The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1870-01-27
From Tonneasee.


From Tennessee.
Editors Of the advertiser: We are
now in the land of Dixie. Leaving
home some time since with the view OF
improving my health in taking q tramp
through the South, taking passage on
board steamer at Muscatine and ar
irving Mt st. Louis in due time, found
the city all alive with business. Here
we took the cars for the iron mountain, .,
eighty miles south Of this city. At this
place we found our old neighbor and
friend w. II. Edgar, where we passed n
week very pleasantly. They are get
ting out the iron ore ut this place with a
large force; it Is shipped to St. Louis in
great quantities. From this place we
passed down on tho iron Mountain road
to Belmont. Striking the river at this
place, this road is about one hundred
and sixty miles in length, passing over
a very rough and unsettled region Of
country. Crossing into Kentucky twen-
ty-tive miles below Cairo, we took the
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twenty. five miles. Changing cars here,
we took the Northwestern to Nashville,
one hundred and eighty-ave miles dis.
tant; this road passes over a very good
portion Of West Tennessee. Nashville is
a very pleasantly located city with n
population of forty thousand inhabi-
tants, with quite a brisk trade. Here
we took the Nashville and Chattanooga
road to Tulahoma, sixty-eight miles;
changed cars for McMinnville, thirty
two miles, the present terminus of this
road. This is quite tlourishing town
with good portion Of the inhabitants
found one from Mt. Vernon, Linn coun-
ty, Iowa, by the name Of Kennedy,
whom we found to be a very pleasant
and socabie gentleman. He Is engaged
in the drug business. A great portion of
this town was destroyed by fire during
the war. We travelled from this place
by stage to Sparta, twenty-six miles.
Sparta is the county seat of White
county. On this road we see the de-
struction Of the war on every hand
fields lying waste, and growing up
with the wild sage grass. Sparta is
located ut the foot Of the Cumberland
Mountain. From this place We took
Walkers line up the Mountain twenty
two miles east to Pomona, Cumberland
county, where we have made it our
resting place for several weeks.
We wish now to write few lines
concerning this mountain county. The
soil is a slightly sandy loan with n yel-
| low clay subsoil. The surface is princi
pally undulating and level; some Sec
tions abounding in streams, are rolling.
Timber generally open and much of it
free from underbrush; oak, pine, poplar,
chestnut, maple, walnut &c, are the
varieties. Springs Of the purest free
stone water are found, also chaly beate
and sulphur springs. Elevated 1900
feet above the sea it has u different at
mosphere, aud the climate il unsur-
passed. Health Is insured here if any
where-no fe vers or epidemics, and the
natives obtain great age; all are friend
ly. This is u grass growing country;
almost the whole plateau not too
heavily timbered, Is covered with thick
sod Of natural grass. Grasses do succeed
and will in the highest degree; timothy
and clover grow finely, and from COM
pact sod. Blue grass only asks chance
in short, this is the grass land o. the
South.
The elevation, dry atmosphere and
gentle breezes keep off the frost; the
result is, that fruit is nowhere a more
certain crop. Wool growing can no.
where be made more profitable than
here, and 1t will be one of the leading
pursuits. The greatest drawba is tho
want Of railroads, although the prospects
are now flattering enough. This county
is on the limo Of both the Cincinnati.
Chattanooga, and Tennessee and Pacific
railroads. These will be grand main
trunk lines and will intersect in this
county, The first is being: surveyed,
the latter is building: Large sums of
money are appropriated. toeach, This
county contains a' larger per cent of
Yankees than any other In all Dixie.
and still they come. This land rates
low; from one to ten dollars for wild
and partly improved. Thousands of