The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-02-17

sheIe ishV part OF TINS country that L have
ever seen that can surpass it. While
speaking of the health of this country and
it's relative subjects it would not be ir-
reVilant to say something about the cli-
mate of North Western Missouri.
| am apprised of the fact that | am now
approaching a subject around which clus-
ter some of the strongest objections in the
minds of most people Of this country re-
lative to a climate SO far North as that of
which | am now speaking.
The most of people in this country are
impressed that the cold winds of the North
West are entirely too severe upon the con-
stitutiOns of men and women raised in East
Tennessee.
1t would be folly in me to say that the
climate of which | am speaking is not
colder and more windy than this, and at
the same time it would also be incorrect
to state that a cold and windy country is
depressing upon the constitution, for
agreeable to all medical research upon
this subject to the contrary, is proven, viz.
That climate having cold dryand chang
cable atmosphere always brings health
and vigor to the system. Now hat are
the facts relative to that country not
agreeing with citizens raised in East Ten
nessee. They are simply these: While |
remained in the Platt country, | visited
many citizens who moved from Blount,
McMmn and Monroe counties, many of
whom knew in this country before mov-
ing to Missouri, aud from them all | re-
ceived the same answer, relative to the
climate of that country agreeing with them
and their families. They have all had
their health as well ard eyen better since
they have been living in that country than
they had in Feast Tennessee, and as to
the winters being so much more severe
there than here, they invariably tell you
that they had rather spend the winter in
that country than in this, from the fact
that during winter it seldom rains, and
that the roads are generally at that season
of the year dry and dusty, the weather re-
naming dry and cold during almost the
entire winter; the farmers repairing their
farms by way of splitting rails, &c, during
the whole winter. Most people in this
country fear the climate of the N. w. on
account of false suspicion, that it is pre-
judicial to weak lungs and rheumatic
patients. Now without arguing the why's
and wherefores on this subject, | will just
state that while there | made special in
quiry among my medical friends upon this
subject and they all told me chat there are
fewer cases of Pleuracies, Pneumonias and
Rheumatisms in their practice, than in
any country they had ever practiced med
icine in, establishing the fact clearly to
my mind, that this climate would really
be of decided advantage to all such sub
jects. As to the judging of the general
health of any country, there is no better
rule to govern US than by the actual phys
.ical appearance of the inhabitance (; and
while there last summer my loyalty be-
came some what aroused, and | attended
a fourth Of July celebration in one of their
little cities where the crowd was estimated
at six or seven thousand people, all from
the adjacent counties, and | had a good
chance to apply this rule to tho crowd
present, and [ was not only forcibly struck
but pleased with the fact that in that large
crowd | did not see a face hat did not de-
note the very best of health. In short,
as to the health of North Western Mis-
souri,, you need have no fears, for | in re-
atty believe that we have ten times more
sickness in East Tennessee than they have
in the Platt Purchase, Missouri. The
most unhealthy as we'll as the most I'M
pleasant time of the year, in that country
is from the first of March until the first of
April, at which time the winds blow very
hard and the freeze in the ground is
breaking up, rendering it very muddy.
The Summers are very pleasant, and the
falls long and beautiful, having delightful
Indian summers extending far into No
vember before there is any cold weather.
The second but by no means the Least
important point connected with this sub
ject about which Emigrants are anxious to
be informed is the soil of this country.
The soil of North Western Missouri lisa
very rich black loan slightly mixed with
a very fine black sand. This intermixture
being so very minute and intimately b!en-
did that it would escape the attention of
one not giving it a special examination,
the particles of sand as found in the soils
being as fine as -four. The fact is remark
able hat the same surface appearance ex-
tends over the whole North Western part
of the State of Missouri, the only differ
ence being in the depth and not the sur
face quality of the soil, and that some
points as you approach the timber lands
have a slight mixture of small white peb-
bles scattered upon the surface of the
grond. When such is the case, that par
ticular locality is considered second quality
of soil. But these grave points are the
exception and not the general rule to this
country, for as a general thing the soil is
entirely free from gravels or rocks of any
kind, but to the contrary you find nothing
but one vast body of the finest soil you
ever saw, easily cultivated, and very pro-
ductive, just rolling enough to drain we'll
and not in most places sufficiently so to
wash much during hard rains. While
looking at the growing crops last summer
in the North West, their thrifty and -four
ishing appearance induced me to make in