Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-08-30
FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE.
Answers 10 Correspondents and Facts
about Morgan County.
Nc. xxxv.

than for months past. We are satisfied
the efforts of the CHRONICLE to enlist an
interest in our section are entirely success
full. We can not answer all our letters
through the paper, and if we attempted to
do so by mail, would find time for
nothing else. If our correspondents would
make their inquiries more specific and to
the point, we could answer more of them.
A MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISE.
n correspondent from Trenton, New
Jersey who furnishes us with the
best of references, writes to know
of the prospects for manufacturing axes
and edged tools at Knoxville. He has no
capital, but he has what is worth more
evidence of the highest skill in his trade
He says that he is the ''original manufac-
turer of the ID. Simmons axe and enti-
tied to the credit for the wide reputation
they have for superior quality" a fact he
can satisfactorily show. He says if there
are few citizens in Knoxville who will
furnish the capital he will come here in
person and furnish to them such facts
about the business and such references as
to himself as must prove satisfactory.
IL seems to us that such an offer is worthy
of serious consideration by our citizens.
Here is man with sill and experience in
his trade who is ready to come here and
engage in on entepriser that must do this
community great good. He is ready to
bring what is worth more than capital, for
it is less abundant. We leave this propo-
sition for the present for the consideration
of our people. The gentlemans name and
references we can give at any time.
Mr.. Z. r. Mullet, of Clinton, Iowa,
wants to know of our schools, churches
and population. He will see in another
column of our Weekly that we are just or
ganizing our public schools. We can as
sure him that it is a good beginning and
the good work will go on.
OF our churches we have only to say
that they are of every denomination, end
twelve in number. The buildings are all
substantial and commodious, and many of
them elegant structures. We have in
Knoxville at least 1900 population. The
census does not give us this number, for
that enumeration does not include our
suburbs that legitimately belong to our
city. Our corporate limits are very small,
We have much of our population outside
of those boundaries.
FACTS ABOUT MORGAN COUNTY.
A reliable friend and correspondent gives
us some additional facts about Morgan
county, which we cheerfully publish with
the hope of hearing still further from him.
WARTBURe, MORGAN COUNTY, I
August IL, 1871. !
EDITORS CHRONICLE Since you have
so kindly offered Morgan" place in
your very excellent "CHRONICLE," L will
try first to introduce the stranger and
traveller to our little county town from
which 1 now write. Should L succeed in
this effort l may then offer the gentlemen
an introduction to the surrounding cOun-
try.
Wartburg has been the county site of
Morgan county since October 1870. The
business of the place consists of five dry
goods stores one apothecary's shop, one
timers shop, one saddler's shop, two
boot and shoe shops, one cabinet shop,
one bar and one blacksmith shop while
upon the outskirts of town are some of
the finest vineyards in the State, and L
may here say that the grapes from Mr..
Falwickle's vineyard took the premium
at the East Tennessee Fair. We have a
splendid court house just finished contain
ing eight rooms, and is most conveniently
arranged. Our present population num-
bers but little over one hundred, but new
buildings are sprlnglng up with spirit
that carries meaning with it, and town
lots are in active demand. I think 1t not
rash to expect the population to double in
twelve or eighteen months.
The town is situated upon the western
summit of most beautifully inclined plain
that faces the east, and one would almost
conclude that the mornings sun and the
dawn of day were fellows in their travels to
the West This plain is almost continuous
for ten miles to the east, along which lies the
main road to Knoxville, but it is fenced in
by the Bushy and Chimney-top Mountains,
that rise up, kiss the clouds in their march,
and then stretch away eastward like
''giants in repose." But turning the face
westward at Wartburg, we are struck by
the sublimity Of a gulf one mile deep,
through which the little ''cassic river"
winds its dubious way to the CIinch. But
from this we may find sudden relief by
turning our eyes to the Ward Mountain
at the north-that towers in majestic and
romantic beauty to the clouds, while for
miles to the southeast, south and south
west We may traverse most delightfully."-
beautiful plain, covered with its virgin
children, the oak, the pine and the great
poplar, with here and there a thrifty Ger
mans farm. Our little town is blessed
with an abundance of the best of water
both fresh and chalybeate, and must soon
be "a chosen resort for the health and plea
sure.seeking myTiads from the North and
the South. In two miles of the court house
of fIaaI Inast at,ts. in