THE NEW ENGLAND COMPANY, FOURTEEN MILES FROM CHATTANOOGA. EXTENSIVE COAL AND IRON PROPERTIES --IN- DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA. ENGLAND GITV THE CENTER OF THE GREAT MINERAL QUADRILATERAL FORMED BY NASHVILLE, KNOXVILLE, ATLANTA AND BIRMINGHAM. Office at New England City, Dade County, Georgia. BOSTON OFFICE: Rooms 43 & 44, No. 1 Beacon Street. THE SOUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY, ENQRAVERS AND PRINTERS, 76 PARK PLACE, NEW YORK. PROPOSED SITE OF NEW ENGLAND CJTY, LOOKING NORTH PEOM TAYLOB 1'AHK. LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN ON" THE EAST, SAND MOUNTAIN ON THE WEST. .-J _/ LOOKOUT HIS favored locality has all the salient, pict uresque beauty of the fair country that "Charles Egbert Craddock" (Miss Murfree) has painted in such fadeless tints in her unequaled stories and novels of the Tennessee mountains. Nowhere else is there such a real picture-land framed in so balmy and bracing a climate, a happy mid-region between the rig ors of the North and the languors of the South. The bounding streams as clear as beryl are never stilled to icy death, but sing their sibilant songs all the year through. Fertile valleys glow, amber and green, in the sunshine. Far, dim, majestic blue spurs tower into the heavens; still more distant shadowy pur ple ridges, misty and somber, seem to rim in the region from the outer world. No one who has lived near these grand primeval tem ples is ever content away from them. There is an exaltation and se renity born of the mountains. Every other prospect is in contrast flat and monotonous. How well " Craddock" describes the home sickness of the exiled mountaineer, his longing for the repose and peacefulness of the everlasting hills. " Did he yearn for the mountains ? Could he see them in spirit? Surely in his dreams, surely in some kindly illusion, he might still behold the fair land which touched the sky; the golden splendors of the sunshine sifting through the pines; flying shadows of clouds as fleet, racing above the distant ranges; untrodden woodland nooks be side singing cascades; or some lonely pool, whence the grey deer bounded away through the red sumach leaves." This might have been written of the site of New England City for the aspects are the same the picturesque features as wild and as beautiful and above all stands grand old Lookout, with its archives of tradition, remote history, and civil war records, written on its indestructible and au thoritative tables of stone. The noble Tennessee flows at its base a stately river that the vanished Cherokees called the tranquil waters. To them it was a tranquil stream, echoing only to the soft splash of indolent oars, but soon, with the vast improvements about completed by the Government, it will be a crowded, busy commercial highway, one that will open the mineral, agricultural and timber wealth of this section to the markets of the world. LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, LOOKING EAST FROM THE SITE OF NEW ENGLAND CITY. THE NeW ENGLAND COAL AND IRON PROPERTY, Dade County, Ga. NEW ENGLAND GITY. THE NEW SOUTH. The destruction of slavery led the people of the South to look about them, and the necessities born of poverty forced them to meet new conditions with new methods. Agriculture, which had been al most the only pursuit, provided only a moderate living. In this state of things active and brainy men began to call the attention of the country to the great wealth of coal and iron and other minerals that lay in the mountains of Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. THE MINERAL BELT. The extent and magnitude of the great Southern mineral belt be gan to slowly dawn on the world, and with the opening of the Ala-" bama Great Southern Railroad, running from Chattanooga to Bir mingham, the manufacture of iron in the Chattanooga district was fairly launched. CHATTANOOGA DISTRICT. Soon after the war the most sagacious men of the South sought the best place to manufacture iron. Mr. George Hazelhurst (de ceased), an eminent railroad builder and a pioneer in the iron industry of this section, selected the Lookout Valley, and located the Wills Valley Railroad through the property now owned by the New Eng land Company. The Rising Fawn Furnace, near Trenton, on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad, was operated by the Hon. Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, Mr. Warner and other well-known and success ful coal and iron men. DADE COAL MINES. These coal mines are operated in connection with the Rising Fawn Furnace, and it is an unquestioned statement that Hon. Joseph 5 E. Brown, TJ. S- Senator from Georgia, Mr. Warner, L. S. Colyar and several other men have made large fortunes out of the iron and coal that abound in this part of Lookout Valley. BADE COU5TY. This county is known to Georgians as " The State of Dade." It is cut off from the State by Lookout Mountain, but is connected by railroad via Chattanooga, the county lying in the extreme northwest corner of Georgia and only seven miles from Chattanooga. The State of Tennessee is on the nozih and Alabama on the west The Alabama Great Southern Bailroad (a link of the great Queen and Crescent system from Cincinnati to New Orleans) runs along the Lookout Valley, traversing this county northeast and southwest, as the geological formations run. The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Bailroad touches and parallels the northern borders of the county. THE NEW EXGLANT) COMPACT. This company of New England men, in casting about for the best location for a great mining and manufacturing property, as well as a healthful and beautiful location for a city, wisely followed in the foot steps of scientific and practical suggestion. The pioneers in iron manufacture in this section, the most successful and sagacious men, had for many years shown by actual results that this was the best lo cality in which to manufacture iron. The report of Prof. James Hall, State Geologist of New York, and an eminent authority, was made in 1866. It was verified by the Empire State Iron and Coal Company of Georgia, and is sustained by such learned men as Prof. James M. Safford, State Geologist of Tennessee ; Dr. George Little, recently State Geologist of Georgia, and Prof. C. H. Hitchcock, State Geologist of New Hampshire. These reports are submitted in full in this pamphlet. THE COAL AXD IKOS PROPEKTY. This magnificent property consists of over 10,000 acres of iron lands and 6,000 acres of coal lands, and includes a beautiful town site of 1,400 acres. The lands lie on both sides of the Alabama Great Southern Eailxoad, and extend seventeen miles, at a mean distance of only fourteen miles from Chattanooga. The extreme northern portion lies in the State of Tennessee, near Wauhatchie, the junction of the Nash ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad, Alabama Great Southern Bailroad, and Memphis and Charleston Bailroad, all of these lines 6 going into Chattanooga on the same track that -winds around the base of Lookout Mountain. This part of the property is within two miles of the Tennessee river, the Hudson of the South. The extreme southern portion is sis miles below Trenton, the shire town of Dade County. Iron ore has been mined by the people oh this territory for years and sold to the Rising Fawn Furnace Company. And that company has mined largely on its own account. The coal property lies in Sand Mountain, and is in three distinct veins, which will be described in detail. One of the veins has been successfully worked for many years at Cole City by Governor Brown of Georgia, with a force of 500 men, raising 800 tons per day. It is known as the Dade Vein. This vein has been uncovered for many miles on this Com pany's land, and shows at least six feet of workable coal. NEW ENGLAND CITY. The city site comprises fourteen hundred acres of land beauti fully located in the center of the great mineral quadrilateral formed by Nashville, Kuoxville, Atlanta and Birmingham. The site is on rolling land, drained by Squirrel Ci'eek, which crosses it at a point most convenient for drainage and for supplying water for manufac turing purposes. A large poi-tion of New England City slopes grad ually towards the creek, while the more distant portions rise into rounded hills, which afford lovely locations for residences. About five hundred acres have already been surveyed and laid out into town lots. The avenues, which run north and south, are eighty feet in width, while the streets, which run east and west, are sixty feet wide. The blocks are 500 feet long and 300 feet deep. The business lots are 25 feet by 144 feet, while the residence lots are 50 by 144. A narrow alley runs between the lots at their rear. The streets which run east and west descend to Squirrel Creek and give fine nat ural sewerage. The fall from the center of Massachusetts avenue, at the Hotel State of Dade, now nearly completed, to the surface of the water in Squirrel Creek, a distance of 1,200 feet, is 23| feet. The principal avenues and streets have already been graded, and the work is progressing rapidly. Lookout Creek flows to the east of New England City, and it is well watered by bold and gushing springs which flash out from the hillsides and valleys. WATEB WOEKS. Surveys ascertaining elevations have been made, and the point near three springs has been selected below which the reservoir will be 7 COLE SPKING, BUBBLING AND BOILING ABOVE THE SUBFA.OE AND POUBING FOHTH AN IMMENBE VOLUME OF WATER. TO BE UTILIZED FOB NEW ENGLAND CITY. placed, and the water forced from it by a pump to a stand pipe on the hill, at such a height as will carry the water into the upper stories of all the buildings in the city. ' The springs referred to are at such an elevation as to be available for discharging water into the principal streets by natural flow. Squirrel Creek, as will be seen by the map of the city site, flows through the town. Good water and plenty of it is necessary to the health and happiness of a city. New England City has it splendid springs, bold branches and clear creeks all within her borders. SEWERAGE. The location of New England City offers perfect natural sewerage, but it is the intention of the Company to put in a complete system as soon as the waterworks are erected. ALTITUDE AND LATITUDE. New England City is 720 feet above the level of the Gulf of Mex ico, and lies in the 35th degree of north latitude. This location is 55 feet higher than the depot of the Alabama Great Southern Bailroad on Market street in Chattanooga. DUMMY LIXE, ELECTRIC LIGHT. A charter has been obtained for connection to 'Wauhatchie and Chattanooga for a dummy line and electric light. TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH. There will also be a telephone line put in by the same company that operates the dummy line and electric light. A telegraph office will be opened before the date fixed for the sale of city lots. POST OFFICE AND EXPRESS OFFICE. The post office and express office are already established where the New England Company has its spacious quarters in their build ing just completed. Mr. C. P. Day, the postmaster of New England City, has built a large dwelling two stories high, and painted it with the mineral paint made from the ore such as abounds on the property of the New Eng land Company. This " dyestone" abounds on this property and has been used in the manufacture of paint for yeai-s. The paint made from it is said to be almost fire-proof. GRADING. The principal avenues and streets are already graded, and the Company will continue the work as rapidly as they can, and to meet the wants of the coming city. 9 HOTELS. The Stevens House, already completed, has twenty-five rooms and can accommodate all visitors for the present. The Hotel State of Dade is in process of erection and will ac commodate comfortably one hundred guests. It will be fitted up with all the modern improvements, and furnished especially with the view of entertaining parties who visit New England City for the pur pose of purchasing lots or investing in manufacturing enterprises. Plans are being prepared for a large and handsome hotel to go on the splendid site reserved for that purpose west of Vermont avenue. This hotel will be on a grand scale and equal in its appoint ments to metropolitan hotels. The Hotel State of Dade will be supplied with water from a spring on the hill opposite New England City. This spring has ca pacity sufficient to supply water for all purposes, including sewerage. This hotel is three stories high and is 32x120 feet. MORRISOX'S HOUSE. This is a handsome house, recently built, belonging to Mr. Horrison, who has lived here for a long time. The station was formerly called by his name. His home is west of Lookout avenue. TAYLOR PARK. Every new city ought to arrange for a park, and let it become a part of the original plan. On a fine elevation south of Mr. H. V. Taylor's house, is a large tract covered with the original forest growth. It can be made a beautiful park, and the New England Com pany has wisely reserved it for that purpose. PCBLIC BUILDINGS. Eligible locations have been set apart for the erection of public buildings, and as soon as the population wan-ants it the company will provide for a city hall. CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS. Following in the footsteps of the Pilgrim Fathers, New England always provides for the preacher and the pupil. Beautiful sites for churches and schools will be donated, and this is a rare chance for one of the leading denominations to get on the ground first. BUTJLDIXG MATEBLiL. Lumber.--Morrison 4 IPOROUT MOUNTAIN EOL6lST OF NEW MAP Extensive Coal & Iron Properties G-E-O-R-G-IA AND howinj its iflsfioiYj to The IMPORTANT CITIES ft NEW ENGLAND CITY * IS THE CENTRE OF THE GREAT MINERAL QUADRILATERAL FORMED BY NASHVILLE KNOXVILL&- ATLANTA an4 BIRMINGHAM: COWMfM ALABA RGLY NEW ENGLAND Go's Cal # lrn Property IMDE COUNTY GEORGIA Tftf. ftD INDICATES'THE. IKON LANDS- IO.QOO ACf>$. TH BLACK INDtCKTfS THf. COAL tMHD5 9OQO ACftKS. 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