cPIONEERING IN TilE SOUTH
ROW EN TERPRISIN U YOUNG
U! TIE S ARE SPRINGING UP.
TALLAPOOSA, TIlE LATEST OF TUEM, 51T
UATTt.D TIETWEEN ATLANTA AND BILLMINOUA~I—TflE EVflGTh OF’ NOlITtIRRN CAPITAL

	TALTAPOOSA, Ga., Oct. ct—Thoro is nothing more curious and striking than 
the quick enterprise which now unimirtes the South—the new Sueth, in. it ii at 
present dlawlmluated by Suurhorn writena end orators from the South ~reeodIng 
and following the war. flue city of Atlanta itecl!, full of lito nod amnhi Lion 
and iiidustry, 1~ a vivid illudtratiwi of the change ‘which inns come, gradually 
at first, but at lasL with a clear COII.’tCbUAnL,BS of Its own copiotu strength, 
over a regloTi EhELt not very long a~o• and in spire of itR extraordinary 
ni~turaI resources, seemed to have lout the powc~r to anei~ I’ unusual 
emergencies. The change Is not l’s8 phenomenal than gratifying. llU(l~ although 
tbo sIgnIficance of it may not yet be entirely upparent tri obsorvorR at the 
North, tliOL’O fiMi liii litilo doubt th&t th1~ will b~ thnr~iughly uinl~rstood 
and appreDlat&t with in a lilier urno~ The movement of iminigratlrni, sn long 
etenclll.v daeutvd 1’., the Wcst~ is new diverging to the Ben til. One lism only 
to travel through the Caro• lines, through Alabama and £icorgto, to convines 
one’s self that the nor South is as much different from the old as the 
indIlsIrlonA Southorner of to-day is different from his Iridolen t predecessor1 
or as the briwht and busy Atinoin of to-day in different from the crawling 
little city ‘which ~vas almost obliterated by Northern shells.

	In no manner does the determined ontorpriso of the new South reveal 
Ilsuif iuure rig~ressivoiy than In Its ploneerlug. The rre~ent At]anma Is the 
result or a ft±arieae pioneering. Every I mportaut city of the South1 indeed. 
responils ‘with singuler elasticity to the push of the pienoes And thu 
pioncerling, which amounts to regenrxation, goe~ on persistently. The great 
Pielitnant Exposition at Atlanta will show how far it bits gcine. The fbi viug 
cities which have sprung up within a fotY ~68FR with. the co-operatioa of 
Northern capital usually are witnesses for the new South, To resist ti~e 
inevitable force of enterprise would be considered now by a vast ma-’ joriTy of 
the Boath’s pap ulat Ion, a foolish and idle struggle.

	What may beproperlycalled “plcn2orlng in the South” may be watched as 
eIcnr~y an~I o!FOQ’Lt rely an tbe Ilnc of the Gi~orghi flaclib Railway as 
anywhere else. This rat lwny starts west from Atlanta, pastes tbrnugh 
Tailapoomia and Birmingham, sad them reaches into Mis sisairuL It. ws~ 
oons(riictcd only three years ago. and lLh~sdirect connection with Alfred. 
Suhlys Piedmont Linofrom NOW-YOrk. Thrmingtin,m is one of the new elliob of the 
South which it touches. i presinfle that nearly every one at theNorthis now 
familiar with the history of Thrnaingbam. The rise at ibis Alabeaua city is liko 
the marvel of a fairy tale. Seven years ago It was a dull village -with about 
2.000 inhabitants. At present IL has 40,000 inhabitants, 70 miles or street 
railway8~ and a ins valuation of $24,000IU0U. The history of Sheffield, 
Aiiniston~ Bessemer, and of other Southern towns which are now rushing forward 
at a Burorising rate, is no 1585 instructIve antI lntcresting~ T WaS looking out 
of a

•window in the principal hotel cfTahlapoeeaafew daye ago, and to my amazement I 
saw a “duai-. my” engine borne on a flat car attached to one olthefrolglit 
trains of the Georgia Paclficjtmst passing by. ¶l2his ‘ dummy” was cound to 
Bessonor, a vow town further west, and. it 15 310w, t suppose. ru.uni ug In the 
streets there. When it is brought to mind that Bessemer has only been in 
existence tour mouiths~ cud that, at Its beginnlng, men anti women went oub fntu 
the wood~s and. cut COWfl tress, thus making paths and open sites, Some idea of 
what Is a~’compltshcxl flOWSdays in Georgia and. other Southern States by 
pioneers may be acquh’odh T~ossemcr is a terunious of the Mobile and Birmingham 
EailrDail. Mars than $800,000 worth of real estate has been sold there wit hia 
four months.

	Tallaraosn, from which place I era sending thIs letter, is another iii 
ustration ot Southern euterprise. ba&Ice’l by Northern capital. T’sllapoOB~L is 
one or the niOst important stations on the Georgia Paeiflo Railway,, and will 
eventually be the chief railway junction ot Western Georgia. Three or four 
railroads are to run through it~ one of which will connect Savannah directly 
with Chicago. In this fashion Tailapoosa will he a leading commercial station 
between the Western anti thai Southern ooast~ Three yeiirs ago TOlIOpOOSEL was 
an isolated, village, barrhly known to the people of Atlanta, in one of the 
least populatei.L and most lawless counties of Gcurgia~ the abode of 
moonalainers arid shotgun gang’s. The village then contained about 100 persons, 
and no man was ever sure of his life there, But a wonclei’Iitl transioraniflon 
w~w effeotedhy the building of a railway thaircghthe plaee~ an& no more peaceful 
community than that of Talispoose. can no foand to-day. The ~ecrgla raciflo 
dtvidcs the town in two paris, and special accommodation trains now run on this 
read between Tallapoosa and LUautit, which Is somewhat more tbaa 61) miles 
distant. The present population of Tatlapoosa cxc eed~ 1,000, and there arc woro 
Ihait 200 houses in the village, including a bcurv of shops, a good-3izcd. 
hotel. ati~I ninny charmlug cottaRes. By natural growth ‘i’allapuoM& would soon 
grow to a thriving industrial city ii! 20,000 oraO,OOOinbEtbltftntS within the 
nest :io years. But capitol can easily force its growth1 and this is ti be done, 
if posSliuIe~ by the Taliapoosa Land, Mining ILTiJ bIanu!acturlng (oxupany, 
accounts of whmsa work in behalf 0f what is already called “the Birm~n~llamU of 
Georgia” hare filled many columns of the leading Southera newspapers. This 
comnpotty Includes both Nor mnern and Southern capitalists, its President being 
Ccl. Qaor~e W. Adair, of Atlanta, and one or its Directors being the Hon. John 
ill, Gordon, Governor of Georgia. All the 0111 cers aud Trustees are well known 
met’, and their puruose i ~ to ogtLLblish a large and. progressive city on the 
site of the old village of Tallapousa. They hare pnfllhaM5d a large tract or 
coun try contiguous to Dud ruandebtimit the vi11a~u, and a. portion of this lies 
been carefully laid omit in streets and town lots, the town portion comprising 
501110 500 aere~~ more or let~s. The street5~ avenues, and tintilevai~’hs have 
been inaratd and naweri, a SLISOlOinI park has been planned, and a handsome 
hotel, to be called the Labia Springs Hotel, is to be built on a hiatt’ 
overlooking the park. Miles of street have already been cleared of trees, and 
from the whole plot the timber has been out a’ny aLLlllcienthy to show the con ~ 
of its surface and the general aspect of Its outlyinge in alldirectiens~ The 
tuturo city or Tallapoosa stands en a very high plateau, about IA~~ feet above 
the sea. auci its [ippea.rRneO will be remarkably pieZ.uu~scjna. -the artists in 
cbargn~ oct Its design having been m’squested1 although a pnrt of the town is 
laid out, necessarily on thu eheekerbnard plan1 to preserve its notural 
ilodulations, Near the hotel, yr not far from it by easy drive, are several 
medicinal springs, notably a lithla and a clialybcute. A broad boulevard four ~w 
five miles long ‘wifl Wilhul around the hotel and a lake will adicirm ihe Park.

	Tallapoosa and its adjacent 001W try are situ,~ted jo whit Is known as 
rho ticilunont he[t, which cm’u~st’s Georgia diagonally froni northea~L to 
&Jiitiiwiisb, 211111 }iu~rssea iuuny or the cinuitlie condluocis off 
New.Eziglanri. The ot— musphert’ is pine amid stiiiiulattng, the soil fertile 
anti very prcilwstive1 the water clear amid dbliclou~~ the ICELI pet at We mild 
and erpiahic. bios; of the counlihy i~ eoverrtl thick wimli hilt Guorgus pin 
ekaud the rocky tilevatiang—anil, f~~h that mmj~Lier, .ne whole I’icdLuout 
bolt—abound. in nnueral ilelioslis. ~Iore thou 100 kiuda of I1±1IIL1a}A ore to 
md in I he Pled noon I twit, imiinl in the soil about ‘Ya1lolJoo~a ePlicUlally 
have bern discovered rich flhIJd Or gulrh, ePpjIar~ zenarl,I ~ graphite. iron. 
cOrLitItlLirnh and kaolin. Thu iron ote is very rich—as the renorts of chemical 
oxp~rts show—and is of the UeMemI5r qLIlLlity, something which is not found Iii 
Birmiughuin; in other words1 this ore is easily turuisa into steci. Miners are 
now at work at this ore, anal. it Is proposed to build foundries close to the 
mine!.

	The natural resources, the beahtbfulness. the cheapness of hand, and the 
growing railw~iy tacili tics of TallapeOsa are supposed to be sure Indications 
of its flttura wealth ansi prosperity. Jri Southernert at anY rate, tmahe any 
other view of the subject1 and my own observations torce me to agree with them. 
In fact, I hare underestimated1 not overeotimalod, the nilvantages of the moat 
regent and encouraging

“city boom” of the So iitb. To give some nation ot pie~ent progress lii 
Tudlaponsa. I may slate that 50 carpeIit~~r~ are h-nd at worJc there, that 
Northern ezuhitiLlists who have vinmted the

place are buying up loizi as fnfl as they v:itI get

a choice, that a public amid 1011 ~mff lurid will i~e behil (hell. two days 
oiler the t’lo~e ~r il,’~ Piedmont ]~S prsi (Inn In Atlanta. and that ito 
seromid rail ‘ray Jive Lu hay fl Ira tui’iiiifliU4iit TI±ihtpIIUNl IS already 
built to Cechartuwii. otilv 17 mIles JLI4IVC. Time Icon ore’s w Li icli are 
round incur Talk— peon.. in time TaLIaj;u’ma elislnet~ to 1w unuro crnot, must 
he considered serbiusly as Pleflht¶ntM of quick derdopuicuc here. rI~Ii(I 
~finlIapoe~ni Corn— rn~u’’s I ruin lewis toiuprko about 2~000 nones, noytlina4 
of tim town. ihe work done art these properties has heini couhucel lb us tar to 
si rip— ping unit tracing, ivith r,c’easlummid t’ross-euuin~ La) tieti~rmniric 
rho width 411 a deposit. There inns broil no heavy blasting, lair What blasling 
there has been reveals ri cit ore. Analyses at sttrEat’o ores show 118 high as 
5~ per cent. ~if mnetthllc iron, ivitli vbospboruun a~ low as ten-rome 
hendredibs ~ ~- h~ vent., nod hi no case hicher than t;~• cii ty—i hrceaone 
hujul red tins. To bunko a suit— able pig Irun for liesseiner steel h~IrPosce it 
Is rrt~airrnl that the ore sliudi contain not more than 1 mt emit, of 
j)i1OMJuIJ(JIithiS~ The Talla— B tiosa Ores. timermitro, (~OliiO 4N1-~IlV wimbin 
the esselner nLIWC, croci at the stat-fare, arid blastIrig larts merely given 
weight to thiN fair, it Is declared by experts that (here Is maw lynoiP iron ore 
awtiling extractinmn and shrpnii’ut at Tallatpease than all the fuirinaces cit 
Cleveland a mA 111 tslui ret rent Id sin cit. Ther~’ Is, nriietlt’zmiiy, ii ‘LI 
I lapoosa iron inoutad Mn extendzcg for mulled across the roropin ny’s 
territory.

	[ mare spokeim of Liii’ ittictieni.! Nile at Tudlarnosa ‘which is io he 
bell arter time Piedmnuint Expusi— lion In Atlanto. Tine days set br time s~aIe 
fliT Oct. 24, ‘2i¾ and 2fj1arid It will heattelnAeel,lcromnably. 1)3! severaL 
tinnusaud pcr~~u’s. Siitwlal trini us wIll lie run for the 4uilvpIulthiiec of 
piui~— chasers herwcen Atirnita n~o ~ noel IN1J’tleR uIll 1 ravel to 
Tinhinpoosri iv liniflet nnrs frini Vfl1’lOhIR Neirtliern Ii mel Wesrern jwi 
mits, Tine Wnm”ceuler i;xc~iirsion Car Coaminpany will rake down a party of 20 
or 30 gentlemen li-ann Jlarrford and New-Haven. Every city In the Seiumh will he 
repreeclim cci at the smtict, and Ciii. Adult-, ~‘-1co wilL attend to the an t 
cti eli cerlit si, is s~ ~n gin I lie t lint $~30LJ,0UO. Worth of lots will be 
disposed of In time three days, Somneivimat icco, e Than $100,000 Worth hints 
already tierni closed nut at. Immiva IC sale, ituilimly tlir~uiighm the agenis 
of one of the real c4aiO thflms at ~1’;tIhnlNio~a, The stock of the company e’as 
sold a iinonili ago at $1 a share of ~$5 par value. Et now stands at $2 ~0. 
Large trainsactions in boUt stuck mmd mm ~ are reported from the Inomo ofilce, 
as will as lrrnn otlices in Atlanta and New-York. tiny persons who are 
alitleipallniur a great ailvtnmnre iii prices at and especially after tine 
comiulug auctmon. C. I-I, It


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Published: October 81887
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