Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-01-03
FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE.
Some Points of General Interest.

facts oftener than we would If we were |
giving information only to regular readers. !
we have received during the past week |
many letters from the North, complaining
about the extreme cold there, and asking
about our climate, Some correspondents
say they had colder weather last week
than at any time for sixteen years. We
sit writing in our Office without fire and
read of the thermometer way down below
zero. We ride out and see our farmers
ploughing and come back to see in some
paper from the North accounts of gather
ing ice twelve inches thick, for summer.
We look over our files and see from our
weather reports that our mean tempera-
ture last week was 44o above zero, and we
wonder why people who want a milder
climate viii not come and make their
home with us.
We look over our exchanges again and
read of land selling in the frozen country
referred to, at from fifty to two hundred
dollars an acre of farmers keeping their
stock shutup three and four month in costly
barns, fed on grain and hay that cost them
many hard week work to raise, and we
Tennessee and buy land at from four to
fifty dollars an acre, where they can keep
their stock out in the fields about all the
winter, feed them on grass, and raise them
at about one-third the expense.
But lest our readers say you are coloring
your facts toe highly, we will republish
right here letter we find in NIoore's Rtodl
NclO Yorker, of December 30th from f.
=. Hulin, formerly of Northern New York
now living at Longmire, Washington
county, East Tennessee. Over his own
signature and writing of facts within his
own experience, he says:
Gould my friends in Northern New
York look down upon US from their snow
clad hills, they might see some of our
farmers still sowing wheat and rye, our
cattle grazing in green fields, and our
wives and daughters engaged at their
needle work in open pOrches. Still they
need not envy us, for they have often
been invited to come and enjoy with MS
our beautiful climate .E We not only have
Il health-giying climate, short winters and
long summers, but as good a soil as l have
ever seen from one end of the State of New
York to the other. For grasses, it is equal
to any from the Atlantic to beyond the
Missouri, except it should be among the
Green Mountains in Vermont. / nave
seen better clover here than ! have ever
seen elsewhere. Wheat seldom fails; have
seen good wheat raised that was sown as
late as the Goth of December. / have a
corn stalk that grew in my field last sum-
mer that measures twelve feet ten inches
in length and two and one-quarter inches
in circumference between the Joints and
three inches at the Joint. That is enough
for corn. Fruit we have even unto sa-
tiety, and a better watered country I have
never seem With the above sllurements,
and farms at from s. to $50 an acre the
lg lot -
bleak plains of the West are wholly in our
favor"
In one letter before us q correspondent
says: We like your climate, your re-
sources, but have some fears about person
al safety. We have repeatedly said in re-
ply to such statements that in East Ten
nessee persons from the North will be sure
to find cordial welcome from our people
and perfect safety. One correspondent
says Your paper has many accounts OF
violence, &c. So it has, and if we were de
sirous of concealing the actual condition oi
affairs from our readers North, we would
exclude some of these accounts from OuI
columns, but as we do not want to deceive
them, but want them to understand fully
all the facts we give them in the CHRoNI-
Gle as faitaful picture of our every day
life as possibly can. But we want them tC
understand one thing about our accounts oil
violence.
The CHRONICLE is published At Knox.
vile, the commercial and political center
of East Tennessee. A territory two hun.
dred and forty miles long and over hun
dred miles wide is tributary to thi.
city. All the business of this section is
transacted here. Within this belt of coun
try, the only daily papers published out
side OF Chattanooga, (at the extreme west
ern end of it, are here at Knoxville. The
CHRONICLE works in all this field. OuI
accounts of violence, &c, embrace, so fal
as we can CLEAN them, all that are commit
ted in thirty-three counties. We work uT
"a aterritory usually occupied in the North
by twenty papers.
Taking this into consideration our gen.
eral condition IS to peace and order will bC
better understood. We have crime here
as they have elsewhere, but we have il
East tennessee no organized lawlessness
no kuklux, no desperadoes who defy tn,
law. We punish our criminals and We
offer to all who come protection to person
and property as secure as is extended il
the North. We wish we had less crime
We wish there was less in the North. Blu
what We have here, Is like what occur
North, generally among the class that b,
drinking or other bad habits expose them
selves to ii. Orderly sober people are q.
safe here as anywhere else. We hope, there
fore, this will not keep people from com
ing here. We can promise them if they
do come, pleasant home, a kindly recep
tion, and peace and good order.
A National Temperance Convention to nomi
nate papdidofaa Co. "a W.. D.;