The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-03-18
West Tennessee.
ITS CLIMATE, SOIL, RAILROADS, &c.

Though this region of country had made
considerable progress in population aud
wealth before the late war, yet it has not
hitherto attra ted the attention it deserved
from those seeking new homes.
West Tennessee occupies the Western end
of me State, between the Tennessee and
Mississippi rivers. 1t is in extent about one
hundred miles square, in climate temperate
free from all excesses of heat and cold. It
is healthy. Fatal diseases seldom prevail,
and that terrible plague, cholera, which has
appeared and prevailed, periodically, in the
United States for more than a quarter of a
century past is almost stranger in West
Tennessee. It's believed that no case of
genuine cholera has ever originated here,
except at Memphis and few other points
along the river, and there it has prevailed to
a very small extent
The face of the country is generally level,
yet sufficiently undulating to give it variety
and beauty. The water is freestone, clear,
pure and abundant In most places there
are springs and rivulets sufficient to supply
water for all purposes, and where there are
no springs, water can be obtained by dig
ging from fifteen to twenty-five feet.
But the richness of the soil is the most
distinguished characteristic Of West Ten
nessee. In this respect it will compare with
any region of the same extent in America.
Ip the Southern part, the principal product
is cotton; in the Northern, tobacco, corn
and grass And in fact the soil will produce
anything which is adapted to the climate.
No country has richer soil or better eli
mate. There is at this time no region
which offers so great inducements to the
emigrants as West Tennessee.
Here they will find land chear, soil
which will return rich reward for their
lObor, the foundations of good society laid
Land is now cheap, but it will rise in price
before the close of this year. Several
causes are operating which tend to enhance
the value of land in West Tennessee. One
is that the population is rapidly increasing;
another is that our rich lands and our ex-
emption from that fatal scourge cholera, viii
attract the attention of those seeking homes
in the South.
The Mobile and Ohio railroad passes cen-
tralIy through West Tennessee, North and
South, and connects the Gulf of Mexico
with the Mississippi river at Columbus, KY,
where the transit boats meet the Illinois
Central railroad at Cairo, which extends to
the Great Northern lakes. Also with the
Iron Mountain railroad, just across the river
from Columbus, to the great city of St.
Louis.
The Memphis and Ohio railroad passes
diagonally through West Tennessee, north
east and southwest This road connects
Louisville with Memphis, crossing the Mo-
bile and Ohio railroad at Humboldt, eighteen
miles north of jackson.
The Memphis and Charleston road crosses
the south-end of West Tennessee. This
road crosses the Mobile and Ohio road fE-
ty-seven miles south of jackson, at Corinth,
Miss.
The Mississippi Central railroad strikes
Tennessee at Grand Junction, and extends
by the way of Jackson to Humboldt This
road gives West Tennessee direct communi-
cation with New Orleans
The Nashville and Northwestern road exc
tends from Nashville to Hickman, KY, pas
sing through Benton, Carroll, Henry, Weak
Iy, and Obion counties, in West Tennessee.
In addition to these roads, already in sue
cessful operation, we may confidently expect
the completion, at no distant day, of a road
from SomervilIe to Jackson, a road from
Huntington to Jackson, giving us direct
communication with Nashville; road from
jackson to Columbia, passing through Lex
ington and Clifton; branch roads from the
Mobile and Ohio road to Mif1in, Jacks
Greek and Centre Point. That these addi-
tional roads will be built we entertain not o
doubt
All these roads, together with our two
great rivers, the one sweeping our Eastern
and the other our Western border; and the
Hatchie, the Forked-deer, and the Obion
which flow into the Mississippi and are
navigable for fat boats, keel boats, and
small steamers, will afford facilities for travel
and transportation scarcely equalled in any
part of the Union.
All these invite the immigrant, and at the
same time admonish him that no time is to
be lost, if he would obtain a home for
small sideration.-Jackson Whig and
Tribune.
The Paducah Kentuckian is responsible
for the following:
Con Monday night at l o'clock there were
one hundred and fifty negroes crossing the
Ohio. They had been here to vote, and had
with them in the skis SIX teen boxes OF