Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-04-04

Loudon County.
no. XIV.


We give, as pumber fourteen of our East
Tennessee articles, the following facts con-
corning Loudon county, which lies adjoin-
ing our own in a southeast direction, the
county seat being about thirty miles from
this city. The situation of the county on
the railroad and river, with the facts given
| in the communication following, which is
! from one of its best citizens, show it affords
fine attractions to immigrants, and we
commend it to our readers and promise
them in turn further information concerns
ing other counties. The letter referred to
is as follows: EfF}E
LoUDoN, Tenn, April, 1871.
EDITORS CHRONICLE: see from your
paper that a number of men in East
Tennessee are giving you sketch of diff
ferent counties, but have seen none about
the county of Loudon. 1t is new cOun-
ty and consequently not much known. /
have concluded, with your permission, to
give you a short sketch of its soil and adj
vantages.
To begin with, we will first notice what
is known as the Blount fraction, which
embraces q large amount of first class
farming land, composed of river and creek
bottoms and up land. The Holston and
Little Tennessee rivers run through that
part of the county, and there are several
which afford some good bottom land, and
some fine sites for water power. There are
several good mills in that part of our coun-
ty. owned by Esquire Leeper, Mr.. Heiskel
and others. The land is well timbered
with all the timber common to this coun-
try, and is well adapted to the culture of
all the different grains and grasses.
q The Monroe fraction embraces LARGO
amount of first class farming land, lying
on one side of Little Tennessee, from Nor
canton to the mouth of said river, good
part of Fork Creek valley, part of Sweet
water valley and also part of Pond Creek
valley, which land is perhaps not sur
passed for fertility in East Tennessee Be-
sides, the upland and ridge-land is well
adapted to farming purposes.
The Roane fraction, the largest of the
three fractions composing the new county
and including the town of Loudou, in
cludes large amount of first-class land
composed of river and creek bottoms and
upland. The Holston and Tennessee
rivers waters this fraction from Knox to
the Roane county line, and it is bounded
by Clinch river on the north, the full eX-
tent of the northern part of our county.
water Valley, the balance of Pond Creek
Valley, all of Stockton's Valley including
Marble Bluff, and we have the Dry Val
ley. All of the above river and valley
lands are not surpassed by any similar
lands in East Tennessee, and the uplands
are equal to any in the country for grain
and grass, and our timber is as good and as
varied as you will find it anywhere in the
country. Sweetwater, Pond Creek, and
Stockton's Creek afford several fine sites
for mills or machinery of any kind; also |
Town Creek, on which is situated one
mill, also Lenoirs manufacturing estab- |
lishment. Our lands, the most of them, |
are not in as forward state of cultivation |
as they deserve to be, and that is owing in |
a large degree to our farmers trying to /
cultivate too much land and the lack of |
the necessary capital. 1t is our opinion |
If we could get more capital and energy to
come among us, we would haNo one of the I
best little counties in the State. AS to |
Loudon, our county seat, we think it pos |
sesses rare advantages for commercial and |
manufacturing purposes. We have |
the East tennessee, Virginia and |
Georgia Railroad about through |
Tennessee River at Loudon. Then we |
have the Tennessee and Holston above and |
the Tennessee below, giving us large eX-
tent of river trade. 1t is said that there
was, perhaps, more produce shipped from
this point, in the months of January and
FEBRUARY, than from any other point on
our road.
We think we have a very eligible point
for manufacturing purposes, especially for
steam machinery. We have creek rum
ming along at one side of town-or rather
through one side-and we have quite a
large river front, with high, firm banks,
on which large amount of machinery |
might be built, our road and rivers giving
us great facilities for procuring raw mate
rial for manufactures.
Our county being new one, we have
not yet levied any tax for school purposes.
We are in favor of schools, but our County
Court is now considering the raising of the
means to pay for our county building,
which we are compelled to have. We have
some schools going on. We have very
good school now being conducted at the
Masonic Hall, under the care and direction
Of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Nothing sectarian in the school. A large
college building is now being erected here,
which will be quite an ornament to the +
own and benefit to the country. There
Ire quite respectable number of schools
sOing on in the county, -. CITIZEN 4,