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WHAT A
NEWS MAN
WROTE HOME
A GENTLEMAN WHO OBSERVES
THINGS GENERALLY.
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GOOD HORDS ABOUT OUR ROADS
MADE A TRIP THROUGH DALTON
TO ATLANTA.
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A SCOUTING PARTY PASSED,
OVER THEM RECENTLY AND I
r PAYS A COMPLIMENT TO THE
IMPROVED CONDITION OF OUR
THOROUGHFARES.
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(By Janies S. Cottrell, Staff Corres
pondent The Chattanooga News.)
A healthy sentiment for good roads
and highway improvements exists all
along the route of the proposed John
ston-Sherman highway between At
lanta and Chattanooga. This was evi
denced in every town through which
our party passed while en route from
Chattanooga to Atlanta on Friday in
The Chattanooga News scout car. The
car was on the road about thirteen
hours, but numerous stops were made
to secure photographic views and data
for an automobile log which will be
issued soon. The run to Marietta was
made without mishap, but slight re
pairs were necessary owing to a blow
out just before the Fulton county line
was reached.
I When the party reached Marietta
a number had congregated to meet
.the car, among them being a special i
car sent out by the Georgian to meet
us. The Georgian was the only At-
lanta paper to welcome us A rep
resentative of the Georgian piloted
our car from Marietta Into Atlanta.
•■4, The distance of jgf y-^’or,' iro iigi\
tha’ n,, .slri of tebuniihs bfe'ttfeteh Chat
tanooga and Atlanta waft ttovehsed
easily. Cntobfia cbiinty, the first en
tered after leaving the Chickamauga
battlefield, has recently done much
toward improving its roads, but Whit
field county, south of Catoosa, shows
the greatest improvement as to public
highways. The entire thoroughfare
through the county, which follows the
famous military road, has been sur
faced with clay and chert. Bartow
county people have also been arous
ed to the good roads ideea, and farm
ers have combined with the county
authorities and greatly improved sec
tions of the road. The route from
Adairsville was identically the route
of Sherman’s march, and the road was
found to be in excellent condition.
The road from Cartersville south is
in excellent condition and, in fact,
the entire line of road into Marietta
•was easily traveled. The worst sec
tion of road encountered was that be
tween Marietta and Smyrna, which
convicts are now working.
Several steep ridges were encoun-
tered, but the car easily negotiated
these, and nowhere was there a bar
rier that could not be overcome.
The sentiment of the farm folks is
reported to be decidedly in favor of
road improvement with no antipathy
•whatever toward the automobilist.
Much could be done to aid the au
tomobilist if the route was marked,
and the Chattanooga Automobile club
wil probably at once take steps to
have this done by placing signboards
from Chickamauga into Marietta.
Members of the Chattanooga News
good roads party who are staying over
in Atlanta Saturday to see the city
are Jesse S. Cottrell, city editor; Wil
liam Cline, staff photographer; Henry
Howard, draftsman, who will prepare
a map and log of the road, and Chas.
H. Howell, member of the Chatta
nooga Automobile club.
Representatives of the Georgian,
including Mathewson, staff photogra
pher, went to Marietta Friday after
noon and there met the Chattanooga
tourists. A photograph of the Chat
tanooga car was made as' it stopped
in Marietta before coming to Atlanta.
The Geeorgian party drove to Mariet-
THE SOUTH AS A FIELD FOR
INVESTMENT.
•‘I would rather Invest in the
southern pari of our country than
elsewhere, for in my opinion that is
the section that is to share more
than the North. East or West in the
I future enhancement of values,”
1 j were the opening words of an inter
> view with Frank J. Gould, of New
York, published in the Manfacturers
, Record of Oct. 26, in which Mr. Gould
dwelt especially upon the Richmond-
Norfolk section of Virginia as illustra
ting what will take place growth
throughout the Eastern or Central
South. He has shown his faith in the
South by putting some million of dol
lars into development enterprises in
I that section, and the Virginia Railway
& Power Company, in which he is
largely interested, controlling the st
‘ reet railways of Richmond and Nor
[folk, is planning to spend much money
in the next few years, including S6OO
i for a new power plant at Richmond
to meet the increasing demand there
for electric Current. Additional ev-
idence of this firin belief in the future
of the territory embracing Richmond. I
! Norfolk, Petersburg, Portsmouth, and
Suffolk is given in fact that the Vir
ginia Railway & Power Co. is begin
ing in this issue of the Manufacturers
Record an advertising campaign on
lines which is described as follows:
We believe so firmly that this terri
tory has so many advantages and will
become prosperous as a center for man
ufacturing and mercantile business
we have bought a page in the Manu
facturers Record, every other week,
for the next twelve months and will
try to show why business men should
come and make their homes and for
tunes here.
THE GEORGIA COTTON CROP
A Classy Detail of What Her Cotton
Crop Will Do if Woven, into a Sheet.
An enterprising Georgian has been
doing some figuring about Georgia’s
annual cotton crop and something
jibout her hogs. Here is what he has
tipped but:
“If) dll th® cottoTi that Georgia
fikbdliti&s ih One year were made into
one sheet, it would cover the entire
face of America and lap over on the
toes of Europe. If all the catttle she
raises in one year were one cow, that
beast could browse on the vegetation
along the equator, while her tail
would switch icicles off the north
pole. Her milk would float a cargo
of her butter and cheese .down the
Satilla and across the Atlantic to
Liverpool. If all the hogs she pro
duces were one hog, he could root the
Panama canal at three roots and his
grunt would jar the cocoa nuts off
the trees in the canal zone. Ain’t
that raisin’ ’em some?”
ta in a Hudson 33, tendered by the
Fulton Auto Supply company, of At
lanta, through the courtesy of Wyck
liffe Goldsmith.
The Hudson car, used by the Geor
gian party, was driven by Thornton
Everett. The trip to and from Mar
ietta was made in an hour each way
despite the condition of the road neai
Smyrna.
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DALTON ARGUS, DALTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 30, 1911.
MAYOR PAUL B. TRAMMELL,
Who has been instrumental in the remarkable growth and improvement of
Dalton the past two years.
LlfiHl ANO POWER RATES
OF THE MUNICIPAL PLANE
THE DALTON COMMISSION MET YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND
FIXED THE COST TO USERS—THE NEW PLANT WILL BE
READY SOON—A TABLE OF MUCH INTEREST TO CONSUMERS.
The Dalton Water, Light and Sinking Fund Commission met yesterday
and established the following rates for light, water and power:
Lighting Rates:
From 1 to 25 K. W. H 12c per K. W. 11.
From 25 to 50 K. W. H 11c per K. W, IT
From 50 to 150 K. W. II . 16c per K. W. H.
From 150 to 300 K. W. II 9c per K. W. H.
From 300 K. W. H. up 8c per K, Wi H (
10 per cent discount cash, if paid by 10th of the tnbntln
The minimum charge is 75c pep month,
Power Rates.
1 H. P. First 50 K. W. H. sc; all over at..» . 3c
*2 11. P. First 75 K. W. 11. sc; all over gt3c
3 H. P. Pirst 110 K. W. H. sc; all over at3c
4 H. P. First 150 K. W. H. sc; all over at3c
5 H. P. First 185 K. W. H. sc; all over at3c
6 H. P. First 225 K. W. H. sc; all over at3c
71/2 H. P. First 275 K. W. H. sc; all over at2c
10 H. P. First 325 K. W. H. sc; all over at2c
15 H. P. First 375 K. W. H. 5c ; all over at2c
20 H. P. First 400 K. W. H. sc; all voer at2c
25 H. P. First 450 K. W. H. sc; all over at2c
30 H. P. First 500 K. W. H. sc; all over at2c
35 11. P. First 550 K. W. H. sc; all over at2c
40 H. P. First 650 K. W. H. sc; all over at2c
50 11. P. First 750 K. W. H. sc; all over at2c
Minimum charges shall be as follows:
; 1 and 2 H. P. Installations.'sl.2s Per. Mo. Per H. P.
2 to 5 H. P. Installationsl.oo Per Mo. Per H. P.
5 to 10 H. P. Installations7s Per Mo. Per H. P.
10 to 50 H. P. Installationsso Per Mo. Per H. P.
The minimum charge applies only where customer does not use enough
current to amount .to the minimum.
Water.
First 3,000 Gallons7sc
3,000 to 5,000 20c per 1,000
5.000 to 10,000 15c per 1,000
gallons and overloc per 1,000
The minimum charge is 75c per wonth.
THE MINERAL WEALTH OF
GEORGIA.
If she had no other natural recou
rces what ever, Georgia, on account of
her inexhaustable deposits of marble,
beyond question the greatest in the
world, would still have to be accord
ed a ranking place among the sister
states of the Union whose future is
conditioned upon the intelligent dev
elopment of their economic wealth.
So inexhaustable are these wonderful
deposits, So peculiarly susceptible
to architectural adornment, that it
is estimated that all the important
monumental landmarks of the world
could be reproduced from them with
out fear of diminution. The princi
pal formation, for instance, a huge
deposit over sixty miles long, from
two or three miles wide and anywhere
from 150 to 200 feet deep, contains at
least five hundred billion feet of work
able marble.
Georgia marble is peculiarly well
adapted for permanency as well as
show. It has a riot of colors no other
stone can boast, ranging from an al
most pure white, through the varying
shades of grey and pink, to a pro
nounced blue and black. And the
wonder of it is, these colors occur in
regular formations, a condition pecu-
liar to the quarries of North Georgia.
The matching is perfect, which makes
it the aristocrat of all finishing stones,
.whether for exterior or interior work.
' A modern building must be able to
i withstand the wear and tear of time
' and the elements, and. if necessary,
* the ravages of fire. Scientifically con-
■ sidered Georgia marble is the best
j building stone on earth, its Trystaline
; grains being completely interlocked,
i making it a very great deal stronger
■ than marbles of New England or Ita
j ly, in which the particles are less co
herent;
This peculiar crystalline formation
gives Oebrgia marble an appearance
pmd durability common to no other
stone. It’s strength is proverbial. It
! can resist a pressure of upward of 10.-
000 pounds per square inch and still
remain Unbroken. It’s absorption is
infinitesimal, less than six-hundredths
one per cent. It’s heat resisting
power is greater than any stone.
Os seven varieties te'stfeA nil were in
jured at 800 degrees Fab., all but 1
at 900 and threfe at 1,000 were not in
jured in fact, until the temperature
had been raised to 1,200, the heat stage
j required to convert marble into quick
-1 lime.
Tn the erection of government
buildings Georgia marble is also play
ing a leading part, and this is as it
should be, because a government build
ing is intended to be a monument to
the National life, something to serve
the needs of tomorrow as well as to
day. Among the more important of
these are the Corcoran Art Gallery
of Washington, and the State Capitol
buildings of Rhode Island, Minnesota,
Kentucky and Arkansas; the New
I York Stock Exchange, the Carnegie
i library, Candler building and Termin-
I al station of Atlanta; the Royal Bank
j of Canada and the Bank of Montreal.
| Winnipeg; the Illinois State Memor
ial, Vicksburg and the I;. & N. pas
! enger station of Louisville.
OUR COTTON
CROP IS
estimated
AI2,SOD,ODD BALE
CONGRESSMAN FROM THTtn
GEORGIA DISTRICT
THE CROP properly ESn
MATED AT 12,500,000 BALES
AND GIVES REASON.
Congressman Dudley M. H lriie ,
representative of the Third oXgu
district, who stopped in Macon f or
a few hours on his way from Mont
gomery to his home in Danville and
gave out a statement on the preseat
cotton crop.
Mr. Dudley is an extensive opera
tor in cotton, was the chairman of the
Georgia delegation to the cotton con
gress and is much interested in the
movement that started there and is
being propagated throughout the cot
tongrowing states. In discussing
what had been done at the congress
he said:
“Well, in the first place the con
gress opened last Tuesday with about
1,000 representatives from the state
in the cotton belt. There were far
mers, bankers, and business men of
all kinds from every state and I feet
that we have started something that
will prove the biggest boost for the
farmer hat has been done in years.
The question that was before the
house wns to correct the error that
has been spread as to the volume of
the cotton crop this year and to de
vise ways and means to market the
crop most advantageously,
“We wanted first In get at thereat
condition of th't crop this year. Each
delegate WAS requested to state ex
ft'ctly just how the crop stood in his
State and after careful consideration
it was determined that the crop this
year will yield about 12.500,00 G bales
and that the Georgia crop on Aug. I
was good for about 2.500.000 bales.
Os course, the farmer is naturally a
bull, but there was a genuine effort
to arrive at the real figures and I am
sure that these are practically cor
rect. Going further we determine 1
that since August 1 there had been
an average deteriation of 28 percent..
“Now. after going into the matter
thoroughly and taking into considera
tion the existing conditions we de
cided that the fair price for cotton
was not a cent below fifteen cents and
that the crop should be held for that
price.
“There are numrous reasons for
this. For one thing, there are annu
ally about 13,000,000 bales of cotton
consumed in this country for comme
cial purposes and as there will be only
about 12,500.000 bales in the crop
this year the demand will be giea pr
than the supply.”
farming lands.
Good undeveloped farming land can
be bought in this county for '
ars on up to thirty five dollars
acre - , , j , large
The Argus only today m' *
young timber land that lie '
five dollars per acre. f
There is a farm within r*
the city which can be bong i
thousand dollars the honie "" fivo
day cannot be be W<
thousand dollar®- 11 "'"IL f or sal®,
other farm within llu- ’ t (ljaE |
which has 256 acres on i h
can be had for three
and three thousand on
three years time or m- ese
will take it. Every acre
lands when 60 b
make anywhere from , _ * baJe t „
of corn to the acre am 13
a bale and a half of
Whitfield county offers thegoU tb
opportunity of anx com
for a farmer who wants t 8
and be able to work and »■
all the year around.