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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 nourishing 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 irom 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, live 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 ai 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 Rai Iron I. These showed that there were seventy-one different varieties of wood which grew in these conn 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, Keil 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, 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, Kayanile, 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, 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 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 Ma' ble, Tourmaline and Mica, Pink Marble, Hornblend ic 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 Seiiist with Pyrites, Shale, Clay Paint, Tripoli, Oilstone, Tourmaline, Soapstone, Serpentine. WALKE 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 Jt)S. M. BROWN, Gen. Frt. & Pass. Agt. J. L. DICKEY, Asst. Gen. Frt. Agt. ALTON ANGIER, Asst. Gen. Pass Agt. Only via the Western and Atlantic railroad and Marietta you can go with in*!! haff day’s ride of Georgia’s highest mountain —Mount Enota—4,Bo2 feet high. THE KENNESAW GAZETTE. “Chestnuts.” Now, reader, you think we are go ing to get off an old joke; but that’s just what you know about our inten tions. We are in solid, sober earnest when we assert that the Western & At lantic Railroad runs through or near the region where there are more chest nuts than anywhere else in the south. Leaving the Western & Atlantic at Marietta, one can go up into the moun tainous region of northern Georgia, where they are gathered by the bushel; or going via the Western & Atlantic to Dalton, and thence taking a hack or other conveyance out to the famous Cohutta Springs, in Murray county, Georgia, you find yourself immediate ly at the foot of the many-peaked, beautiful blue Cohutta Mountains, where there are immense forests of chestnut trees. We remember some years ago going with a party from Cohutta Springs back ;nto the mountains about nine miles, to the midst of the chestnut re gion. We had a long pull to get there. It was up-hill, or, we should say, up mountains, all the way. Riding on horse-back was impossible; but we had a horse along, on which we had strap ed our blankets and other sleeping ar rangements. Stopping at the beautiful mountain stream about five miles or more beyond the Cohutta Springs hotel we took din uer, and, although it was a plain one of cold biscuits and beefsteak, with some syrup to sweeten off with, yet it was a meal which was immensely en joyed. This stopping-place was imme diately at the foot of “the great climb,” as from this point there is over a half mile of very steep ascent. We, boys, took off our coats, to light en ourselves as much as possible, and as the horse was considered strong and healthy, they were strapped on top of the blankets above him. Among these coats was that of the leader of the party, and in the pocket of that coat was a bottle of syrup. We started, and so did the horse; but before he had gone more than a hundred steps a dull sound was heard, and then a sharp crack, as of some thing breaking; and it was found that the syrup man’s coat had dropped off the horse, and the bottle had broken into a score of pieces, and the pocket was full of the escaping sweet fluid. An immense amount of amusement was created at the syrup carrier’s mis fortune, and the regret over the loss of it for our use at meals was altogether done away with by the comical circum stances under which it was lost. At about sun-set we reached a log cabin, away back in the mountains, which was located in the midst of the chestnut forests. This had been put up by the mountaineers for the accom modation of persons going up there co spend the night. A few chestnuts were picked up before supper, and, af ter having a good round of jokes, etc., the party retired at about ten o”clock. Our chum, whose coat had suffered the syrup-spilling misfortune, conclud ed that the fun ought not to end at his expense; consequently, after the whole party, who were lying on the floor with a couple of quilts under each of them and a blanket or two over them, had fallen asleep, he silently arose and buried about a double hand ful of chestnuts in the ashes, and then laid down for developments. These developments, (or “devil-up ments,”) came within a very few min utes. There was an explosion as of a volley of musketry —the ashes and coals flew over the entire room for a space of ten or fifteen feet, and within the next few seconds a general scene of excitement was manifest. One of the largest live coals had fallen on the blanket just above the throat of the writer; but this was knocked away be fore he was awakened, by his next part ner. It was some minutes before quiet was restored and sleep stole away the senses of all the occupants of the lone cabin amid the mountains. The next day the chestnut hunt be gan in earnest, and it is a matter of private record that the writer and his partner, who was the hero of the broken syrup bottle, picked up a bushel and a half of real, healthy north Georgia chestnuts. The attend ing scenes amid the hundreds of gi gantic chestnut trees which formed the forest, will never be forgotten. Another night was spent at the log cabin, and the next day a late dinner was eaten at the Cohutta Springs hotel, and the sport was over; but not its recollections, which have been green in the writer’s memory during all the vears past. We will only remark that within the next few days after our party came down from the mountains, there was seen a group of mountaineers who brought down 18 bushels, and another who brought down 21 bushels of chest nuts, and altogether, probably 60 or 80 bushels of chestnuts passed by the Cohutta Springs hotel within about a week, to say nothing of those which sought markets by other outlets. The chestnut season among the Co huttas runs from the first of October to the middle of November. Your Choice of Three Routes to Florida. The Western & Atlantic Railroad and the Central Railroad of Georgia are the only lines by which tourists from the Northwest can come via Chatta nooga and Atlanta and have the choice of three routes to Florida, viz: via Sa vannah, via Albany and Ty-Ty or via Albany and Thomasville. They thus have the privilege on tourists’ tickets to stop over at Marietta, the favorite fall and winter resort of Georgia, or Atlanta, the famous Gate City of the South, or at Thomasville or Savannah. These are superb advantages which no other companies running through car lines to Florida can offer to the traveling public. The Western and Atlantic railroad runs more passenger trains over the same rails than any other railroad in . the South. 3