Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-21
LETTER FROM CHATTANOOGA.
ChatfanOOga-Activc Spirit Of her Citi'
zens Manufactures-Water WOrks-POst.
office, dc.

MESSRS. RULE & RICKs The feeling
OF rivalry growing up between Knoxville
ana Chattanooga, is carried too far. There
is too much bitterness in it. The ad-
vancement of Knoxville will not affect
that of Chattanooga. Both have a mis-
sion to perform. and both a destiny to
work out, and if the one or the other
should come out ahead in the race, no
amount of ridicule will alter it one way or
the other. Both cities, in my judgment,
are destined to take high rank, and, there
fore, they can afford to be generous to-
wards each other.
That Chattanooga is a live, active, bust
ling city nO..One can doubt, who will come
here and stay twenty-four hours. 1t be-
comes apparent. You see it in the bear
ing and spirit of her enterprising citi-
zens. All wear cheerful and hopeful faces.
When you speak to them of business and
of their coming prospects, they brighten
up and grow intensely buoyant. They
have sense enough to know that a lively
exterior, eXerts an encouraging influence
upon the minds of strangers, and con-
spires to make them think favorably of
the place. There is no faint-heartedness
among them. They are bold and very de-
cided in all their movements. If they have
trade to make, if it involves a large
or a small amount, they make it and go
along about their business. They don't
run around corners and into counting
whether or not they shonld consummate
transaction. They have keen eye to bus
mess and quick, sharp and decisive way
of bringing matters to head.
| was struck, wonderfully struck, with
the prodigious efforts put forth in the man.
line. There is a robustness in
this direction that indicates grand con-
ceptiOn of the value and Importance of
manufacturing enterprises. It is telling
the tale Of the success and the progress of |
this young giant lying at the base of Point
Lookout. [ make the prediction that, i'll |
twenty years or less time, she will become |
one of the strongest manufacturing points |
in the State, if not in the whole South. |
This is uttered in no sort Of disparagement |
to any other place. Nature has done vast |
deal for her in this respect, and this added |
to the enterprise of her people, cannot fail |
to solve this mighty problem.
One thing I admire in Chattanooga.
She is paying for the present, but little at
tentiOn to the Ornamented part of her |
growth. She is sensibly looking to her |
more solid and Observation-Disclosures. Fill
ing up few mud esand paving streets |
Is work that can be looked after at some |
other time. Fancy buildings and hun |
dreds of store houses will follow in the |
wake of advancing wealth and prosperity.
For the present she prefers laying the
of future growth, and she has |
wisely concluded that that ground work |
consists in building up manufactures, |
which she is doing on q large scale. To-
day, as l am reliably informed, she has |
over one million of dollars alone invested |
in the manufacture of iron and, the pre-
sumption is, that that amount will be |
greatly augmented in short time, so thor
Oughly imbued are the citizens with the |
magnitude of this idea.