The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-07-14
Christiana.

The voting to establish the new county,
with Loudon as the county seat, came off
on the 18th inst, and succeeded by large
majority over two-thirds vote in the frac-
tions, as required by the act to establish
the county-a success and popular triumph
by an almost unanimous vote,
The Importance of such county, and
Loudon as the county seat, has been ap-
parent for years, by the efforts of the citi-
zens heretofore to get new county for
their convenience in travelling to the coun-
ty seat, instead of from the border frac-
tions to the old county seat--a distance of
from twelve to eighteen miles--and Lou
don especially, eighteen miles, and the
Tennessee river to ferry; aud making it
very inconvenient for the Judges and
Chancellors to get to Kingston Courts via
LOudon, aud return to the Railroad, un-
til recently, the Steam Packet Daily Line
has been. established between Kingston
and this point, connecting with. the Rail-
road-clearly demonstrating the wisdom
of the Convention and Legislature in maxi
ing the county, us an act of local interest
and public utility.
The county, with Loudon as the seat,
we believe, with the surrounding and To-
cality, possesses advantages over any point
in the extent of territory east of the Cum
berland mountain, and in the progressive
future will contend for the second or third
metropolis of East Tennessee, as a natu-
raj and positive sequence Of commerce and
manufacture. 1t was fully endorsed in
that phase in the last war, as the gate to
the great funnel, through which passed
troops and munitions of war from the
South and gulf States to the suburbs of
Washington and Richmond, oyer a span
of bridge and pontoons six hundred yards,
over the Tennessee river, aud also the ad-
vance anS retrogade movements of the be-
ligerents, en- route and stationary, despoil-
ing her beautiful valley and country,
erecting formidable batteries (remarka-
ble) on 'Seyen Hills" as lasting monu-
monts Of that fraternal struggle. Now
will the phGnix arise, shake off the dust
from her plumage and expand her wings
Crossing the Knox county line into the
new county, eleven miles east Of Loulon
crossing the Tennessee river, you strike
the head of the IIiwasseo valley and con
tinue in it until you pass into Monroe
county, seven miles west to the line be
tween Philadelphia and Swcetwatcf, iron
the cast To the west line eighteen miles
from the Blount coiuty line southeast tt
the ROanG county line northwest sixteeI
miles, containing 25O to 275 square miles
with Il voting population approximatins
1900. The county seat is beted aroun(
with the most fertile, improved farms anc
timber lands in the State, north of tht
Tennessee river, viz: Lenoir's Station anC
contiguous country, blackberry Bend anC
adjoining country South of Tennessee
river; Sweet water, Pond creek and Pole
cat, as they flow down the valley to seel
the Tennessee, and the country arounC
with table and high lands highly cult
vated. Philadelphia, bordering ON til,
Monroe county line, with belt of coun
try stretching out and taking in large por
| tiOns of the rich lands Of Fork and Ba
creeks to the Little Tennessee river cross
ing, and thence east to the Holston river
including Morganton, passing near Friend
vile and including Leper's Landing, en-
circling the Little Tennessee with the ric
islands at the mouth and the fertile land
and improvements along its channel o
both sides to the line above, twelve mile
, from Loudon to the junction with the Hol
ston, 900.
We give the above synopsis to fortif
the assertion and prediction that the couu
ty of Christiana will be one Of the mos
wealthy counties in East Tennessee, i
| punt Of fertile lands and agricultural re
sources, location and facilities, that vii
concentrate at Loudon to build up trad
and business that will eclipse any point i
East Tennessee, in pro rata population
She stards at the head of steamboat nav
CATION, particularly in low water, with tn
facilities of railroad through her center
, and in her primeyal state as it were, fe
, years ago an old Indian field has two Il,
q pots, enc on the railroad and one the ri,
er, with durable ways to draw freights ii
to the latter from steamboats, at the whar
and ship on switch from the river to ii
main track; also large steam saw mil
susceptible of saving from $4,000 TO Is
0 600 feet of lumber per day; large ma
; bic saw mill, with finishing shop, and no
Q erecting a sash aud planning shop, all pr,
PEELED by steam, and at the end of the raj
| road switch ot tho rivar
The political status of the new count
is decidedly Republican, and The fraction
a taken off will not neutralize the majoriti,
= in Blount and Roane-Monroe is sti
y joined to her idols of yore. A.
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