PIONEERING IN TilE SOIJTIIi
HOW 1* TERPRISING YOUNG’
GITIRS ABA SPRINGiNG UP.
TALLAPOOSA, TILlS LATEST OF THEM, SJ¶tUATRD RKTWREN ATLANTA AND BillMimGliAU—TUS EFFECTS OP NORTHX~I CAPITAL

	¶Itwoosa. Ga., Oct 51—Theta is nothlug more curious and striking than 
the quick enterprise whAck now animates the South—the new Smith. as it Is at 
present dIscrIminated by Louxhorn write ra and orators from the South preceding 
and following thu ‘var. The city of Atlanta itoclr, full of liCe mid ambi Lion 
and industry, Is a. vivid illustration of the change which has corns, gradually 
at first, hut at lasi ‘with a clear eousiciousnome of Its own copious strongtb. 
over a, region chat not very long ago. anti in spike or its extraordinary 
natural rtsources, interned to have lout the power to meet. unusual emergenoics. 
The change Is not irsa phenomenal than gratifying.. awl. aitliongli the 
ulguitlcance of it may not yet lie entirely upparent to observers at the North, 
there can be JULIO doubt that this will Wi thnrimnsrhly understood and 
appreciated within a liner Limo. The movement of immlgrat,lnn, so long steadily 
directed to the West, is DOW diverging to the Boutk. One ham only to travel 
through the Carohnaa, through Alabama and Georgia. tO connoes one’s melt that 
the new South is as much different from the oh! as the InCus trions Southorner 
of to-day Is different from his indolent predeoessor, or as the brint and busy 
Allan 1. of to-day in different from rite crawling little city which was almost 
obliterated by Northern shells.

	in no manner does the determined enterprise or the new ~ou;li reveal 
Itself inure agaenalvciiy Pin In its ploneeriuz The presaont Atlanta Is the 
result oC a fearless pioneering. Every lotporhunt city of the South, indeed, 
responds with singular ciastlaity to the pnah of the pioneer. And the 
pioneering, whiob amouBis to regenc’taHorn, gaol on persistently. The great. 
fledifloilt Exposition at Atlanta will show how far It has pine. The thririug 
cities whIch hare sprung up within a few years with, the co-operation of 
Northern capital neumily are witnesses for the new South. To resist the 
luovitable force of enterprise would be considered now by a vast ma— Jorily of 
she South’s popuintlon. a foolish and idle struggle.

What may beproperlycalled. “pioneering iii the eouth” amy ho watched as clearly 
and ertoetirely on tbe line of the Georgia Pftoilta Railway as anywhere else. 
This railway Starts west from Atlanta, passes tbrniigh Tailapuosa and Binulngbsm 
sad then reaches into MiniseippL 11 was constructed only three yearn azo. and it 
has direct connection with Alfred Sulls<s Piedmont Line from Now-York. 
Birmingham is one of the new elliS of rite South which it touches. I presume 
that nearly every one at. theXorthis mow famniar wIth the history of 
Birmingbain. The rise of thus AlBbamu. cIty is like the marvel of a faIry tale. 
Seven years ago it was a Gull village with about 2,000 Inhabitants. At present 
it. has 40,000 Inhabitants, 70 miles ot street railways, and a tax valuation of 
~4,0D0.OOO. The history of Sheffield, Aunlston. Bessemer, and of other Southern 
towns whiob are now mefling forward at a surprising rate, is no lean 
iflatnictIre and interesting. T was lookiug out of a

-window m the principal hotel oflallapoceasfew days ago, and to my amazement I 
saw a “dummy” engine borne on a flat ear attached to one of the freight trains 
of the Georgia Pacitiojust passing hy. This “dummj” was oound to Bessetiter, a 
DOW town further west, and. it is now, I suppose. running In the streets there. 
flen it Is brought to mind that. Bessemer has only been In existence lour 
months, mud tbut, at Its beginning, men anal women went oub into tne woods and 
cut down tress, thus making paths and open sites, some idea. of whab Is 
aeeomj,lished nowadays in Georgia Bud other Southern States by pioneers may be 
acquired. Brsaemcr is a terunities of tho Mobile and Birmingham Bailroatt More 
than $800,000 worth of real estate has been sold there ‘within four months.

TSUAIXMJSZU from whicih place lam sensIng this letter, Is another illustration 
St Southern enterprise, backed by Northern capital. Taliapoosa. in one ot rho 
moat important stations on the GeorgIa Paeiflo Raiiway~ and will eventually be 
the chief railway junction C? Western (%ieorgla. Three or four railroads are to 
run through It, OLS of which will conuect Savannah directly with Chicago. In 
this fashion Tailspoems will be a leading commercial nation between the Western 
and the Southern ooasL Three years ago Tallapooso was an isolated vlliage, 
hardly known to the people of Atlanta, in one of the least populated and most 
lawless counties of Georgia. the abode of moonahiners and shotgun gangs. The 
village then contained about 100 persons, and no maw was ever sure of his life 
there. But a wonderful transloriuiation was efi7oetedby the building of a 
raiLway tlironghthe place, and no more peaceful community than that of 
Tahlapooun. can no found to-day. The georgia Facifie divide’ Him town In two 
parts, and special aceommoclanon trains imow run on this road between Tailapoosa 
and Alignta, which Is somewhat more than. w) miles distant The present 
popularton of TatlapOoSIl. exceeds 1,000, and there uro wore than 200 bunsen in 
tho vihi-age, including a .cvrv of shops, a. good-sized hotel, and many charming 
cottages. By natural growth Tailapoosa would soon grow to a thnYing industrial 
city of 20,000 or 30,000 inhabItants within the next II) years. But caudial can 
easily force irs growth, and this is to be cone, 11 nosslbie, by the Tallap0053. 
Land, MinIng and blanutacturlng Company, accounts of whose work in behalf of 
what is u.lready called “the Birminxham of Georgia” lISTS filed many columns of 
tho leading fsutaera newspapers. this company includes both Nor main and 
Southern capitalists, its President being Col- Qoorce IV. Adair, of Atlanta, and 
one at its Directors being the Hen. John fl. Gordon, Governor of (leorgia. Alt 
the officers and Trustees are well known men, and their purpose is to ostubllsh 
a large and progreb

eive city on rho alto of the old ‘rilIng’s of Tallapoosa. They have purchased a 
large tract oC country contiguous to and rnundn.buat the ‘-hugo, and a. portIon, 
of this has been. carefully laid out in streets and town loki, thu town portion 
comprising 501110 uiOO acres, more or lois The streets, avenues, and naulovanls 
have been inariud and nanieri, a spacloiiw park has been plamnod, and a handsome 
hotel, to be called the Litbia Springs Hotel, is to be built on a hIatt 
overlooking the park- lIlies of street Inn-a already been cleared of trees, and 
from tue whole plot the Umber has been cut away sufficiently to show the eon 
tour’ of its surface and the general aspect of 1t ontlylnga In a.1l directions. 
The future city of Tallapoosa stands on a very hijt plateau, about 1,400 fret 
above the sea, mad its tip peaianeo will be remarkably pictairescpw, the artists 
in ebarge of its design having been isquested, although a pafl of the town is 
laid out, mecemsarily on the eheekerbflard plan, to preserve its mutural 
undulatione. Near the hotel, or not far from It by easy drive, are several 
mcdicinal inprings, notably a lithia and a chalybcate. A broad boulevard four or 
five miles long ‘will jylini around the hot-el and a lake will adioin the part

Taliapoess and lie suijacont comm try ate sit

nated iii what is kuown as rho riemimont belt, which croasmis Georgia 
dlai.tunaily from northeast to soutbwoet-, aid jm~srssca unny at the cliuumiIiO 
cCuiitiLJOiiS of Kew.EnglanrL Time atmuspherti u purti and sliniuIaLiDp(, the 
soil tartile sod very productIve. lbs water clear and delicious, the temperature 
mild and &iuablo. bloat of the couniry Is covered thick willa tilt (Juergia 
pinS)Alid the rocky tievatinns—auul, fair that wmtimn; no whole riedniomit 
bolt—abound In mineral IlellosItIL More then 100 kinds of malnejab’ are found 
iii the Piedmont hell, and in the soil about Tallupooa em’pccially have been 
discurertid rich TotalS ot gold. (n’l’l’Sr, u,arh,ir~, graphite, irimn. 
coruntlaim. and kaolin. The iron ore is very rieh—a~a the renorts of chemical 
experts show—and is of the Hessemuir quality, something which Is not found In 
Birmingham; in other words, this ore is easily turned into steeL Itinera are now 
at work at this ore, and it Is proposed to build foundries close to the mm em.

	The natural resources, the bealtbMnes~. tlu~ cheapness of land, and the 
growing railway facilities of Tallapoosa. are supposed to be sure IndicatIons of 
its future wealth and prosperity. INn Southerners, at any rate, take any other 
view of the snhjeot, anti mc own observations torte me to sews whit them. in 
tact, I hare underestimated, not overestlunalal, the •~lyantuarcs of the moat 
regent and encouraging

“city boom” of the South. To flve some noton of pre-icut prugresa in Tahlapoosa. 
I may stare that 56 carpentara are bird at wont there, that Northern ceoftalista 
who have vitited the pines are buying up lots as fast as they can get a ChOice. 
that a pnblic auctIon (if land ~viIl be heliX there two da a sUer the ~ of the 
Piedstout lSxpnsizion Atlanta. and that the second railway Jino to have irs 
termiunsut Tnllapoosais already built to Ceclarto’rn. only l7milcta abort The 
iron ore-s which are found near T.dlap0050. lB thu TaIlajpoo~a unmet. to bn more 
oxact. imiust be couslitered seninualy as elenment-n of quick development here. 
The TuIIapoq~ar Centpany’s irwin lands cowprIso about ~t000 acres, northeast of 
the town. rb~ work done on the-so properties has been cotitineal thus tILt i-a 
striplAng and traelhg, wnh occasional vrose-s’uttiuar to iletitihifle who width 
of a deposit There lies been no heavy blasting. but what blasting there has been 
reveaLu rich ore. Analyses ci’ surface ores show as higb as 5%3 per cent. of 
ineutilie iron, with l)hosl)horuuR an low as ten-win bunfiredths of I l~r cent., 
RAMt in no case hicher than t¶tentydhiree-’one, hiiiu1redtl~ To nnk’ a suitable 
pig StuD for Bessemer steel purposes It Is l¶t~uirect that the ore aIn,1I 
contain not more

	1 p’t cent.. of phosphorous. The Tallatiosa ores, tlierrr”re. coins 
easilr within the essezuer nun, crap at the surface, and blastin bras merely 
given weight to this fart. It is declared liiy experts that there as DOW more 
iron ore awaiting extraction anil shipment atTaliapoosa than all the fnrnares of 
Cleveland and Plltsburc could smelL Tbcr’~ Is,, uractirally, a Taliapo~ Iran 
nlutiuitalh cxtcndmg for miles acr’~as the company’s territory.

	17 nave spoken of tile auc0~’n salest Tallaroosa which is tc’ be hell 
arter tile Piedmont Expusitlrn Iii Atlanta. The days set (or tue sale rn-c Oct. 
24, 25. and 20. antI it will be artendeeLprohably, by several thousand peri”tns. 
Special irnins wfll be run r.’r the omwcoience of punchasers between Atlanta 
anti Tallaponso. and JlaVUes will travel to Tallapoosa in lmnfl7e; runS front 
various Northern anti Wesreni puiui& The Wone.~ster Excursion Ow Company will 
t:ako down a party or 20 or 3(1 gentlemen front Hartford arid New-Haven, Every 
thy In the South will be represented at the sale, and CaL Aditir, who will 
attend to the auctioneering. is sanguine :hat $500,000. month of iota will be 
disposed of In the three days. Somewhat mo, ~t than $IOO.000 worth has already 
been eloseil out at ~givate sale, mainlythruugh thongents ofoucoft ereal eflato 
firms at T;tllnpooca. The stock ~f rho COiUJNU1Y was sold a month ago at $1 Ur 
share or $6 par mine. It now stands at $2 50, Large tniumsaetious In both. stock 
and line are reported from the home ntiiee, as well as front offices in Atlanta 
and NewAtork. by persons who are anticipatiur a great advance In prices at and 
especially after thsucotulnst auction. C. H. K



PLflmstled Ocbber8, 1887
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