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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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erra cotta, lumber, wire and ironworks, and all the other necessary producers of a centralpoint upon which so large and increasing a population isdependent. The lumber demands the attention of 26establishment, which handle little less than 100,000,000feet per annum. Walnut, hickory and other hard wood,as well as long leaf pine, are abundant and easy ofaccess. The iron, which is mined in great quantities,both in Tennesee and Alabama, employs 2,000 men, andturns out a variety of machines and utensils. Coal andcoke are abundand, and water power, adjacent to thecity, promises considerable increment of facilities forcheap power for many purposes. Manufactured cottonclaims several establishments. The Atlanta Mills, startedin 1879, have 13,000 spindles and 330 looms; the Exposi-tion Mills, started in 1SS3, have 16,000 spindles and 600looms; the Fulton County Company has 12,000 spindlesand 450 looms. Now, there are, all told, 70,000 spindles,employing 2,500 hands. (jftlaect9\ailM^9^A/lew^ 539
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A vi:\y l.Il^^l^T-.s of ailanta. r)40 (placet i?(aiWa^5^ym/ Other establishments of note comprehend glass fac-tories, buggy and carriage factories, coffin factories,paper and cloth bag mills, trunk shops, and almostevery conceivable material of use to the large andvaried populace dependent upon Atlanta for its sourceof supplies. Agriculture returns wheat, oats, corn, grass, orchardproducts, and, greatest of all, cotton, while market gar-dening brings in rich returns, and small fruits flourish.With the splendid railroad facilities, this portion of thestates wealth will become more valuable and attainableas the jears pass. BATTLES AROUND ATLANTA. During the war between the states, five pitched battlesmay be enumerated as belonging to the region adjacentto Atlanta. They are chronologically arranged thus: The battle of Peachtree Creek, on July 19, 1S64, whena part of the Army of the Cumberland, and Reynoldsbrigade of Walthells division of the Contederate troopswere mixed in lively engagem

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