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The Cartersville Courant-American.
VOL. VIII.
CARTERSVILLE
HER resources and advan
tages.
Asa Home— As a Place of Profita
ble Investment-
Comte 1 ’*’* Coinpet- ncj- and Ilpalth for All,
and F. r unes tor Many—The Garden
Spot of Georgia.
The L’ouhant Amkuican is not given to
Hint class ol “blowing” which has long
since become a chestnut, but when all the
facts bear us out so abundantly we deem
it a duty to the many who read this pa
per in other parts of the United States,
to speak much and often of the wonder
ful natural advantages of our growing
and prosperous county.
Bartow has long been recognized as
the best agricultural county in the
State. All the products of Northern and
Southern climates are here grown, the
roots, cereals and grasses.
While beneath the surface as if nature
has wisely designed, are rich mineral de
posits. Thus while the miner is at work
beneath the surface, the farmer is busy
raising food for his sustenance —the two
tgo hand in hand. Thus Cartersville and
rßartow county are well adapted for great
development. Already are Northern,
Eastern, Western and Southern men
casting a thought this way.
CLIMATE.
The cilmate of Cartersville for both
summer and winter residence cannot be
surpassed in any section of the Uuited
States.
While not as warm and enervating as
the subtropical climate, in winter it is
mild and equable, with scarcely ever a
fall of snow, which seldom lasts more
than twenty-four hours.
Its winter climate may property be
classed as the happy medium between
the extreme cold of the North and the
warm, enervating climate of Florida.
The summer climate of Cartersville is
more pleasant than in the North. The
impression which is prevalent among
Northern people, that the South is hot,
unhealthy and uncomfortable during tne
summer months, in the face of the facts
is entirely erroneous.
During the 305 days of the year there
is seldom one when labor cannot be per
formed in the field.
Most of the early wild flowers are in
bloom in February, and by the middle of
bthat month our winter is comparatively
*‘iided and the spring work begun.
J For those with weak lungs or generally
debilitated, who desire a high altitude,
pure, bracing air and pure water, this,
for an all-the-year-round climate, cannot
be surpassed.
THE TEMI’EKATUHE,
The altitude of Cartersville is nearly
1,000 feet ; that of Toledo and Detroit,
700 feet; Saratoga, N. Y., 1,250; Mack
inaw, Mich., 800. We have the balmy
air of Florida and the bracing air of
Michigan here in your owu land.
Situated on the fertile plateau of the
fragmentary foothills of the Cumber
lands as they break and disseminate in
the lowlands of Georgia and Alabama,
the topography of the county ranges be
tween broken foothills filled with miner
als, between which are interspersed fertile
i valleys, in which grow cotton, corn,
wheat and all the grasses. The devastat
ing band of wardid not lay heavily upon
Cartersville, yet Bartow county was the
feeding ground of thousands ol men and
horses. Both Johnson and Sherman
said they received most of their fouling
supplies from this county during their
marches buck aud forth from Chatta
nooga and Atlanta. We are midway be
tween old “Rocky Face” on the north
and the famous Kennesaw on the south,
■•f’ween these places and near us is the
■istoric Allutoona Heights, which an
swered as the signal station between the
contending armies, while at Cassville and
Bartow are the ruins of seminaries and
iron furnaces. Here were made caunon
for the Confederaeyf and the saltpetre
cave where are large excavations made
while making gunpowder So here in
Bartow county can be and was made
cannon, cannon balls and gunpowder.
Near also are the celebrated Rowland
Springs, so famous years ago.
The principal towns of the county are
Adairsville, Kingston, Allutoona, Euhar
lee, Bartow, Emerson, Pine Fog, Tay
lorsville aud Stilesboro—lß postoflices
in all.
We do not claim any sensational boom
for Cartersville, but few’ towns in the
country show a more steady and healthy
growth, or a more rapid increase in real
estate values.
During this year there have been built
several brick structures that rank with
-hose of the large cities. New residences
ire springing up as if by magic in every
lirection.
wkNew business enterprises are constant
ly being o; ened up, aud trade is on the
Steady increase.
! During the past few months we have
pad put in operation
| A splendid gas plant,
An ice factory,
A National bank,
A chair factory,
A broom factory,
An oil refinery,
A bakery—making the second,
Bottling works,
Large boarding house,
Water works nearly completed—but
we cannot now call to mind all the late
new industries.
The East and West Railroad of Ala
bama—a narrow gunge—is being changed
to broad guage, and with its connections
and extensions will be one of the most
important. lines in this section. Another
road is chartered from here to Gaines
ville. tapping at that point the great
Richmond and Danville system.
The raising and shipping of our unc
qnaled manghuese and iron ores consti
tutes a lively business, and a number of
strong companies are engaged in the
business.
Cartersville is located in the center of
the richest mineral section of the South.
HEALTHFULNESS.
Healthfulness is a question of vital im
portance to any person contemplating a
change of location or selecting a desira
ble place of residence.
We can say truthfully that there is not
a healthier spot in the United States
than Cartersville. There is absolutely
nothing unhealthy in its surroundings
and nothing to produce anything but.
perfect health.
Situated as we are in an elevated
plateau, amid the mountains of North
Georgia, with perfect natural drainage—
the beautiful Etowah river skirting
around from the southwest to the north
east, while Pettit’s creek, a bold, pure
mountain stream, runs through the
northern suburbs.
People coming from the malarial re
gions of the far South, as well as those
with broken constitutions from the rig
orous, blizzard-swept regions of the
North and West, rapidly recuperate
when they come to Cartersville.
our city’s future
is now brighter than at any other period
in her history. A powerful syndicate of
Birmingham and Northern capitalists
have just bought the famous Etowah
mining property whose extensive iron
works were operated prior to the war,
and in connection with a local company,
will doubtless soon have furnaces and
other iron industries under way.
A syndicate composed of capitalists
of Atlanta, Florence and other places
has closed a contract with the Carters
ville Land Company, by which they be
come part of that Company, and guar
antee the location of manufacturing
plants to cost not less than $250,000.
The leading characters in the Etowah
Company syndicate spent a portion of
last week in Cartersville, and after look
ing around at our iron-ribbed hills, the
beautiful location of our city, and her
wonderful natural advantages, were led
to marvel at her wonderful possibilities,
and said the halfhad never been told.
COME TO CAUTEItSVILLE,
If you want health,
If you want wealth,
If you are looking for a mild climate,
If you are looking for a good business
opportunity,
If you are looking for a chance to in
vest in manufacturing industries,
If you are looking for a chance to turn
your money rapidly in real estate.
If you want a good permanent invest
ment, come aud build tenements or busi
ness blocks to rent; build a good resort
hotel; establish a furniture factory; a
chair factory, in fact any wood-working
industry; a furnace, or iron works.
why ?
Because the South is the coming man
ufacturing center. We have timber
lands, iron ore in inexhaustible quanti
ties; gold, manganese and a greater va
riety of minerals than any other section.
The place to manufacture is where the
raw material is most convenient. Hence,
this section is attracting the attention
of the heaviest iron manufacturing com
panies of the country. The South is
catching the immigration from East,
West and North. Capitalists are com
ing, retired farmers are coming, and the
laborer will naturally follow. The latter
can build a house here for two-thirds
what it would cost him North; he can
live much cheaper, besides avoiding the
extreme heat of summer; there is not a
month in the year when lie cannot work
out of doors at any kind of work. In
fact, the South offers more and better in
ducements to you than any other sec
tion. Come aud live where blizzards are
not known: where flowers blossom out
of dooas nine months iu the year; where
two crops of garden vegetables can be
harvested every season; where the stock
can run out aud graze nearly every day
in the year.
The late Dr. Dio Lewis, over his own
signature, in speaking of Warner’s Safe
Cure said: “lam satisfied the medicine
is not injurious, and will frankly add
that if I found myself a victim of serious
kidney trouble, I would use the prepara
tion.”
CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1889.
OLD BARTOW’S BLESSINGS.
Health, Climate, A.ip, water and
Magnificent Scenery. *
The Development of Her Mineral Wealth—
Cartersville DeHtined to He a Great
Town—The Need of a Hotel.
Atlanta Constitution.
Almost every town and county in the
State has some advantage of its neigh
bors —some peculiar blessing that they
lack. But a brief sojourn in the grand
old county of Bartow convinces us more
than ever that within her boundaries are
combined more natural blessings than
any region we have ever visited. Bless
ings of health and climate and air and
water and beautiful scenery—blessing!-
of soil for tiie farmer, with rich valleys
for his grass and grain and sunny high
lands for .his cotton. Dame Nature has
kindly furnished almost every farm wit h
springs and branches and meadow land.
Added to these are fruits and flowers
that abound everywhere to sweeten and
make glad the tired hours ol the farmer’s
life. It is on record in the census report
that Bartow produces more wheat to
the acre and more in the aggregate than
any county in the State. Added to this
is her ten thousand bales of cotton and
her bountiful crops of corn ami outs and
potatoes.
But the recent development of her
mineral wealth has overshadowed every
thing else. Her hills and mountains are
absolutely pregnant with rich treasures
that have been quietly sleeping there for
ages' awaiting their time —the time when
they should be needed for tne world’s
business and comfort. Iron and man
ganese and gold and graphite and ochre
are sleeping in close contiguity, but will
not be sleeping long, for already the
work of uncovering hns begun, and
teanfs are on every road, and side-tracks
are crowded with cars that, come and go
every day. Governor Brown is making
large investments in the Bartow hills,
and, we learn, has already secured near
twenty thousand acres.
Cartersville is destined to be in the
near future one of Jhe livest commercial
towns 111 Georgia. She is not on a boom,
but the effect of this increasing mineral
development is plainly visible all over
the town. Over fifty dwellings have been
erected within the past few months.
Two ochre mills have been planted mid
are in successful operation. An oil mill
has been established. Two planing mills,
a chair inetory, foundry, and an ice
factory. The littleainbitions city is now
lighted with gas, and pipes are being
laid for a splendid system of water
works. Public schools have been estab
lished and some storehouses been recently
built that would do credit to a city of
ten thousand inhabitants. There is a
national bank and a private bank, and
altogether there is a general appearance
of business thrift that Cartersville never
saw before. There is a land company
that nearly all the sobstantial land
owners have taken stock in and pooled
their properties, and now offer them to
the public at fair prices and on easy
terms. The officers of this company are
live men and mean business, and offer
liberal inducements to manufacturers
from the North or South. They have
established art agency in Atlanta with
Messrs. Willingham & Son, well known
real estate men, who are now engaged in
spreading before investors the advanta
ges of this splendid location. •
Now, what- Cartersville needs, first of
all, is a good hotel that .vill make a
stranger feel in good humor with him
self and the rest of mankind. She needs
this sadly. No man feels like trading re
investing unless his stomach is in a good
humor. The fact is, he won’t do it. He
will stay a day or two and look round,
and leave with his pocketbook unopened.
The Armstrong has done and is doing
much for Rome. So lias the Inn for
Anniston. Cartersville could well afford
to build a good hotel at her own ex
pense, and lease it to a good landlord
for nothing. It would pay. She ought
to have a commercial house near the
depot and a Whitlock house on the high
lands that overlook the town —those
beautitul highlands only one mile from
the depot, and that have a lovely out
look of mountains and valleys, and the
Etowah river and the high bridge, and
the trains that are continually moving
in sight for miles. A lovelier place nor a
lovelier prospect cannot be found in all
the land. We cordially invite a visit to
Cartersville. Js a surhurhau city of
Atlanta we are proud of it.
“Thedisease proceeds silently amid ap
parent health.” That is what Writ.
Roberts, M. D., Physician to the Manches
ter Infirmary and Lunatic Hospital, Pro
fessor of Medicine iu Owen’s College, says
in regard to Bright’s Disease. Is it
necessary to give any further warning?
If not, use Warner’s Safe Cure before
your kidney malady becomes too far
advanced.
There were frost and ice in some parts
of Indiana and Ohio on the morning of
he 24th inst.
OUR WATER SUPPLY
Clieittltutl Analysts Tnat SHov. * It to be ~1
m Exeeltent finality.
Editors CartersvilleUourant-Amer
ican—Gentlemen: Enclosed I send a
copy of the report of the chemist who
has been employed to analyze the water
supply front the spring near Jones'mill,
from which it is proposed to pump water
for Cartersville. As you will see, his re
port is very favorable, and I think the
city should be congratulated upon secur
ing so excellent an article.
I will state that the artesian wells at
Brunswick. Ga. t and Ocala, Fla., have
twice the amount of solids to the gallon
as Cartersville, and are much harder.
The absolute purity, ns regards any in
filtration of sewerage, is a complete
proof that this water supply comes from
a direction not running under the city.
Yours very resjieetfullv,
A. E. Boardmax, See. and Trees.
Macon, Ga., May 17th, ’Bfl.
A. E. Boardmax, Esq—Dear Sir: Be
low you will find the result of my analy
sis of the Cartersville water. For an
easy interpretation of the report, I will
give the amounts in a gallon, of sub
stances containing contamination, which
a good water shrerlH"irot exceed: 30
grains total solid matter, 4 grains chlo
rine and 12 grains of litnejand magnesia.
It should contain no nitrites and not
over .08 part- of alhmnoid ammonia, nor
.05 part free ammonia in ft million parts.
The Cartersville water is well within
these—limits, and I congratulate you
upon the purity of your proposed sup
ply.
For comparison, I have added below a
few other analyses.
|Tott‘Ohio's! Ni’clNlTi<i| Fre'l AldlPgr
I soil as Kitsl fn lion I HIM! of
, | ids |eTiles!n'ts| n’ltsj’niai’nin| tul
Carter-Hi-illi'.. ’ S.2itJ ,Sl| ,0| ,(l| .04! .011 S.t
Fort’s nr well l I I I I Ii
Dougherty 11.111 .11 .< I .< I 1: 0 :j.n
W Mil la <> IV 13.18 2-0." j .1 ! .1 I .11 ,3 s.S
* “ 22,K0j ;->.sl|l.M'i Oi .01 .00 9.5
(8! 1 ' j
I i £■ ©7pJ- iS a =*
■ =2 * § s- = ’ 3S'
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Well wa 9A Oa wel’l FI:I] 1,72! .49 i K)j03ll0 0
“ “ 4 U1n1b1.95 il\ i o:||2lht 3
“ “ 5 i'.viij-ji'ir. i.:m 000’0r.15 0
London wo. supply lir.ll 1.03 .92 0,01 07j 14 8
The following is a full analysis of aU.
8. gallon of the water. If contains:
C irbonate of Miuniesia 3.48 grains
Carbonate of lime .3.44
Silica 33 ■<
Sulphate Of Vlotnnin Id <■
Sulphate of poLi’sh 30
Chloride Sodium 49 *<
Total solids 8.22 "
Free ammonia 04 part per million
Albumoid 01 “ “
Nitrates None.
Nitrites None.
Respectfully,
Geo. F. Payne, Ph. D. Chemist-.
“BLIND TIGERS” DISCUSSED.
1 ast Sunday was “Temperance Day” a!
the Methodist Dhurch.
The pastor’s announcement that
“blind tigers and tigers that are not
blind” would be discussed at the morn
ing service, filled the house with an ex
pectant congregation. Rev. Mr. Adams
gave his congregation a strong sermon
qn the evils of intemperance, and fhe
importance of enforcing strictly the laws
that have been enacted for the protec
tion of our community against the evil.
Rev. Sam Jones 1 ring present, closed
the service with a caustic arraignment
of the commnni: v which allows the evil
to exist contrary to law, and suggested
some plans for uncovering the animal’s
dens. As usual he went into the subject
with gloves off, and created a sensation,
which w<* hope will result in shutting off
the sourer** of supply which'must bring
destruction to so many young men, and
trouble to so many homes, unless
checked. At tlm conclusion, upon invi
tation. almost the entire congregation
went forward aid indicated their en
dorsement of what the p. eaehers had
said by blinking' bands.
The good people o tie* community are
awaking to the fact Thai it i- not only
necessary to enact laws for the preserva
tion of the peace and happiness of the
people, but also to see that such laws
are strictly enforced.
Shipping It Away.
We see large quantities of hard woods
being shipped from Messrs. Jones’ mills,
at Stamp Creek, iu this county. It goes
to wagou aud carriage factories iu other
sections.
And so it is, Cartersville is shipping
the fine iron ores, manganese and splen
did oak and hickory, which is making
other towns rich.
There’s many a manufacturing estab
lishment in the North, from which a
profit of 3 to 4 per cent, is made on the
investment, when the stockholders might
be making from In to 25 per cent, if they
were located in Bartow county.
Over 750,000 tons of ore have already
been sent from the five shipping ports of
the Lake Superior iron districts. At the
corresponding date last year scarcely
100,000 tons of ore hud been sent for
ward.
JUST RECEIVED I* j
AT
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Porter & Vaughan's.
Another Shipment of Those Beautiful
Hem-stitched Swiss Skirtings.
New and Novel Designs! Porter A Vaughan's •
Embroidery -> Department
Has been a Big Success. The reason is plain. We handle the most stylish goods
at extremely low prices. Porter A Vaughan are constantly receiv
ing New Goods. New line
BLACK SM DRAPERY NETT!
in the loveliest patterns just received. Jjprter & Vaughan are now offering some
Grand Bargains in
white: goods*.
See them! Lovely Styles! Exquisite Patterns! Lowest Prices! Porter & Vaughan’s
SHOE DEPARTMENT
a grand success! Our shoo trade ingoing far ahead of our most sanguine expecta"
tions. We are constantly receiving new shoes. We are agents for
Clement & Ball’s Fine Shoes for Ladies,
J. F. Swain & Go.’s Fine Slices for Children.
Every pair sold under a positive guarantee. All styles and grades of shoes! Lowest
prices on Shoes at Porter & Vaughan’s.
Porter f- & Vaughan’s Reputation for Selling
First-class Goods at Lowest Prices
is Established.
Porter & Vaughan have just received the cheapest line of Handkerchiefs ever before
shown in this market.
All Styles and Grades of Handkerchiefs.
.
New Goods Prices! Porter & Vaughan are selling grand Bargains in
SWISS EMBROIDERY and LACES
Don t fail to see our assortment. Our
DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT
Has been a big success. We have a few fine patterns left. Elegant trim uings o
match, that will be closed out at greatly reduced prices.
See our beautiful line of
\
MUSLINS AND ZEPHYR CLOTHS.
Grand Bargains in
Black Dress -> GToods!
At Porter & \ aughan’s. Fresh and new additions to our
HOSIERS DEPARTMENT
Bought for less than market value. Our prices have been marked very low.
PORTER & VAUGHAN,
Leaders of First-class Goods and Lowest Prices.
NO. 51.