Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-04-12
FAcTs ABOUT EssT TENNEssEE.
our RnIlrosaGs aid
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country TO market. we take this oecasionto
write aboutour rivers and railroads.
Our principal railroad line Is the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Road
Link in thegreat Southern mail route from
New York to New Orleans 1t passes
through East Tennesseetin a sa.soutll-west-
ern direction from Bristol, on the Virginia
line to Chattanooga, and to Dalton, Ga
a branch running out from Cleveland,
Tennessee, to the latter point. 1t passes
sthrongh eleven of the thirty-one counties
inEast Tennessee, and is two hundred and
Forty miles in length. Over this route a
large quantity of cotton, grain and live
stock is shipped to the eastern markets,
while large proportion of the goods pur-
chased by the Southern merchants comes
over the same line. The consequence is,
that the road is doing heavy and con-
stantly increasing business Only one
daily passenger train is now run, but we
are assured that arrangements will be made
during the coming summer whereby two
daily trains will be run, and the facilities
for travel greatly increased. 1t connects at
Chattanooga and Dalton with the Nash
vile and Chattanooga, the Memphis and
Charleston, the Alabama and Chattanooga,
the Selma, Rome and Dalton, and the
Western and Atlantic roads.
The other roads in East Tennessee are
short lines, and siraply feeders for the
above mentioned line. There is branch
running out from Bulls Gap twelve miles
TO the town of Rogersville, the county
town Of Hawkins county There is n
great deal of valuable lands in the county,
and the products find an outlet over this
branch road, also downsthe Holston river,
which passes through the county.
The Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap and
Charleston road runs out from Morristown,
tsrqHgh q rich valley of land, forty miles
to Wolf ereela, withia q sesv miles of the
sorth CAROLINA line, and only nine miles
from tiicicelehrated Warm Springs, Madi-
son county ,Western North Carolina, where
colony Is being formed. composed priil-
cipally Of immigrants from the Northern
and Eastern States. 1t passes up the
French Broad and Chucky rivers, through
thousands of acres of land, which, for fer
tllity and productiveness, is unsurpassed
anywhere.
From Knoxville, the Knoxville and
Kentucky passes out through the counties
of Knox, Anderson and Campbell, to the
rich coal and iron regions of the Cumber-
land mountains-a distance of forty-five
miles, and within nineteen miles of the
Kentucky line. The principal business of
this road is the transportation of coal and
lumber to Knoxville and to cities south of
as AS the demand for these articles in
efeases, and the facilities for supplying
{f,sNM are greater, the business of the road
xvili Nso increase. The products of the
rich IN veil's Valley find an outlet over
this q 90 and merchants in the same To-
oality freceive-their supplies over it. Ii is
intentk ed to be a part of a line that at some
future Nine will eonnectyus with Cincin-
natl andt Louisville.
The K,epxville and Charleston road runs
ont from Knoxville to Maryville, the
County site on Blount county, a distance
ossixteen nnilets Maryyille is only nine
smiIes from than celebrated efmmer resort,
Montvale Springs. 1t passes through the
stock creek and Little river vaIlies, where
large quantities on corn, wheat, oats, pota-
toes and live stock are annually produced.
This is a part of the contemplated Blue
Ridge road, which, when completed, is TO
connect East Tennessee with the Sea-
board. The work on the Tennessee end
of the line has been suspended for some
time on account of want ofmeans. These
comprise all the roads in East Tennessee
which have been completed so for as to
run regular trains upon them.
Our principal river is the Tennessee. 1t
and its tributaries traverse nearly all the
counties I'm East Tennessee. 1t takes its
name at the confluence of the Holston and
Little Tennessee rivers, near Lenoir's sta
ton, twenty miles west of Knoxville, on
the East Tennessee Virginia and Georgia
Railroad, Steamers of from $50 TO 200 tons
burthen ply the rivers as far as Knoxville,
ON the Holston for nine months In the
year. The French Broad empties its wa
ters into the Holstou five miles east of
Knoxville. Light draught steamers have
! frequently ascended it going by cambridge
the county site of Jefferson county, to
Leadvale, where the Cincinnati, Cumber-
handicap and Charleston road crosses it,
and near the mouth of Chucky river. A
large number of flat-boats are annually
built on the Holston, French Broad,