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14 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 sufficient 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 factory at Adairsville to all points southward,are made the same rafts 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 ot 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 effect 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 an 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 locationof 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. 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 Hour, 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 .'ess. 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 ] oints 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 this line would possess practically suburban advan tages. VARIETIES OF WOOD AND ORE ON THE LINE OF THE WESTERN 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, Graphite, 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, <'biome 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 Slate, 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, Crystal 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 Iron, 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 j ious Iron, Manganese, Quartz, Red Hema j tite Iron, Brown Hematite Iron, Marble, i Black Marble, Tripoli, Kaolin, Umber. All further information as to rates of I 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. Editorial Correspondence Thomasville Times* MARIETTA. Both a Winter and Summer Resort. THE WHITLOCK HOUSE —THE W. AND A. R R —’NEATH THE SHADOWS OF KEN NESAW MOUNTAIN MANUFACTUR- ING INTERESTS —COBB COUNTY FARM ING. Beautiful historic Marietta! An oas is where the seeker for health, recrea tion and pleasure finds every wish and taste gratified. Fanned by the sweep ing breezes from the Blue Ridge, the cheeks bloom again with the roseate tint of health, the eye brightens and the step grows elastic. The people are refined, cultivated and hospitable. No where, perhaps, is seen and experienc ed more of that charming hospitality which characterizes refined Southern society, than in Marietta. With an atmosphere, pure, cool and bracing; with crystal waters bursting forth from deep rocky recesses, coming to the sur face with a temperature so cold that ice would be superfluous; with moun tain crests and smiling valleys; with the hum of industry and progressive thrift, Marietta presents attractions equalled by but few places in the South, and surpassed by none. Marietta is the child of the Western & Atlantic Railway —Georgia’s great highway, her artery leading from the Gate City toward the boundless West. This road pours into the coffers of the State, three hundred thousand dollars annually. Under the admirable man agement of the lessees it has been made one of the best and safest roads in the South. Its long passenger and freight trains sweep along its rock ballasted road-bed, over smooth steel rails, at lightning speed during every hour of the twenty-four. So perfect is the management, so systematic its rules, and so rigidly carried out by subordi nates, that accidents and delays are al most unknown. To Governor Brown, president of the company, is due, large ly, the credit for having brought this valuable property of the State to such perfection. Notwithstanding his cares and responsibilities as a Senator of the United States; and there,as elsewhere, he performs every duty with prompt ness and strictness; notwithstanding his public duties, he has found time to make himself one of the first rail road men of the South. In later years he has been ably seconded in this gi gantic work by his son, Joseph M. Brown, general passenger, ticket and traffic agent of the system. Mr. R. A. Anderson, the general superintend ent, ranks among the foremost railway men of the country. This valuable property of the people of Georgia is in good hands. The State will be fortu nate if, in 1890, it secures lessees who will care for the Western & Atlantic Railway, as have the present ones. But we are digressing. A week spent at the Whitlock House, has con vinced us that Georgians need not leave Georgia to find a summer resort and first-class accommodations. The house is located only a square away from where passengers quit the trains. It is fairly embowered in a large open square dotted with splendid shade trees, beautiful shrubbery, and carpet ed with grass. Mr. Whitlock, the proprietor, his excellent lady and charming family, leave nothing un done to make every guest feel “at home.’” There is a charm and a fasci nation about the house and place and the life one leads here, which causes many to linger longer than they antic ipated. All leave with regret. At present there is a delightful crowd of