Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-09-04
From Beaver Ridss.
BEAVER RIDGE. Aug.

N4hs GO11Oh. 4uC ldIluSTS nave
finished threshing their wheat. The
yield is very good, and a very fine
quality of wheat. The price is very
good and the farmers are in fine
spirits. Many Of our farmers are
about half done blowing for another
crop. Our corn crops since our
fine rains are looking well. We will
make pretty far crop of corn.
All the corn that was planted late
will make very good corn. We are
having some land salesin this neigh
borhood. Mr.. Aaron Smoker bought
part of Mr.. Geo. Weard's farm,
formerly. the Cobb farm, and there is
talk of other sales. We are looking
for quite a number of Eastern and
Western men in this valley this
winter hunting them homes. Col.
Armstrong, from Indiana, will be
here about the, 10th of September,
and there wilEcome with him seve-
raj families, and when the Cincln-
natl Southern Railroad is finished
to Chattanooga we will have quite
a heavy emigration. l have quite
a number of, letters stating that
thew will come lust as soon as that
road is finished to Chattanooga. !
hope that some good company will
build road from Knoxville to the
G. S. road. It viii help Knoxville
and all of this country. I think
it would dc more to help Knoxville
than any other road. Knoxville
ought to build that road herself and
own it herself. You have men in
Knoxville, Mr.. Editor, if they would
take hold of the enterprise could
make a5good thing out of it. ]
will name one man and you have
others. If Major Dan Carpenter
would take hold of it he could form
a company and put it through. ! I
hope, Sir, that it will not be long
until some good company will do it.
Our public schools in this, the
18th district, are doing well. We
have splendid teachers in this part
of the district. At Ball Camp we
have W. W.Ragan, at Lebanon, DIR.
Collier, and at Beaver Ridge, G. W.
Fax. They are three splendid
teachers, and have good schools.
We have other good teachers
in this district, but I am not
acquainted with them. One thing
that helps to make good
schools is to have good
School Commissioners in the diss
trict and you will have good schools,
We have three good commissioners,
Esq. Robert Harper, Col. VIM.
Cross and Maj, JAS. McBath; they
see that the teachers attend to their
duty. We have quite a number of
new and good school houses, and
will have another this winter.
l am very sorry the way the
State went on the bond question.
Some think it was for the best,
p obably it was, but l can not see it
IN that light. l think that the next
question will be 333 or nothing, and
l an afraid that NOTHING will pre-
vail. [ hope not.
We are about to- lose one Of our
best citizens Mr.. James Hackney
is going tolmoye from our neighbor-r
hood; he has sold his mill property
to VIM. Coward, of Anderson 9coun-
ty.3 We are to have a splendid
bridge across Beaver Greek atgthe
Hackney Mill property, in few
days, which will help this part Of
the county and part Of Anderson
county very much and We must
have bridge across Beaver Greek
on the county road from Roberts
vile to Knoxville, and that also
will be quite an addition to this
part of the county. o. G9i5a5 - gnf
. We are very glad to learn that
the work at Oakdale Iron Works
has commenced, 1t helps to build
up this great country of ours, andl
am very glad to see the great inter-
est you and your noble paper take
in all public enterprises for East
Tennessee. eel Yours, oiIs4 aa7
Z .tal BEAVER RIDGE.
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