Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-03
FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE.
General items.
NO. XVIII.

We gave last week some items about the
iron interests of East Tennessee. In adj
dition to the facts stated in that article
we have one or two items to present.
There is perhaps no section of the Union
where there are so many varieties of iron
ore found in such abundance In Carter
county furnace, connected with the foun-
dry of Clark, Quaife & Co., of this CITY.
makes an iron peculiarly adapted to the
manufacture of car wheels. 1t is made of
the magnetic ore, yields large per cent,
and the product is a hard, tough iron used
with great success in the making of car
wheels.
An establishment lately started in
Washington county makes iron used very
successfully for all foundry purposes The
iron in Greene, the adjoining county, is of
a fine quality of spiegeleisen, used as re-
carbonizer, in the Bessemer steel process.
These varieties of the iron ore are all
found in great abundance in their respect
i've localities. We do not believe that iron
can be made cheaper anywhere than in
East Tennessee. The iron ore itself, the
coal, the charcoal, provisions and labor
are all cheaper here than most other places,
and we see no reason why pig iron cannot
be produced at as low price here as any
where.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
We have had repeated inquiries about
lands for colonies. To any one feeling in
terested in such matters we direct their at
tention to the advertisement in another
IF Ia g Al.
county, M. l.. Patterson, who offers for
sale large tract of land in this county,
and to the terms offered. Its situation and
price we should think would make it de-
sirable location for colony. The columns
of our real estate agents containing de-
scription of the lands they offer might
likewise contain some tracts the situation
and price of which would be favorable.
We have given, repeatedly, in our columns
the testimony Of our own people to the
general attractions we present to immi
grants, but we have received from dis
tinguished citizen of Ohio, now in Ten
nessee on business for a large estate, a let
ter so full of truths and at the same time so
Just picture of our inducements, that we
cannot resist the temptation to make it n
part of this article We know the author,
know that he is entirely disinterested in
his testimony, and that his large expert
ence as traveller and a man of shrewd and
successful business requirements, makes
his evidence of peculiar force and signii-
canoe. We give it just as received and
commend it to our readers:
A Disting uished Travellers Opinion of Ten
nessee.
IN CAMP, MONROE COUNTY, TENN. |
April "a, 1871.
EDITORS CHRONICLE: l have visited
Middle and East Tennessee three times
within year, appropriating the most of
my time, however, in Monroe and Polk
counties. And awhile / do not intend to
make any Investments within the State
on my own account, but while attending
to the interests of others, / am surprised
at the magnitude of the dormant resources
of your great State. L know of no State
in this Union (and / have travelled more
or less in many of them that surpasses it
in all the elements requisite to make an
empire. The general quality of its soil,
suited to the production of every kind of
grain, fruits and Vegetables, its noble
rivers and water courses, giving 1T COM
merce with the world and ineXhaustible
water power, its immense coal fields, ores
of iron, copper, and undoubtedly, of galen
and gold, its beds of marble and slate, the
adaptation of its mountains for raising
sheep and cattle, its water power for re-
ducing its ores to commercial form and
the manufacture Of its cotton and wool,
with scientific, practical improvement
of its generous soil, that brings ''otOW
loom and a1UiP' together within your own
commonwealth altogether form elements
which when actively developed and i'm
proved cannot fail to make your State one
of the first in this Union. 10 accomplish
this, however, will require the expenditure
of much well directed labor and capital,
guided by practicat talent. The field is
large, and in addition TO your home wealth
and intellect, may well invite foreign cap
ital and enterprise (sure to be repaid)
within your borders, To expedite the de-
velopment of all your wonderful resonr-
.ces, and through these instrumentalities
make your State worthy of itself, in con-
nection with the fn0I2cidI prosperity
which would result to your citizens. Your
:solons would no doubt make whole
some and liberal provisions for the educa-
ton of the masses, as well as TO sustain
academies and colleges. and thus enrich
the mind as we'll as fill the purse.
tg'l VERITAs.
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