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‘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-
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THE ENTERPRISE
M’F’Q COMPANY
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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
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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
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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.
