Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1890 — Cheap Excursions to Atalia, Alabama. [ARTICLE]
Cheap Excursions to Atalia, Alabama.
The Mouon route will, on April 26, 27, 28, and 29. sell tickets at reduced rates to Atalia, Ala., and return, for the great land sale April 28, 29. and 30, tickets good until May 10. with privilege of stopping over at Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, returning. Don’t miss the opportunity to visit the New South. Express trains daily to Cincinnati, connecting with the Queen and Cresent route. Atalia is the natural eastern gateway of the great future iron manufacturing district of North Alabama, in the center of the rich, soft red and brown ore belt, with coal and lime stone in easy reach, lias four (4) railroads, fine water power, three (3) furnaces, car works, cotton compress, oil well and planing mills. But three years ago a village of 403, now a thriving city of 2,003. The sale is under the auspices of the Atalia Iron and Steel Company, and consists of choice manufacturing business and residence lots within the corporation limits of the city and adjoining the vast ooal and iron fleldi.
