Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-02-04

NO. XCvII.
Hawkins and Johnson Counties.

Hawkins and johnson Counties.
| The following articles have been handed
to us by residents of the counties named,
but they apply to all Of East Tennessee:
AS to climate-our summers are not
warmer than those of the Northern and
Eastern States, but longer. We do not
have anything like the extreme heat of
Southern States. This is owing to our al
titude. Our average temperature in the
summer is about 74S degrees. The average
in winter is about degrees above zero.
Our winters are short. We do not have
long, continued cold. Some portions of
the winter are as pleasant as spring. We
have not had the mercury lower than
about five degrees above zero this winter.
AS to health-nO part of our country ex>
cells it in this respect. We have no chiIls
and fevef, or diseases of that kind. Many
who come from the North, with weak
lungs are restored to health. This country
| is hnely watered-in The dryest seasons
there is no scarcity either for drinking or
for stock. We have both limestone and
freestone, and in addition mineral water Of
many different kinds-sOme of them are
making high character for their curative
properties. We have water power to any
extent. We have great abundance of
fine timber of all kinds. Parties are here
now buying black walnut and oak slaves
to export to Germany. 70
Our country is rich in minerals of many
kinds-coal, iron. lead, zinc. copper, even
gold and silver. We have land of any
grade. Our river and creek bottoms are
equal to the best prairie of the West in
their prOductiveness. Then there are good
valleys, then more broken land until you
reach the mountains, fit only for pasture.
1t can be bought for q less price than it
would have brought before the war-im-
proved at from S. to S25 per acre, depending
upon the quality, the kind of ofimprovements
and distance from town and railroad.
Mountain lands can be bought very low.
Our farming is the same as that of the
Northern and Middle States. We raise
the same grain and grass. ALI kinds of
stock does we'll. The winter feed is 80
much less, that it does not cost US near so
much to raise stock as it does the northern
farmer, then we have a market in the cot
ton States for all of it. The dairy business
would pay well. The country is well suit
ed for it, and there is q demand for the
products. We have fruit of all kinds that
grow in q temperate latitude. The show
of many kinds at the fair at Knoxville
last fall, could not be excelled. If more
attention was paid to growing and taking
care of it, we might derive great advan-
tage from it. t,l
We have railroads in all directions and
the promise of more. We have churches
Eof all denomination, and good schools.
Our population are quiet and orderly and
will give kind welcome to all who come
to make their homes with US. We have
good country, but We need capital and
enterprise to make it what it ought to be.
Our fine water power, much of 1t, Is idle.
Our mineral resources lay undeveloped
We need manufactures of all kinds, like
the South generally, with the raw mate
rial near us, we send off and buy the
manufactured article. TO the man who
has some capital, whether largo Or small,
think East Tennessee holds out as good
inducements as any part of our great
country. Vi ia.I--- OGl 1855 5lol
s-Ea- o." JOHNSON COUNTY. sr --vraL
Perhaps the many readers OF Facts
About East Tennessee are not aware
that Johnson county, situated in the most
eastern extremity Of East Tennessee, con-.
tains remarkably rich deposits of brown
iron stone (hydrated oxide of iron) and
that these deposits are in close proximity
to abundant water power and large tracts
of heavily timbered forests, all combined,
affording rare advantages for the manu-
facture of the "king of the metals" that
just now bids fair to become the leading
branch of American industry.
There are now in active operation in the
county eleven blooming fOrges, turning
out a superior quality of hammered bar
iron, or merchant bars, at cost of about
two and one-half cents per pound.
Geographically considered, nature has
abundantly provided propetious advantages
for a cheap reduction Of the exhaustless
deposits that lay buried and useless in our
hills, awaiting the magic call of the Alad-
din of capital to burst forth in beneficent
ministrations to the ever Increasing rants
of our iron age. ..------ .t
The four principal streams, with an
average fall of seyenty-five feet to the mile,
afford desirable sites for an hundred fur
naces. Bordering on them are fertile bot
tom lands, producing under the present
careless tillage abundant crops of wheat,
corn, rye, oats, etc.
The mountain ranges, covered with
heavy growths OF timber, of white pine,
hickory, walnut, poplar, oak, ETC., are
owned, principally, in tracts Of from 600
to 59, 900 acres and can be bought at prices
ranging from one to ten dollars per acre.
Politically considered, and that is an
item, we are loyal, yea, Republican.
Foreigners and Northern carpet-baggers"
will find here a hearty welcome, if they
bring industry, energy, Intelligence or
capital to develope or add to the material
resources of our country.
Very respectfully. s.