Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-03-29
FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE.
Cooke County and Coal Creek.

the former county site, with q small pop
ulation and with no very active state of
business operations, 1t has been greatly
injured, in this respect, by the town of
Clifton, which has recently grown up on
the Cincinnati Cumberland Gap and
Charleston railroad. Having the advanta-
yes of railroad. business men, as a matter
of course, have concentrated their means
and their energies upon this point. 1t is
as a consequence prosperous village. 1t
supports a number of stores and all of
them, so far as we know, making money
There are two or three establishments
engaged in manufacturing leather
and boots and shoes, besides an excellent
Touring mill. The educational feature is
a favorable one, there being good school,
male and female, in successful operation
THE COUNTY.
Perhaps there is no county in East Ten
nessee containing n larger quantity of su-
perior land than Cooke county. We don't
mean to affirm that there is no poor, rough
or mountainous land in the county, On
the contrary, there is a good deal of just
such land. The Southern portion, where
il touches the range of mountains alluded
TO, is quite rough and not valuable scarce
ly for any purpose. To be sure it might
be used for the cultivation of fruit and the
raising of sheep, two advantages, natural
There is likewise some fiat lands,
elsewhere in the county too thin
for successful and profitable farming yet,
byjudicious management, might be made
available in some form or other. There is
such an area of tillable lands in the county
that there is no disposition to occupy these
lands on the part of the more enterprising
farmers. At present they are managed
by men of small means and who are con-
tent with small earnings.
THE BOTTOM LANDS
on the two, rivers, French Broad and Pig
con, afford soil unsurpassed in fertility.
They are wide and long, and capable of
producing one hundred bushels of corn
per acre. The owners of them value them
at high figure. So high, indeed, that no
onecares to invest in them. In fact they
are notin the market at all.
The corn crop produced upon them is al
ways enormous, whether dry or a wet
season. This is fed mostly to hogs
and CATTLE and but little of ii put directly
on the market; hence Cock county IS
noted for her
HOG PRODUCTS
as we'll as her cattle product. Hundreds
and hundreds of both are thoroughly fat
tened and sent to the Southern and East
ern markets. The result is, the farmers
are rlcn ana independent. Iney are All
doing well, under the circumstances.
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county III I1aS' iehne'see.
Goa, Crae,
We had often heard OF the Coal Creek
mines and OF the rich deposits OF the black
diamonds that were 10 DE iounu tnere, pun
TO salty ourselves we visited that section
of country, and after having partaken OF
the hospitalities OF MIR. Wiley, one OF the
principal land owners OF that section, pro-
ceeded, in company with his son, Mr.
Howard wiley, TO Vlsl the mines:
We commenced with the fartheres'
mine, which is new one, and is leased by
the Coal Creek Coal Company for twenty
five years, with the privilege or twenty
hVe years more, and embraces three nun
dred acres. This mine has, although new
thirteen rooms, ana Is IN splendld order
The coal vein IS about four feet thick and