Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-03-05
MONTE OHERY COUNTY LANDS.

cir. EDITOR: The writer has trav-
eled some through the country, and
has had information from localities
where he has not gone. He has, for
the last two years. given his best at
tention to the prices OF lands and real
property in the Southern and border
States, and has been pleased to see,
recently, an appreciation in value of
from SO to so and 100 per cent, in
property of this kind. In portions of
Tennessee only, however, has any
improvement taken place. AS far as
your immediate section is concerned,
1t seems that the very low war prices
were stereotyped, or at any rate have
continued to the present time, for
your land for to-day real property in
your city, and lands in the counties
and districts surrounding GAINESVILLE,
are relatively lower than anywhere
else in the country. This should not
be so, and is hard to be understood or
accounted for. There is no locality
more healthful, and but few so pro-
ductive as yours of the more valuable
staples, fruits, small crops, stock, etc.
There is peace, harmony and good
feeling throughout your community ;
you have churches and schools, soci-
ETY. and morals of the best; there is
every needed facility for transporta-
ton and travel; q good home mar
ket for all the products common to
land culture, and high prices realized
for all of them there are banks and
money facilities, all, all, and more
yet lands and real property are neg
! lected and are down extremely low
rates. All real property i'm your city
and all lands in the counties and dis
tricts around are a speculation, and
were they taken by purchasers, to-day
as they are rated, would, as the wri.
ter believes, within ,twelvemonth
pay from 33 to so per cent. on the in
veStment.
| Is agriculture, as q pursuit, so un
popular in your section as to have any
agency or bearing in this matter? Oh
is there an excess of lands compared
to the enterprise and labor at home
If so, invite Others from abroad. Pop.
T ulation Is wealth, and hundreds o
steady farmers now would be of inf
nitely more advantage here than gold
With the very fine opportunities o
securing good farming lands at iron
, ten to fifteen dollars per acre and goot
producing lands for one half thes,
rates, is it not surprising that no NOR,
of our young men choose to embark
in agriculture as pursuit? 1t is a
, respectable as the professions that ar,
over-crowded, and should be prefera
BILE to counting-room position. 1
is more profitable and infinitely les
demOraliziug than speculation ant
trade. 1t is capacious enough to Civ
room to all, and profit and additional
standing to as many rs will accep
and pursue it industriously. --
In Montgomery county alono thcr
! are from fair to good lands enough
untitled and idle, to afford homes f
!, more than five hundred heads of fam
lilies, each with his three hundre
: acres, which ground, if well titled
= would produce surplus, annually, q
!, over $500, 600, or about one third of Tn
value of the present annual export
of your city. And We're all theS
idle lands brought under tillage an
: presided over and owned by AS man
prosperous, hospitabc heads of fam
his wife and children about him, coul
, there be any nearer approach to n
e earthly paradise than in this happy
4 harmonious community OF farmer
, and agriculturists? Let our youn
I men then consult their interest an
y happiness, and not hesitate momel
to set forward in enterprises of agr
culture. Let us, too, invite frol
l. abroad the straightforward, industr
+ Gus Cultivator of the soil to assist !
:. the development of the sure but hiC
} den wealth of these lands, and whe
l. developed to enjoy II with us. An
II let IA hope he will come Mt once, al
"a we will give him that cordial VIC
come that will make him feel at hon
'e with us, and, no doubt, in our iii
country he will speedily attain thri
that viii lead him rapidly to the S
sc curing Of all the forsune he ms
rs desire. w.