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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. Vyrf* vab? 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Children IST CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. * Es! |pfl Best Gough Syrup. Tastes good. Use vSm -JriH in tim< Sold by druggists. DRY GOODS! DRY GOODS! Our 1110313111316 Bargains! ; ; : Inspect the Goods, compare tlie Prices and you must admit that We are offering' the opportunity of the Season. R. H. GARWOOD, West Main Street, Cartersville, Ga. NORTH GEORGIA and ALABAMA —EXPOSITION.^ * TO BE HELD AT * Rome, Ga., October Ist to 6th Inclusive. A grand combination of the rich counties hi Cherokee Georgia and North Alabama, to giv( the world some idea of the untold wealth of this section 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 & MON FORT.] "east main street DRY GOODS JSL 3NT 3D Grocery House! Is tlie place to go for * DE-EEC-TA LAVE PERFUMES THE BREATH. BARGAINS In order to make, room for an enormous fall otock we will sell for the next thirty days goods at greatly REDUCED PRICES! We have on hand a large lot of Gents’and Boys’ CLOTHING! That must be closed out at once. JEANS PANTS in all Styles. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to secure GKEATiiARGAINS. Yours truly, GEO. W. SATTERFIELD & SON. bl7-lv STILESBORO _TO_THE FRONT! W. E. Pticket. Dealer in Gen eral Merchandise, 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. I will handle the best grades of Guanos and will be enabled to give the farmers of this section the very best terms. Thanking the people for their past pat ronage and hoping for a continuance of the same, I am, Yours to command, W. E. PUCKETT, Merchant and Cotto'i Buyer of Stilesboro. dec22-ly * IN ADDITION TO OUR COMPLETE LINE OF ?aaey ad Staple taries We carry a good line of Dry Goods, Men and Ladies HATS. We keep the Gainesville Hand-Made Shoe, the best Shoe in Cartersville. All goods delivered free. JONES & MONFORT, s. / % / 4k* Z' # SPECIAL BARGAINS Farm Machinery! ENGINES, GULLATT GINS, McCormick Mowers, Thomas Rakes, Sorghum Mills, One-horse Wheat Driils S2O to $35 vvo G' ,! ' Drills. All guaranteed. SECCUNrD-HAJNTD OUTFIT. Gin. Condenser, Feeder and Engine, Cheap. See me when you want any kind of Farm Machinery. THOMAS LUMPKIN, Cartsrsville, Ga. Office with B. F. Godfrey. BARTOW LEAKE; File, Lite M HceMent Insurant i'i tv cl lines mercantile buildings and stocks, saw, planing, corn amd flour mills insurt and ;l 5 Gin houses and contents Insured in any portion of the county. Best of lui.ipa i senteii Office "West Main street, 3 doors \\ est of the old X. GUreath; orner. [I DO ]