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hands, and in 1898 there were two large planing mills and factories,
and two furniture factories, employing in all fifty hands, the pay
rolls aggregating a large sum.
There were two small wagon factories here in 1888 employing ten
or twelve hands, and in 1898 there were two large brick carriage and
wagon factories giving employment to perhaps fifty hands, and sell
ing their vehicles over a number of southern states.
In 1888 there were no wholesale houses in the city, but in 1898 there
were five or mbre, representing half a million dollars, with traveling
men all over this and adjoining states.
The taxable property of Hall county in 1888 was $3,290,615, and
in 1898 it amounted to $3,602,594. However, if the real value of the
taxable property could be gotten at it would far exceed the above
amount.
The public school fund of the county was, in 1888, $6,164, but|
last year it had crawled up to $17,850—an increase of $11,686.
| This is certainly a good showing for Hall county educationally.
One cause which has somewhat retarded the growth of the city
commercially for^the past several years has recently been removed,
viz: five toll bridges on different roads leading to the city. The
county commissioners have purchased these bridges and opened them
free to the public. This act will prove a great benefit to the city and
to the people all over the county who for years have had to pay toll
over these bridges, which spanned the Chattahoochee river.
In keeping with the growth in every branch of industry the city
has its system of water works, bringing water as pure and clear asJ
crystal from a spring three miles distant; has an up-to-date electric
light system, extending out all the leading streets ; has a telephone
Bottom
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Phosphoric Acid and Nitrogen.
These essential elements, are
to plants, what bread, meat and
water are to man.
Crops flourish on soils well
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Our pamphlets tel! how to buy and apply-
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GERHAN KALI WORKS,
93 Nassau St., New York.
Gainesvile and Hall county are making great strides forward!
One who has not watched closely the progress of the town and
county may be somewhat astounded when he investigates and finds
the rapid increase in wealth and population. '•
Gainesville of today and Gainesyille of ten years ago are vastly
different. Where then only a few small enterprises strived to main
tain existence, today is seen prosperous business concerns working
scores of people and turning out thousands of dollars worth of goods
annually.
Hall county ten years ago lacks much in being Hall, county of
today. The increase in population and wealth, and the progress made
in educational and other lines ranks Hall with the foremost counties
of the Empire State. .
The people of the town and county are thrifty, and know not
what it is to be idle. They have a mission to perform, and right no
bly are their duties done. Progress is their watchword, and those who
know the truth realize that it does not adorn the masthead in vain.
Progress means something, and Hall county citizens have exemplified
its meaning. ' V • .
We have endeavored to get at some figures which would show the
true growth of the city and county, and many of them are presented
herewith.
We first take the post office of the city, which gives an insight to
what is done here, and find that in 1888 the postal receipts for the
year were $4,592.55. In 1898, ten years later, the receipts were
$6,282.28. The gumber of square feet occupied by the post office in
1888, was 1,152, but when the new office is finished next week the
number of square feet used will be 2*418—an increase of 1,266 square
feet. There are twenty-two receivings and dischargings of mail daily I
from and to railway trains, and seven from and to star routes. No
one doubts that m ten years time the office will need 4,000 square feet
to handle the mails here.
The population of the city in 1888 was 3202, and in 1898 it was
4,677. This is confined strictly to the corporate limits and does not
take in the heavy population immediately surrounding the city.'
The taxable property within the city in 1888 was $1,660,000, and
in 1898 it was $2,060,000. This, as in the case of the population, is
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