Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-06-07
FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE.
Notes From Dimerent Counties
Giving Interesting Facts.
No. XXIII.

communications from our correspondents,
giving facts about the different counties of
this division of the State. These letters
are doubly valuable to our readers North,
as they givein new form and from diff
ferent and reliable sources, items and state
ments corroborating those we have repeat
edly made, and giving additional and full
er details. We invite especial attention
TO the letter of yankee Smith, lately
from New York, who writes truthfully
and earnestly about facts concerning
which he is evidently posted. Such let
ters we consider very valuable and would
like to have more of them from every
county. .
We have made arrangements with re-
liable correspondents in various parts of
East. Tennessee to write us carefully pre-
pared articles about their cities and coun-
ties, giving just such facts as we know
immigrants want to hear. We promise
that these letters shall be full and interest,"
ing.
We are glad to have assurances from our
readers North that these articles are ac-
ceptable and interesting, and we shall en-
deavor hereafter and have made arrange
ments to make them still more so.
YANKEE ON EAST TENNESSEE AS A
GRASS, GRAIN AND DAIRY COUNTRY.
KINGSTON, June 2, 1871
RULE & RTcKs-GentS: Being inter-
ested in your articles upon East Tennessee
and knowing thatitis bythoughtsexpressed
that we are all benefited take this occa-
sion to pen few words which may serve to
substantiate what has already been said re-
rardinu tha climate prnduptiVpnaSS of the
soil, water adaptation to fruit and the
great inducements that by nature exist for
all who may desire to come to Roane county
and engage in. farming, be it grain or stock
raising, or dairying, which in my estima-
ton would be found more renumerative
than any other kind of business a farmer
can engage in. Born and raised in Cen
tral New York, where the snow lies deep in
winter where sometimes it is next to an
impossibility fora farmer to do more in
winter than to care for his stock, natu-
cally can see the difference in five months
winter and five weeks, yet where in sum-
mer they make more for the same number
of months by the manufacture of butter
and cheese, than is done in any other part
of the land for the same time and labor be
that klnd OF larmlng Wnat IL may, L
Saile nere inl 'e thot th;s 90 not bv get,,re
80 oF tha hast oroz;no, eactions to he found
Enst - Wet SyIe NnTth or South Tbot which
&. ,,,nat al for Hnirxyipr ic trraaG naXt
,vatar ,0aU then nIiroata Grass we bave or can
,'o,,o.1,nd AZ in os noanv yoriaties ne elswbere
oid,.or -. % ,,,%ior aroJncos tho most
,,iii, ond ,roaeoSsas oil tba nacessarv onaIie
~ fr ro p,ood orticin Of e;ther h,1ttar or
@ Ioi q SUou horo ., nS o,,ar so IL croyy
;a 3Lo SiUws Sir,v santion Of New Yoris water
az ~ J',v ,I oi;n,at ali tbot da;r,no re-
oI'iras mhat is naaded here is ;mmirrafion
~ sri ~ " .i,is on,,nty ,,ith fomiIie9 from
~ North 80 IL a,-Syoot to ,vorlr and ora
willing To Law aside n few of the unneces-
saries of life if circumstances require it, /
would but reaffirm what has often been
in your columns, that peace and quiet
reigns here, that the people, with regard to
politics are kind and well disposed towards
all who come here to- seek homes among
them. We may read of troubles, murders
and the like but they do not exist here.
1t would be hard indeed to find a section
as large as East Tennessee where the peo-
pie are more kindly disposed towards each
other and where crime is less known.
AS your paper is taken all through the
North it has led me 70 this trespass upon
your time and columns.
AS the family of Smiths are numerous
i sign myself YANKEE SMITH.
EAcsrs ARorrr NOISY CREEK. (coScII-pED. y
Tnrrops Cupo>,,c,p. U1his article u,;Il
o,oso ~, oSaarS,otio,,s oonnarnino ..focts
ohn,1. Me-, Croal, ~ T hone T have not
.auo',e,. b,,s,o,,so,,n - or ~ ,,nor