Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-06-06
FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE.
Notes From Dinerenf Counties
Giving Interesting Facts.
No, XIII.

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We continue to publish i'm this column,
and as facts about East Tennessee, some
communications from our correspondents,
giving facts about the different counties OF
this division of the State. These letters
are doubly valuable to our readers North,
as they give in a new form and from diff
ferent and reliable sources, items and state
ments corroborating those we have repeat
edly made, and giving additional and full
er details. We invite especial attention
to the letter of "Yankee Smith," lately
from New York, who writes truthfully
and, earnestly about facts concerning
which he is evidently posted. Such let
ters we consider very valuable and would
like to have more of them from every
county. -.-,-~,
We have made arrangements with re-
liable correspondents in various parts of
East: Tennessee to write us carefully pre-
pared articles about their cities and coun-
ties, giving just such facts as we know
immigrants want to hear. We promise
that these letters shallbe fun and interest
ing. y.f.- $50
We are glad to have assurances from our
readers North that these articles are ac-
ceptable and interesting, and we shall en-
deavor hereafter and have made arrange
ments tomakethem still more So.
A-YANKBE on. EAST TENNESSEE AS a
GRASS, GRAIN AND DAIRY COUNTRY.
.....--.s,.... KINGSTON, June 2, 1871.
Pr-T u G. inf
csted in your articles upon East Tennessee
and knowing thatitis bythoughtsexpressed
thatwe are all benefited, L take this occa-
sion to pen q few words which may serve to
substantiate what has already been said re-
garding the climate, productiveness of the
soil, water, adaptation to fruit, and the
great inducements that by nature exist for
all who may desire to come to Roane county
and engage in:farming, be it grain or stock
raising, or dairying, which in my estima-
ton would be found more renumerative
than any other kind of business q farmer
can engage in. Born and raised in Gen.
trail New York, where the snew lies deep in
winter where sometimes it is next to an
impossibility for q farmer to do more in
winter than to care for his stock, I natu-
rally can see the difference in five months
winter and five weeks, yet where in sum-
mer they make more for the same number
of months by the manufacture of butter
and cheese than is done in any other part
of the land. for the same time and labor be
that kind of farming what it may. L
came here in The fall Of SO and have yet to
be convinced, that this is not by nature
one-of thebest grazing sections to be found
East, West, North or South. That which,
is most essential for dairying is grass, next
water, then climate. Grass we have or can
have,and in as many varieties as elswhere.
White clover which produces the most
milk and possesses all the necessary quail
ties for good article of either butter or
cheese, grows here as / never saw it grow
in the dairy section of New York water
cool and pure climate, all that dairying re-
quires. What is needed here is Immigration
to fill up this county with families from
the North who expect to work and are
willing to lay. aside q few of the unneces-
saries of life if circumstances require it. I
would but reaffirm what has often been
in your columns, that peace and quiet
reigns here, that the people, with regard to
politics are kind and well disposed towards
all who come here to seek homes among
them. We may read of troubles, murders
and the like but they do not exist here.
1t would be hard indeed to find O section
as large as East Tennessee where the peo-
pie are more kindly disposed towards each
other and where crime is less known.
AS your paper is taken all through the
North it has led me to this trespass upon
yeur time and columnss sfsSBEsssk sF
AS the family of Smiths are numerous
I sign myself YANKEE SMITH.
FACTS ABOUT NOSSY CREEK. (CONCLUDED.)
EDITORS CHRONICLE: This article will
close my observations concerning "facts
about Messy Creek" hope I have not
proven burdensome to you, or to your
readers, My aim is, and has been to do JUS
tice, if possible. to an important place of
our section. We must bear in mind that
Knoxville s,not the wholeeof East Ten
nessee. 1t is only the center of great
scopeof coutry whose wealth and resources
are contributing much TO make her a pOpu-
lous city. The outside world should know
this, that men of energy, brains and capi-
tai may come nto our midst, buy our valu
able lands and become useful citizens.
The great fact has never yet been dis
puted, so far as know, that where water
power has existed in formidable form,
all things being equal, extraordinary
prosperity has ensued. Such a result
is inevitable. Taking this, therefore, as
an undoubted truth, have no hesitation
In afhrming that Messy Creek is destined,
sooner or later, to become powerful man.
ulacturlng point, and by parity of reason
ing, prosperous and wealthy. This asser-
ton may even startle some of the denizens
OF that quiet and intelligent community,
for ishave been astonished to find many
OF them very sceptical upon the subject.
They do not seem to be aware that they
have all the elements of wealth at their
feet. - 81 u - ~ =
1t occurs to me that, by a rno,nenf,s re-
Election, the most obtuse thinkers must
see that all / have asserted is ssubstantiaIIv
true. Let us examine the question. Mos
ssy Creek, a celebrated stream from which