Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1890 — HIDDEN WEALTH. [ARTICLE]

HIDDEN WEALTH.

A Discovery That Illustrates the Possibilities of American Life. The greatest possibilities of American life are well- illustrated by a case in Georgia that has attracted’the attention of the Southern press. A hilly farm in Fannin county was the property of tho Dickey family, and here the present representative of the race plowed and labored to earn his daily bread. Like his f&thprs befor e hi:p he worked the s<-unty soil and gathered, the slim harvest, working hard to make both ends meet. A few months ago - the Northern capitalists who are. developing the Marble interests of North Georgia stmek the old Dickey farm. They prodded into its crevices and gullies while there. They told Mr. Dickey that his fam w.as better than a gold mine. Tl>ey.tamd on it the l>est marble to be found "in America. Result, a lease for one hundred years from Mr, Dickey on a royalty of every square foot -of marble quarried, that is -guaranteed —to reaeh SI,OO0 — every month and not to exceed $5,000 a month. Mr. Dii’key has no expense, no work. He simply receipts every month for a minimum of SI,OOO royalty, The income of $12,000 a year (which may be $60,000) is guaranteed for one hundred years. So the old farm makes Mr. Dickey and his heirs rich for generations. Over this mine of wealth he and his father had worked the unprofitatablO soil, had grown old and grajp- unconscious 3of_their great possessions. America has already rated as the peer of all the world in its stores of gold, silver, copper, iron, coal and other ores, its quarries and wells, but the story has not yet been told nor the world made requainted with all its hidden resources. Every year brings to light new steres of wealth to bless or curse the nation, according as it tends to the comfort of the many or to the enrichment of the few.