About Atlanta Georgian and news. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1912 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1909)
‘ATLANTA—THE HALF-MILLION CITY” EDITION OF THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. Edwin P. Ansley's Dream, And How It Was Realized He Was Called a Visionary, But His Dreams Came True. A DREAMER of dreams, Edwin P. Ansley Is also one of the foremost architects In the building of the modern Greater Atlanta. Like all dreamers whose fore sight-together with a dauntless courage, tenacity and practical knowledge of the every detail of development—has paved the way toward greater things, he has known the ever sting that fol lows In the wake of laughter, ridi cule and scorn, for such Is ever the'portion of those who dare un charted seas until success crowns their efforts. If there Is a star devoted to de velopment, such a star rose high In the heavens March 30, 1886, and marked the destiny of this man. Young, yet possessing those ele ments of success that combine with wldo experience and sound Judgment the Imagination of the practical dreamer, he blazed the way for a trail of steel that today marks one of Atlanta’s greatest commercial looms where ■ shuttle trains dally bear In and out the traffic of an Empire Stato. With little more than a great and abiding faith In Atlanta's fu ture, scarce five years ago he ac complished tho purchase of old land lot 105. Selling only such as was needod to provldo working capital, ho forged link by l|nk the chain of transformation, costing 3300,000 In development Improve ments alone, resulting in Ansley Park, the South's foremost resi dential section. In this alone he made possible tho addition of more than 32,000,- 000 In city tax returns for 1910. And then—made president of tho Realty Trust Company—ho re- Bowed In central property the har vest reaped from Ansley Park. Again, In the face of financial depression and difficulties appar ently Insurmountable, be nccom- “Down Where the Sunbonnets Grow” F L o 25c to $1.75 Tbs sunbonnets you soo on tbs »vs- nnss, boulevards, at tbe seaside and summer resorts bars tho Horodora label on them. Zhe FLORODORJ1 Wash Dresses for Children and Misses. s o £ 0 ■5 g c3> i C § -2> § o >* 63 .8 l ■*§ §‘ J £ g to £ b] Q -A 1 Oar Florodor* dresses ere knovv by every department etore Jajrer. 8*m- ples, prepaid, any time to merehanta THE ENTERPRISE M’F’Q COMPANY Allantg - * 'V. S. A. '*Customers in 44 Statt*" fr Began Business in 1865 and Now Handles Thousands of Trunks. ita Baggage pany Is one of the old business Insti tutions of Atlanta. For many years It ha* rendered faithful service to a largo number of Atlanta people and to the many visitors who have come for long or brief periods to enjoy tho hospitality of Atlanta. Comparatively few of those whom it serves know anything of the history of this company, yet to those Interested in the progress of what concerns this company is In every sense a home Institution, and Its growth and prosperity have gone along with the progress of the city. It to a stock com pany, the stock being owned entirely, by Atlanta people. The employees are all Atlantans, and the policy of the company Is to pay well for the servlco It employs. The Atlanta Baggage and Cab Corn- after the close of the Civil war. In lt» early days Its capital was small. It owned but few teams and It began life In a modest way by taking passengers and baggage from one station to an other and to various parts of tho city. As travel Increased and the country Its reliable service began to realize a substantial reward. Some estimate of the amount of work It now does can be formed from the fact that It owns and works from 98 to 120 head of stock. W. C. Wilson to the vice president and general manager of the company and no little of Its success and effi ciency Is duo to his capable manage ment. Before becoming vice president of this company Mr. Wilson was sta tion master at the Terminal station and a well-known railroad man. Tho secretary and treasurer to Leopold J. Haas. C. A. P. Ebbert and George T. Mabry are tbe two managers for the company. Both of them have been In the service of the company for lifteen year*. The offices of tho company are at the Terminal station and the union depot, and It handles practically all of the baggage going Into and out of the two stations. The stockholders of the company have always evinced a general and active Interest In whatever was for the good and progress of Atlanta, and have given liberally to enterprises looking toward Its prosperity. pllshed a modem municipal mira cle. Where be found ramsbacklo bouses and waste places, he has substituted uniform grades, a mag nificent fireproof theater nnd of fice building—with more like Im provements to follow—and given to Atlanta a new retail and busi ness section. Such to this practical dreamer of dreams—whose dreams come true for the betterment not only of a Greater Atlanta, but also a Greater Georgia, a true type of tbe commercial conqueror of the New South. C pVCH Brothers Manufactur ing Company began busi ness In 1895. At that time the company engaged exclusively In the manufacture of cotton horse collars, and the product met with universal favor. The growth of tho busincsK has been so remarkable that during the time which has elapsed since organization tho plant has bod to be enlarged a number of times. For Instance, the company now consumes about eight thousand bales of cotton annually, and' Is rapidly increasing the consump tion. The company 'operates live planta, located throughout the country. Besides the very pros perous plant In Atlanta, there are plants In Memphis, Tenn.; Water loo, Ohio; Santa Ana, Cal., and Fort Worth, Texas. Perhaps the most up to dale of the company's plants will be the one now under course of con struction at Cincinnati, Ohio. This one will be ready for business In about ninety days and with tho addition of this plant the output of the company will be Increased about one-third. Tbe collar, as has already been stated, to made of cotton, very light and sanitary. It is of neces sity very soft and adapts Itself to the shape of the horse's neck, thereby making an almost per fect Bt.> In this manner It permits the working of horses which would be Impossible under some circum stances. This collar appeals di rectly to the Southern farmesi being made of tho great Southern staple, manufactured in the me tropolis of the South, and being adapted to their needs. A catalog << Jackson Square yy A “FOR QUALITY’’ It s Just tke Coffss And to the Housewife we waht te say that Yuletide is holiday in fad—wkeh the COFFEE is right. The feng hours of labor itsslf in the preparation of the holiday meal, when turkey and cranberry sauce, pumpkin pis, hslly and mistlstoe, Santa Gaus, music and frosty weather, all combined, bring you to a full realization of a ssu! full ef good chssr, love and fellow-feeling— Then, yss then, is when ths climax of yeur gorgseus meal needs the right kind of coffee. It is the finish that makes you listen. Jackson Square Coffee is the answer—just that, and no more. Blsnded for color, aroma, tasts, body, all to produce quality. Tg ths Housewife we bespeak Con-' fidsnee for Jackson Square Coffee fsr your holiday festivities. We know that a trial now, when you will watch ygur result in coffee makihg, will make our rsward ample. Why? Because ws know our product tQ be perfect in its detail, for which ws have been awarded six blue ribbons by the Alabama Agricultural Association (1908), Montgomery, Ala.; State Fair (1908-1909), Macgn, Ga.j Mecklenburg Fair Association (1908-1909), Charlotte, N. C; State Fair (1909), Columbia, S. C. Try it. Sold at all Grocers in sealed cans. ll Importers Coffee Company, Ltd. l ew Orleans, Quisiana “A Square Deal in Every Can “Satisfaction Our Guarantee” Wonderful Treasury of Mineral Resources Lies Buried in the Soil of the Empire State Geologists tell us that all of the great divisions of geologic history, with one exception, are represented In Georgia. A wonderful treasury of mineral re sources, It follows, lies burled In the soil of the old state. In tills burled treasure house has been found, It to said, specimens of every vartoty of mineral known to the world, with the single exception of tin. Not only are these mineral deposits remarkable for thslr variety, but for their quality and extent as well. Over 38,000.000 to the estimated value of the output of Georgia’s mineral re sources for the past year. This I* nearly double tho output nine years ago. And many of the valuable min erals In the state have never been com mercially worked, while others which arc now Important commercial factors are. as Industries, still In their Infancy. The famous Georgia marbles, which 25 years ago were hardly of any lmpdr- tanoe commercially, this year yielded an output of over 31,000,000, while at the present time tbe most mineral resource of the stats, has jumped In value during the last eight years from a little over 31.000,000 to more than 32,000.000 for the present year, and the mineral waters of ths state have recently come to be of such Importance that their annual output to now equal to that of gold, or more than 330.000. The Story of Gold. The story of gold In Georgia la full of the romance of early days. In tbe ex treme northern port of the state, in a remote section far away from tbe bus* of'cities and the whirl of trade, a quaint little village nestles among the hills In Dahlonega and was continued until the outbreak of the Civil war. Until the rush to the gold fields of California In the middle of the lost century, prac tically all of the gold mined In the United States was from this section of Georgia. During the life of the Dah lonega mint It coined about 33.000.000. It Is eatlmatod that Georg Ihoas pro duced In all about 325,000.000 In gold. It Is Surface -Gold. Georgia gold to what to known as surface gold. In this surface gold she to richer than any other state. It oc curs In narrow belts In the nprthcm part of the state, the most Important of them being the Dahlonega belt, which runs across the stats and Is 150 mile* long and about two to five miles wide. Gold mining In the stato has received a great Impetus within tbs last few years and Is springing into re newed life and vigor. At least twelve companies -have recently been formed nnd are preparing to begin operations on a large scale. It to a far cry from gold to clay. But at present this to the most valuable mineral In the state and Is yearly In creasing In value. ty, for which qualities It 1* known all over the world and Is largely used In tbe construction of the most magnifi cent buildings In this country. Georgia Granite. Granltos and gneisses furnish ths most Important building and ornament al stones In the state. Stone mountain,' within sixteen miles of Atlanta to the most remarkable granite formation known. This mountain, whose barren summit rises 700 feet above the sur rounding plain, to the largest block of solid granite In- the world. It to said to contain 16,000,000,000 feet of work able granite, and has. long been the seat of an Important granite Industry. The stone, which 1* a light-colored granite of remarkable strength and freedom from defects, to widely known and largely used, both as a building stone and In street Improvement. Formations of granite are found at Uthonla which are of scarcely less of the greatest Iron producing states In the Union. This ore occurs In two forms: brown, which Is found In Bar tow, Polk and Floyd countlos, and red. which to even more valuable, nnd Is found In larger quantities than the hrown In Dado, Walker. Chattooga. Whitfield and Catoosa counties. Iron smelting to a comparatively old Industry In the state, but the furnaces of tho old days were primitive In size and method compared with those of to. day. At present there are three fur naces, at Rome, Cedartown and Rising Fawn, with a capacity of over 200 tons a day each. Others are projected on a large scale, and tbe Industry bids fair to Increase Immensely In Importance within the next few year*. Ochre, tbe output of which this year I* valued at ovor 360,000—about equal to that of gold—Is becoming of rapidly Increasing Importance to the state com- merclal y. Tbe entire product of the state Is now shipped to England. whence a larg* part of It returnsiothis i corm " “ - The clays of Georgia are abundant ited. In nearly every nlong the edge of the southern Appa- eMa lachlan mountains. It to a tiny vil lage, consisting of only two stores, half a dozen straggling houses and some ruins. All looks bumble and poor enough. But It to said that after a hard rain one can easily find gold In the mud of the deserted old streets. Auraria to the name of tho deserted town, which I* six miles south of Dah lonega. but hardly to be found on a map today. It was once a thriving town of 16.000 Inhabitants. It depend ed for Its existence solelv on gold min ing, and when the sensational discovery of gold In California In 1849 turned ell of tbe company's products will be mailed upon request the seeker* for the precious metal Westward In such a fury of haste, the fate of Auraria was sealed. Gold was discovered In Georgia In 1829 on Dukes creek. White county, near Dahlonega. The first gold Issued by the United States treasury was mined In Georgia during that same year. For this purpose It was carried overland to the mint In Philadelphia. In 1838 a branch mint was established and widely distribute county In the northern part of the state lower forms of clay used In tbs manu facture of brick and' cheaper crockery abound. The most valuable clay de posits are In a narrow belt from three to fifteen miles wide extending from Augusta to Columbus. In this belt to contained the largest deposit of kaolins In the world, the most valuable of all Georgia clays. They are used In the manufacture of high-grade pottery, pa per filling, tiling, porcelain, sewer pipes and fire brick. Dr. George E. Ladd, director of the Missouri School of Mines, says: “Some of these kaolins suitable for fire clays are more refrac tory than sny of the noted fire clays In the United States.” Ksolin Sent North end West. All of tbe kaolin mined In Georgia now Is shipped to Northern and West ern potteries. The establishment of potteries In tbe state Tor ths manufac ture of this clay to believed to be highly practicable by many experts, in whose opinion sucb a domestic Indnstry would greatly enhance the value of tho clay resources of the state. . Next to clay, marble and grantt* are the most valuable mineral product* of tbe state. The output of the Georgia marble quarries today exceeds that of any other state In the Union, with the ex ception of Vermont. The chief marble Industry is located In Pickens county, where there are seven marble quarries, yielding an annual output of several hundred thousand cubic feet of stone. The Pickens county marble to remark able for its strength, beauty and varie- are worked largely for tho samo pur- pose*. Other varieties of granite are ob tained from the Elberton. Oglesby, Lexington and Meriwether quarries. These are extremely popular as deco rative stones, and as such havs no su- psrlors In the United State*. One of the most beautiful decorative stones found In the stats Is Serpentine. It to found In Cherokee, near Holly Springs, when It was quarried to some extent a few years ago. Tbe larger part of the product was shipped to Chicago, where it was used In Interior decoration. It to also used for a simi lar purpose In tbe Prudential building In Atlanta. This stone to of a beauti ful dark green color, streaked with white and black, and tho difficult to work, it exists In decidedly workable quantities in and about the some quar- ~ —Jgv • » w* IS •vtuiuo tu uill country In the form of linoleum. It Is also used In paints. Other Minerals. Bauxite, which we* first discovered In 1821 In tho little French town of Baux, was first found In America In Floyd county, Georgia, hi 1889. It oc. curs In large quantities, just how large * J 101 **™toly known, In FToyd and other counties of Georgia. Prac tically all of tho bauxite mined Intiio state Is shipped to New York and Penn sylvania, where the alumina Is ry. Limestones, In extensive use as build ing stones and In road material, exist In large quantities In northwestern Georgia. The most Important of these limestones Is Knox dolomite, which be sides being used as a building stone supplies about all of the lime used In the stato. Limestone Is also used largely In ths manufacture of Portland cement. At Rockmart, In Polk county. I* the larg est cement plant In the South. From this cement the Louisville and Nash ville freight terminal at Atlanta was constructed. Two other cement plants are now In construction at Rockmart. Mountain of 8olid Slate. At Rockmart to also the largest mountain of solid slate In the United Htates. It to k»'">“j as Signal moun tain. The Rockmart elate quarries yield large quantities of building slate of fine, even texture and uniform blue- black color. In Iron deposits Georgia possesses enough raw material to make her one rated from tlie other mineral *suh- 2SET, •W 'hemlcal process and con- verted Into aluminum or alum. Baux- Ito to comparatively rare, being found hi only a few elates of this country, in France, Germany and Austria. The mica Industry of Georgia to less than one year old, but ha* a promising future. It arista to commercial quan- tK J?V.“ d *• beln * worked with highly satisfactory result*. Being the only electrlo Insulator on tho market and tha only non-inflammable quantity known. It* use to constantly Increasing, and-the ire’SEStoSi th8 lnd,mry ,n ,b# ,tate For the last few years almost the.en. tiro supply of asbestos mined In tbs United States has been obtained In Georgia. The mlno supplying this ma terial Is located on Sal m Whit* county. mountain In Th# mineral waters of Georgia poe- sesslng medicinal qualities are of rap idly Increasing commercial value. Dur ing the past year the value or these mineral springs has been estimated at about 860,000, almost double tbelr value eight yean ago. Tho main supply of these springs put upon the market ta shipped from Lltbla —' - mini i.urua and AustelL but nearly every county In the state pot- tesses some mineral springs of more or less repute. For th# last few years the value of tbss* water* In Georgia has exceeded that of any other state except Virginia. Some of the other mineral products which hove been profitably wotted In Georgia are coal, sand, manuam - graphite, soapstone, tripoll ami Baryta. Among those which arc known to exist but have not been developed nto silver, copper, lead, sine and gypsum.
