New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-06-14
EAST TENNESSEE

SOIL CLIMATE. PRODUCTIONS AND PEOPLE
To The Editor n The n y. Tri5uHs
SIR Inasmuch as you take an interest in emigration
TO the Saen States and for the purpose Of acquantng
readers With East propose 70 sketch brief out.
line Of this region.
The section known a. East Tennessee comprises the 80
conL @ Of Tennessee Of The Cumberland Mountains and
c0ntai.s LOCO square niles aud 100000 inhabitants
Bounded on oil sides BY noantans spurs Of which shoot
the country in every direction the entire surface is
divided into h aud dae moun.n and valley These noun
tars covered with De timber will in most cases grow
grass luzurany to the vy summit and filed with vast
aud diversified mineral wealth Gold and silver are known
to exs, in many places and rave been proftaby mined TO
ed extent Copper and found large qnantitesi
copper has been worked for long time With good success
the zinc has not been mined extensively but several com
panies have recently been incorporated for development OF
tais METAL which is known 70 exist in abundance.
Coal and iron arc found In inc xhausbe quantities side By
by sle tie iron IS the best yet found in America and the
companies not yet commenced developing Beautiful
marbles white brown and yaregated be quarried every
Tennessee burg stones states and fsggngs without
enit Mingled with all this timber, god silver copper,
zinc coal mon petroleum marble ard building stones the
stupend0u exhibition 81 water in North America
These mountain lands with their forests aud their mines
cessbe everywhere naVigabe streams rail-
roads completed in progress projected can be bought at
prices ranging from one to FIVE dollars an acre.
Between these mountains valleys o. beauty and
equalel fertility Corn wheat grapes vines, and fruit
trees rew luxrianiy and with but little working These
delightful valleys joined to their neghOoring mountains make
Fast Teaneee one of tie finest grazing regions in the United
States mild that cattle and sheep require
little OF feeding shelter during the Winter The vat
leys always green and the mountain tops many OF which
covered with sweet tender grass furnish refuge from
Our climate probably the most pleasant and heshiul east
OF tie Rocky Mountains The Winters mild. the Sum
cool The chill air Of the mountain tops continually
rour down into the valleys and the moment the Sumner SIN
night We have no local diseases no feVers aeues or
malaria but plrs pleasant heahiul atmosphere the year
Until few years before the war East was al
TO the people Of the North Completely shut
by her mountains from the OF the world with no rail-
roads canals rivers nagabe the iurnpkes few and
bad aud with country ROADS almost impossible few people
undeyeoped and East Tennessee TO-DAY new
- - S-,v go Iave ~ r. en-
DARK page OF the reDeoh oE w Nv Two com
ed 10 progress end two projected connecting Knox
E I "i and = Cai and earaoa are already
setting in; bat The poor and the rich viii alike
Tennessee lsbod by farmers ,orland s0cleap one
buy Wing people IN tho past and therefore loyal In
taa political and territorial Is 20 day most Hns he!d Tor
Northern enterprises and when te peeanary inducements
previously Grated, remembered no portion OF tho
South offers many attractions to the loyal iFeeSpeakg
labor-loTiug people Of the great North. ?.
be taken into how East tennessee was maj
treated by tie Rebels during the soeon her sons murdered
ex.d imprisoned. COnscTiped her daughters insulted
beaten raysed massacred the houses lands and other
via Idi1ns were brorght 10 TO HINT Union refugees and
savage meroess depeadOes from the Southwest let loose
upon her unarned Oyas preferred the woods and the
oantans cod and famine fatigue aad sickness the hated
canso Of porIy.bogotien Rebeonake these facts into
consideration and reolec that each Union man had some
personal wrong ncite Lin 10 yengeanee father
brother or son hunted down. beaten bIchered wife
daughter mother sister rendered homeless by Rebel
torch end nsute1 mareaed robbed Of their little all
by Rebel bandits and there not much wonder that these
loyal Of the mountains sometimes ayenge their wrongs
men wrong discovered Bu. loyal men need not
fear Tennessee. Ogly Rebels tremDeand let them
trem0le Tor their sin great before od and before man
Bat these disorders arc things OF the past nov All qa
In Knoxville the utn0s, good order prevails Lie ana prop
pr are a secure town IN America ms Is the
tine lor men of enterprise This is the d Let them GOMEZ
taev gil ind welcome and prosperity SiosBRG.
Kr0rrius Tenn, June o. Loco