Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-06-28
FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE.
Answers TO Correspondents.
No. XXVI.

of inquiry, since our last number was is
sued, from every part of this country and i
also from England and Holland. These |
letters satisfy us that the general interest |
in our section is fast spreading and grow
ing, and that the labOrs of the CHRONICLE !
and few others in Knoxville and East
Tennessee to spread correct information
about East Tennessee is appreciated and to
be richly rewarded. We have a good
country here, and the people are beginning
to find it out. The outrages in ether sec
tions of the South have done and are yet
doing us harm, for we are unfortunately
so closely identified with the South that
people do not stop to reason as to our pc
culiar circumstances. But the right i'm
preston is fast becoming known, and the
fact that life and property is as secure here
as anywhere, is to bring us many good
citizens.
Among others, we have received the fol-
lowing letter:
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, June q, 1871.
Messrs. Rule & Ricks, Editors Chronicle:
GENTS Will you inform me whether grapes
arc a successful and profitable crop with you if
the vines continue healthy and are long lived,
and what kinds seem to succeed best among the
mountains?
Hoping my inquiries will be of general as
we'll MS personal interest, / remain, gentlemen,
Yours truly,
a. r. ROBERTSON.
In reply to the above we have to say
that after some inquiry amoung practical
men, we believe the cultivation of the
grape would pay here very well. Mr. Cunt
ert who has had perhaps more experience
with the grape than any one in our county,
says it will do as well here as any where
he knows of in the country. He gives it
as his opinion that if properly cultivated,
vineyard would be profitable. Hethinks
the light gravelly soil of our hills just the
kind needed. The vines grow very fast
and hardy and live as long here as in
Ohio or any where else he knows of. His
Judgment is that the Concord and Catawba
do best. The Isabella, for some reason,
does not yield so well. In Morgan county,
where quite number of Germans reside,
the grape culture is quite feature of their
work. They have always done well, and
we see no reason why as good a yield could
not be had in this immediate section. We
know gentleman from New York, who,
a few years ago, bought good place near
vines. So far as we have been able to
learn, he has done well and is satisfied.
There are some persons who have tried
raising grapes without success, but we
learn it was because they did not
properly cultivate them. We do not know
how this may be, but the positive and
better testimony of success by the more
experienced is what we base our judgment
on. Mr.. John Done writes us from Low
ton, Lancashire, England, saying that he
has read of Tennessee as being one of the
healthiest sections of the New World, and
he is anxious to know more about it. We
have sent him some numbers of our Ar
tices, and hope he will be convinced that
what he reads will prove true. We have
no doubt but that he will find this as
healthy country as any he knows of. He
says he had a friend die in Memphis
and judges it unhealthy, but concludes
that section is very different from East
Tennessee. Memphis is not in as good 9
country as surrounds Knoxville, not sc
healthful nor so desirable for farmers.
Mr.. A. II. Straughan, Waterloo, New
York, says the East Tennessee fever in his
CHRONICLES are borrowed and read unit
there is nothing left of them. The draw
back he finds are that people read of out
RACES i'm the South and keep us assocateC
with the South generally and don It like t.
move into q country where such viOlenc,
occurs. But he says the scare is getting
over and our efforts to keep East Tennes
see disconnected from these outrages is be
ginning to tell. He says he and two broth
-ers own a form near Waterloo that the!
can sell for s120 per acre, and they, will
some neighbors, are thinking of coming
ilere to look about. We think they coul,
trade TO advantage and hope they will
come. His health he says demands
milder climate. We have just the countr
for him. He can be out doors here with
out danger of exposure nearly all year au'
will find our climate just the reliefh
When James Russell Lowell was in Italy