Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-10-01
IFren the Kingston Valley Nswf.l
EAST TENNESSEE Az VIENNA.
Old ROane Leads the World at The Great
Exposition. d# ....
A Well Nerited Compliment 10 "a Public
Spirited East Tennesseean. ..

VIENNA, Aug. 10, 1873.
EDITORS VALLEY NEWS Having half
promised you a letter from this place, /
feel that now is the time to write it, for /
now have an opportunity to congratulate
the county OF Roane, not only upon hav-
ing the best exhibition OF coal and iron ore
here at the great Fair, but that fact has
been advertised for US to the whole world
in the manner to do us the most good.
And this is the way il came about Cap
tain j. Il. Harris, OF lockwood, got out
lump of coal weighing $500 pounds,
others procured large and fine specimens
of iron ore, coal and zinc ore, and General
Holman, OF Knoxville, sent some beauti-
ful specimens OF matchmaking in all
about twenty tons of finest specimens of
the abundant mineral wealth but half hid
in almost every hill in East Tennessee,
sent not by any individual or firm TO adj
vertise their business, but by public spirit
ed citizens DESTROYS Of publishing TO the
world the great undeyeloped wealth OF our
section of the State. Neither ali Europe
nor America furnished piece of coal so
large or ores so fine and various for the
great Exposition as did East Tennessee,
| five thousand miles away. .h#s-
The articles were shipped to Vienna,
via Bremen. l was uuavoidably de-
tanned in America, but supposed our
Government had some person whose duty
| it was to look after such articles and place
them on exhibition, This YVES q mistake,
however, and as am plain speaking
man, and try to give credit where II is due,
j wish you TO say that we are indebted TO
our Representative in Congress, Col. ].
NJ. Thornburgh, for having taken the
highest medal awarded for this Class OF
articles at the Exposition. Col. Thorn
burgh, finding that no one on the part
Of the Government was doing anything 10
lay that
the Jurors were examining things of this
class, went TO work with his characters
| tic tact and energy, got the minerals from
Bremen, assumed the freight bills and
charges, put men to work, and put every
thing on exhibition in first-rate style, and
by his persistent personal attention got the
| juryssto 90 back and examine our exhibit,
| the highest award.
Will your readers appreciate the impor-
! lance OF this result to East Tennessee Al
ready / have been bssieged with inquiries
about our coal and iron resources, not by
Europeans alone. but by many Americans
and all seem astNnished at the facts have
been able to furnish them. East Tennes'
see, in my opinion, must soon feel most
sensib.y, by Investments Of capital aRd
Developments Of her resources, the great
! value Of this public and prominent recOg
milton of her mineral wealth
Col. Thornburgh. after devoting month
here looking after the interests of Tennes
see left before my arrival and was In
Switzerland when last heard from him
i hope to see him before he returns, that
may give him my thanks for his invalua
BILE services, and assure him-may not
that the people, especially Of Roane
county, will not forget him.
This Exhibition is admitted to be the
largest and most important the world ha'
ever seen. There has been much scram