Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-08-09
EAST TENNESSEE ITEMS.
Pleasant Trip-The DrOuEht-Bad Practice
Good StOck-Fruit CrOp-The Chronicle
-RristOI.-.KnOxviIIe
BRISTOL. August 6. 1856

BRISTOL, August 6, 1861.
EDS. CHRoNICLE:-I arrived here at s
O'Clock last evening, seven hours from
Knoxville. The road. as you know runs
| through a country as noted for its industry
and thrift as for its beauty of natural
| scenery-a fact especially noticeable in the
| great number of Furnishing towns and vii
| lagos along the line, such as New Market,
| Messy Greek, Morristown, Greeneville,
Jonesboro, Johnson City, and others which
[ might name, all enterprising places. and
| tributary to the society and business of
Knoxville. 1t is now the quiet Sabbath /;
| have been to morning worship, have read
| this mornings CHRONICLE, anu am conse-
quently happy, The country is greatly
| suffering for want of rain. The corn crop
has received material injury already, in
| consequence, and is liable to still further,
| unless rains come soon. / notice many
fields of early planting, on deeply pJoughed
| ground, where the yield will be full other
| fields, planted later, on merely surface
ploughed ground, will not pay for harvest
| ing, except for fodder.
There is a very prevalent habit among
| farmers of this section of country which,
it struck me should be reformed [ allude
| to that of leaving their grain shocked in
| the field, exposed to the weather and other
! contingencies that must effect loss in the
grain and in the straw, equal to the prof
| its of the commission merchant. It is
| simply bad farming.
l notice some good stock in sheep, cattle
and horses, the latter especially, giving
evidence of thescapacity of the country as
well as the enterprise and good taste of the
farmers in this department of their bust
ness. r..-
The fruit crop is quite respectable,
peaches especially, as also berries. l am
assured by Intelligent parties that the
fruit crop and eggs produced and shipped
from East Tennessee will bring more
money into the country than the wheat
and oat crop combined. Together with at
least fair general corn crop, and good
stock of hogs, our people will close the
year with balance sheet i'll their favor.
If they are not growing rapidly rich, they
are enjoying, at least q substantial pros
perity, the result of industry and economy,
in living within their means and avoiding
debt.
was greatly pleased in finding the
CHRONICLE distributed here as morning
paper and that your efforts to give
the people along the line the earliest
news is being appreciated. [ find the
people little interested in politics,
but they rant all the netOS, and for this
here is consequently marked demand
for the CHRONICLE.
Bristol is place OF very considerable
Importance. Its trade is large, and worth
seeking by our wholesale trade althouh
seven hours nearer the great commercial
marts of the country this fact ought not to
operate adversely to Knoxville for GER
tainly as depot exchange and supply we
have advantages impossible to be found in
the larger cities, and which, properly I'M
derstoOd, would SECURE the undivided trade
here of points at even considerable dis
lance beyond Bristol. The people here
are active and enterprising, if 1 may JUICE
from appearances, and orderly and relIg
ious, judging from their very general Oh
servance of the Sabbath day.
The CHRONICLE, as it wins its way
among the people-will make the bust
ness points | have alluded to still more
apparent thereby materially contributing
to the growth and prosperity of East Ten
nessee and its metropolis, Knoxville, at |
least such is the hope of.
Yours truly,