Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-07-09
FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE.
Our New England Immigrants.
NO. LXXVIII,


HEIsKELL's STATION, Tenn, I
er. July 4, 1872. j
EDITORS CHRONICLE: It is becoming a
noted fact that immigrants from the New
England States, and other places, are per-
forming conspicuous part in the inn
provement of our social and agricultural
interests. For instance, we have at Heis-
| kell's Station two citizens who have settled
here within the last two years. One Mr..
+. II. Oates, who is merchandising here,
and the other, Mr.. Hinkley, from New
York State, who is farming. Our citizens
note, with real pride, the decided improve
ment these men and their families are
making in the varied interests of our COM
munity.
Now, with the hypothesis that our
| farmers have not yet recovered from the
modes of pioneer agriculture, that they
clear away the timber, work the virgin
soil until it is exhausted and then leave it
to grow up in briars and sprouts, we will,
by using the above named gentlemen as
examples, show our New England friends
that they are not only welcome among us,
but that their presence would be q mutual
blessing to all concerned. Mr.. Hinkley
is farming here. He is introducing many
of the improved methods of agriculture in
to our community. This year, by judi
cious blowing and improving, he produced
near two hundred bushels of wheat from
about twelve acres of a rugged farm which
had starved the former owner out. He
has planted out thousand fruit
trees on his farm and has caused
his neighbOrs to initiate him in
this thing, one farmer having put out
a thousand trees also. His manners are
becoming an impetus to the farm life of
our entire community, and no doubt many
old sedge grass, briar and sprout fields will
be renovated and put in orchard trees, and
the cellars and closets round about here
will one day be filled with fruit cans-the
result of Mr.. III. IS example. These gentle
men and their families have added greatly
to our social Improvement.
Since Mr.. Oates arrival here near two
years ago, we have had prosperous Sab
bath school, never having suspended dur
ing the entire time. Messrs. Oates and
Hinkley, with their families, have at
tended all the time, taking active part
as officers i'll the school, and giving
it good portion of the life which has sus-
tanned it SO long. Now what we want to
say to our friends abroad is that these two
gentlemen are only examples of hundreds
of others in all parts of our country; that
they have proven blessing to our section
and we are thankful for it. We East Ten
nesseeans claim to be patriotic people,
and as such would be recreant to our prin-
ciples should we feel toward these gentle
men any other feeling than a profound
gratitude They have instituted a cam
paign against our -briar fields and have
filled our community with social life.
Others such as they are doing the same all
over our country. We speak of what we
know when we assert that there is not a
be he either white or black or
what not, that would not gladly welcome
any man of perceptible merit from any
part of the country. Come, then, if you
can only plant one small spot of our coun-
try in vines or trees, or can only make one
poor spot rich and productive If you can
learn us one additional song or can tune
social cord-just one--come, and don't for
moment expect to be coldly received by
our citizens. "The latch hangs on the out
side" JOHN NJ. BISHOP.