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9 xi W/ / v M Vx 9w\ v // 0 «/t S| ■ \Z Za • \ \ dM\/\ ® \/ *\ /(f\ °t e [ ; /\ a X ?ll\ *°to Z s' s '-*4-sii Cß *^” 00 ' 1 * 0 M IB \ / kfH ®HHKNJW V*te=r4. Tt'.WOH ■IWEwC ■. >* 7*o * Z>7-J5>«®LG c«S»L' X i >/ / M*"' —Hi I ® <®sHk"A 7 udil %! 4Ws®?® ✓» m "THE ® K§)) v AnEfpKy t§\) /n-» i A Brace of “Corundums.” “Say, Pompey,” said Uncle ’Polio, knocking the ashes out of his cob pipe and filling it up again with a fresh charge of leaf tobacco, “le’ me ax ye a corundum. An’ I bet, by ganny, dat ye can’t answer it.” “I bet I kin, Uncle ’Polio, if ye gi’ me three guesses,” retorted Pompey very confidently, as he spit at a chip about five feet away, but missed it fairly, and added, “Dar, dat don’t count. I know I kin guess better dan what I can spit so fur off*.” “Well den,” said Uncle ’Polio, “Mister Good-Guesser, try yo’ mouf on dis: What am more welcome to de lips dan good brown cooked ’possum an’ ’tater, wid gravy floatin ’round ’em?’’ “Why a kiss from a feller’s sweet heart, ob course. Dar’, I dun guess’d it, now pay de bet, like a man,” ex claimed Pompey in a tone of confident triumph. “He! he! no, sir. Yass, den, but, —ay yi! Dogged if I don’t t’ink you b’leebs ye got it. Well, so, so; —dat carries me way back to when I uster set in de corner wid Maria by de pine knot light atter her daddy an’ mammy crawled off to bed. Well, Pomp, dat wuzn’t de answer; but hit’s so good dat I won’t take yer money, you can keep it.” “Yass, I reckon so, dat beat any answer ye had to yer own corundum; but now, Uncle ’Polio, I put you on de ’xamination stool, wid dis question: What institution in de community am it dat does de people more substanch good an’ conduces more to der happi piness dan enny udder? Now, I got ye on dat. Heh ?” “Pshaw, nigger,” said Uncle ’Polio, with almost a contemptuous look at being considered so ignorant, “any chap could answer dat. It am de rail road whay dey call de ‘Sidetrack,’ ob course. What ye got to say now?” “You kin hab my hat,” answered Pompey, throwing it down on the ground with a “flop.” “I orter hab been knowin’ better dan to t’ink you couldn’t answer so easy a corundum as dat.” J 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 Kailroad offers more advantages for both capitalists and immi -1 grants than probably any other section in the southeast. The requirements sought by both classes, I 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 68 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 suflicien. 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 I which is very decidedly less than it is au- I 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 noithward 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 ratts 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 allot’ 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- I ments at local stations which will be a large j source of revenue to the company, “Come I 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, r londa, bouth Carolina and Alabama. , . The advantage in point of time is. in favor of these manufactories as against their north- THE KENNESAW GAZETTE. 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 less. 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 1 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 Railroad 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 Kailroa I. 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 cotdd 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 listof various woods: Red Oak, Black Oak, Water Oak, Post Oak, Mountain Oak, Spanish Oak, Laurel Oak, Chestnut Oak, Black .lack, Red Ash, White Ash, Blue Asli, 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 ( berry, 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, Argentiferous Galena, Silver Ore, Galena, Mica, Quartzite, Graphit", Chert, Sand stone, Hornblende,Schist, Silica, Feldspar, Mica Schist, Slate, Serpentine, Stea lite, 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, "oapstone, 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, ami Blackhead, < luome Mica. Gohl 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, Silieious 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. PICK ENS. 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 Ma' ble, Tourmaline and Mica, Pink Marble, Hornblcndic 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, Silieious 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 ious Iron, Manganese, Quartz, Red Hema tite Iron, Brown Hematite Iron, Alarble, 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. Marietta, the little “Gem City,” is the choicest health resort of Georgia, and is on the Western and Atlantic railroad, near the foot of the historic Kennesaw Mountain. 9