all other stock, whites, $301,215; blacks, $18,453; total, $319,668. Plantation and mechanical tools, whites, $75,501; blacks, $2,647; total, $78,148. Cotton, corn, annual crops and pro visions, etc., held for sale first of April, $12,664. Value of all other property not before | enumerated, whites, $105,610, blacks, $641; total. $106,251. Aggregate value of whole property, whites, $3,654,420; blacks, $73,746; total, $3,728,166. By comparison with last year s digest, we find that the aggregate value of whole property for 1887, whites, was $3,654,420, showing an increase for this year of $226,801; blacks had property values $73,746 —an iucrease this year of $9,784. Here we have a total increase of $236,585 —not a bad showing when the rise in values has been only that brought in the course of time, without extraordinary causes. Cartersville district realizes an in crease of $203,692. live villages in Japan were recently buried in mud and ashes from a volcanic eruption. Nearly 500 lives were lost. STEEL MAKING IN THE SOUTH. North Georgia the Great Seat of Steel Production. Her Hills Full of tlie Very.Ores Best Suited for it—A Process That Will Revolu tionize This Great Interest. The Constitution of last Sunday con tained the following article on this all important subject: Heretofore the great production of steel in the United States has been at Pittsburg and north of that point for the palpable reason that the great bulk of what are known as Bessemer ores lie nearest to manufacturing centers already established. The principal shipping point of these ores has been at Marquette, on the south shore of Lake Superior, whence millions of tons have been transported by water over six hundred miles to Cleveland, thence by rail one hundred miles to Pitts burg; the average cost to the consumer at that point being, say $7 per ton. These ores are so.J with a guarantee to contain over 60 per cent, of metalic iron, with a low limit of phosphorus; they are called Bessemer ores because the pig metal produced from them, being almost entirely free from phosphorus, can be immediately utilized in making Steel by the Bessemer process, in the con verter, whence the metal is decarbonized, and subsequently supplied with the re. quisite amount of carbon by the intro duction of ferro-inanganese, or speigel, thereby converting the whole mass into steel; it is the method in general use for the manufacture of steel rails, boiler-plate and bridge work. Other ores, contain ing too high a percentage of phosphorus are classed non-Bessemer, because the pig produced from such cannot be di rectly utilized in the BesseraM* converter, but must be first dephosphorized in the open hearth or by the basic process be fore transformation into steel. This class of ores abound in the South. Northern Georgia is full of them ; by the application of the Pratt process to the blast furnace all these ores can be utilized in the production of steel, and juxta posed as they are, to an inexhaustible supply of manganese ores of superior quality, they present the grandest op portunity for development in the entire South. With the erection of iron fur naces and steel plant such as will be built at Cartersville, Bartow county, Ga., the steel center of the South will unquestion ably be established at that point. Phosphorus has a strong affiinity for iron, and when combined, tjieir separa tion becomes a problem for the chemist ; it is the bete-noir of the ateel maker, ren dering the metal “cold short,” i. e. brit tle and easily broken when cold; and phosphorus much oftener than frost, is the cause of many of those dreadful ca lamities occurring in the winter; incom plete dephosphorization, a broken rail, a mass of writhing humanity is a natural sequence. This chemical affinity brings about un accountable relations between tlie ele mentary substances; the lightest friction of a match is sufficient to dissipate its phosphorus “into thin air,” the little heat generated being sufficient to cause a dissolution of partnership, and the for mation of anew combination ; but wed ded to iron, the fury of the hottest flame of the ordinary blast lurnace urged to a heat of nearly three thousand degrees cannot divorce it. True t b its affinity it flows from the furnace with the molten iron, there to remain until a stronger af finity overcomes its devotion to its me tallic mate. This, then, is the problem, how can we, at the least cost bring about a separa tion, eliminate this objectionable ele ment, and obtain a metal easily conver tible into steel. How can we profitably produce such a metal from the cheap and abundant ores of the South containing, as they do, so large a percentage of phos phorus? It would not be promising too much to say that the problem has been already solved by one of the ablest and most practical chemists; that a series of ex periments, already made in a large blast furnace, has demonstrated to a certainty that, under these favorable conditions phosphorus can be annihilated by ad vantageous working of the Pratt pro cess, contrary to the general opinion en tertained by iron masters. These desir able conditions exist in the blast furnace while it is in active operation, and it is there, when the iron i3 in its nascent state that economical dephosphoriza tion will take place; it is there, that this Hie grandest triumph in metallurgy of the present century will be accomplished. It would be impossible to estimate the amount of material wealth created by so simple a triumph of mind over matter, to enumerate the grand developments made possible, or the innumerable [indus tries that will spring up around the birthplace of so practical a solution to so difficult a problem, a solution that the iron masters of the world have sought in | vain for centuries: nor would it be amiss here to mention the immense profits to be derived by those fortunate enough to be identified with the interest of the two great companies organized to carry out on a large and liberal basis the plans already formulated. Within ten days the ground will be broken for the erection of two seventy-five ton iron furnaces; a steel plant and rolling mill will follow. What this means to the South, what this means to the vast field of industry of the world, it is utterly impossible .to predict or conceive, what changes it may bring about it would be folly to forecast; already plans have been matured to dem onstrate the fact beyond peradventure, and it should be the pride of every citi zen of Georgia that within the limits of their own State, from ores dug from her own furnaces, manufactured in her own rolling mills, the first steel rails ever pro duced south of Pittsburgh from native metal, will go out in competition with the trade. Cartersville will enter the arena, the youngest and sturdiest giant in the South, and with her trenchant Hade wielded by the sinews of steel, disarm the gladiators of the ring and place the lau rels she has won where they belong; a crown of glory brighter than kings can ever win or monarchs wear—a tribute to the transcendant genius that sent her forth to battle with the world. YELLOW FEVER. Great Excitement in Florida-The Kush to Get Away From Jacksonville. Mr. J. A. Trawick, of Wildwood, Fla., who formerly lived at Cedartown, and married a daughter of Mr. J. M. Todd, of this city, arrived here last Sunday night. His family were already here, and his babe had been reported as danger ously sick. He says the section he lives in is very healthy, and they have very little fear of the fever there —it being 135 miles from Jacksonville—but he shared the common fear that they might get shut in and cut off by quarantines all around them, and then the refugees might pile in so thick as to bring them the ffiver, so he was glad to get out. Mr. Trawick’s description of his trip— the packed trains—excited crowds —some- times stopped before reaching a town — sometimes locked in the cars and carried through them in quick time—sometimes camping in the woods—is interesting to listen to. He says the people are panic stricken, and abandon home, furniture and everything, to get awav —many starting without any idea where they will finally land —but they must go. He does not think the fever will really be severe at Jacksonville, and with proper caution and a general cleaning up, will soon be over. He blames the city authorities for not preserving a strict quarantine against Tampa and Plant City, where the fever has been ex isting ever since last summer. It is a great misfortune to Jackson ville whether they have much fever or not, as all business is suspended, and will hardly be resumed before winter. It is thought more than ten thousand people have left the city, and they are still leaving. It is feared that the colored popula tion, without employment, and without money, will plunder the hundreds of houses that have been left vacant by their owners, and there is talk of martial law. So far no cases of yellow fever have broken out among the negroes. Organization of tlie Barlow County Far mers’ -Alliance. In accordance with previous appoint ment, the delegates from the various sub alliances met at the court house in Car tersville, August Bth, for the purpose of organizing a county alliance. The body was called to order by I. J. Stephens, district organizer, at 10 a. m. The delegates and visitors then lis tened with rapt interest to a speech de livered by Mr. William Everett, president of the Polk county Farmers’ Alliance. How any man could listen to the sound ad vice and wholesome truths delivered by th is earnest speaker and yet work against this organization, we can't see. After the speech the body adjourned until 1 p. m., at which time the delegates reassembled, and were organized into a comity alliance with the folio wing officers: President, J D Murchison; Vice-presi dent, B 0 Crawford; Secretary, R N Best; Treasurer, R H Dodd; Chaplain, W V Gaston; Lecturer, T J Lyon; Assis tant lecturer,Louis Wilson; Door-keeper, J if Jackson; Assistant door-keeper, Satterfield, of Cassville Farmers’ Alli ance; Sergeant at arms, J C Dodd. After transacting some business of the county alliance, the body adjourned to meet at the same place Saturda3~ before the second Sunday in September. J. M. Lawson, Sec. Koyal Arcanum. The members of the Cartersville Coun cil Royal Arcanum are requested to at tend a special meeting of council at their hall, over Rowan's store, to-night at 8 o’clock. Douglas Wjkle, R. A. Clayton, Regent. Secretary. O. TO.