REV. W. H. COOPER WRITES.
Mi* Tells I lie Pln*y Woods Folks Some
thing About Our Thriving City.
We copy the following from a letter
wi ilt<*n i>;.' lb v. \V. 11. Coo]h*v. pastor of
the CarteiKville Baptist church, to the
Cuthtw*rti Enterprise and Appeal, publish
ed at (.'uthbert. Gn., his former home.
After detailing our new enterprises lie
says:
Your reader.- ‘-an imagine how things
£iave boomed since there was a certainty
of these important enterprises. Land
buyers have been plentiful, and lots alto
gether neglected before, have been very
much in demand. Prices have run away
up, and, in fact, it is hard to get a man
to price his property now; he is so afraid
he won't price it high enough, and it jvill
be gobbled up before lie can say “Jack
Kobinson 7
I was fortunate in being able to buy
the choicest lot in the place several
months ago before boom prices set in,
and am congratulating myself on being
able to live in the centre of the town, on
a good eminence, with plenty of room,
and all at a very reasonable figure.
I heard yesterday that another com
pany had purchased ninety acres just be
low town, and would build a rolling mill
©n it.
it is thought that a great number of
enterprises will soon follow these that
are now assured. I do not know why
Cartersville should not do as well as Bir
mingham or Anniston. Birmingham
ships ore from this place all the time to
supply her furnaces. T am assured by
those whom i regard as both capable
and truthful men that the ores here are
much mure abundant, and much better
than at these famous Alabama towns.
The difference lias been that there or
ganized and well directed efforts were
made to bring in capital —here there has
been no union ot effort until within the
last few months.
And now that we are on a “boom"
some of your “bloated bondholders” and
burdened capitalists might find a good
investment up here for some of their sur-
plus cash.
We have had quite a “boom" in anoth
er direction of late —a prohibition boom.
It came up in connection with the nomi
nation of a candidate for the State Sen
ate. This county is under a special local
option law somewhat like that of Ran
dolph. The “wet” men put out their
candidate, a very prominent and a
wealthy man, making an issue of put
ting the county under the general local
option law, and so voting on it every
two years. Some of us were quite uneasy,
ior we did not know how things were
going. You may be sure that the “dry"
folks were happy when they found the
“wet” candidate was beaten by nearly
2 % to 1.
Prohibition has been a grand success
here, and the feeling in it.> favor seems to
be on the increase. Only a few years ago
this county was carried for prohibition
by a majority of only 2.
And the absence of bar rooms has not
‘■‘hurt trade," either. Notwithstanding
there .was no boom, and none in sight,
the population of the town lias increased
over 700 in two years.
It always seemed strange to me that a
man in his right mind could think that
the bar room business helped the trade
of the town. The only trade it helps is
the bar room trade, and every dollar the
bar room gets is just that much taken
from the regular merchants that soli
sugar and coffee, and provisions and
clothes. It often happens that the trade
of a town iff hurt from various causes.
Sometimes anew railroad, buildi g up
new towns along its route, takes away
trade. Sometimes a town 25 to 30 miles
©IT is a railroad competing pi int, and
because cotton can be carried cheaper
from that point, that town can afford to
pay a high-T price for cotton and the first
town suffers in her trade.
People are always going where they
can get the most for what they have to
'sell, prohibition or no prohibition. And
yet I have heard men declare that prohi
bition was ruining the trade of a town,
when a town not more than twenty-five
miles off was paying $2.50 more per bale
for cotton. In this way Rome has had
the advantage of our town, but we have
managed to build up on our minerals, in
spite of the disadvantages we were at as
to cotton.
Somehow I always noticed that prohi
bition did not hurt “Shellman,’’ in your
own county. If any of your con lit \ peo
ple are disposed to think that a town
can't do well and build up trade without
bar rooms point them to Shellman.
Crops here are good, though late", of
course, than with you. I heard a man
say a few days ago, right after a good
rain, that he would average 30 bushels
of coin to the acre, whether he had any
more rain or not. Whereupon I engaged
my next year’s supply from him at 50
cents a bushel. The cotton crop is fine,
but nothing can be predicted of that yet-
The clover crop is abundant, and very
fine. <iuite a large amount of it is raised
It is interesting to notice the number
of fine cows about town. Milk and but
ter are abundant and cheap. And ehick
ens—my, my, what a place for preachers
Cartersville is on that line.
But I’ll stop. Come to see us, and get
some cold water, and try Abe “boom."
Very truly, yours,
Wm. H. Cooper.
July 27th, 1888.
♦ Industrial Progress in the Smith.
New York Financier.
The advancement made by the South
during the past few years and her rapidly
increasing prosperity, even when told in
sober truth, plain and unvarnished,
causes a pretty heavy strain on the
credulity of the average business man
who has no opportunity to investigate
for himself. Trade and newspapers,
through indulging in exaggeration and
distorted statements in this rfgard, have
done that section of the country real
harm. It is easy to make a man believe
that which his experience and observa
tion teaches him is possible, but none of
us could have been made to believe twen
ty years ago that the South could have
readied her present condition in so short
a period. No wonder then that good
men, who do not personally know the
facts, take it for granted that the most
moderate statement of the actual and
present condition and progress of the
South are made by “lips; puckered to lie
for a consideration,” as Henry W atter
son remarked of the high protective
tariff men.
Reliable statistics abundantly prove
that the South is going through a course
of healthy and permanent development.
It has all that is needed for self-support,
both in agriculture and minerals and a
vast over-plus for the rest of the world.
Rice, cotton and largely tobacco, to
gether with naval stores, in this country
belongs exclusively to the southern lati
tude and soil. Its timbers furnish the
best land and marine structural mate
rials. There is not an acre of timber
land in the South which is not con
stantly increasing in value, and not an
acre of virgin forest which will not pay a
handsome interest on the investment at
present prices. Capital could go blind
fold anywhere and not go amiss.
The same is true as to farm lands.
The greater proportion of the soil being
underlaid with clay or stone may wear
mid wash, but in every case can be re
stored and fertility perpetuated. The
farmers soutli of the Ohio river, howevei,
have vet one lesson to learn, anu that is,
to purchase their domestic supplies and
send their unused surplus of all kinds to
those who want them either at home or
abroad.
No natural source of wealth is possessed
by the South in greater abundance, or is
being more rapidly developed than her
minerals. Iron and coal being prime
necessities, have attracted more atten
tion, and secured larger investments
than perhaps anything else. The coal
fields and iron belts of the South are now
pretty well known. Their extent and
richness are unequaled elsewhere. These
are in process of development* and
mainly by Southern enterprise and South
ern capital. For coal and iron, Tennes
see, Alabama, Kentucky, Virginia, North
Carolina, Georgia and Missouri are in
the lead. Arkansas is also a coming
State in a variety of stones and minerals
of the most valuable character. Statis
tics show that the iron production in the
Soutli is constantly on the increase,
largely in what is known as coke iron.
The coking coals and the iron ore banks
are in close proximity and most of the
iron carries its own flux. is
also gaining m supplying charcoal iron
—the supply of wood for this purpose
being greater than elsewhere in the
Union. The iron masters of America are
not ignorant of these facts. The ques
tion is of labor, capital and plant. Iron
is of universal consumption, and its
manufacture is carried on in 25 States
and one territory of the 1 nion. There
are rolling mills and steel works in 2i
States besides one territory and the Dis
trict of Columbia. The iron to supply
our own domestic demand is largely
produced in our own country and from
our own materials.
The manufacture of steel is keeping
pace with the production of iron in the
South. Steel is largely increasing in
demand. It is based upon iron. The
methods of reducing iron ore to steel
have been so improved and cheapened in
the years of the present generation, that
this form of refined iron is coming into
general use, and is furnished at less cost
than rolled iron was two years ago.
The Northern States are supplied with
iron tor making the steel now daily con
sumed by the States of the South. The\
are also supplied to a large extent with
the manganese now deemed necessary to
steel production. With all the elements
at hand, the Southern steel industry
should be as renumerative to labor and
to capital as anywhere on earth.
All this is true of the South, and it is
also true that the remarkable progress of
all these industries has been the result of
the individual and collective euergy and
enterprise of that region. Capital from
Europe and the Northern States has
aided to a limited extent in the progress
ive development, but the part has
been accomplished by the labor and
enterprise of the Southern people.
As to the depression in theprice ofiron,
which to a great extent lias retarded
.business in the Southern States, it is
immaterial. The labor troubles in some
places, (mostly the North) the accumula
tion in stocks, and the inconvenience of
carrying them, have produced temporary
flunctuations in prices of iron and its
products; but the consumption goes on
with thy regularity of clock work, and is
constantly iucreasing.
The iron and coal properties, which are
active, have ample resources to continue,
while the inactive properties of this sort
are not now, nor hereafter, to be placed
on a forced market. The steady, health
ful and profitable growth of every State
iu the South, will be quite sufficient to
preserve commercial and industrial inde
pendence. with advantage both to labor
and land ownership.
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IN MINERALS AND AGRICULTURE.
A SSOO Premium for the county making the best general display. Liberal premiums in
every departmen. Send your address for premium list, circulars, &c., to
A. W. WALTON, Sec’y, Rome, Ga.
I DON’T BUY GROCERIES AT JONES &
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"east main street
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JSL 3NT 3D
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BARGAINS
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Wishes to announce to his many friends and
customers that he will be in the field for 1888 with
increased facilities for handling a big business.
COTTON AND COUNTS PRODUCE,
He handles nothing but the best goods at the
cheapest prices and gives nothing but the best
prices for cotton and all kinds of country produce.
Guanos and Fertilizers.
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Thanking the people for their past pat ronage
and hoping for a continuance of the same, I am,
Yours to command,
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Merchant and Cotto'i Buyer of Stilesboro.
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