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The Kennesaw Gazette,
PUBLISHED ON THE Ist AND’lsth OF
EACH MONTH.
Devoted to the Material Interests and Attractions
for Tourists in the Mountainous Region of
Northern and Northwest Georgia,
REACHED UY
THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE:
Western and Atlantic Railroad :
Under the auspices of the Passenger Department,
BY
THE RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
A. L. HARRIS, MANAGING EDITOR.
SUBSCRIPTION : S 1 a year; six months, 50 cts.
A limited number of acceptable adver
tisements will be inserted in The Kennesaw
Gazette, which publishes a very large edi
tion twice a month, and it is safe to say
that it is read by more people than any
other paper in the South. Great numbers
are distributed in Atlanta, to citizens and
travelers, by the publishers and officials of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad; and at
other points where The Great Kennesaw Route
is represented. For space and terms ad
dress
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Box 57 Atlanta, Ga.,
and you will receive a prompt response.
Atlanta, G-a.., Jan. 15,1887.
The Importance of the W. & A.
Kailroad.
A Georgia Railroad agent was talk
ing to another gentleman awhile back,
and remarked to him, “Until the
sreat wash-out on the Western & At
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lantic Railroad in April, 1884, I never
knew, nor did any of our people have
in fact the slightest appreciation of the
vital importune of the Western & At
lantic Railroad to our line. My work
generally takes me nearly all day to do
it; hut during the twelve days that
the Western A Atlantic Railroad was
closed up by the waterspout wash-out
the business of the Georgia Railroad
went down almost to nothing. I would
go to my office and work about an
hour, and then was through for the
day, and had nothing to do but go up
town and talk with the people, and
kill time as best I could. Everything
seemed to be lonely; and there was a
Sunday look on our road, so far as
freight was concerned, and our pas
senger trains scarcely made a much
better showing.”
“Yes,” said an Atlanta gentleman,
who was standing by, “the experience
of your road was pretty much the ex
perience of the city of Atlanta. I have
not,since the war, seen the city look so
deserted in its business centre as dur
ing the twelve days you mention. I
frequently remarked during that time
to friends that it was strange to me
that with two other railroads coming
into Atlanta from the west the busi
ness of the city seemed to have collaps
ed, like a punctured balloon, when the
Western & Atlantic was closed up. It
is certainly the great trade artery of
the city and state, and as a Georgian,
I am proud of it.”
The scenery on the Western & At
lanta, at historic Mill Creek Gap, and
along Rocky Face Ridge, is unexcelled
in beauty.
The Best Place for a Steel Plant
During these times when the news
papers are booming Northern Ala
bama, and a great many people are go
ing crazy over Birmingham, Sheffield
and other points, it is remarkable that
they have overlooked the Northwest
Georgia region, which is the proper
home for the manufacture of iion and
steel.
Birmingham is being advertised all
over America and a great many other
countries as being the greatest iron
centre in the South; whereas, Bir
mingham gets the best of her ore from
and near Cartersville, Ga., on the
Western & Atlantic Railroad. The
furnace whose iron stands admittedly
at the head of the list in its quality
among all the southern iron furnaces, is
that at Rising Fawn, Ga., and this
furnace gets its ore from Rogers Sta
tion, just above Cartersville, on the
Western & Atlantic railroad.
The Bessemer Steel Works, in Penn
sylvania, also have contracted for all
the manganese ore which can be ship
ped from Cartersville and Rogers Sta
tion, and there is a very large amount
being shipped constantly to supply
the demand.
Under these circumstcnces, it is
somewhat strange that the capitalists
who are running these furnaces and
steel plants keep their establishments
hundreds of miles away, and pay the
freight on the crude material when
they could locate their plants at or
near Cartersville, Ga., and save the
enormous freightage which they pay ;
furthermore, from Cartersville and
Rogers Station via Atlanta and Sa
vannah, or Charleston, the rates can
be made as low or less than from Bir
mingham or Chattanooga to all eastern
points, and scarcely higher if at all
higher to all western points.
We have no doubt that these facts
will attract the attention of capitalists,
and that within the near future the
excitement over the iron and manga
nese business will be transferred to
Northwest Georgia.
Winter tourists who stop at Marietta
can come to the theatre in Atlanta and
hear the best histrionic talent and re
turn to Marietta the same night.
Reaching Atlanta before the enter
tainment begins, they have ample time
after it is over, to take the W. A A.
train and arrive in Marietta at late
bed-time.
The round trip “theatre-goer’s tick
et” Marietta to Atlanta and return
costs 50 cents. During last season
hundreds of people in Marietta availed
themselves of this cheap rate and the
convenient hours on which this sched
ule ran, and it is probable that the
number will be much greater this sea
son. _
If you want to be sure of having a
good and safe ride in luxurious cars on
through schedules, the Western & At
lantic is the road you are hunting for.
It fills all the requirements, and the
way its passenger business has increas
ed, shows that the public, have found
this out.
THETKENNESAW GAZETTE.
Georgia Should Raise her own
Provisions.
A Western & Atlantic Railroad of
ficial was talking to an official of a
western road some time ago, and the
remark was made by the latter that if
the people of Georgia did not quit
raising so many oats, etc., the busi
ness of the railroads would be badly
hurt.
The Georgian remarked to the west
ern man : “Well, I should be delight
ed to see the state of Georgia raise
enough oats, corn, wheat and bacon to
support her population without having
to send to the west for a single pound.”
“You don’t believe that,” said the
western railroad official to the Western
A Atlantic man.
“Believe itsaid the latter with
some emphasis, “it is as honest an ex
pression as ever I gave utterance to.”
“Well, if that should become the
case,” was the reply, “what would the
Western & Atlantic Railroad do?”
“Whv, it W 'uld boom like it never
has boomed before,” said the official of
the latter road.
“I don’t see how you make it,” said
the western man.
“Well,” said the Georgian, “it is
one of the easiest things in the world
to make. If the state of Georgia raised
all of its own provisions, then its cot
ton crop, which amounts in value to
about forty million dollars a year,
would be that much surplus. It could
be expended and would be expended
in traveling, and our passenger re
ceipts would be enormously increased.
It would be spent for buying high
priced furniture, fine carpets, and in
fact on an immense amount of high
class freights on which we would get
three or four times the rates we get on
grain and bacon, and we would thus
haul less tonnage for immensely more
revenue, and that would be approxi
mating the acme of railroading. Yes,
sir, the Western A Atlantic people
would like to see the state of Georgia
raise all of its own provisions, and
they feel very sure ihat if such were
the case their road would prosper be
yond all of its previous calculations.”
Only via the Western and Atlantic
railroad can you go to Elizabeth, “the
marble city of Georgia,” where there
is the most wonderful marble cutting
machinery in the world. Tourists
will miss it if they do not stop at Ma
rietta and go up to Elizabeth, only
two miles distant, immediately at the
foot of the famous Kennesaw Moun
tain.
All parties in South Carolina and
the eastern part of Georgia, who desire
information relative to rates, schedules,
etc., on freight business, and informa
tion about the best way to travel, etc.,
between Georgia and the Northwest,
will please call on, or write to George
M. Brown, Southeastern Agent West
ern A Atlantic Railroad, whose address
is at Atlanta, Ga. He will take pleas
ure in answering all questions prompt-’
ly and in giving all the assistance pos
sible in his line.
The Kennesaw Route is the quickest.
The annual passes and annual per
mits for reduced fare over the West
ern A Atlantic Railroad for the year
1886, will, by order of the Superin
tendent, be honored by conductors un
til February 1, 1887. We give this
as a matter of information for all par
ties holding annuals over the Western
& Atlantic Railroad.
And Still They Come. —The Ar
gus, published at Dalton, Whitfield
county, Ga., on the line of the W. A
A. R. R., 100 miles north of Atlanta,
has the following items showing the
wonderful resources of North Georgia
continually coming to light:
1 here has been a recent discovery
of a group of twenty odd mineral
springs in this county which are ahead
of anything in North Georgia. The
Argus would be pleased to put some
body who has the means to improve
th 3m on the track of a big bargain, and
a fortune.
There is no doubt about the phos
phate deposit in this county. It is near
Rocky Face, on the W. A A. Railroad,
on the farm of W. B. Glaze. We have
some of the shells, which we would be
pleased to furnish for test. If it is of
merchantable quality, there is an
abundance of it, and in a few hundred
feet of the railroad.
At Henry Durand’s restaurant, in
the Union Depot, Atlanta, they set
you a good square meal. Passengers
from the northwest, reaching Atlanta
via the Western and Atlantic trains,
take supper and dinner, respectively,
at this restaurant before passing on to
Florida, or before changing cars to go
via the Ge Tgia Railroad to Augusta,
Aiken and other Carolina points.
Parties in Florida, desiring informa
tion in all matters regarding railroad
transportation, etc., will find it to their
interest to write to or call on J. P.
Beckwith, Florida Agent of Western
A Atlantic Railroad and Central Rail
road of Georgia, at 58 West Bay St.,
Jacksonville, Fla.
Persons in the Northwest who desire
information about passenger rates,
schedules, etc., to Atlanta, Florida,
and other points in the southeast, should
call on or write to J. T. Hosford, Gen
eral Traveling Passenger Agent, West
ern A Atlantic and Associated Roads,
at 79 Clark St., Chicago, 111.
All parties in Indiana, Ohio, Mich
igan, or States east who are soinor
south ; or who expect to ship freight
south should call on or write to C. E.
Harman, General Western Agent of
the Western A Atlantic and Associated
Roads at 131 Vine street, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
One of the livliest places in Ameri
ca is Birmingham, Ala., where real
estate, to the amount of hundreds of
thousands of dollars, frequently chang
es hafids with immense profits. One
of the principal firms in real estate, in
Birmingham, is that of 11. O. A H.
D. Hoyt, in the Clifford House, who
will attend to any business placed in
their hands, with fidelity and profit te
their clients.
The pleasantest way to take pills is
first to have them sugar-coated.