Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-02-11
A Radical View.
Lincoln County-Crop I'm
provements, etc.
From &c Neshville Pres and Time.

A gentleman who resides In
Lincoln county communicated
some items to us yesterday in re-
lation to its condition, which we
doubt not will be of interest to
the public, especially to those
abroad who wish to obtain some
knowledge of the crop improve
ments, and natural advantages of
our counties. We will premise
that Lincoln lies on the Alabama
line, midway between the Nash
vile and Decatur and Nashville
and Chattanooga Railroads. A
branch of the latter extends from
Decherd to Fayetteville, the coun-
ty town of Lincoln, which is sit
uated on Elk River. This and its
various tributaries furnish water
power large enough to drive all
the looms and spindles in the
country. Our informant states
that the county has just paid into
the State Treasury every dollar
of its taxes for 1868. Last year
the county built fine stone arch
bridge, costing $40, 600, over Elk
River, and a fine Jail al cost Of
$4,000. There are three turn
pixies in. process of construction.
The cotton crop of 1868 is worth
$1,000,000. The farmers are
building many handsome and con-
venient residences, and improving
their farms In fences, barns and
outhouses, with zeal and energy
never witnessed before. The
: coIored laborers have been quite
successful, many of them having
cleared on their cotton from $500
to$1,000. The hog and corn crops
have been very fine, and brought
in q large amount of money. The
area of land sown in wheat last
fall is two hundred per cent. lar
ger than it was the preceding
year. The bottom lands of Elk
River and its tributaries, in the
vicinity Of Fayetteville, are worth
$50 per acre; ordinary farming
lands are worth about $40 per acre.
AT Lynchburg a new $25, 200 cot
ton-spinning factory has just been
built. There is another factory
in operation at Brighton. The
country is a superior bluegrass,
peach and apple region.
The preceding hasty notes in
dictate that Lincoln county has the
clements of a rich and prosperous
country, and that she is capable
of being a burning and shining
light in the State. She unfortu-
nately has been for some time
afflicted with the presence of GER
tain uncertain individuals, who
neither fear God nor regard man,
and whose chief delight seems to
be in creating disturbances in So
ciety. We are gratified to learn
that many of her intelligent and
substantial people, feeling that the
conduct of these desperadoes is
bringing them into disrepute a.
broad, and viii involve them in
still greater trouble if it remains
unchecked, intend to put stop to
It in the future. A deputation of
gentlemen waited upon Gen. Coop
.er on last Monday, and said that
they were determined to use ex-
.traordinary exertions to put a
stop to the outrages which it has
been our unpleasant duty to re-
cord. Many of these they attri- |
butte to the ineficiency of some of |
their most important civil officers.
Gen. Cooper, we learn, told the |
deputatien in substance that if |
the people of Lincoln county
would arrest and punish the ruff
fans who were committing out
RACES, he would send no militia
among them. We ardently hope
that the efforts of the friends of |
law and order may be crowned
with complete success, and that
1859 may witness not only the
death of the infamous Kuklux or
der in Lincoln, but the erection
of halt a dozen cotton mills and
the raising of a cotton, wheat and
corn crop double that of last year.