Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-21

/ the Cumberland table land has been,
for years, favorite resort during the
hot months. Hundreds of summer
retreats, public and private, may be
found upon its flat top. Much the
larger number are temporary struct-
ures-log cabins located at romantic
and often wild points near springs of
chrystal freestone, and not unfre1uent-
~ OF chalybea water.
At several points, as at Beersheba
Lookout and Bon Air, sum-
mer hotels have been erected.
At these points there are, in addition,
many elegant private cottages, alto.
gether forming attractive mountain
villages. Ii will certainly not be many
years before this beautiful plateau will
become famous, as it ought, for the
number and extent of such villages"
Another writer, quoted in the same
work, says: ." But many things be-
longing to the table lands of this State
can scarcely be over-prased. The
water, the climate and the health
have not been fully valued, in the es-
innate of this part of our State. On
the great plateau of Tennessee the soft,
limpid purity of the water is admired
by all observing travellers. The eli
mate, equally exempt from the frigid
rig1r of the North aud the facilitating
neat OF the South, is nowhere excelled
for the comfort of population.
Here may be enjoyed the c'earness
and brightness OF an Italian atmos~
phere, without the Daleful influence of
the maremma marsh, or the deOili.
tating effects of the African siroccD.
Here Hygeia's reign is undisputed.
Neither cholera, consumption, nor
fever, ever pretend to dispute her salu
tafy sway. Emigrants from the frozen
shores of the ST. Lawrence, or from
the fernny boys of the Carolinas, here
meet the invigoratin, breeze and If
heath lis to be found, upon earth, they
may hope for it here"
The writer has spent some three
years upon the table land, and has
never seen sultry day or night. At
this place, a refreshing breeze is almost
always blowing. The song of the
mosquito is never heard. The nights
are delightfully."- cool, and bracing. The
wiuter's are mild. Snow seldom lies
in body longer than twenty-fOur hours.
The largest streams are rarely frozen
over. The farmer or woOdsman can
pursue his avocation all the year.
The scenery, on some parts of the
table land, is magnificent. Two miles
south of this place are some beautiful
waterfalls on Mill Creek. On Clear
Creek and Clear Fork, the views are
wild and picturesque. In Cumberland
county, near the Sparta and Kingston
road, is a miniature Yosemite. In
Scott county, along New River and
the Big South Fork, are some views
worthy the study of an artist.
COAL
underlirs the whole table land
Quoting again from Prof. Stafford, he
: says: The area occupied by the Goa
measures is co-extensive with that ot
the table land The two go together
} The latter owes its existence in part
and its preservation as plateau, to the
: former
: On the parts of the table land
with which the writer j. intimately
, acquainted there has been none othe
= than a local demand for coal. Conse
quenuy the " banks have been bu
little worked as yet Along the Emory
and its tributaries, coal crops out ii
y many places. Almost within stone
Il throw of the Court House at thi
Ia place, "A vein has been opened ant
: work ed To some extent. In grading
IS the railway several veins have beel
h cut through.
/, LAND TITLES
n is subject to which the possible immi
( grant would do well to pay some at
Il tention. In the early days of GU
d State, when land was of comparative
7, ~ little value, our system of enterin
d and granting lands was carried OH in
y loose manner. The result il, mucl
al ag,F,,-in,, and conflict OF titlaC nor
II that the land has assumed som
J. market value. About the year 1885,
e, the whole face of the table land wa
is entered 10y Eastland and Lane. Man
X entries had been made prior to tina
Id time, and many have been made since
rs This state of affairs would natural
OF create much trouble had it not bee
as for the "quieting" acts passed by tn
to Legislature. Under their provision
I'd seven years adverse possession of
e, tract of land under color of title settle
H. all claims. Twenty years possessio
81 without color Of title has like efiec
~ Under these laws the only question
he TO be asked in order to ascertain Il
no validity of title are First, is II
'n title older than all others? If it
lis younger than any other, has it beeni
he adverse possession for more than seve
Is years? Eltnef OF THESE question
of answered in the affirmatiN
ter will settle the title. Many complain
he have been made of late by parties wi
have bought mountain land in .rega
Gu to the title. But these complaints i
his variably came from parties who ha
k bought land first and examined the
be- title afterward. Parties who trade
uc- this loose manner may expect to
te- swiudled in any country and in al
ng business. There are plenty of 90
ay titles that can be bought at low figur
IN, all over the table land, but no mi
ish shouldinvest dollar in them witho
tsy having thorough examination ma
the by a competent lawyer. Over o
,e a hundred families have settled i'm t
on county Of Cumberland, from the diff
Ter; ent Northern States, and | have yet
the learn Of the first ejectment suit,
md which one Of them has been engage
use The town of WarlbuTg "
Inc founded some twenty years ago,
we'd u ore, 10y the Tennessee Colonizati
ears Company" aud was settled by famil
e OF from Germany, Hungary, and Swi