Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-06-18
AN uNM1rreArEp sw1NpLE.
We have received the following from
jamestown, which we lay before our read

we have received the following from
jamestown, which we lay before our read
ers:
JAMESTOWN, Tenn, June Sth, 1878.
Editors Chronicle:
CENTIEMEN-I enclose you circulars and
plat (sent me by friend in CincinnatD
purporting to be plan of Rydersville, situate
in Scott county, Tennessee. He wanted to
know whether it was bona fde company,
owning lands, etc; l 90 not Know, put
this 7 do know-that $40 to cover the eX-
nense of acknowledgement, registration,
NC. will leave about So to go into some
body,s pocket which for one-eighth of an
acre in Scott county is good-only S64 per
acre. You will see from the plan and cir
cular all the evidences of fraud necessary
to convince you that it is swindle. The
gentleman writing me from Cincinnati
served in the army as telegraph operator
at Huntsville, and knows something OF
the county. He is well acquainted in Gin
cinnati and writes me there is no such
man as A. e. Norre. If there is any such
an institution as the tennessee Land
Company don't know it. You, doubt
less. can learn. If it is a swindle, give
them turning over. We want people to
come here, and The best way / know to get
them is to expose all land swindles.
Yours, truly, }. ID. LEWIS.
Accompanying this is well executed
map, entitled Railroad map of Scott
county, Tennessee" showing that the
county is or will be well supplied with
railroad facilities. Another map shows
" the Tennessee Land Company's plan o.
'Rydersville,' from which they will select
500 lots for free distribution" One block
is shown as intended for "a town hall,
while another is preserved for iron works.
For information about these matters, APP
plication is to be made to Morton
Hunter, No. 10, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
or to p. O. box, ,26S. Our correspondent
is we'll acquainted in Scott county anC
seems to know nothing of this city o
'Rydersville, and we presume few 9th
ers know anything of it. The company
proposes to giUe away lots to persons whC
will apply for them, in consideration of APP
plicants recommending the company
lands to "their neighbors and friends,
and that they send ten dollars to pay TO
drawing deeds paying commissioner
fees, etc. Our correspondent gets at th,
pith of the matter when he states that on
of the ten dollars, eight will go into some
body pocket, which, as he says, is a fai
price for One-eighth of an acre of land il
llldU
The whole thing looks very much lill
an unmitigated swindle, and such
swindle as has been too often perpetratet
within few years past in connection will
East Tennessee mountain lands, for tn
good of our section. So many scoundrel
have taken this as means of swindlin,
persons who were willing to invest in thi
important class of our property, that ever,
| man who offers it for sale is looked upoI
with suspicion unless he is well known.
| few exposures is what is needed.
We have no idea that the people Q
Scott county have anything to do wit
such swindle. Indeed, we are authorize
by Judge j. M. Cordell, a prominent citi
zen of the county, to say that they know nc
thing of this Tennessee Land Company
or of the fabulous town of "Ryderville.
They are interested and will aid in eX
posing these swindles which so directly al
feet them.