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Official Newspaper snerur.^?* nioohix* iVf^YWG Official Newspaper of Coweta County. > iv j iCwTraxi wvvKiy | uWu of Coweta County- VOL. VI. NEWNAN, GA„ FRIDAY. AUGUST 25. 1905. NO. 20 IF YOU DON’T READ THE NEWS YOU DON’T READ ALL THE NEWS- EAST TO WEST AND BACK AGAIN Sights Seen in the Great West by a Georgia Mem ber of the National Editorial Ass'n. NUMBER V. On the Colorado river at Yuma the trip through Arizona ends. The river is the line, and west of it is California. Yuma is a very pretty city. Enterprise has opened a water-diverting canal from the Colorado, 3 1-2 miles below Yuma, and has transformed 50,000 acres of desert into a garden, while still larger dam and development above the city is projected by the government. The brief stop at Yuma was the signal for the appearance of dozens of picturesque native Y uma Indi ans to sell their wares, and many pennies and nickles and dimes fell into the hands of a squaw who carried her papoose strapped to a board in the primeval Indian fashion. The editorial women literally ran over each other to get a turn at holding in their hands the dusky little Yuma, while the men gazed in amazement at the aboriginal denizens-in their gaudy costumes and viewed with as deep concern the raging torrent of the swollen Colorado river, which divides Ari zona from California—divides the mountains and cactus desert of At izona frtm t te sand dunes and salt desert of California. It was after - passing Yuma the real desert was entered. Through New Mexico and Ari zona the desert lands are far above sea level, while the California des ert is nearly all below sea level, in some places 250 to 350 feet below. The departure westward from Yuma for quite a distance is through a bush covered river val ley, with Indian huts and feeble attempts at farming. The river had overflowed its banks and most of the Indians had congregated on unsubmerged sections and passed to., and from their wigwams, by bateaux. All'the while we are de scending into the great desert be low sea level and still further be low the bed of the Colorado river. The reader will at once wonder why this great depression is not in undated. ft does seem to be a strange freak of nature,' and for a second time within the past cen tury the high waters of the Colora do have overflowed the irrigation , canals and the great salt works, as we passed them, had been covered, the region for miles having been converted into its primeval state, that of a vast salt sea. The formation of this desert is thought to have arisen from the pe culiar conditions Xiong the Colora-' do river. It is a frightfully mud dy stream. In fact, it is claimed that more land, than water passes down with its turbid flood, and •thus the transfer of real estate from Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada may well account for the great salt inland sea bed. The delta at the mouth of the Colorado finally- shoaled the Gulf of California at its bead and made an isthmus where a narrow tidal channel had con nected the main gulf with the in land extension. Tide water exclud ed, a sea was the result, which | of the having no inflowing stream is no unusual thing for the ther mometer to range above 100. The day we passed through was an ex- eptionally pretty one. Not a sand storm was encountered. Yet at several points the thermometer egistered at 112. The air has a peculiar effect. It is hot, without forcing perspiration; humid, with out prostrating tendency, where you can sit in the shade and avoid exertion. Another peculiarity about the atmosphere is that you are decidedly more comfortable, when on the train, to keep all doors and windows closed. The deepest portion of the desert the railroad traverses is from Pilot Knob to Mammoth Tank. The distance is about forty miles. The lowest depression is 354 feet at Ogilby Station. While a large portion of the great desert is now under waiter, as previously stated, the result of seepage from irriga tion canals, the water covers a higher section further westward where the great salt works are lo cated, this extra low section being so thoroughly hedged in by. mam moth sand drifts on the water side to protect it from the overflow. But this forty-mile section accents a run that iH full of.interest to the stu dent of primeval conditions. The prevailing winds are from the south, and in the absence of grass growing sod waves of the sandy surface are rolled up and sent northward on missions of destrue tion. The movement is slow—per haps limited to a distance of a few yards yearly—but nothing can stay it* ] ro ress. These sand waves arc ten to fifty feet high, and in their progress overwhelm and de stroy plant and shrub, leaving a desert indeed in their wake. Old Beach is a junction point for a branch line. It is merely a point for a depot, a side track, and a tel egraph office. It is said to be sit uated upon the site of a prehistoric ocean beach where the surround ing country was an arm of the Pa THE APPOINTMENT OP MBS. W. Y. ATKINSON Some St Views Expressed Press Relative the Matter. the COTTON GROWERS’ BIG BARBECUE. Great Success Attended the oath, erlng at Pearl Spring Park Yesterday. No appointment that President Hoosevelt has recently made in the south has been more popular ami more proper than the appointment of Mrs. William Y. Atkinson to be postmistress at Newnan. Mrs. Atkinson is a brave and loyal southern woman. Her beau tiful and most effective devotion to her husband and to his political interests stamp her in Georgia as a woman worthy by record of both brains and service, to rank with Mrs. Felton in the esteem and re spect of our people. In the narrow means that have come to her since the death of her distinguished husband, she has been a diligent and uncomplaining heroine, losing no time in idle ness, and wasting no breath in lamentation, but bravely and earnestly and honestly taking up whatever work her hands might find to do and doing it with her might. The people of Georgia will ap preciate the chivalry and the good judgment which the president combines in tendering this ap pointment to Mrs. Atkinson.—At lanta News. All Georgia will congratulate Mrs. W. Y. Atkinson upon re reiving the appointment of post master at Newnan. There is no more capable woman in the South than the wife of Georgia’s lament ed ex-governor. The Times-lie (•order returns thanks to President Hoosevelt for this appointment Americas Times- Recorder. Picnic at Roscoe. There will be a picnic at Lovers Leap, Friday, Sept. 1st, in honor eific ocean. At this point 249 feet i p 0 p U i ar visitors, Miss below sea level, a branch line of railway extends 28 miles south ward, connecting the towns Braw ley, Imperial and Calexico, centers of settlement in the Imperial Val ley,’-where the work of reclaiming the wonderfully fertile soil from the condition of desert is being done on a mammoth scale, here be ing the largest body of i rrigable i land in'compact form in the Uni ted States, and in connection with an abundant supply of water—a valley destined to be one of the fu ture garden spots of California. Nor can we pass the ’Station of Volcano without brief mention . Tt is properly named. ■ It is 225 feet below sea level, and secured itsj name by virtue of its close proxim Lula Gann, of Columbus, and Miss Atbagene Kersey, of Newnan Everybody invited. Five thousand people gathered at Pearl .Spring Park yesterday to attend the barbecue given by the Coweta Branch of Southern Cotton Growers’ Association. They came from near and far and represented' all lines of business enterprise, in addition to the agricultural inter ests of the county. The occasion was a thoroughly enjoyable one; and everybody went away with the impression that it Was a great day in the history of Coweta 'ounty. * The barbecue and basket dinner served was ample to the demands of all present. Seventy-live ani mals were barbecued and about 100 gallons of Brunswick stew was served. In addition, there was an abundance of good things in the baskets provided by the visitors. The feuture of the occasion was the Hpeaking. Stirring addresses were delivered by Hons. W. C. Wright, W. C. Adamson and John Temple .Graves, in the morning, and Hons. Harvie Jordan and II. A. Hall, in the afternoon. Politics was altogether ignored and the speakers confined them selves to discussion of industrial conditions and problems; especial ly the past, present and future of the Cotton Growers’ Association. Hon. \V. A. Brannon and his aids and the committee in charge of the barbecue deserve hearty commendation for the spleitoid re sults of this occasion; the great success of which was largely due to their wise* and energetically directed efforts. To shim* forever more." Resolved: That in the death of David Langdon Moore this Lodge, as well a* Masonry at large, has lost a member whose life and char acter exemplified in an unusual de gree the principle tenets of our Or der; the State a useful citizen and his family a model father and hus band. Second: That a page l>e set apart in our records on which his name, date of his birth, when he was made a Master Mason and date of Ills (loath shall be inscribed. Third; That these resolutions be entered on the minutes and be pub lished in the papers of the county. A. C. North, R. W. Freeman, J. C. Owenm, Committee. STATE MEETING COTTON GROWERS Important Convention Was Held In Atlanta Last Tuesday. Price of Cotton Fixed. In Mamonam. Important resolutions outlining the plans of the Georgia Division, Southern Cotton Growers Associa tion, were adopted at Tuesday’s convention, held in the hall of the House of Representatives in At lanta. Among the actions tuken were resolutions declaring that the price of cotton seed should be fixed at 30 cents per bushel throughout the State; providing for the appoint ment of a committee to bring about closer relations lietween the cotton growers and the cotton spinners, and with a view to eliminating the speculative feature; declaring that all cotton producers In Georgia should hold their cotton for the minimum price to be fixed by the executive’ committee at its coming meeting in Asheville, N. C.; de daring the growers of the present crop of sea island cotton should receive 20 cents per pound for their product; providing for the appointment of orgunizers to go into each county und militia dis trict in the State; providing for an assessment upon each county of I per cent, per bah* of cotton raised in 1004 for the purpose of paying the expenses of the Stab* Division, and urging that provision be made | for a national organ for the Asso sal t4'o rnis-iiKrea* Li neus,for.i-tlje salt- man’s scraper or plow. The lower levels of this plant, though, bad suffered from the recent inunda tion previously mentioned, and many of the mines still further south had been totally destroyed. But since the overflow has been cut off the water is rapidly evapo rating, and yet they tell us that in former times the tides of the ocean were 203 feet deep right at the lit tie station where the Pacific trains stop and so much pure salt is mined. , , . We now begin the ascent out of ity to a spiing o su p urous mu - ^ (lepression, and on any and water of tempeia ure -> sug j c j ear <j a y a curious effect of reflect eest volcanic fires or direct con itec-: . ,, , , , , , 4 . ! .-a t -.t..,„if j ed sunlight, atmosphere, salt and chloripe gas, always to be seen be tion with sheol itself. in other parts of this great de pression scientists have found mqd springs, or solfataras, of-in credible heat intensity; Nobody dares to explore them. Those ad ventu rous- ly inclined who have (fared to tra verse too near upon their elastic] tween Volcano and Indio, a dis tance of some fifty miles, and called mirage, is the appearance ot a lieautiful body of water at the south, with islands largeundsma)l,' trees and verdure, and bowers of beauty, with water to drink mir- and yielding crusts have had their ; anc j ^ H p are> Just now the feet so badly burned as to make a ^ (J ^ not so complete as most of some of them-permanent cripples. ‘Well indeed may the Mexicans call these-hot .holes “Agua Calientes.” Salton was an interesting stop of the way the real water was there, but we were sure there was noth ing but water over the face of the usual thirsty desert, and the ap- a few minutes. Its sole feature is | parent islands of flower and vine salt production. On the south side. only things of seeming. railroad are the buildings i We passed out of the desert with be-1 for storing and manufacturing the ( Mt. San Bernardiua, snow-capped came, by evaporation in the order j salt, and near by huge piles of it in an( j inspiring, in the distance, and of nature, dry land; a Salt bed, or ! crude state, There is a tramway ] ne xt morning awoke in Riverside, a desert, as you may %all it: but I leading southward to a lower level; the famous garden region of south - now by happy engi^pring it has ■ where the salt is garnered. The j ern California, it wili come in become the bed crfcthe great trans- concentrated form of brine rises f or mention next week, when wc through the earth in capillary way, shall try not to have so much l/j the liquefying water Is driven off by solar heat through arid-.air, and a crust of comparatively pfirtf table continental line iff the Southern Pacific Railway. Throughout the desert the at mosphere is very desiccating. It say. Georgians are acquainted with gardens, but not with deserts. P. T. MoC. It is not our purpose te pro nounce an extended eulogy over David Langdon Moore; but, from knowledge derived from close soci al relations of years, to say a few simple words expressive of our love and respect for the man whose •tried iwo«jbh,‘ t whow genial i,charac t6r, Whose warm and generous friendship endeared him teal] who knew him living, and for us out of honest truth te pay tribute to his memory when dead. He was born in Newberry Dis trict, Bouth Carolina, June 16, 1834; and passed te his reward, be yond the stars August 11, 1905. He was a loyal member of the Methodist church and held te its faith and tenets with an unswerv ing ze ai. lienee it is our sacred duty te publicly proclaim the virtue of him wtyoin life was the builder of his own name and who, upon being taken away by relentless death, left behind him a monument of deeds more lofty than the proudest gifts Jcnown to the books of her aldry. Ilis life was one of uninterHijpted activity. With earnest and uhjtir ing effort he trod the paths that lead through .industry to compe tency. Honest, upright and just with his felJo.wmeu and loyal te his country, thus promptly shown was the key to his whole character; for he was loyal and true in every re lation of life. But one fact we all know: Our hour must come; do what wc may to ward off the mys terious touch which stills forever ail joys,’ all sorrows, all strifes, all conflicts, all hopes and all earthly aspirations. Amid this stern truth we realize a nameless com fort in the thought that every tiling- passes away—the stars, the dust- arid the granite rocks; but as Tiul- wer beautifully expresses it: ‘•To r «<- upf/n'-ome fairer hliore, And bright iifcuveu’B jeweled orowu Opposes Extension of City Limits. Being a modest and rather timid man, I seldom get in reach of the man with the chip on his shoulder. The truth is, I don’t like scrapping at all; and when 1 have to invade the premises of the belligerant par ty, uiid beard the lion in his own den, 1 feel some hesitancy in “foolin’ ” with the aforesaid chip. Now, 1 belong to that ignorant, unsophisticated class known as “factory folks,” by the elite, and somebody may say I ought te hear aiid not lie heard. However, 1 shall oppose the ex tension of the city limits, until the city recognizes the claims of those already inside te equitable treat-1 ineht. I have been in the cotton I mill division of the city of Newnan i ciation. two years, and the street overseer | " r * 8. Copeland, of Coweta has not done fifty dollars’worth of | County, was made a member of work on our streets in that time.; the Committee on Resolutions; We have no water for convenience, representing the Fourth District, sanitation, or protection. VVe have a few miserable sixteen-candle elec trie lights. A band of rioters could come in and assault our peaceable citizens, and spread havoc and desolation, before we could find a policeman or get any assistance from the “powers that Ik*.” The only difference that I can see in lieing inside or out for us is: our street taxes are more than the county road tax, and our streets are ten times worse than the coun ty roads arid our little “belong ings” are double taxed. The proposed extension will nearly double the area te be light, ed, will add several miles of streets to Ik* worked by our hard-earned cash or our brawn and muscle, and will not add very much to the tax able property of the city. As te population, it will add four or five, hundred colored citizens and thirty or forty white citizens. It will add two hundred and fifty negro chil dren to the city school fund, and twenty-five white. V es, Mr. Edi tor, I am opposed to extension. Now, I have fingered the “chip” modestly and gently. E. J. Btkvhknh. Note: Next week The News will present some facts and figures for the Consideration of Mr. Stephens, and others who oppose the exten sion of the city limits.—Editor. The Convention accepted the in vitation extended by VV. A. Bran non, Esq., te attend the barbecue at Pearl Spring. An interesting resolution adopted was that by VV. A. Brannon based on the recent action of the foreign spinners in combining te cut down the consumption of cotton with a view to depressing the price. Mr. Brannon’s resolution states that at the outset the Cotton Growers’ Association floes not desire to Ik* classed as a cotton trust, that it believes in conservatism and bet ter relations between the produ cers and spinners; that it invites the cotton manufacturers to join in the war against the speculators, the arch enemy of the grower and spinner; that its purpose is to maintain the price of .cotton above the cost of production, and de mands this of the world as /just and i.ighj,, and • that the President of the Association lie authorized to appoint a committee with a view to bringing aiiout closer relations f retween the producers and the spinners. Grantviile. ltev. Mr. Williams filled his regular appointment at the Meth odist church Sunday and preached an eloquent sermon. Miss Jennie Smith has returned home, after a pleasant visit to La Grange. Miss M.yrtice Willingham is the| guest of Miss Mary Lizzie Park. Little Mary Hopkins is very ill | with fever. Miss Radelle Shaddix is visiting in Newnan this week-; Miss Elbe Spradlin is visiting Carrollton friends. Several from here attended the barbecue at Oak Grove last week. Miss Mattie Matthews has re turned, after a short stay It Clem. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lancaster arc attending the camp meeting at Flat Rock this week. Tom Alinon and family and Mrs. Joe Lumpkin and family have moved to Grantviile. We welcome them in our midst. We are sorry to learn of the sickness of Miss Perliua Nall. Miss Bessie Humphrier is at home again. Miss Emma Lee Rosser is ex- ^ pected te return home today. I Mr. J. L. Walker visited his parents at Carrollton a few (lays I ago. If you don’t read The News you don’t read all the news of Newnan and Coweta. The News one year for only one dollar.