Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-05-07
FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE.
A Word 10 Immigrants and to
East TenneSSeeans.
NO. LXIN.

NO. LXIX.
We feel satisfied that within the next
six months we shall have a good many
persons in East Tennessee from the North,
who, if they find the climate, people. and
advantages of our section as represented,
will permanently locate in our midst. In
view of this fact we want to make some
plain statements that are intended for the
good of all concerned.
We are firmly impressed i'll the belief
that our people need more capital and Ia
Dor to aid in making East Tennessee what
we all feel it ought to be. We can secure
this additional population now, if we act
honestly and wisely. We will tell one
way in which it can be secured. Many of
our farmers realize fully the fact that
they are trying to work too much land.
Their halfway work is wearing out their
land and actually making them poorer eU-
eyy ycar. They feel that they would be
better off if they could sell part of their
land and secure good thrifty farmer neigh
bors. They are right in this. Now, we
believe they will have opportunity to make
such asles, and we ask them for their own
sake and for the sake of East Tennessee,
not to drive good people away, when they
have such opportunities to sell, 6y dsking
unreasonable prices for their land. We
hear complaints Oh this subject that are
well founded. We hear of men offering
land at reasonable prices until they hear of
a few people coming i'll their nelghbor-
hood to buy, when they get excited and
all at once put up their price. We know
of good men driven off by such practices.
Now we think fair dealing and Il regard
for the best interests of East Tennessee re-
uuire that our idle lands and large farms
be sold off at reasonable prices. People
who have large tracts of land that are not
Welding enough to pay taxes, because not
half worked, are doing themselves and
their neighbors great injustice by holding
at such prices as drive off immigrants and
discourage all efforts to build up our cOun-
try. Such men are drG1UbdcES to East
Tennessee. They are selfish, shOrt-sight-
ed citizens who will retard the growth of
our section. They are like the large real
estate holders that dwarf or kill off cities
and towns by a miserly, selfish policy.
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We have word now for our friends,
North. When you come South keep your
ewes and ears open. You will see enough,
if YOU are shrewd, to satisfy your own
judgments as to the truth of our articles.
If YOU are shrewd business men, we need
not tell YOU to keep your own cOunsels.
The best way to buy real estate or to trans
act business of any kind, is to quietly
make up your minds what you want and
then strike for it. We are principally in
terested in getting good citizens to come
here and help us build up the country.
We are therefore anxious to have you
come here to buy farms, but we want you
TO be satisfied, and therefore we want to
do our full duty by you. We have no in
terest directly or indirectly Ill any specu-
Iations or real estate agencies. If you do
not want to take our word for this, en-
ouire about it of any of our people when
Won come here. There is much valuable
1ropertv in the hands of Real Estate
Accents for sale. Some of this they have
had in their hands some time. We learn
on inquiry that their practice is to make
contracts with the owners, whereby the
AGENTS are authorized to sell at q fixed
price within a certain time. This proper
tv is advertised. 1t is described and the
nrice fixed. 1t seems to us that strangers
would be protected by these contracts from
hastv advances in the price, or from un-
reasonable conditions of sale. We know
peOple sometimes prefer to buy direct from
the owners, but i'll many cases more salts
factory contracts can be made through the
third narties. We make these suggestions
because we know there are always croak-
ers and rrumblers about, discOuraging peO-
Dl rom buying or selling.
IUbot IJp are interested III TO oct rood
peODle to locate here, and we want to do
everything we can to bring this about.
we want to do right by our own people,
we want to see strangers satisfied and en-
courared. Visitors from the North will
find our people hospitable and kind. We
know MANY good citizens who are interest
ed with us in this work. We have had
them come to us and offer to show visitors
about, and give them information. They
are men who are honest and public spirit
ed, and want to build up East Tennessee
Immigrants will find many thus friendly
disposed, whose information would be OF
value.
Our Real Estate Agents, so far as we
know them, are honest men, whose repre-
sentations may be relied on. While 1t is
to their interest to sell, it is also to their
interest to have persons who buy cOntent-
ed and fairly dealt with. ..#
HOW TO GET TO KNOXVILLE.
We are frequently asked as to the best
way to get to Knoxville. Those living in
Pennsylvania or East of it should come by
the way of New York or Washington.
From New York they can go by steamer
to Norfolk: thence by railroad to Peters
burg and Lynchburg; or by the way of
Washington to Lynchburg and Bristol to
Knoxville. The fare from New York to
Knoxville is about S31. Persons can buy
ticket from New York via Knoxville to
Nashville for about S34, and if they do not
want to go further than Knoxville, they