Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-06-10
Heavier Ridge Items.
BEAVER RIDGE, June, j

| DHd 1eIDNEj JCG0.
Mr.. EDITOR: I am truly glad TO see
and hear of enterprising men from
the North and West coming and look
| ing at our beautiful country. 1 see
| from your paper you have had some
| gentlemen prospecting as TO the iron
and coal of East Tennessee. [ hope
| they will open up new banks, build
new roads and help build up the waste
places. We have the iron ore, the
coal, the marble, the limestone, and,
in word, anything you want. Mr..
Editor, why do we, as mass,
take so little interest in our part
Of this great country. 1t is strange to
me that we know so little of each
other. A gentleman, and nice man,
at that, from Ohio, has been in this
neighborhood visiting friends, and he
told me that many of his neighbors
were afraid to come to this country. /
asked him, Why so? 1--WE fear you
Southern people will not treat US
kindly" said he. He told me that
when he got to Nashville he took q
sleeper and his ed-fellow was a rebel,
as he said, and at one time had quite
large number of negroes. At first he
said ne did not know how he felt, but
the further they come the better he
liked the Southern gentleman. He
says: 81 found him one of the most
pleasant gentlemen / ever met, and
was sorry TO part with him at Chatta-
nOOga." He came to your city by him
self, remained all night at the Lamar
House, took stroll around the city
the next morning. He was perfectly
delighted with the Lamar and
its proprietor and the city generally.
He procured buggy and horse of
Capt. Will. Bell, and came to his rela-
tions, near US, and spent few days,
going away perfectly delighted with
our country and the people. He went
bsck to your city and looked around
through the splendid business houses,
and was much surprised at the business
done in Knoxville. He told me that
he would return home with different
feelings toward the South than he had
ever had before. He found there the
cleveTest people he ever m met in his life
perfect strangers, he said, all along the
road, treated him 80 kind that he never
will forget them, aud, if his health per-
mits, will return to this country with
his family.
I have with me at this time, Mr..
w. J. Armstrong, from the State of
Indiana. He is well pleased with the |
country, the people, water, lumber. |
etc., so much so that he
bought him nice little farm yeater-
day from Col. VIM. Cross, and will |
move his family from that |
State to this section about |
the 1st of October next. He will |
probably bring several families with |
him.
Mr.. Editor, I hope it will not be
long until we have railroad from the |
mouth of Emory River to Knoxville.
The company that will build that
road will find it the best paying road
ia the South or West. It will make
quite cutoff from Knoxville to
KY, and to Cincinnati,
Ohio. Mark my prediction, the COM
pany that is enterprising enough to
build that road will never regret it, for
It will be built, and that very soon. 1t
IS very strange to me that Knoxville
will not take hold of it and build it at
once. The East Tennessee, Vir-
yinia and Georgia Railroad Company
sleep on and keep their eyes shut to
heir own interest until some other
company builds this road, and cuts off
of their profits each year.
BEAVER RIDGE. !