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WHAT A NEWS MAN WROTE HOME A GENTLEMAN WHO OBSERVES THINGS GENERALLY. 0 GOOD HORDS ABOUT OUR ROADS MADE A TRIP THROUGH DALTON TO ATLANTA. i —-' 4 ~~ A SCOUTING PARTY PASSED, OVER THEM RECENTLY AND I r PAYS A COMPLIMENT TO THE IMPROVED CONDITION OF OUR THOROUGHFARES. & (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. • f V * —t i —-—— k IS ct • ir.r’r r ~ r ‘itrinvflr roCTfr ui- I EL BH~/|w bh u L (bb I JSIK' aw*. •'»»■■■ i WP" W .■rMßmWfe _ “■ JI —— ■—' -2---^- ■■ » > jfeg r --» y - laraHrwfcy —■' '' 'if ~*s ■. f " riß —4 ’ . ~~~ > "" ~lr jm ' «CMHm ■" ™ a gjgL =i s » 3 :jW WpL : gg -<-Xr]lj --Olli-W£BfS|hlpUl y - Xu t -n| ±jgW One of Dalton’s Public School Buildings. 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.