The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-10-28
Our Tennessee corresp.ndenee.


Ploar in ls,c7ocl and Lcadon-Faos from the Census
Gradual CTtnins Of the rrude--Railroads and heir
Weos-lv1r0snem' in Agriculwe--7he Wheat Of one
Cssnty-fM Cattle Driring System-- Pineycrds--otter
Land Prodnac-Irrn Coal and Copper Mnes--Rnrdt
Scenery.
notice in tie Presbyterian Wiiness an extract from
your EnAD he,ded Wheat from Tennessee-New
Facts in City Trade" IL which find the following
announcer en" The market report Of Saturday has
rather curious 10 the effect that large quantity of
Tennessee ard Georgia wheat part arrive sold at
good prices. spIears that there extensive and
valuable grain ing country in Eastern Tennessee be-
tween the Cumberland End Allegheny mountains. The
produce this district has heretofore been almost shut
out of any market; but Tennessee has a railway
Communication with Charleston and Savannah, and
eepd s wheat direct 70 Atlantic ports, from whence 1t
may be shipped direct to Europe. Over one hundred
thousand bushels Of this wheat have been sold IN New
York. The capacity Of supply Of thi district has been
estimated as high three hundred thousand bushels
Ny object In writing you at present. to give you ard
your readers full and information respect
irg this extensive and valuable grain growing country
in Eastern Tennessee induced to believe that
ycu together with large portion Of our Northe n peo
PIE are not fully posted 70 the natural and
wealth of ths district which, you pro. ~ remark
has been heretofore almost wholly shut out from any
market" but which is shortly, hope, to be brought
Into close oxiniy to Northern, it is now
will lie. to Southern Atlantic seaboard and
will no doubt, make numerical marts not unmind-
full Of IT. neighborhood You surprised that over
hundred thousand bushels Of the wheat Of this
gil ehould be sold in New York and you mention the
estimated capacity o supply at three hundred thousand
bushels You will, perhaps, he surprised when in.
formed that for the last several years. vast quantities Of
thu grain and particularly the wheat Of this country
have ten transported not only 10 New York but to
other Northern CT les and have competed quite
fully with the same productions OF our Western and
Northern States And doubtless will be still
surprised 10 learn that very superior article OF -four,
manufactured ty mills ana out oil our own
wheat has been shipped to and found ready market in
the cities 81 Liverpool and London.
As TO the estimated grain growing capacity of
country NIT me I, refer you to the tables of
tie year 1850 These reports were made for the year
ending June l, 1850.
to the last Of thai month"; the estimates
thus made for the Immediately preceding that
date and referred to the harvests OF 1S4e would
mark in this connection shen that during the of
April Of that year, were visited with heavy and
sual faa q test greatly njarng and in many n.sn.
entirely de troy ing the wheat crop The yield of
wheat that year said by the Oldest inhabants to
have bsn the most mesgre crop ever known in the
country In fact great number OF fields LETT unhsr
vested made OF only for pasturage This
at time, too, it must te remarked, when had rail-
way communication with other States cheap and
yenient outlet, and our people had Inducements to
worn for more han he usual nectsses and nothing
stimulate them exertion more Than was necessary for
that purpose The number Of bushels of wheat raised
during that unfavoraole season, and under the
other dscourspng circumstances Of the country was
near, hnot Iuily one million If the crop had been an
average one presume 1t would have amounted to at
least two millions of bushels II is altogether moderate
would here further remark that the quantity Of Indian
raised that same season something twelve
millions Of bushels An ANALYSIS of the agricultural
turns Of he State Of Tennessee for the year 1912 will
show that East Tennessee embracing twenty six
ties and constituting, geCgra phcalIy, one third o the
entire state, and fully It's proportion Of the
AZ before observed, AZ that time we had ailroads
We had int rcouJse munct I'D With amy her
part Of the world and no outlet or market
plus produce. except sought II w us of fat
beats down the Hoston river which during great por
ton Of the year not navgablc for craft Of that
character OF by the more tedious and aborous process
Of road wagons.
Northern Alabama, ana sometimes u bold advenfurer
would seek his fortune down he Father Of Waters, at
.sthe Matches ~ New Madrid and New Orleans distance
Of over twoihouand miles, and requiring fully much
line, and perhaps more Of adventure than would
trip round he world The great distance TO the markets
and the .anty and tardiness well the great
amount Of labor attending the modes OF transportation
erprise Of people otherwise hardy clivalrous as
any on tire globe. few men called traders the
only shippers and although possessing country
passing almost any other In the fertility and productive
OF Its soil the salubrty Of its climate and in most
all the clements constituting great and happy country
had little indicted, may say, incentives to emula
ton in enterprise spd in testing its capacities and deve
ioping its Our only effort was and it
entire satisfaction too to produce sufficient only
for the h, me demand.
Although We had for many years been dcvising ways
and means Of getting out into the world aud Of letting
the world in unto us; although we had long been pro-
jectiDg ana ncubaiing and bfooding systems Of
railroads and internal Improvements, never
until hin the last six years able TO get fairy at work.
And we have, as yet, only made commencement; VIC
arc now just about getting the spirit and enterprise Of
our people under Roadway We are ut this time, by
means of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad the
only one as yet in operation In Indirect communication
with Charleston and Savannah at the south and with
Nashville and Louisville at the west. AMI when the
various lines Of roads contemplated and in process
Of constr ucticn completed will be placed empha
tcally and in other than the geographical sense in
centre Of and in close connection With every section and
city OF our Union. The East Tennessee and Virginia
road will connect with 9i,hmond and Baltimore al
the north. The Knoxville and Kentucky road will
ope. one way to the Ohio and the great West,
while the Knoxville and Charleston road will plsce in
ride Of, the Atlantic coast
Thus you zee that although we already, compare
lively speaking doing well In the way Of outlet by
which the rather curious item in the market re.
port was introduced TO notice hope shortly 10 be
doing stil better anc will not only have such on al
sides and in all directions Of but will have
centre OF 1horonghares eading 10 and from the pinci
pal commercial points and most regions
country. We will not only be able to nj of all
make ourselves but will be to the United States VIVA.
the Dutch provinces were In the middle of the
tenth century England and slI Europe-the carriers
OF the wealth and the trade and the travel of the North
ano the South, the East and the West You may per-
haps be dercus Of knowing the effect that may have al
as wen rs the prospective influences which likely to
be exerted by the contemplated and already progressing
system OF internal improvements, on the aspect and
dition Of our country The facilities getting their pro-
duce to market afforded by the construction OF the East
Tennessee and Georgia Railroad have stimulated in
dustry and rcdonbed the exertons Of our people and
their efforts Ind ambition which had hitherto beer d.
reced only to the supply Il the necessary home aud
comparatively short southern demand, busly
and successfully exercised in rendering their productions
In sone degree commensurate with the extended fields
opened up to their enterprise.
The consequence Is the quantity OF wheat heretofore
usually raised has been greatly increased and rs quality
greatly improved Old fields That had lain as waste for
many years have been reencloscd forests cut down. and
the land heretofore In cultivation made produce coube
the amount II formerly cid. Although have no accu
rate means as yet Of judging am induced by present
indications to believe that this county alonc fount
will raise this season nearly the amount Of wheat men
toned BY you as the estimated capacity of supply Of the
whole OF Last Tennessee while think II may be safely
affirmed that the present wheat crop of the entire ecu
try lying between the Cumberland and the ALLEGHENY
mounialss viii range from three to five millions OF bash.
ella; ana do nor SOW that the amount OF Indian corn
will tina. account be essvaed although the quantity
OF land heretofore APPROPRIATED to that production has