Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-06-23
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The scenery and the Cincinnati
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The scenery and the Cincinnati
s9ls SRA rs Railroad. SD 81
Extracts from Correspondence Of Cincinnati Ga
4 zette.
- HUNTSVILLE, SoorT COUNTY, June Is,
1670.-Arriying few days ago at Hunts
vile, here IN the heart of the deer hunt
| ing country, where fat bucks are sbund-
ant in their season, and bears not alto
gether unknown, but where a locomotive
would be to many of the inhabitants as
great novelty as an elephant; where
turnpikes are not, but log paths and deer
stands abound; where doctors, upholster-
ers and brick masens are at a discount,
and Hhite-haired men swing the ak with
q vigor, and poise the rife with q keen
ness of aim Boone CT Kenton would
envy, ! learned that there was surveying
party in the neighborhood, containing
among the number some Cincinnati boys.
The splendid timber, the boundless coal
and iron Of the Cumberland mountain,
the beautiful Tennessee marble, the num-
berless mineral springs, and the health
giving air of East Tennessee; the wealth
of the cotton belt and the seaboard, all
urge haste.
The amount Of the mineral wealth ali
along the line of the yet uncompleted
Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad needs
to be actually seen to be appreciated.
A portion of the track is laid with Eng
hsh rail, through q bed of iron. got,
some time since, some statistics from the
efficient Secretary, John L. Moses, ESQ,
showing coal trade not only of crafty
ing amount as to quantity, but as to dos
tination, embracing so many and so dis
tant points in the cotton region. At that
time the only coal mines were those st
Coal creek, opened and managed largely
by Ohio men. Since then the mines at
Careyville, the present terminus of the
track, thirty-seyen miles from Knoxville,
have been opened and are doing fine
business, and it only needs further pro-
gress of the rosd to develop new supplies
of mineral wealth. -.s-
Capital some time since became at
trscted to the line of this road for invest
ment, but comparatively little has come
in proportion to what might find hand
some and remuneratiEe employment
Lands on the Cumberland Mountain can
now be bought for dollar or few dol
lars an acre that viii be eventually adj
vanced to many times that price. =
One of the most recent instan ees which
l have known, personally, is that of a
young Englishman, who had seen hard
knocks in the Crimea and s'roughed it in
the bushp in Australia, who has purchas-
ed thousand acre tract OF "hatwoodsh
land in Campbell county, not far from
Scott, and proposes to go extensively into
sheep raising, being backed by company
of Philadelphia capitalists. Rather
lonely situation for man just from the
East, and but recently from Old England,
and among whose baggage found
Lothian, "Wm. Morris poems and sew
eral numbers of Appletons' Journal, one
of them containing an article of his own.
Wool growing is destined to become in
East Tennessee the important source of
wealth, as it has proved in Ohio and else
where. -.........-.
1t is said that with our splendid noun
tain range for pasture, and our milder
climate, the facilities for wool raising
here are better than in the Buckeye
State.