The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-09-28

contains about ten millions Of acres.
CIVIL DIVISION.
1t is divided iuto thirty-three counties
Anderson, Benton, Bledsoe, Bradley
BlouBt, Campbell, Carter, Cooke, Clai'
borne, Granger, Greene, Hamblin, Aamil.
ton, Hancock, Hawkins, James, Jefferson.
johnson, KNOX, LoudOn, Marion, Meigs
MoMinn, MourOe; Morgan, Polk, Roane,
Rhea, Scott, Sequatchie, Sewer, Union
and Washington.
These counties are subdiSided into
civil and common school districts; each
district having one or more Justices OF
the Peace, according to population; a
consta BILE, three common, school commits
sioners and one or more schools.
WATER COURSES.
There is no part of the United States,
or probably of the world, ss we'll wutered
as East Tennessee. Within its area there
are between twenty and twenty-five rivers
aud navigable streams. Of these, the
Tennessee and HOlstOn rivers, as far up as
Knoxville, are navigable for steamboats,
at all seasons Of the year. Tie Cliuch,
Iliwassee, Little Tennessee, HolstOn above
Knoxville, French Broad and Noiachucky
rivers are navigable for steamboats, from
four to six months in the year.
Watauga, Doe, North and South Fork
of HolstOn, Chucky, Big and Little Pig
con, Tellico, Little Powell's, Big and Lit
tie Emory, Ocoee and Sequatchie rivers
and several creeks are navigable for keel
aud fat boats for from four to six months
in the year.
Every county in East Tennessee has a
navigable stream running through it. To
supply these navigable streams we have
innumerable creeks and rivulets, while
our springs are so abundant that the trav-
eler on foot or horseback, journeying on
any of our roads, can regale himself at
pleasure with the purest and mosS limpid
water that ever gushed from hill or noun
tain. We have water power in East Ten
nessee sufficient to turn all the machinery
in Great Britain and the United States
And much of it lies Immediately on or
contiguous TO our lines of railroad already
completed. The water courses of East
Tennessee cannot be excellod for beauty.
They are not sluggish, turbid streams, but
their clear, pellucid waters either bound
over the rocks and shoals, or ripple over
the pebbles, bright and exhilerating
sight to the spectator.
SCENERY AND CLIMATE.
Fast Tennessee has very diversified
landscape of great grandeur and beauty.
The scenery through the Cumberland
mountains, on the banks of the Tennessee
river, rivals in beauty that of the Hudson.
This scenery terminates with the Lookout
mountain, at Chat;anoogu-on of the
most interesting elevations on the West
ern Continent. The scenery up the Ocoee
river through the Smoky mountains is Of
surprising grandeur. That up the French
Broad river is both grand aud beautiful.
No one has ever travelled through East
Tennessee without unaffected admiration
of the scenery.
The climate is very salubriOus. Stu
ated between thirty.fve and tbirty-six
and a half degrees North latitude, we
have not the enervating heat of the South
or the rigorous cold of the North.
We have no chills and fever, and but
very little consumption or rheumatism.-
Indeed, by many physicians East Tennos-
see is pronounced the best climate for
consumptives in the United States. For
health, strength and longevity our climate
is not equalled by any on the American
continent.
MINERAL SPRINGS.
Nearly every county in East Tennessee
has sulphur, chalybeate, freestone and
limestone springs in great abundance; and
besides these, some of them have springs
composed of epson salts and nngnesia.-
Considerable Improvements for the enter
tainment of invalids and others have been
made at some of them. But as there are
but few health seekers in East Tennessee,
these rely for support principally upon
persons residing out Of the State. Vast
numbers of excellent sulphur and chaly.
beate springs have no improvements
The principal Improvements are at Mont
vale, Blount county; Sulphur Springs,
Rhea county; White Cliffs, Mouroe coun-
ty; LEAFS Springs, lower part Of Granger
county; Tate's Springs, upper part OF
Granger county; and Alum Springs, in
Hawkins county.
RAILROADS.
The East Tennessee and Virginia, and
East Tennessee and Georgia Railroads,
now under one administration, run through
the center of the Valley of East Tennes-
see from Northeast to Southwest.
Beginning at Bristol, on the Virginia
line, aud passing Knoxville; at Cleveland
two branches diyerse-one going to Chat.
tanooga, Tennessee, and the other to Dali
ton, Georgia. The length of these roads,
with their branches, is two hundred and
seventy miles.
AT Bristol, connecting with the line of
the Virginia Railroads, we have access to
the markets of Richmond, Norfolk, Bal
timore, Philadelphia and New York. By
the connections at Dalton and Chattanoo
ga, we can send our produce to every por-
tion of the States of Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, South Carolina and Florida,
including the seaports of Savannah, Mo-
bile, Brunswick, Charleston and Pensaco-
Ia. 1t will thus be seen that the citizens
of East Tennessee bave the choice Of eli
ther Northern or Southern markets.
besides the important railroad coDnec-
tions mentioned, the Knoxville and Ken
lucky railroad is now in operation from
Knoxville to the coal mines of Cumber-
land mountains, distance of about forty
miles. This road will be completed to
the Kentucky line, and give us direct
communication with Louisville, Cincin-
natl and all the Northwest. 1t now taps
a country exceedingly rich in iron ore and
oo,l Of tho Gnaet Quality