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THE NEW ROME LAND COMPANY ROME, <3A. VALUABLE * PROPERTY. II IS company has some 2,000 acres of town site prop rty adjacent 10 the city of Rome. The main body, ab >u i,600 acres, adjoins the city on the south and e-.st rides. The older part < f the city is crowd, d upon T L i iii row tongue of la'd lying within the “Y formed by the Bie i ii as tbe'O s'avaula and Etowah rivers, which forms the Ksj. The Oostanaula and Etowah rivers are spanned with- KC TtClTiit’te by nine free brsigges. The 1,600 acres come HL. ‘the to EtowairTtyer, and the heart of this splendid is i ot more than one mi-etrom the center of the < ity. ®pera' typography ol’it my be describe* as follows. A BL gently undid‘ting knolls coming down into a tnttllr. H.t rough which 11 >ws Silver Creek, very approprnte ’-v'’A/i -fcbu: it is a crystal st earn fl >wing from springs b the bL||i>(' live miles (list i t.'amt in its short c<>u--c ’o fall of iS7 feet, with a 11 >w of 5,000.00 vr’ds of its source ii tmnsa •"■o BtaLprepcrty is lii_di above \\ 'm’W. THE TRIBUNE-OF-ROME SATURDAY MORNING NOVMBER 8 1890. the other towards Selma, Mobile, A’a.an 1 Meridi n, M ss„ parting in the heart o this property. The hattanoeg-, Rome and Colum’’us ra Wad; from C uittiui oga to Carr lit' n. La* an bein: rap dl ex’ended, pa- « s along the eastern pot 'Lu of the entire length of th ; s land. A steam 'Timmy line start from the city pn pe~ and passes through tlie property in such away ns 'o bring most of it with in e.isv reach lor homes and indust ' nd pi p'-es. Upon land donaeed from tins tract, the Romo Iron CLmpanv is • rec imran 80-ton coke iron turn e, under cor frac : to be finished bv No vember next, als h gie.o A h Phosph fe v\ orks, now nearh completed. Na.hy is the North Georgi and Alabama Ex po'itiotiC niDoiv’s pr perty. twi*nty sev n acres, al o d mated, up 11 whiEm.' —'sj_jiigs and tracks have be n erect d, ther . by st mutating div ers fuaHrTL extensive farming md s* ck rais ing througho t thi- entire section, vHlt inestimable nefits al rea ly resulting therefrom to the city and Tie cou •’ y. A nice ark las also been m ide, and has in tt a clus r of springs hich feed a b-autiful lake, making a very attractive resort, i wh<re ’ii all this gi ♦ country can be found such a group ing of all t < requisites. 1 great indu tri 1 community, as all these severio advantage aa’ 1 —> in truth ul fairness, and to crown all ag and r ver, that nt no distant day will float upon its clear waters grand argosies of commerce to and from the <bill’of Mexico, 800 miles-by the river’s wi dings. On the west ride es Rome, reached by an ther dummy Fis in the Company’s treasury for development, and canno be sold at less than par Lil irty, where iron, fuel, cotton a>id woods of all kinds can bo had at the lowest prices 0 Land Comp ny d- est< BirmmghOi. fifteen years ago the Elytun Land Company’ ,j roperty was .-old for $ ■ iam, the Elyto Land Company paid $1,000,000 in dividends, and has now of it' original holdings sl,sq Suddenly rich. J llome Land Company, vJHßease addicss 1 A i dSSSS Sam’l H. Buck President, Btn c, GuJ line, are som fur hundred acres of this property The C R & C railroad, on its way to Chattanooga, passes through this b< dy of lane; also tiie Rome and Decatur railroad, in operat on as far as Gads e , Ala. This property is especially desi able because of the development ahead' made there through an en terprising spirit. T' e Standard Sea e W"rks have the r ex cellent pla' tupon lands f rmerly a part of it, theGarlock Rub ber Pairing C mpany, and the Rome Rolling Mills, making cotton liesand ILht merchant iron. 1 hes° enterprise already o successful operation up ui lands donated . Ttlie purpose are sufficient guarantee of the future of that 400 acres remaining there. DIRECTORS. R. P. Flower, S. H. Chisholm, - S. H. Buck, C A. Lyerly, M. S. Stokes, J. N. Caplinger, O. W. Snyder, J. H. Allen, E. W. Watkins, Dr. J. Sullivan, J. T Jameson, Ex-Gov. C. H. Sawyer, J. R. Stevens, Hon. Marcellus Eldril J F. Fitzpatrick, C- H- Munger.