Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-10
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oClarksville---Its Prospects. y1,

for an extensive manufacturing city, and the time
has come most auspieious for The Inauguration Of
these enterprises in our midst. The opportunity
may be lost by the discord or supiness Of our own
citizens or be preciptated BY their unity concert
and promptness Of action. si g,s'a d. 4,
Like other cities all over the South, Clarksville
has suffered severely in the last four years,
in the diversion Of It's trade, the depreciation of
II its values and in the partial and utter losses
Of property. But under the reign Of peace
restored and the industry and energy Of deter
mined population Phoenix like, 1t viii spring
from its ashes and reverses into new life, and by
impulse, be moved forward towards prouder pre-
eminence than Il could have ever attained without
these reverses. We are thus sanguine, in the out
set, from knowledge of the people and sources ON
which those enterprises depend Clsrksvine, in its
location, is proverbialy healthy; its climate is
mild, 1t has surrounding country full Of all the
elements and materials of wealth and thrift This
surrounding country of hills valleys and plains,
is meandered, in every direction, BY streams Of
pure chrystal waters, Of all msgnitudes from the
placid Cumberland, navigable for vessels Of more
And is ss varied in its resources and as productive
soil as it is diversified and beautiful in its land
scape. 80 t r. e' Ea v -at
Red river with It's numerous tributaries, and
other creeks and streams in our vicinity, affords
the most ample water-power, and, by the applica-
ton of machinery, could be turned to the most
profitable account. Our hills are stored with the
richest iron and other ores and minerals, some of
them but little prospected, but, most likely, of
the most valuable kinda. E
Our forests abound in the finest timber for ship
and boat building for agricultural implements and
for all other purposes. The surface soil Of this
whole surrounding country Is fertile and productive
Of the heaviest crops Of corn, wheat and all other
grains, and of the smaller field and garden crops.
Tobacco grows finely and natures into great per-
fection; its yield is heavy, making Its culture most
profitable to The planter, and is Of that superior
quality, commercially denominaied aClarksville
Tobacco" and WORTH in all the markets of the
world, two dollars more than that grown west and
northwest of us. The grape and fruits and berries
in endless variety, flourish aud ripen into great
excellence. -
Stock of all kinds thrive and fatten WE'LL aia
could be raised very proftably for the markets.
Our city had, before the war, acquired very con-
siderable commercial Importance. It's export
values amounting to from three to five millions au-
nually, and all drawn from our agricultural and
other resources, and they, then rs now, not one
tenth developed. But notwithstanding our former
commercial consequence and our agricultural thrif
manufactures had made but little progress not
that our advantages were not great or that they
were not appreciated, but mainly if not altogether
owing to the incompatibRties of sIaye or mono-
polized labor with such enterprises. Under this
old or former system Of labor one, and not the
least Of these incompatibilites was the absorption
Of nearly all the capital in the country, as fast as
produced, in the one great standing mode In use
of Investments unstable as the sands OF the
desert--of little moro land and few more
negroes; SO that there was scarcely any money
for anything else and absolutely noss at all lef
for manufacturing and other kindred stocks.
Now, under the recent change, our labor sys-
tenn is free, and congenial TO manufacturing and
other enterprises of kindred character as well al
to fuller frser and more thorough development
Of our resources Of every kind. aaa
Under the operation and effects Of this system
and lis adjunct, high taxes, which must continue
for many years to come, full one one-half Of al
our lands will go on the market and be sold. Thi
disposition of lands will be partly from choice
and in an area of thirty miles around, assuming
ClarksVille as a centre, will produce cash capita
not less than from FIVE to seven millions, to which
J If we add the amount now in the country, an,
that which will be saved from former investments
we think two millions more, it will give from
seven 10 nine millions soon to be seeking invest
ment, and which must and will go into something
and nothing so likely as good home or local manu-
featuring and other stocks, If they prepared ii
b season.
This division Of large tracts of land into singl
hands will not prove prejudiciaI to the farming o
agricultural interest, as whole, but will by tn
: multiplication Of farms and the contest that vii
arise in better tilage in the aggregate double tn
yield, and, in many staples, improve the qualit
also.
1 Labor, suited to every kind of manufactures
, now not only available, but is abundant and cheaI
and, in some Of its forms, appeals, imploringly,
, the capitalist for aid. 1t asks direct contribu
tion but that manufactures and other means Q
employment be built up aud they be assigne
places where, by their industry and fidelity, the
can earn for themselves a competence and swe
i the half yearly money dividend of their patron
and benefaetors the share holders, into larger pre-
portions. 1t appears to the writer that to conslde
Q each and every circumstance as we should conside
them, they are all auspciOus and all invite us, 1
a community, to engage in the enterprises we pro
pose. Let us have our system Of manufactures
&, let US have oGr cotton and our wollen mills OF
!, iron and wood manufactures, and in every oth'
IS material. The time is suspicious Our youn
l. men, many Of them, need places and positions
be schooled and coniormed to habits Of busine
and usef1lnesa ()ur caniIaliatR and other either