Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-12
FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE.
From Our Correspondents.
no. XVIII.

NO. AANllI. ~ ..t.GH
Every mail continues to bring US in
quires from all parts of the country about
East Tennessee. Many say they are COM
ing soon to make their homes here while
hundreds Of others express themselves as
being favorably impressed with East Ten
nessee and want to know still more about
our climate, soil, mineral resources, &c.
Hero is fair specimen of letters which
are reaching us every day:
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, July Q, 1871
MeSSrS. Rule 4 RiekS. has t.
GENTS: AS am intending to go TO East
Tennessee in about three months, would like
to post myself some about the country before
starting. Please send mo one copy of your pa
per for three months, will remit immediately
on receipt OF first copy. Please dc not disan-
point me- Respectfully yours,
b. NJ. SouLE
We cali only say to Mr.. Soule that we
will take much pleasure in having him to
carry his determination into effect. The
people of this portion of our State will well
come him, and we trust he may be able to
make such arrangements as will prove sat
isfactory to him, and cause no regrets at
the change made. We have sent him the
all the facts in our possession, or which we
may be able to get, that would be interest
ing to the man in search of home in East
Tennessee. We are satisfied that it is only
necessary that the facts should be known
when tide of immigration will set in and
give us what we want-more people, and
people with capitol aud enterprise to de-
velope our hidden resources.
Mr.. T. SAVOY writes to us from Wood
land, Michigan, as follows:
WOODLAND, Mich, June 2Sth, 1871.
MEssRs. EpIToRsi am highly pleased with
your paper. L am anxious to know about the
Climate, Soil and general resources of East
Tenn. L have been thinking strongly of come.
ing there to live if things are all on the square
We have a rich soil here but the climate is moi
II healthy one. 1t is decidedly bilious" There
u great many swamps in Mich. which
produce Fever and Ague by the Wholesale
splendid place for Doctors l will venture tc
say that ninety-five out of every hundred chill
dren in this lovely land have had the Ague Sc
much for Mich. | have lived here for the past
twenty-five years and l know this to be IA fact
am troubled with Catarrh in my head.
have had it for twelve years and have trieC
the best Physicians in the country and they
can not cure me. L am able to work all of thu
time, but yet do not feel well 1t l thought
that the pure mountain air of Tenn. would eff
u
small farm here, but can sell it readily.
The business that suits me is Fruit raising
have started vineyard hear and the vines are
nice. know it will pay here, but want good
health. Please inform me through the columns
of your valuable paper, whether Fruit raising
would pay in the vicinity of Knoxville l want
10 make speciality" of Grapes, Peaches anG
Strawberries think they are the most delic
Yours Respectively.
T. SANDY.
To Mr.. SANDY we would say that this j:
about the poorest place for doctors in the
world, but good place for the industrious
mechanic or farmer, or the energetic CAPT
talist. Speaking of ague, we have NJ
doubt there are hundreds of adult persona
in the various counties of East Tennessee
who have never witnessed case of agu'
i'm their lives. Such disease is exceed
ingly rare, i man with the ague here
of the regular and natural order of things
and looked upon as an object of curiosity
You say, Mr.. Sawdy, that 95 out of every
100 children in your part of the countr,
have had ague. We will say that we hav,
no idea that there are five children out o
every one hundred in this part of thu
country who have ever seen a case of ague
So much for that. You want to know
if fruit raising will pay in the vicinity
of Knoxville, We answer, yes. Their
is no doubt of it. Fruit raising
has never been thoroughly tried here, blu
it has been tested far enough to warran
us in saying it will pay. We have fn
peaches, apples, pears, Strawberries, grapes
&C., and yet they have never received any
thing like the attention which is bestowed
upon orchards in the Northern and East
ern States. Last spring our markets wer
well supplied with the finest Strawberries
They sold at high figures, throughout tn
season, and were a source OF profit to thOs
engaged in their culture. We have neve
heard doubt expressed as regards the ad
vantages presented by our soil.and climat
for raising fruits, -Fs... 3D.. .r...r.-.
THE silly clap-trap stuff with whicl
Democratic editors see fit to fill their col