Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-10-18
FROM RHEA SPRINGS.
The lockwood Iron Rustncss-The
County General y-Prepara-
items for the Fair,


items for the Fair.
To the traveller from Knoxville to
Rhea Springs. and all points adj AGENT,
lockwood is necessary stopping
place. As it happened to-day, there
being no means of conveyance be-
tween these two places the stay here
was little longer than necessary
| however, as it ia said to be character
istic of wise, as all newspaper CORE
spondents are supposedly them
selvts-tO b., to turn seeming mis-
fortunes to advantage, it may be we'll
| to give a few items concerning this
thriving young city. Although still
in It's teens, Rock wood has &C.
CURED a considerable growth. AS
everybody knows, Rock wood was
begotten, born aud reared in the
interest of iron manufacture.
The unusual advantages it possesses in
this respect, the convenience of the
ore, the cheapness of labor and the
superior quality Of the iron, enabled
it to continue operations when SINH
lar comp Anies. even in the manufaC-
turing districts of Pennsylvania, were
compelled to succumb TO hard times.
The place enjoys business activity
now that it has DOT knOWn FIR years !;
a regular business boom, in fact. The
price of iron has advanced S12 per
ton, One-third more hands are en-
plOyed than formerly, and they make
over twenty five tons of iron per day.
AS no regular trains are yet running
on the Cincinnati Southern Road, one
must take his chances about getting a
ride, and the railroad officials here are
not as accOmm0 dating as candidates
for office sometimes are before an cleo
ton. However, after waiting over
night at Rock wood, your reporter
obtained first class transportation on a
gravel train TO
RHEA SPRINGS,
In time for the opening ceremonies of
the Fair.
This place wa formerly known to
the world by the name Of Sulphur
| Springs, but the plebians about the
| country would persist in contracting
| the name TO the word Sulphur"
| This wouldn't do. There's not much
in name, but sulphur is too sig
nificant of things unpleasant, it is too
suggestive Of possibly disagreeable as
sociatiOns in minds polite, and so the
name was changed to the less Objec-
tionable one it now bears. The COM
pletiOn of the Cincinnati Southern
railroad will put this place in eight
hours of Cincinnati, aud two hours
of Chattanooga, and this is already
beginning to give new life to
the place. Rhea Springs is a very
| pleasant village to live in, save that
once in while the river has a dis
agreeable way IF backing up" over
| the town, but the advantages of min
eral wafer ard grand mouutain
scenery will make up for the slight
annoyance of occasionally having to
make Oue's escape from the second
story window in a canoe. This is one
of the finest valleys in the State, and
there is not a more beau ifal stretch OF
| country anv wtere than that bet weeu
here and Rock wood, with its broad
meadows and wheat fields and
Waldeu's Ridge in the back ground
Here is grown the best wheaJ in the
United States, and the high table
lands back of Waldeu's Ridge will
| furnish fruit for all posterity.
A considerable number of entries
| have already been made, the
YEA her IL every h ng that can BE-
| desired, and every Thug is faVOrabl e
| for successful exhibition. all abou,
which the readers Of the CHRONICLE
| will be duly informed. C L. S.