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IT GROWS BRIGHTER.
The Outlook for the South As
Burning a Rosy Tinge.
MANY NEW INDUSTRIES
me Record for Ihr I’oot Few Week*
Very Fnconraginw Home of
the Npeclal Feature*.
From the Manufactured Record.
Throughout the South there is a
marked revival in industrial matters and
many new enterprises are being estab
lished. A number that were projected
during the boom days, and which col
lapsed when the panic came, are being
pushed to completion now or are being
reorganized preparatory to active work
again. It will be some time yet, though,
before some of these crippled concerns
can be put on their feet, but the outlook
grows steadily brighter. Ix>cal financial
interests have been strengthened, debts
have been paid, and the South generally
has been putting its business affairs in
order during the past two years. The
confidence of outside capitalists in the
South as a place for huge investments
has been greatly increased by the man
ner in which that section has stood the
financial strain, and Northern money will
in the future go into Southern manufac
turing interprises very freely.
Southern papers generally are rejoic
ing over the early completion of the
Watts Steel plant at. Middlesliorough, as
the success of this great concern will be
as important to all Southern industrial
interests its the success of Birmingham’s
first furnaces was to the iron interests of
that section. The success of this plant
will show that the South can make basic
steel on a large scale and at a profit.
One of the Watts furnaces has gone into
blast, the other is ready, and the steel
plant will, it is said, start up early this
spring. Over $2,000,000, it is claimed,
have been spent on this combined iron
and steel plant. Middlesborough is also
to be congratulated that the South Boston
iron works, one of the oldest foundries
in New England, is now carrying out its
contract of removal. Its immense build
ings at Middlesborough have been com
pleted and twenty-five or thirty carloads
of machinery have been received, while
a hundred or more will follow as rapidly
as it can be handled. One vear ago the
outlook at Middlesborough was very
gloomy and its future looked dark, but it
weathered the storm and is now rapidly
improving.
At Basic City the Car works which
were built during the boom, and which
never went into operation, have been
lensed and will soon give employment to
2(X) hands or more. At Staunton the
growth has been greater during the last
two years than in any other equal period
in its history, and the same is true of
Charlottesville. Roanoke, where the
Virginia boom centered, went through
the strain with but few failures and is
fast getting into strong financial shape
again. Even during this period of finan
cial rearrangements it has gone on grow
ing and building houses and pushing its
industrial interests. The inquiry for in
vestments there from local ami out-of
town people is now reported to be greater
than at any time during the last two
years.
In nearly all parts of the South the
same steady growth, despite the panic,
has gone on, ami in every state there
are many signs of new life and activity.
This is especially notieiceable in the cot
ton-manufacturing districts. In the Car
olinas and Georgia, where cotton manu
facturing is developing more rapidly than
elsewhere, many new mills are going up
and old ones are being enlarged. The
best machinery is being put into these
new mills and there is a steady advance
in the production of finer goo Is. New
England will not be permitted to enjoy
a monopoly of the finer class of cotton
goods. Tile South, having captured the
market for coarse goods, will in a few
years become an active competitor in the
higher grades. The room for expansion
in cotton manufacturing in the South is
very great, and the business is not likely
to be overdone unless too many mills are
run on the same class of goods. Though
it raises about three-fourths of the world’s
cotton crop, the South has only 2,500,000
spindles out of a total of 80,000,000 in the
world. With almost unlimited water
power running to waste in parts of the
South, and with cheap coal in other
parts, this section can manufacture its
own cotton, utilize its cottonseed and
compete with the world in cheap output
of goods. But this cannot all be done in
a day nor in a year. It takes time to
build mills, to accumulate capital, to train
skilled help, but this is being done, and
the progress in cotton manufacturing
which is now seen gives promise of a vast
enlargement of this industry within the
next five years.
So much money has been wasted in
gold-mining schemes in the South that
the great majority of business men in
that section, as well as in the North, look
with suspicion upon every reported gold
mining undertaking. The failures have
been widely heralded, but the successes
have had little publicity, though
there are companies which find gold
mining in the South very profitable. If
the inside history of every failure could
be written, it would be found that it fur
nished no real ground for discouraging
gold-mining operations, for bad manage
ment, worthless machinery and stock
jobbing have had more to do with these
failures than any lack of gold ore. Ac
cording to the New York Press there is
a revival in gold-mining operations in
the West. The paper says:
“One result of the low price of silver
has been to divert mining efforts from
that metal to gold. Throughout all the
West and Northwest a marked revival in
in gold mines and placer fields is re
ported. Improved methods have made
possible the working of gold-bearing
quartz and gravel which a few years ago
would have been considered valueless.
Even old abandoned placer grounds are
found to yield a rich return on capital
devoted to working them over by mod
ern hydraulic methods. The Swank pla
cers in Washington are to be worked
over again in this way. The gravel of
the Missouri river in Montana, long
known to carry gold, but not in paving
quantities, for a hundred miles of its
length, is to be brought to the surface
by a powerful machine operated on a
fiatboat, and the gold dust and nuggets
it contains lie saved. The indications
are that our next year’s production of
gold will be far in excess of last year’s,
and it is probable that the yield will go
on increasing so long as the present high
price of gold as compared with silver
continues.”
With this return of capital to gold
mining there ought to Is* some effort
made to secure attention to the abundant
gobi ores of the South, w hich can be
worked at a profit if rightly handled.
WILL NOT DOWN.
The lloopsklrt I»i»cu**ion Becoming
Bidlciiloii* an<WloiiiK Harm.
The hoopskirt will not That
is to say, the newspapers will not drop
the subject. They keep on discussing
it and worrying over it. There is a
great outcry because Queen Victoria
appeared at one of her numerous fam
ily picnics arrayed in a hoopskirt.
But it must be borne in mind that
Mrs. Guelph is old and fat, and liable
to get warm in a mixed crowd of her
family connections ; and the hoopskirt
is, as you may say, a cooler.
We are firmly convinced that too
much has already been said about the
impending hoopskirt. The men—in
cluding the newswaper men—Lave
made and are making a great deal too
much fuss about it. If the women
take a notion to wear hoopsjeirts,
they’ll wear ’em, and if they find out
the men are opposed to the fashion
they’ll wear ’em any how just to show
the female sex belongs to the great
and growing party of North American
independents.
The discussion of the matter in vari
ous legislatures is calculated to work
great harm. If any laws are enacted
against hoopskirts, the women will
put ’em on and defy police and con
stables. They’ll get ’em as big as su
gar hogsheads and cause the men to
weep tears of woe at the horrible spec
tacle. Don’t they go through the
streets wiping up the mud and dust
with their demi-trains? Don’t tall
women wear big stripes running up
and down, and short women wear ’em
crossways? Do the majori'y of wom
en care how they look,so long as they
think they are in the fashion?
Why then, should simple-minded
men sit down or stand up and protest
against the hoopskirt? If it be said
the Constitution has protested, we
admit it. Ina moment of forgetful
ness we gave utterance to a long, low
wail on the subject, but after thinking
the matter over, we have determined
not to stand in the way of the hoop
skirt movement. We want the grow
ing generation of young men to see
what their fathers had to stand before
and during the war. —Atlanta Consti
tution.
Don’t Be Too Cultured.
It is not best to be too cultured,
that is to be so polished that people
dare not touch yon for fear of leaving
a blot on your surface.
A house party one summer amused
itself by paying forfeits for all incor
rect use of words and imperfect gram
mar. It was a large party of alleged
cultivation, refinement and intelli
gence in each individual. Somehow
it was not so funny to be made to
ruminate upon such mental fodder as
English grammar.
Husbands and wives, brothers and
sisters, a betrothed pair, life-long
friends, all felt the dire frost of the for
feits. The party really was broken up
by the effort to improve its speech.
There was one utter grammarian in
the house. She was never caught;
she was bred in prunes and lived in
prisms and cast no stones at any
lapsus lingue. But a glance of sur
prise from her well trained eyes was
more terrible than an army of gram
ma rs.
It was admitted by all that she was
too bright and good for any mortal’s
daily better half, but she finally de
cided to reform or thought the game
not worth the candle. At any rate
she gave her beauty and her culture
to a venerable man who had dollars
enough t > cover a multitude of mis
takes in grammar.—Atlanta Herald.
Subscribe to The Ahgus and read the
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you can save at least 20 per cent.
Largest stock of tine footwear in the
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THE ARGUS; DALTON, GA., SATURDAY. MARCH 4,1893.
CIRCULATION, 1,032.
The Argil* Continue* It* Ipwarxl and
On word Journey.
The Argus publishes the following
affidavit made by its Mr. N. H. Haddock,
which tells a tale of its own. When Ihe
Argus changed hands in August, its cir
culation was between f<mr and five hun
dred, and ihi present management is nat
urally proud of its wonderful growth.
Here is the affidavit:
[copy.]
GEORGIA, Whitfield Co:
Personally appeared before me, this
17th day of January, 1893, Norwood 11.
Haddock, who upon oath swears that he
is pressman for The Dalton Argub, and
that for the past three weeks he has
printed forty-three quires of paper (1,032
copies) on each form Os The Argus for
each of those three weeks, and that those
figures represent its circulation for each
of those three weeks.
, .. R. I. Peak,
| seal v jj otary p u blic Whitfield County.
Dalton, Ga., Jan. 17, 1893.
That is what our pressman says—and
the pressman certainly ought to know
how many papers he prints.
And The Argus is still booming. It
proposes to have 2,000 regular subscrib
ers by January 1, 1894.
“Orange Blossom” makes hand
some, happy women, because it
makes healthy women. Sold by all
druggists.
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dy of treatment being made use of, I con
sider that no better blood medicine is
manufactured.”
Keep Your Stock in Good Condi
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Your stock should be kept in good con
dition. Buy your feed supplies from S.
1) Wester, Chattanooga. Cotton seed
hulls and meal a specialty.
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Certificute s
We seldom publish certificates, etc., biW the
following is olie of many letters that are received
daily:
New Orleans, La.. Oct. 10th, 1892.
Dear Aunt Josie: —1 write to let you know
how proud we all are that Mamina is up and
walking about. You know she had not walked
a step since 1 was a baby, and I am now over 12
years old. Somebody brought ns a People's Ad
vocate that had an advertisement in it of some
(ba-tor in Atlanta. Ga.. that could cure any dis
ease. and we wrote to him and got some medi
cine and she took it. She began to mend right
awav, and now says she is well —after she had
tried all the doctors and all the medicines she
could get. She savs she w ishes everybody that is
real bad off would send to him. 1 don't remem
ber the full name. but it had Biieterio in it, and
was at 6’., North Broad street. Atlanta. Ga. Mam
ma says she is coming to see you in the summer
Write soon, Your Neice,
Mary Hansby.
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DO YOU WANT TO ADOPT A BABYI
Maybe you think this is a new business,
sending out babies on application; it has been
done before, however, but never have those
furnished been so near the original sample as
this one. Everyone will exclaim, “ Well I
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little black-and-white engraving can give
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which wo propose to send to you, transpor
tation pa.id. The little darling rests against
a pillow, and is in the act of drawing off its
pink sock, the mate of which has been pulled
off and tiung aside with a triumphant coo.
The flesh tints are perfect, and the eyes follow
you, no m atter where you stand. The exqui
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Ida Waugh (the most celebrated of modern
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also in preparation, to present to our sub
scribers during 1893, other great pictures by
■uch artists as Percy Moran,Maud Humphrey,
Louis Deschamps, and others of world-wide
renown. Take only two examples of what
we did during the past year, “A Yard of Pan
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wife of President Harrison, and you will see
what our promises mean.
Those who subscribe for Demorest’s Family
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Dalton Grows*
WE HAVE
5,000 Population,
14 Churches,
5 Lodges,
3 Hotels,
3 Parks,
4 Fire Companies,
2 Good Newspapers,
1 Monthly Journal,
3 Livery
2 Strong Banks,
1 Military Company,
2 Trunk Lines,
carrying 20 Passenger Trains through the City
Each Dav.
Some of Our Industries-.
Cherokee Manufacturing Com
pany-rough and dressed lumber.
Crown Cotton Mills—sloo,ooo
Capital.
Dalton Argus —Leading Paper of
North Georgia. Largest Circulation in Whit
field County.
Dalton Canning Factory.
Dalton Cotton Compress—capac
ity, 75,000 bales per season.
Dalton Brick Company.
Dalton Female College.
Dalton Gas and Electric Light
Company.
Dalton Guano and
Company.
Dalton Ice Works—2s tons daily
capacity.
Dalton Loan and Building Asso
ciation.*
Dalton Opera House.
Dalton Public Schools —over 600
enrollment.
Dalton Roller Flour Mills—ca
pacity 300 barrels daily.
Dalton Steam Sausage Factory.
Dalton Steam Ginning Company.
Dalton Water Works —capacity
20,000 gallons water How per hour.
Dixie Display Company, manu
facturers of show window fixtures.
East Tennessee, Virgina and
Georgia Railway.
Farrar Lumber Company.
Finley & Chester Machine Works.
First National Bank.
Gardner Hay Press Company.
Georgia Hay Press Company. Ww
Georgia Mining and Manufactur
ing Company—rotten stone polish.
Hardwick & Co.’s Bank.
Hill Foundry and Machine Com
pany.
Hotel Dalton —capacity 200.
Jet Marble Mining Company.
Lewis House —capacity 100.
Manly Manufacturing Company
—Bridge and Jail Builders.
Manly Machine Company —Saw
Mills and Machinery.
Music Teacher—monthly journal.
North Georgia Citizen—a weekly
paper.
Pruden Tanning Company.
Rudd House —capacity 40.
Sanders’ Lightning Horse De <
tacher Company. JI
A. J. Showalter Music Publishing
House—Largest concern of the kind in the South.
The Keeley Institute.
Western and Atlantic Railroad.
Whitfield County Court House —
cost 830,000.
WE RAISE
Cotton, Corn, Wheat, Oats, Hops,
Tobacco Fruits, Wine, Vegetables of all kinds,
Ginseng, Sheep, Cattle, Horses, Mules, Hogs,
Goats, and all kinds of Fowls.
OUR MOUNTAINS
are covered with Oak, Ash, Pine,
Poplar, Walnut and Hickory Woods.
They are replete with Mineral
Springs and Cattle Rauches.
They are full of Deer, Bear, Tur
keys, Galena ore, Rose quartz, Asbestos, Black
and Variegated Marble, Talc and Kaolin.
OUR STREAMS .
Are numerous and full of Fisl
They water fertile valleys, and in them billions
of horse power go to waste.
OUR FARM LANDS
Are fertile, and they can be bought
verj cheap. They are suitable for raising every
known farm product.
OUR MERCHANTS
Are rich and enterprising, and cover
their business in metropolitinn style. Our 11 ‘
terprises are all prosperous and their stocks sc
far above par. Everything is convenient lor
establishment of any sort of industry.
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