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THEN AND NOW.
How Things Used to Look in Dalton
and Their Appearance Now.
A hotel once stood where John
Thomas is now running a dry goods
business.
A drug store, pool room, bar and an
opera house once occupied the south
east corner of Crawford and Hamilton
which place is *now ornamented (?)
with a pile of burned brick and two
or three standing walls.
A hotel nd brroom once occupied
the corner where the Smith-Hall
wholesale grocery company is now lo
cated.
A cotton compress once did busi
ness near where the Barrett, Denton.
Lynn warehouse now is.
The Dalton fire department once
kept its chemical “distinguisher” in
the building now used by the Barrett,
Denton & Lynn milling compny.
A big brick works once did business
just below the present stove foundry.
A furniture factory was where the
Cherokee Manufacturing Co., is now.
The post office was cnce in the First
National bank building.
A school was once taught in the
basement of the old Baptist church
where the present one now stands.
THE FARRAR LUMBER CO.
An Instution Consideraliy More Than
A Quarter of a Century Old.
The Farrar Lumber Company, of
Dalton, is one of the oldest and best
known companies in the south.
It was established more than a quar
ter of a century ago by the late Col.
William B. Farrar and from time to
time as his sons grew up and finished
school, were taken into the member
ship of the firm.
After the death of Colonel Farrar,
Messrs. J. K.. H. B. and F. F. Farrar
took active charge of the plant and
have with energy and business ac
eumen pushed it to the front ranks of
plants of this kind in the South. They
make everything from a piece of
scantling to a complete house and
n g_ th At ,?oe s -uito t -
of a house of any proportions. They
handle small orders and big orders,
neither of which are turned down.
Their plant is modern in every re
spect. The machinery is kept up to
the minute and they are and have been
in successful competition with many
concerns of like character all over the
country. No plant anywhere has a
more loyal corps of employees than
the ever popular Farrar Lumber Com
pany, of Dalton, and when that fact
is seriously reflected upon it is easy to
understand why the Farrar Lumber
Company meets the sharpest compe
ition, and leads everywhere it is
mown and once dealt with.
44, 000,000 SPENT IN THE SOUTH
THIS YEAR FOR GOOD ROAD 3.
Commenting on the advatages of
ood roads and of what is being done
i that direction. Secretary Wilson
i an interview stated that nearly
14,000,000 was expended during the
-esent year for good reoads in the
•uthern states alone. The secretary
ill speak on the subject at thet good
ads congress this we k at Rishmond
a.
“Through its bureau of good
ads.” the secretary continued, “the
partment of agriculture has been
mulating the nation-wide movement
better highways, sending out ex
rieneed engineers, fore of trained
n to give illustrated lectures.
‘Reports from the department
>w that the $44,000,000 was spent
ring the first ten months of this
ender year.
If this amount Georgia spent
500.000. Begnnig with the first of
mary. 1912 Whitfield county Geor
will put convicts on her public
hways.
WHAT GEC 71 GIA HAS DOME
i the past five years Georgia has
ed 20 per cent to her cotton acre
i the past five years Georgia has
iy ed from the 14th to the 4th Sou
■Wi state in the value of her pro-
Hpl'ue of her crops has more than
■led. a greater increase than any
|/‘ section cf the Union.
Some Figures That Will Prove Most
Interesting to Thousands of Pros
pectors.
A famous Georgian once sail he
did not believe any man was worth
one hundred thousand dollars be
cause he had never seen that much
money at one time and did not
know if that much was in (*l.O
world, says the Macon Telegraph.
Neither has anyone ever seen
$1,030,000,000 at one time. Yet
this year, and next year, and the
following year will see that or a
larger amount of money paid for
the cotton crop of thi country.
What would you do if you had
that sum?
The cotton growing states with a
single crop could —
Pay the entire expenses of the
■ American government for two years.
Pay two thirds of the entire
state, county and city debts of the
United States.
Pay the expenses of the 494 un
iversities and colleges of the coun
try for thirteen years.
Pay for the neA* buildings erect
ed in fifty principal cities of the
country in 1909 and 1910.
Pay the national debt of the Aus
tralian commonwealth, or or Aus
fria-Hungaria, or of Hungary, or
of the German Empire, or of Brit
ish India, or of Japan, or that of
the United States, or in five years
that of France, or in three years
that of all the German States, or in
two years that of Italy, or in four
years that of Russia, or in three
years that of Turkey.
Buy one fourteenth of the rail
ways of the country.-
Buy the entire wheat and oat
yrop of the year 1910.
Buy the lumber output of the
country for two years.
Buy the hay, potato, tobacco, rye,
barley and buckwheat crop of the
past year.
Buy all of the real and personal
property held by all of the church
es of (he country in 1906.
Build at least three Panama ca
nals.
Give every man, woman and
"\child iiWh# United States $lO each.
It “would require two-thirds of
the gold coin and bullion in the
Federal treasury and in circulation
and all the gold certificates in cir
culation to pay for this crop; all
the silver coin and certificates in
the treasury and in circulation
would pay off only half this crop.
All the United States notes in
the treasury and in circulation, all
the national bank notes in the trea
sury and in circulation, and all the
treasury notes of 1890 in the treas
ury and in circulation would bare
ly pay for the crop if cash was
required.
One-fourth of the deposits of all
savings banks, one one-third of all
all those in state banks would be
required to pay for the crop; one
fourth of the resources of the loan
and trust companies would buy the
crop; the deposits of the private
banks would buy two-thirds of the
Georgia product.
Great is the South and cotton
is her (and all the country’s) profit.
THE COTTON STATE.
Georgia Outranks All Others in Quan
tity of Cotton.
The census bureau informs us that
11.269.986 bales of cotton were ginned
this year up to November 14, and
that 2,103.979 bales, more than one
fifth of the total, were ginned in
Georgia, which is thus shown to be not
only a cotton state but relatively the
cotton* state., The total is almost 1,-
500,000 bales more than were ginned
up to November 14 in the record year
of 1904. With such a yield nobody
in the world should need to go with
out shirts during the year to come,
but the troubl is that Southern farm
ers are likely to go without the price
they want for their cotton.
Therefore the Georgia crop, up to
November 14th, at 9c per pound, is
worth $76,132,440. A great quantity
of cotton remains in the fields yet un
picked and much of the crop not yet
ginned, which has been picked. The
total yield for Georgia will undoubted
ly reach $100,000,000.
THE DALTON ARGUS, DALTON GE OR GIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 30, 1911-
FINAL ESTIMATES OF
THE COTTON CROP
New Orleans, Nov. 26—Final esti
. mates on the cctton crop of 1911. re
fer ived by the New Orleans Times-
Democrat from its corresponden.s
throughout the cotton belt, give a
total of 14,833,000 bales, exclusixe
of linters, repacks and similiar ad
ditions.
The figures by states are as follows:
Alabama 1,500.000
Arkansas and Missour 950,000
Georgia and Florida. 2.650.000
Louisiana 375.000
Mississippil,lso.''.°''
j Oklahoma 960.000
North Carolina and Virginia 1,000,000
South Carolina 1,500.000
Tennessee and Kentucky.. 450.000
Texas and California 4,300,000
T0ta114,835,000
A Keel 1 i"-'itute once sobered up
booze fighters where the home of Mrs.
Bitting re— stands.
A distillery once stood on the
Lynans branch, just so<uh of the home
of Mid Foster.
The Confederacy kept a meat pa<-k
--ing house at the west end of the Wil
lowdale bridge on the W. & A. railroad
north of town.
A big fair ground and race track
stood in front of the present home
of Dug Puryear.
A Catholic church once stood at
the corner of West Morris and Pent?
streets.
A cigar factory once stood where
the home of Dr. Jesse R. McAfee ne v
is.
Newspaper offices occupied ti e up
stairs of P>. C. Bivings, J. F. Robert
son, Dave Alper, IL H. Gregory. Phi!
Hayward. Pl oenix Pressing < lub and
John Black’s.
A beep saloon held forth where the
pool room now is.
A cigar factory once made smok
ers where John Black has his hard
ware store.
A school was taught at the corner
Emery St. and Spring Square.
A school was taught in a house
where the Kirk Farrar home is on
A talc mill was run at what is now
the Barrett, Denton, Lynn mill.
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A flour mill was once operated where A canning factory did business
the Smith tent and awning company where the Dalton Excelsior Works is
is now. now.
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NORTH GEORGIA BOTTLING WORKS
DALTON, GEORGIA
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Manufacturers and Bot
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These products are made
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Elk Cotten M ill Dalton, Georgia.
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