Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-03
TENNESSEE.
Some Valuable Information for those
Desiring to KmmIgrate TO the State.

Desiring TO KmmIgrste TO the state
A very commendable enterprise is being
undertaken by the Boston Social Science
Association, that of compiling hand book
for Emgrants. The experimental number
sent us is very neat In appearance, and the
matter is clear and concise. Elegant maps
are bound in Il, and in every respect ii
promises to be Just the article desired.
In answer to some inquiries Of the Secre-
tary as to Tennessee we have prepared the
following notes:
! WAGES OF FIRST CLASS LABoRERs.
Farm hands, 81 to S. per week, and board
and lodging.
Coal miners, SIS to $50 per week, or . to
/ cents per bushel.
Factory operatives, $3.50 to So per week.
| Domestic servants, S1.50 TO IS per week,
and board and lodging.
Carpenters, $l5 to $40 per week,
Blacksmiths, SIG to $50 per week.
Tailors, SIS to S25 per week.
Painters, $14 to $40 per week.
! Farm hands and domestic servants are In
| greatest demand.
Producing or manufacturing labor Of any
| kind, in good demand at fair wages.
There is a surplus Of poor and cheap
! ldOOls dliA ohlAiC& idDeI EIGdlt1
needed.
LAND.
Improved farming land averages $50 per
acre throughout the State, prices ranging
| from IS to $3.50 per acre, according to local
ity and quality. First-class bottom lands
within one to five miles of churches,
! school-houses, postoffices, etc, from SIS to
$40; in the immediate neighborhood Of
towns, from $40 to 500.
There are 100000 acres In the State,
100000 of which are unimproved, and
may be bought for from 80 cents to S. an
acre, according to accessibility, timber and
minerrl deposits. This vast body of land
is almost entirely available for all the vari-
Gus agricultural purposes, and in every re-
spect fitted for the abode of man; abound
ing in pure water, fine timber, variety Of
good soils and useful minerals; all of which
are in convenient proximity for manufac-
turing and agriculture; while the climate is
peculiarly delightful and full of vitality,
and the scenery varied and exceedingly
beautiful.
COMMUNICATIONS.
There are some fourteen main lines of
railroad well connected, traversing the State
in almost every direction, and as many
every evidence of early completion.
The Tennessee and Cumberland rivers,
with their large number of navigable tribu-
taries, furnish water transportation to the
principal mining and timber districts as
well as a large agricultural section; giving,
with the railroads, direct and cheap trans
portation to almost every point of the COM
pass.
SCHOOLS.
In some parts of the State there are ex-
cellent public schools, and in almost every
part there are good private schools, while
there is an ample number of advanced ed
ucational institutions, which are more easy
OF access to the poor, than such usually are.
school law provides for assessing tax in
every district for school purposes, which, in
connection with the provisions of the Pea
body fund, enables every district to have
school, of both of which the people will
doubtless soon avail themselves.
CHURCHES.
The people of Tennessee, especially of
the larger towns, are emiently church.
going people, and the ordinances Of Sunday
are religiously observed, generally, and with
warm interest. All the larger denomina-
tons have churches throughout the State.
NE--NEu-AI NOlES-EASI lENNt.SSEE.
East Tennessee cannot be called noun
taineus in the usual sense Of the term, as
her highlands are mainly the Cumberland
Plateau, which trayerses the Eastern portion
Of the State, the top of which, instead of
being rugged and peaked, is level or slightly
undulating, from twenty to forty miles
broad, and about one thousand feet above
the average altitude of the rest of the State.
Its innumerable unfailing streams, having a
fall of thousand feet within a comparative
short distance, afford the most extensive
and convenient water-powers; often by vast
deposits of minerals, in which the Plateau
aboundS, and in the midst of immense for
ests. All the larger Of these streams have
broad valleys of wonderful fertility, which
are generally improved. But the top of the
Plateau is scarcely less available for agricul-
tural purposes, and more valuable for fruit
and stock.
MIDDLE TENNESSEE,
Middle Tennessee includes the great Cen
trail Basin and Highland Rim, and is the
most thickly populated.
The Basin is unsurpassed for fertility,
producing most generously and with even
too little effort, blue grass, cotton, corn and
other grain. The Rim, like the Plateau,
Astounding in nutritious native grasses, and
fine, open timber, is a superior locality for
raising stock; and it too is peculiarly adapted
to fruit. There is also much iron here.
WEST TENNESSEE.
West Tennessee, with its warm, alluvial
soils and warmer climate, produces cotton
and corn aud the general products of the
South. This section has some of the finest
and largest timber in the Union, and so
great is the surplus of timber and iron lands
in Middle and West Tennessee that they
often can be purchased in large tracts at
from 81 to s. per acre.
THE STATE DEBT.
The State has sold her interest in her
railroads and applied the proceeds, $685.
$50, to the reduction of her debt.
SOCIETY.
The society of the larger towns has all
the incidents Of age and wealth, culture, re-
tinement and accomplishments, and is lib
eral and free where confidence is estab-
lished.
IMhuGRATION.
In the more thriving portions of the State
extraordinary exertions are being made to
induce immigration, and the laborer and
capitalist will alike receive such substantial
evidences of welcome, and such satisfactory
reward for his labor or money as will effect
ually remove any distrust of either the PEG.
pie or their resources.-NGShUHle Enter