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THE WESTERN & ATLANTIC
Railroad’s Region for Tourists,
Capitalists and Immigrants.
The attention of the American people is
now, more than ever before, being directed
to the South as a profitable field for invest
ments, and for settlement, by people from
the north and east.
Without premising further, it may be
stated that the territory tributary to the
Western and Atlantic Railroad offers more
advantages for both capitalists and immi
grants than probably any other section in
the southeast.
The requirements sought by both classes,
are health, reasonable fertility of soil, ac
cessibility to markets for the disposal of the
surplus farm or manufactured products, and
such grades of society as are agreeable and
necessary to mental and moral advance
ment.
By the census of 1880, it was shown that
this region was practically the granary of
Georgia. It produces enough provisions to
supply itself and to ship some surplus to
Atlanta and to the other Southern markets.
Within these counties, also, there were rais
ed the same year over 80,000 bales of cot
ton ; hence, here is the field for cotton fac
tories.
It has also been shown that within these
counties there are found 08 different vari
ties of minerals, and 71 distinct varieties of
wood; hence establishments for the manu
facture of iron, of furniture, etc., would find
here profitable return for investment.
On this line, it may be stated that the
water powers in these counties are sufficien;
for the use of hundreds of manufacturing
establishments; but to supplement this in a
very practical manner, the Western and
Atlantic Railroad Company has made re
duced rates on manufacturing coal to all of
its local stations; and it can justly claim to
be the only railroad in the southeast which
has published to each of its local stations a
rate on coal for manufacturing purposes
which is very decidedly less than it is au
thorized by law to charge.
For instance, by reason of these rates, at
Marietta, Ga., manufacturing coal can be
laid down at about $2.25 per ton, and at
points northward toward Chattanooga the
rates grow less, and consequently, the prices
grow correspondingly less.
On manufactured products shipped from
the establishments on the line of the West
ern and Atlantic Railroad, this company
instead of demanding its full local rates,
has made practically prorated rates, as
though they were through points.
For instance, from the cotton lactory at
Adairsville to all points southward,are made
the same rate s as from Chattanooga, ex
cept where the local rates would be less
than through proportion, in which case the
rates are less; and from the same factory to
northern and western points the rates are
the same as from Atlanta, except where the
local rate is less than the W. & A. propor
tion of the through rate in which event, the
rate is less than the Atlanta rate.
The same rule will apply to all manu
factured products from all the local stations
on this line, The company considers that
its true interest is best subserved in pursu
ing a liberal and enlightened policy which
will tend to put all of its local stations as
near as practicable on the same basis as
through points.
The eflect of this policy is shown in the
fact that while the great depression of busi
ness during the past year has affected all
other business in adi unfavorable manner,
the local business of the Western and At
lantic Railroad has shown a steady and very
gratifying increase; and there are at present
in course of construction several establish
ments at local stations which will be a large
source of revenue to the company, “Come
thou with us, and we will do thee good,” is
a scriptural message which the Western and
Atlantic Railroad extends to all.
The best criterion for judging whether a
corporation is worthy of general support is
to see how it acts towards the communities
which it has absolutely in its power.
The Western and Atlantic Railroad in
this respect invites comparison with any of
its connections, or the other roads in this
region, and defies proof of a more liberal
policy by any railroad corporation.
The geographical location of this railroad,
and of its local stations, are such as will al
ways cause manufacturing establishments
hereon located to be able to hold their own
with any others in this latitude.
Around them, or immediately tributary
to them, are the rough materials which can
be put into artificial shapes. Immediately
south, southeast and southwest is the great
consuming section of Georgia, Florida, South
Carolina and Alabama. . e
The advantage in point of time is in favor
of these manufactories as against their north-
ern and western competitors. A merchant
desiring a car-load of flour, for instance, can
get it about two days sooner from the
Adairsville mill than from those at Cincin
nati, or points in Illinois, etc. The chair
factory at Marietta can lay down furniture
in Macon, Ga., two or three days sooner
than those located in St. Louis, Chicago or
Cincinnati, and at rates of freight which are
materially fess.
In the United States Census report of 1880
is the following statement:
“The manufacture of cooperage is in its
infancy, and this and other industries re
quiring an abundant and cheap supply of
hard wood, seem destined soon to reach an
enormous development in the upper districts
of Georgia.”
But one of the greatest possibilities for
capitalists has as yet been hardly touched
upon. This is the manufacture of iron
goods. In Bartow county, for instance, on
and near the line of the Western and Atlant
ic Railroad are iron and maganese ore beds
which several generations will not be able
to exhaust.
From Rogers Station, alone, about fifty
miles above Atlanta, before the present de
pression in pig-iron, there were shipped
about two thousand car-loads of iron ore per
annum. From this same station and from
Cartersville, manganese in large lots is now
being shipped to Pittsburg and to Eu
rope. Before the war, at Etowah, only
four miles south of Rogers, was a very
flourishing blast furnace. Taking Rogers
as a central point in Bartow county, coke,
can be laid down at about $3.00 per ton.
Immediately at the station are very large
deposits of lime-rock and of sand-stone. A
large creek flowing by the station would
furnish what water was necessary. From
Rogers to all western and northwestern
points could be made the same rates as
from Anniston or Birmingham, and from
Rogers to New York, Boston and other east
ern points could be made less rates on pig
iron than from either Birmingham, Chatta
nooga or Anniston.
To parties desiring to go into grape cul
ture, no better region could be found in the
south; and to those desirous of engaging in
truck farming, or the dairy business, here
would be the choicest region.
From any point on the line of the West
ern and Atlantic Kailroad it averages less
than three hours by passenger train to Chat
tanooga, Rome and Atlanta, and to any of
these points from a Western and Atlantic
station the distance is not more than five
hours by passenger train schedule. From
Atlanta, the Western and Atlantic Rail
road runs six passenger trains northward,
per day, and to Atlanta, it runs southward,
five passenger trains per day, all into and
out of Union Passenger Depot; consequent
ly, parties located at any station on th is line
would possess practically suburban advan
tages.
VARIETIES OE WOOD AND ORE ON THE LINE
OF THE W ESTERN AND ATLANTIC
RAILROAD.
At the International Cotton Expositon at
Atlanta, Ga., in 1881, specimens of wood
and ores were on exhibition from the coun
ties, traversed by, or tributary to, the
the Western and Atlantic Railroad. These
showed that there were seventy-one different
varieties of wood which grew in these coun
ties, and over sixty different varieties of
minerals which could be found in the same.
The forest growth is pretty much the
same in all the counties; hence, was not
classified as to divisions, but the ore speci
mens were shown in such manner as to indi
cate their territorial divisions.
The following is the list of various woods:
Red Oak, Black Oak, Water Oak,Post Oak,
Mountain Oak, Spanish Oak, Laurel Oak,
Chestnut Oak, Black Jack, Red Ash, White
Ash, Blue Ash, Black Ash, Poplar, White
Poplar, Cucumber Wood, Swamp Birch,
Mountain Birch, Water Birch, Wild Plum,
Buckeye, Sycamore, Chinquepin, Hickory,
Red Hickory, Red Cedar, White Pine, Yel
low Pine, Spruce Pine, Hemlock, Black
Walnut, White Walnut, Sour Wood, Hon
ey Locust, Black Locust, Sassafras, Box
Elder, Whortleberry, Red Haw, Black
Haw, Iron Wood, Servis, or June Berry,
Crab Apple, Alder, China Berry, Willow,
Wild Cherry, Ivy, Sugar Maple, Mountain
Maple, Red Maple, White Maple, Red
Elm, Corky Elm, Linden, Cotton Wood,
Dogwood, Sweetgum, Holly, Sumach, Cy
press, Mulberry, Red Bud, Persimmon,
Chestnut, Beach, Box Wood.
The following is a list of the ores to be
found in the counties named.
BARTOW.
Brown Hematite Iron, Red Hematite Iron,
Brown Manganese, Kaolin, Specular Ore,
Limonite, Manganese, Crystalized Manga
nese Ore, Ochre, Sulphate Baryta, Gold Ore,
Gold Quartz, Claystone, Limestone, Baryta,
THE KENNESAW GAZETTE.
Argentiferous Galena, Silver Ore, Galena,
Mica, Quartzite, Graphit*, Chert, Sand
stone, Hornblende, Schist, Silica, Feldspar,
Mica Schist, Slate, Serpentine, Stealite,
Soapstone, Asbestos, Serpentine Asbestos,
Glass Sand, Talcose Slate, Crenoid Stems,
Graphite Schist, Talcose Schist, Flexible
Sandstone.
CHATTOOGA.
Coal, Potter’s Clay, Kaolin, Tripoli,
Burrstone, Paint Rock, Brown Hematite
Iron, Limonite, Manganese, Red Hematite
Iron, Millstone Grit, Copper Pyrites, Fossil
Red Hematite Iron, Quartzite, Red Sand
stone, Limestone, Chalcopyrites, Conglom
erate, Decomposed Silica, Chert, Shale.
CHEROKEE.
Plumbago, Stealite, Chrome Sand, Schist,
Baryta, Gypsum and Asbestos, Unakile,
Mica Schist, Feldspar, Brown Hematite
Iron, Pyrites, Limonite, Red Hematite
Iron, Iron Pyrites, Manganese with Iron,
Marble, Kayanite, Manganese, Gold Ore,
Gold Quartz, Garnets, Copper Pyrites, Horn
blende, Talc, Cinnamon Stone, Coppei Ore,
Soapstone, Decomposed Granite, Chert,
Schist, with Graphite.
COBB.
Brown Hematite Iron, Specular Ore, Iron
Pyrites, Mica, Manganese with Iron,
Manganese, Granite, Copper, Pyrites, Kao
lin, Gold Ore, Schist, and Blackhead,
Chrome Mica. Gold Quartz, Honeycomb
Quartz, Hornblende, Quartzite, Garnets,
Graphite, Asbestos, Decomposed Feldspar,
Soapstone.
FLOYD.
Brown Manganese, Limonite, Magnetic
Ore, Manganese Ore, Red Hematite Iron,
Brown Hematite Iron, Limestone, Manga
nese with Iron, Kaolin, Soapstone, Slate,
Micaceous Sandstone, Tripoli, Garnets, De
composed Chert.
GILMER.
Brown Hematite Iron, Silicious Ore, Red
Hematite Iron, Specular Ore, Manganese,
Copper Ore, Plumbago, Gold Ore, Mica
Quartz, Marble, Tourmaline, Gold Quartz,
Mica Quartz, Silver Ore, Oil Stone, Feld
spar, Galena, Schist with Plumbago, Graph
ite, C ay colored with Plumbago.
GORDON.
Brown Hematite Iron, Specular Ore,
Red Hematite Iron, Manganese, Pumice
Stone, Garnets in Schist, Black Slave, Schist,
Plumbagineous Schist, Schist and Graphite,
Tripoli, Schistic Slate, Slate with Plumba
go, Kaolin, Potter’s Clay.
FANNIN.
Red Hematite Iron, Limonite, Manga
nese, Copper Ore, Gold Schist, Sterrotoids.
MURRAY.
Brown Hematite Iron, Chalcopyrites,
Gold Ore,Soapstone, Tripoli, Pyrites, Sand
stone, Sand, Plumbagineous Slate, Schist,
Talc, Kaolin, Talcose Aquillaceous Slate.
PICKENS.
Brown Hematite Iron, Manganese, Red
Hematite Iron, Mica, Slate, Pyrites, Limon
ite, Gold Quartz, Graphite, Titanic Ore,
Gold Ore, Dolomite, Mica Schist, Urystal
ized Quartz, White Marble, Tourmaline and
Mica, Pink Marble, Hornblendic Schist,
Mica and Schist, Variegated Marble, Rutile,
Hornblende, Talcose Slate, Garnets, Ka
olin.
POLK.
Brown Hematite Iron, Slate, Red Hema
tite Iron, Limonite Ore, Ochre, Silicious
Ore, Kidney Iron, Manganese with
Specular Ore, Graphite, Copper Gorsin,
Limestone, Marble, Sandstone, Copper Py
rites, Claystone, Alum, Hornblende, Cop
per Ore, Talcose Schist with Pyrites, Shale,
Clay Paint, Tripoli, Oilstone, Tourmaline,
Soapstone, Serpentine.
WALKER.
Brown Hematite Iron, Manganese, Fossil
Red Hematite, Red Hematite Iron, Oil
stone, Whetstone, Flint, Coal, Indurated
Clay.
WHITFELD.
Brown Hematite Iron, Limonite, Silic
ious Iron, Manganese, Quartz, Red Hema
tite Iron, Brown Hematite Iron, Marble,
Black Marble, Tripoli, Kaolin, Umber.
All further information as to rates of
freight or facilities for passenger travel,
will be very cheerfully furnished on appli
cation to
JOS. M. BROWN, Gen. Frt. & Pass. Agt.
J. L. DICKEY, Asst. Gen. Frt. Agt.
ALTON ANGIER, Asst. Gen. Pass Agt.
The Western and Atlantic railroad
runs more passenger trains over the
same rails than any other railroad in
the South.
SCHEDULES FROM
ATLANTA
TO
ARKANSAS, TEXAS & KANSAS POINTS
VIA
Western & Atlantic Railroad
AND THE
mckenzie route.
Lv Atlanta W& A 750 am 555 pm
Ar Marietta “ 842 am 647 pm
“ Kennesaw “ 901 am 718 pm
“ Acworth “ 9 15 am 7 32 pm
“ Cartersville “ 944 am 800 pm
“ Kingston “ 10 12 am 827 pm
“ Adairsville “ 10 33 am 845 pm
“ Calhoun “ 10 54 am 900 pm
“ Dalton “ 11 40 am 10 04 pm
“ Chattanooga “ 100pm11 35 pm
“ Nashville NC&StL 7 00 pm G 20 am
“ McKenzie “ 12 35 am 11 50 am
“ Memphis L& N 515 am 400 pm
Lv Memphis M&LR 5 55 am 5 25 pm
Ar Madison “ 835 am 803 pm
“ Forest City “ 905 am 830 pm
“ Brinkley “ 10 00 am 930 pm
“ DeValls Bluff “ 10 50 am 10 20 pm
“ Carlisle “ 11 26 am 10 56 pm
“ Lonoke “ 11 45 am 11 15 pm
“ Argenta “ 12 35 n’n 12 05 n’t
“ Little Rock “ 12 55 n’n 12 20 n’t
Lv Little Rock sl&im 1 05 pm 12 45 am
Ar Malvern “ 247 pm 228 am
“ Hot Springs “ 420 pm 410 am
“ Arkadelphia “ 336 pm 320 am
“ Gurdon “ 410 pm 356 am
“ Prescott “ 446 pm 435 am
“ Hope “ 522 pm 512 am
“ Fulton “ 552 pm 545 am
“ Texarkana “ 635 pm 630 am
Lv Texarkana T&PRy 7 25 am
Ar Clarkesville “ .1020 am
“ Blossom Pra’e “ 11 28 am
“ Paris “ 12 03 n’n
“ Brookston “ 12 32 pm
“ Honey Grove “ 1 35 pm
“ Bonham “ 2 18 pm
“ Bells “ 2 55 pm
“ Sherman “ 3 30 pm
“ Whitesboro “ 440 pm
“ Pilot Point “ 535 pm
“ Denton “ 6 28 pm
Lv Texarkana T & P 7 05 pm 7 00 am
Ar Queen City * “ 832pm8 22 am
“ Atlanta “ 840pm8 30 am
“ Galloway “ 857pm8 46 am
“ Kildare “ 918pm9 07 am
“ Jefferson “ 10 00 pm 947 am
“ Marshall “ 10 35 pm 10 40 am
“ Longview “ 11 50 pm 11 40 am
Lv Longview I&GN 12 01 n’t
Ar Overton “ 1 00 am
“ Troupe “ 1 45 am
“ Jacksonville “ 227 am
“ Palestine “ 3 35 am
“ Crockett “ 5 15 am
Innity “ 6 15 am
‘ “ 7 12 am
Houston “ io 30 am
Lv Palestine I&GN 715 am
Ar Jewett “ 9 18 am
Marquez “ 9 57 am
u Hearne “ 12 15 pm
Milano June n“ .... 105 nni
“ : 2 00 pm
Taylor “ 4 40 pm
“ Round Rock “ 523 pm
u “ 6 35 pm
San Marcos “ 840 pm
San Antonio “ 10 50 pm