Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-11-17

southwest course of the valleys to
Cleveland, whore one stem branches
to Cha auuugH, The other to Dalton,
Ga. lnHke railroads generally, IL has
not sought the poorest soils, but on its
line may be found some of the best
farming lands of which any country
can boast. Another road Is partially
built, and will be finished in few
years, communicating with Norfolk,
Va, and Wilmington, n. c., through
the mountains of North Carolina; an
other still has long been chartered and
now shows signs of being constructed
into South Carolina and to Charleston;
then the Cincinnati Southern runs
down the western valley for nearly so
miles and will be completed in year.
The great outlets, however, are the
rivers. Six steamboats, run from Chat
tanoOga TO points above, and are now
carrying corn in sacks for over 100
miles at cents per bushel; high up
ON Ppwel's River, the Clinch and the
Holston, the farmers build rough,
strong fidt-boats and thus annually
send down over 10000 bushels of
grain.
The railroad, too, offers great induce
ments, aud large quantities seek its
cars even from sigh of the boat land
inRs. Thus il may be seen that the
shipments from East Tennessee, isola-
ted as II appears III be, are no mean
quantity, while there is no possibility
of computing the hogs, horses, mules,
and cattle driven to the Southern
market at the same time, with her
vast stores OF coal and iron, of oak, ,
hickory, and walnut, and superb
water-puwers and cheap trausporta-
ton, she should not buy from abroad a
plOw or mower, or "A hedsead, "a stove,
or an AK handle. nor ship abroad a
bushel of corn or "a barrel of flour, but
fill the South with articles of her man
ufacture, and send her bay, her wheat,
and her corn 10 them in the products
of skilled labor, and in the best of beef,
and have no superior in quality or
quantity of her cheese and hutter.
A PLEASING PROSPECT.
1t appears to me that the agricul-
tural future of Tennessee is very prom
ising. The eastern and western bor-
ders of the Cumberland Mountains
must become great lines of mining and
manufacturing establishments; these
will create demand at home for q
large part Of the products of the east
and middle sections. and at other
points in the limits of those sections,
varied characters of manufacturing
industries will spring up. The pecu-
liar character of the settlement of the
State gave it wild nomadic type
which Is fast passing away with the
professional horse-trader and the fat
| boatman. There is constantly in
creasing tendency to settledness aud to
improved and permanent fixtures on
the farms, and also comforts around
| the houses.
! The great lack of the State is COM
munity of interest between her differ
ent sections and even between the peo-
pie in those sections; separated by the
great wide mountain plateau, East
Tennessee has almost nothing in com
mon with the rest of the State, except
the ties OF one government. She
needs less of the every man and every
section for itself feeling; this is pass
| ing away before the opening up of new
aud quicker routes of travel, e1d in a
few more years, with her mining and
manufacturing resources properly inn
proved, she may excel Pennsylvania in
| agriculture, which she alone can rival
in stores of iron, coal, salt, and petro-
lenm. II. f. &.