Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-10-18
FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE.
Morgan County.

No. NIL.


! We expected to have prepared an article
Oh "Wool Growing" for the present issue,
but press of business has prevented us,
and we give the following from an es-
teemed and reliable correspondent of Nor
gan county,
! aWARTBURG, Tenn, Oct. l, 1871.
DEAR CHRONICLE-Let me say, through
the CHRONICLE, to those concerned, that
| there is not aregion of country in all the
South more romantic, inviting and varied
in phase, fertility and production than
Morgan county Wartburg, the county
seat, is thirty-three miles west of the depot
at Clinton, on the Knoxville and Kentucky
Railroad, twenty-one miles from Kingston,
the nearest point of navigation that con-
tinues the year round, and fourteen miles
from COOper's Landing to which point
boats run eight or nine months in the year.
Speaking of minerals, / could only say
that / do not understand geology very
well, but / do understand, pretty reliably,
that there is hardy farm in this county
upon which can not be found bitumOuS
coal in large quantities. 1t is simply the
truth that almost every acre of land in the
southern and eastern portions of the coun-
ty lies on a bed of COAL and all this must
be of immense value ere long; for Cincin-
natl can not reach Chattanooga by rail
without penetrating the heart and center
of Morgan county, and to Chattanooga she
must go. East of Wartburg, the country
consists of high mountains and fertile val
leyS. These valleys are cultivated to a re-
spectacle extent for this south country,
and the entire county is we'll watered.
Lands, improved can be bought at from
one to thirty dollars per acre unimproved,
at twenty cents to three dollars per acre.
of o,fl 4 h ,4,.xri i, of n
different character being more generally
level, with little of what we would call
bottom land, shO large mountains and the
land of a poorer quality. Having had oc-
casion to travel through the west end of
the county recently, | was astOniohed to
see how well the crops had withstoOd the
unprecedented drouth and, also, at the
susceptibility of the land to bear improve
ment.
On almost every farm, which, by the
way, will Yield an average of about fifteen
to twenty bushels of corn to the acre, / no.
ticed one field on which the owner had
lotted his cattle, to be yielding from thirty
to forty bushels; and this is true of almost
every farm No land that ever saw pre-
sents a greater increase in yielding by a
little manuring than these table lands of
the Cumberland Mountain. And to say
that the lumber wealth of this county, if
developed would be beyond computation, |
would only be to give an idea of the vast
forests Of pine that bestud large districts |
of country. But the time is, think, now
at hand when these lands viii rise in value
to fabulous figures. Now is the time for
speculation in this country, and now the |
time for immigrants to find homes here |
while land is cheap, for with the rail-
road immense wealth is brought to every |
mans door who owns few hundred acres |
of this land. AS to politics, we rarely ever
hear it mentioned here: every man thinks |
as he chooses, and no one challenges him. |
South Carolina and Massachusetts might |
pass for twins here; and so with religious
denominations, the people think different
ly, but all our religious quarrels are eXotics |
and unwelcome to the people. Lands can
be bought for fifty cents per acre by the |
tract, which bids fair to be worth five dol |
lars in less than three years. may write |
more in detail HEREAFTER.