Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-16
EAST TENNESSEE.


NOtn- fhcts ABOUT our eIIhnttes
While the weather north Of the Ohio
river was exceptionally cold last winter,
many portions of the country being COW
cred with ice and snow for ut least four
months. IL was, with u.s. mild weather,
with the exception of few days from
December to March The snow did not
remain on the ground at any one time
more than twenty-four hours stock of
all kinds might, with perfect propYlety,
have run out all the winter, aud at no
time was anything more than cheap
shed needed, to efectually shelter it from
the inclemencies of winter.
While this was true last winter, it is
also true that we have not, at Knoxville
and other points in East Tennessee, been
oppressed with excessive heat any more,
nor even so much, as they have at points
further north. Take the weather reports
OF last Friday, for instance. The Their
mometer Mt this place indicated tenn
perature of 74S, which was one of the
warmest days Of the season. On the same
day at Cincinnati it was SIC; at Indian
apolis, sic; Cleveland, Ohio, 100; Buf-
fllo, 7Go /; Oswego, New York, 7Go; To-
lcdo. Ohio. ZOE: Louisville, Kentucky.
$50 st. Louis. 500; Pittsburg, 49, and
so on. We mention Friday because we
have the table before u, and almost any
4 L. Il
with similar result. The reason of this
is our close proximity to the ranges of
mountains on the north and south Of Us.
giving pure, bracin9 mountain Amos
phere, conducive to health at all times.
As we stated in the WING AND CHRoN-
ICLE week ago, we have received so
many inquiries on the subject of the
climate, soil, &C., that we can not posi-
bly, answer all Of.them separately, and
shall attempt, from time to time, to
give the information through our paper
which seems SO urgently demanded. 1t
is absolutely certain that there are thou
sands of persons throughout the North.
who, if they can find homes in the South
on anything like reasonable terms, will
DO 20 at an early day. In this connection
we reproduce the following, which APP
peaped in the WEEKLY CHRONICLE of
April 80, 1872:
Letters from every Northern State
come to us every day, and the burden Of
complaint in nine cases out Of ten OF
them, is the long, cold winters OF their
Northern homes. Roads and farms are
deep under snow, rivers, lakes and creeks
ice-bound, coughs. catanhs, consumption,
&C.. are the atllictious that turn the minis
of our correspondents to the South for
homes. They prefer East Tennessee be-
cause OF itis fortunate situation midway
between The Oppressive summers of the
Gulf States and the protracted, severe
winters of the North,
We propose to answer the many inqui-
rles in reference to our climate by facts
anG figures that can not be disputed, and
that show our climate entitled to even
more praise than it receives. We have
| frequently discussed our climate rs TO its
favorable Influences upon agricultural
pursuits. We have shown that frequently
our real winter weather does not extend
over two months. We have shown how
in some years QSG0 for eXample) our
farmers could pillow half the month OF
January and how nearly every day Of
February was pleasant for ont doOrwork
But figures will show this much more
forcibly than explanations. We give be
low a table of meteorological observation,
made since 1851 at the East Tennessee