Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-04-11
FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE.
Our Railroads and Rivers.
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AS those who contemplate coming South
are naturally interested in the facilities
presented foftransporting the products of a
country TO markets we take this occasion to
write about our rivers and railroads. IS
Our principal railroad line is the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Road, a
link in the great Southern mail route from
New FORK to- New orleans FlIt passes
Though East Tennessee in southwest
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
through. eleven Of the thirty-one counties
| in East Tennessee, and is two hundred and
forty miles in length. Over this route
large quantity of cotton, grain and live
stock is shipped to the easternT markets,
Willie large proportionsof the goods pur-
chased by the South ern 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 viii be made
| during thescoming. 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 Ifnoc opd c;,,,,Sf.r. faadors f>r tl,o
above mentioned line. THERE'S a branch
running out from Bulls Gap twelve miles
to the town of Rogersville, the county
town of Hawkins county. There. is "a
great deal of valuable lands in the county,
and the products find an outlet over this
branch road, also down the Holston river,
which passes through the county.
The Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap and
Charleston road runs out from Morristown,
through rich valley of land, forty miles
to Wolf creek, within few miles of the
North Carolina line, and only nine miles
from the celebrated Warm Springs, Madi-
son county, Western North Carolina, where
a colony is being formed, composed prin-
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 |
tility 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
us. AS the demand for these articles in
creases, and the facilities for supplying
them are greater, the business of the road |
will also increase. The products of the
rich Powell's Valley find an outlet over
this road, and merchants. in the same To-
cality receive their supplies over it. 1t is
intended to be part of line that at some
future time will connect US with .Cincin-
natl and Louisville. = "a "a
The Knoxville and Charleston road runs
out from Knoxville to Maryville, the
County, site of Blount county, a, distance
Of sixteen miles. Maryville is only nine
miles from that eelebrated summer resort,
Montvale Springs, 1t passes through the
Stock creek and Little river vallies, where
large quantities of 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 to1
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 a want of means. These
comprise all the roads in East Tennessee
which have been completed so for as to
run regular trains upon them. 4sfzrsfH
Our principal river is the Tennessee. 1t
and its tributaries traverse nearly all the
counties in East Tennessee. 1T takes its
name at the confluence of the Holston and
Little Tennessee rivers, neal. Lenoir,s, sta
ton, twenty miles west of Knexville, ON
the East Tennessee Virginia aud 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 Holston five miles east off
Knoxville. Light draught steamers have
frequently assembled it going by Dandridge
the, county site of Jefferson county, to
Leadvale, where the Cincinnati, Cumber-
land Gap and Charleston road crosses it,
and near the mouth of Chucky river. A
large number of fat-boats are annually
built on the Holston, French Broad,
Chucby and Pigeon rivers, for the purpose
of transporting grain, bacon, -four &C., to
Knoxville and Chattanooga. Immense
quantities are thus transported ata eomNn4
lively small expense. Large RATS. of luna.
ber are also taken down in thisway from for
above mentioned rivers, -