The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-30

are with land as good as the best, with
market at our doors for everything
we can produce, with climate not
subject to the extreme cold of the
northern nor the scorching heat of the
Gulf States, we have a country TO
which We can safely invite the immi-
grant. We invite you to come and
look at our land here around Milan
before you select. We have briefly
alluded to some of the advantages of
this as a farming country. Many
others might be mentioned if we had
space. We assure all that VIC have
not INDUCED in any overdrawn pic
lures in the above sketch of this as a
farming country, but have confined
ourselves to facts.
Milan, in Gibson county, is situated
at the junction of the Memphis d
Louisville and Chicago, st. Louis IL
New Orleans and the prospective
Tennessee Central railroads, ninety
three miles northeast of Memphis, and
is located in the heart of West Ten
nessee. 1t is on high, we'll drained
land, remote from swamps.
The first house was built IN Milan in
1859; the first business house in 1861.
But little progress was made in build
ing the town until the year 1866,
when it began to improve, and has
continued to grow rapidly up to the
present time, bidding fair to become
at no late day city of considerable
dimensions. From a mere way-sta-
ton, it has grown to a point OF very
great importance; has, it is claimed,
about two thousand inhabitants is,
in dimensions, one mile square; has
over fifty business houses, three hotels,
two livery stables, a frst-class college
male and female; and has one of
the finest farming countries in the
South to support it. On the east we
control the trade of east Gibson and
west Carroll and part of Henderson
counties on the south we have the
trade of the south end of Gibson and
north end of Madison counties for
distance of fourteen miles; on the
west we have fine country for seven
or eight miles, the trade of which we
control; and on the north we have the
trade of the country for like dis
tance.
Milan is peculiarly favored in re-
spect to shipping facilities. All points
North, East, South and West are in
direct communication with our thriv>
ing town. The Chicago. st. Louis
& New Orleans road places us in
connection with the Northwest and all
points South the Memphis & Louis
vile road gives us close commanica-
ton with points East, North and
South and Southwest; while the pros
pective Tennessee Central road will
place US in direct communication with
Nashville on the East and Mississippi
river on the West. This road is near
ly complete from Trenton on the West
to Huntingdon on the East. To show
that our description of this as ship-
ping point IS not ovcrdrawn, we will
merely state that Col. II. G.. Fisher,
Assistant Superintendent of the South
ern Express Company, says publicly
that " Milan is the best shipping point
in America for fruits and vegetables. "
During the season just closed, over
sixty thousand quarts of Strawberries
were raised here and shipped to every
point of the compass. They were
picked from forty acres of land, and
brought to the town s6000-S150 for
each acre-and the crop was little if,
any over half. Next season over one
hundred and fifty acres will be bear
ing, and, if nothing happens they
will bring in about $50, 900. Besides,
there are many acres planted in rasp>
berries, plums, cherries, peaches, ap
pies, etc., and large area in vegeta-
bles. The fruit and vegetable crop
alone will be worth about 100000
to Milan and immediate vicinity next
year. Fast fruit and vegetable trains
will run on both roads, and freights
will be very low indeed. We cOnf-
IDENTIFY believe that the country for
five miles around here will be a huge
market garden in very few years,
and that experts in that business can
not find a better location to settle in
America. Lands can be bought very
cheap now, whereas they will be worth
double the money in three years.
Many northern farmers are already
corresponding with our people with
view of locating here.
We have fine school in Milan
Male and Female College, which will
in future be run as free school, un-
der the management of able and COM
petent' teachers. This of itself is
great inducement to immigrants.
Besides Milan, there are other -four
ing towns in the county. Trenton
and Humboldt are large, prosperous
towns, and have good schools, church
es and society. Dyer Station, Ruth,
erford, Pickettville, Medina, Bradford
and other villages, near us are pros
porous, growing places. In Carroll
county, Huntington and Mckenzie
are the largest towns, and are thriv-
ing, live places. Trezevant, MeLe>
moresville, Atwood and Lavinia, also
in Carroll, are growing towns and fine
locations for settlers.
Taken all in all, we don't think an
energetic scorking man, or man with
capital to invest, can find better
section of country in the Union to lo>
cate than right here, and we cordially
and earnestly invite them to come and
see US. We will receive them heart,
lily, and do all in our power to make
them feel at home.
County Teachers Institute.
The fourth session of Gibson Coun-
tv Teachers Institute will he held at