Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-02-05
FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE.
Hawkins and johnson COMMITTEES.

Inc Following articles have been handed
10 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'averagc temperature in the
summer is about a degrees. The average
in winter is about 30 degrees above zero.
Our winters are short. We do not have
long, continued cold. Some portions of
The winter are rs pleasant as spring. We
H@ve not had the mercury lower than
about five degrees above zero this winter
AS to heaith-uo part OF our country ex>
cells it in this respect. We have no chills
and fever, or diseases of that kind. Many
who come from the North, with weak
lungs are restored to health. This country
IS finely 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 a great abundance of
fine timber of all kinds. Parties are here
now buying black walnut and oak slaves
10 export to Germany.
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
al, l,n, ,fni,, Nt,Ix fNr
It can be bought for less price than it
would have brought before the war-im-
proved at from So to S25 per acre, depending
upon the quality the kind of improvements
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. All kinds of
stock does WELL The winter feed is so
much less, that it does not cost US near so
much to raise stock as it does the northern
farmer, then we have market i'll the cot
son States for all of it. The dairy business
would pay well. The country is well suit
ed for it. and there is a demand for the
products We have fruit of all kinds that
crow in a 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-
-age from it.
we have railroads in all directions and
The promise of more. We have churches
Of all denomination, and good schools.
Our population are quiet and orderly and
will give q kind welcome to all who come
20 make their homes with US. We have
a good country, but we need capital and
enterprise to make it what it ought to be.
Our fine water power much of it, is idle.
Our mineral resources lay undeveloped.
L ,.fV, Enll III Il-n
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 large or small
think East Tennessee holds out as good
Inducements as any part of our great
Ountry.
JOHNSON COUNTY.
Perhaps the many readers of Facts
About East Tennessee are not aware
;hat Johnson county, situated in the most
eastern extremity of East Tennessee, cou-
Gains remarkably rich deposits of brown
iron stone (hydrated oxide of IRON and
that these deposits are in close proximity
10 abundant water power and large tracts
ofheavily 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 propitious advantages
.for a cheap reduction of the eXhaustless
deposits that lay buried and useless in our
mills, awaiting the magic call of the Alad-
lin Of capital to burst forth in heneficent
minstrations to the ever increasing wants
Of our iron age.
The four principal streams, with an
average fall of seventy-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 !, ,OOt
10 $4,000 acres and can he 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 OF
capital to develop or add 10 the materia
resources of our country.
Very respectfully. S.
,NOTE.--NOrthern readers who have eX
perienceI the dreadful cold weather o
January. will find in another column o
the CHRoNICLE the Monthly MeteorOlog