Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-05-06

the farmer to throw his produc
upon the market, when it is a
the highest price.
RAILROADS.
! The railroad leading from Fay
ettevill to Decherd, on the Nash
vile and Chattanooga railroad
is partly a branch of the South
western railroad, from Danville
KY, to Gadsden, Ala, crosse
Norris Creek at one half mile
Mulberry at three miles, and Ell
River at six miles, and theme,
gradually ascends to the plateau
of the barrens, upon which j
keeps to its junction with th,
Nashville and Chattanooga rail
road. 1t is about forty miles il
length, and a good second class
railroad. Although it serves the
purpose of Lincoln county, l un
derstand that does not pay much
| into the State Treasury.
A charter for a railroad leaving
the Nashville and Decatur rail
road at Franklin, and running
south and south-easterly to Lewis
burg, Fayetteville, and thence to
Huntsville, is being obtained, OF
in completion. This route takes
the road through rich country
until after it passes Fayetteville,
and strikes the barrens. 1t is
comparatively level, and would
have but two bridges of any i'm
portance to build. This route is
altogether practicable, and would
nearly double the value of Mar
shall and Lincoln counties, if this
railroad could be built along it.
! An extension of the present
railroad from Fayetteville, is Of
ten discussed with much interest.
GEOLOGY.
North of Elk river, the soil is
composed principally of the Nash
vile group of rocks, "a geological
distinction made by our former
State Geologist, DR.. J. M. STAFFORD,
and is now the generally received
name for an immense bed of lime
stone which underlies Middle Ten
nessee.) The decaying of these
rocks has formed a rich friable
clay soil, which SO generally dis.
tinguishes Middle Tennessee, and
enables it to produce such q large
variety of vegetation necessary
for the animal kingdom. The
beds of the streams, the soil of the
valleys, and slopes of the hills
and ridges are generally from
these rocks, while the tops of
the highest hills and ridges are
capped with black slate, (the only
devonian rock known in Middle
Tennessee) or the lower rocks
belonging to the sub-earbonifer-
GUS, which are the prevailing for
nation In the barrens.
SOIL AND CLIMATE.
The soil is so productive that
almost all the great staples of the
United States are here raised in
great abundance; cotton, corn,
wheat, and tobacco, being the
chief grown for market.
The climate is so very favora-
Bile that all middle latitude fruits
are grown with ease and in abun-
dance.
FRUITS.
Apples, pears, peaches, plums,
cherries and grapes flourish here,
and are not SO subject to the evils
that pursue them elsewhere in
Middle Tennessee. Col. 10 Greer,
nearP Petersburg has an apple orch
ard that has failed but once In
twenty-five years, 1t is situated
on a northwest slope. Many
others in that vicinity have been
quite or nearly as successful
This fruit is large, fine and free
from all insect pests. Late frosts
do not work the harm here as in
most parts of Middle Tennessee.
In conversation with one of the
leading physicians of Fayetteville,
DIR. G. A. Diemer, q gentleman of
extensive information, and thor
oughly practical, / learned that
he had experimental with sever
al of the best varieties Of grapes,
such as Concord, Diana, Gatawba,
Isabella, Delaware, Scuppernong,
etc. He assured me that all had