Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-05-01
FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE.
what Two Yankees Think Of Cur
Section.
NO. LXVIII.


letters about East Tennessee, written by
Northern men, Who have lived here for
two years, and hence know what they are
writing about.
The first is the copy of letter written
to New York paper and is of great inter
est.
The second is a letter from an old sub
scriber now in New York on visit, and
will be found sensible and practical. These
letters will show our Northern readers
what these men think of East Tennessee ::
KNOXVILLE, April 81, 1872.
Ny Dear Times
With your permission, l wish to answer
q few questions which my many friends at
the 'North" are constantly asking me re-
speeding my Southern home.
LIST. What particular advantages do | cN-
perience here in co nparisOn with the
North
The first advantage is the mildness and
health-giving properties of the climate.
am now writing in my shirt sleeves, at
9 O'Clock AM, in a room without any fire.
doors wide open, with the mercury at 6So .
Instances are numerous and very common
of persons having left the North by advice
OF physicians on account of pulmonary
disease, who have not only been greatly
benefited by residing here but many, very
many, have really been restored to COM
parative permanent health.
In speaking of the mildness of the eli
mate, / am reminded of the great advan-
tage thus afforded in the prosecution of
farm work. Here we have seldom less
than ten and very often eleven months in
the year, wherein farm work can be sue
cessfully engaged in. Although the past
winter has been unusually severe, still at
no time has the frost been more than three
inches deep and the thickest ice not over
six inches.
The next advantage is the low price of
land as compared with the North. The
writer had at Millerton acres of land
which he sold at auction for s., 800, almo st
S650per acre. He bought farm of 40 acres,
g miles from Knoxville, forless than Sill
per acre, which will compare favorably
with his place at Millerton IN point of fer
tility, location and market facilities. In
fact, we have n piece of six acres, (Which
is not better than the average of the farm)
now in winter wheat, and which we have
no doubt will harvest as many bushels,
and of as good quality, as the six acres at
Millerton would have produced had it all
been in wheat. And the same may he
said ofOther crops, such as corn, oats, pO-
tatoes, &c. And as to fruit, we never saw
a better article or larger production in any
place than we have here; while as to va
riety, we have all the standard fruits
both large and small in their utmost per-
lection. We have n neighbor, gentleman
from Ohio, man of ample means, of far
seeing intelligence, and of sound common
sense, who is engaging largely in fruit
culture, particularly in peaches, pears and
grapes, having an eye to the Cincinnati
market, when the Knoxville and Ohio
o. Railroad is completed, which will, in all
probability, be accomplished in less than
: two gears from this time. As to the season,
At Is backward, unusually so, still peaches
n irn NIL NJ oh,
trees in full bloom gardens are made,
coin upand planting and cattle all turned
out 10 pasture.
With the foregoing, we have some dis
advantages, which time will overcome and
experience obviate. Our country is new,
farm Buildings generally poor and insight
ly, and the highways rough and in bad
condition. But in order to open up and
develop one of the finest agricultural
regions in the world, we want
judicious application of few ele-
ments, VIZ: Industry, perseverance, COM
sure ultimate and abundant success.
Another question asked me is, whether
Northern men are cordially welcomed
flere, and whether we are free from the
kuklux influence ?
4HmeR are equally 'ooU treated, so far
as they behave themselves, and kukluX
are not thought of, much less known
among US.
Your correspondent has been here two
years, has found the people invariably
frank, kind and generous has learned to
love the people dearly and has made many
warm friends.
II any of your numerous readers desire
TO change their place of residence, we do
really think they will find in East Ten
nesse more really substantial advantages,
and fewer disadvantages than in any Sec
ton known to the writer.
Yours truly,
JOHN q. CAULKINs.