The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-04-09
THE STATE OF TENNESSEE.

THE STATE OF TENNESSEE.
How little is known, by our own citi.
zens of the grand proportions and I'M
rlVaIled resources of our magnificent
State. Without descending to a compu-
tatIon of the yearly products of its
widely extended area of cult waited, and
its vast forest covered acres, its teeming
valleys and productive uPlands, behold
her vast empire extending over two>
thirds of the distance between the Mis-
sissippi river and the Atlantic ocean.
Over $50 miles in length, from the
Father of Waters on its western border,
to the clOud-piercing mountains viii CHI
separate US from our motLer-go cd old
North Carolina. With a breadth of
about 100 miles, our limits cover, what
IS, beyond doubt, the most desirable por-
ton of the North Temperate zone in all
Amer lea. We are aware that the belt
covering parts of Kentucky and Vir-
ginia as well as the elevated portions
passing claims our State and its favored
latitude presents to the dweIiers on the
earth. Her climate, betw: en- the rigors
of more northern latitude, and the
enervating effects of the semi>tropical
heats of the region laying south of US, is
not only the most agreeable to com fort,
health and longevity, but free from the
distressing sufferings springing from
either extreme. Her climate, equally
as varied as her landscape, is infinitely
modified in all the charms of attractive
variety. Nor are our advantages less in
regard to the productions Of the earth, as
our prolific and varied soil, from the
taVOrings of climat advantages, pros
duces in the most exuberant abundance,
not only the grains and grasses of the
North, but the cotton, rice and most of
the productions of the Sunny South;
and within her limits almost every va
riety of soil can be fouDd-from the
light siliciOus productive lands of West
Tenn to the rich lime lands of the TEEN
ing basin of Middle Tenn and to the
unsurpassed elevated valleys of East
Tenn. Her mineral wealth is scarcely
equaled by any other State Of this wide
extended Union; and, 10 this respect,
alone, her undeveloped wealth surpass es
a dozen CALIFORNIA;. Her iron, which is
inexhaustible, both on the western Dor.
der of Middle Tenn, and in East Tenn,
is Of such excellence as to be transported
now 1900 miles to be mixed with the
Pittsburg, Penn iron, in order to make
the latter more maleable. Her coal beds
cover two~thirds of the Cumberland
plateau, and can never be exhausted.
Here iron, coal and limestone is found in
juxta position, affording the most favor>
able facilities for the production of iron,
the most useful, and hence, most valu-
able, of all the metals Shall VIC 90 fur
Their and point to you her copper, lead,
marble, limestone, hydraulic limestone,
AMI many other minerals, only awaiting
the hand of industry to appropriate
and coin into wealth for her peo-
pie Can we contemplate all this
wealth of blessings, and not realize that
we a e in possession of a land more at
tractive and glorious than that which
| Moses, the honored servant of God, be-
held from the towering top of Mount
Pisgah, but was not permitted to enter
and enjoy, There is a great and unriv-
| allied destiny before US, and, if we are but
true ourselves, TO the interests of those
who are to succeed us, and to the stew>
ardship with which we have been ems
trusted, Tennessee must soOE become, in
material prosperity, what she is now
geographically - the real keystone"
State of the Union. And, for the attain
ment of this prominence, which, most
surely, awaits US, let US, here in West
Tennessee, and in Hardeman county, so
shape our course and amend, and i'm
prove our mode of tillage aud hus bandry
as TO bring us prominently forward in
this movement to prosperity. We are
now, probably, at the bottom of the
wheel, but let no one be discouraged by
the difficulties under which we now la
! Dor from the failure-the almost total
failure-of one crop Let US hope, rather,
that 1t may not occur again in half a
century, and that recompensing blessings
are about to be given during the present
year, in fav ora;ng seasons, in well~flled
barns and store houses, and in smiling
plenty throughout the land. For our
| strong convictions in the attainment of
certain prosperity, (Which, we trust, is
nearer than many now think we have
many reasons, that may, peradventu re,
be given for the faith that is in US"