Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-05-14
FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE.
East Tennessee by n Connecticut
Yankee.
No. CvII.

Know OF my own observation, that
there are in the manufacturing villages of
my native State, hundreds of men who
were bred on. farms, and who looks, with
longing hearts, to the green fields, and
pine for the open air and healthy exercise
of farm life.
But farm life to them, where lands are
dear, is impossible except as hired laborers.
From this they shrink, and still work on
in the deadly gasses of rubber shops, and
the poisonous dust of brass-working estab-
lishments.
Could these men be convinced of the ad-
vantages offered in this country, there is
no doubt that many would come. There
lore Will | contribute my mite in the effort
now making to spread wide the desired in
formation.
First, then, .there is no danger from ku-
kluX or any other khan. In proof of this
let me give bit of personal history. In
November '6S, or soon as the wires flashed
the joyful news that the people had decreed
that there should be Peace started for
tennessee. Landing in Loudon on Fri
day morning, | was on Monday hired to
teach five months school three miles
from Loudon, by two directors, one of
whom was Union man and a refugee DUR
ing the war, the other Confederate SOL
dler, taken prisoner at Vicksburg Neither
asked me for my political opinions, though
both pronounced me cyan keen at sight.
Until this present writing / have re-
NAMED in Tennessee. / have had daily
intercourse with those who fought, YES,
and bled too, for the Confederacy, and I
do not remember an uncivil word or an
unkind act having been said or done to me
by them: But l do remember many acts
of neighborly kindness received alike from
Union men and rebels.
Secondly. Let no one who is willing to
work fear to come because he has but a
small capital. Lands of every kind wish
ed for can be rented. You may pay stand
ing rent, that is, so much money for so
much land, or part of the crop. Uplands
rent for one-third river bottom land in
good locations for one.half. Read the fol-
lowing figures, and Judge for yourselves
whether the few hundred dollars you have
accumulated in the mephitic air of the
factory will give you a start in life and an
independence you do not feel.
Two good plow horses. $3.50 90
one 70 90
other necessary tools............... ..... so 90
Palr working oXen....................... 75 90
Two coWs .........,....................... 0O w
Two sows with twelve pigs............ % 90
Total. 90
The market reports will show you what
it will cost you to buy years provision.
y
farm you rent, in the crib you will feed
from. Your wood will cost you the labor
OF cutting and hauling to the door. Your
garden, your Irish potato patch, your
sweet potato patch, your tobacco patch,
are all rent free. Think of that, you who
are paying four to six dollars per cord for
wood, or nine to fifteen dollars per ton for
coal; you who rent gardens nearly twice
as large as Dutch bed blanket, paying
therefor a sum which, in ten years, would
cover it over with greenbacks.
The houses on rented lands are not
palaces. They commonly consist of house
and kitchen, but little money iudiciously
applied will make them comfortable. You
will not need to fortify against three days
snow storms. Come here in September.
You can see by the standing crops where
the good land is. Make your contracts,
and commence sowing wheat. On or be-
fore the lst of January you will get full
possession.
The whole thing is very simple. Get off
the cars at any station. Take the main
road, and ask whoever you meet where you
can find good lands to rent He will tell
you of two or three farms. See the owners.
They will invite you to dinner, to supper,
and to lodge with them. With the neces-
sary funds in your pocket, you can COM
mence sowing wheat with your own team
in ten days after leaving home.
H. +. c.
EATON's X ROADS, Z. TENN.
northern man passing through East
Tennessee lately writes to the RudJ Sun
of our lands as follows:
The higher lands are usually entirely diff
ferent from those that are lower. They are
for the most part covered with a mixed
growth of pitch-pine, oak of several kinds,
and occasionally hickory. / saw very lit
n a 10 dc thaxy IA
been cleared" and are nearly ali in culti-
walton. The stones on most of the hills
are very irregular in size and shape. and
are what l call grey flint
[The stones are rich limestone and
abound almost everywhere. BY a little
trouble they can be made to enrich the soil
and make the poorest of it good-EDs. |
CHRoNICLE.]
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