The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-04-14
MORRLSTOWN.
CHEERING PROSPECTS AHEAD OF
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Knoxville Dispatch.
Everything now points to cheer.
ing future for Morristown, a most
promising town on the East Tennes
! see, Virginia and Georgia Railroad,
some forty miles east of Knoxville,
She Is rapidly, in our judgment, as
suming a growing commercial i'm
pOrLance, and will before long attract
more than ordinary attention. We
arrive at this conclusion for several
reasons. In the first place, she has
an enLerprising, pushing, intelligent
population, who seem to comprehend
and to appreciate her advantages,
and are laboring most earnestly to
| develop them. No town of it's size
has so many thorough going business
men. Her merchants are shreWd, !
wide awake, attentive 10 their BUSH
ness and just in their dealings. They |
command an extensive trade aud |
will hold it under all circumstances.
In the next place, Morristown is
located in the very center Of the
finest agricultural region in Eas.
Tennessee. She is peculiarly fortu-
nate in this respect. The lands adj
jacent are productive, adapted to
grain and to the grasses. She is
skirted with body of magnificent !
lands level, fertile and valuable. On {
the south of her lies the alluviai bot. =
toms of the French Broad river, and I
north of her the productive bottoms =
of the Holston river, to say nothing Ii
of the beautiful valley in which she =
is located aud which extends for G
miles east and west of her. If she .
never has another railroad sue is h
obliged To grow and prosper on &C. a.
count of her agricultural resources II
and the immense trade which these II
will inevitably secure to re
ler. 1t will necessarily gravitate hi
,owards her, as it is now doing. al
But the browning feature of Nor CT
'istown is the fact that she is now on ar
he eve of important railroad devel- We
'pments which will have vital bear in
ng upon her future destiny. There to
an be no doubt of this in our mind. re
Recent movements in this direction ha
Indicate it Enthusiastically. 1t is now IN
fixed fact, of course, that she is by
Don to have an outlet to Asheville go
7. g., and from thence to the sea asl
Oast. Nothing can prevent this. we
Tor will it be long. Everything for
oints to its speedy opening. We bra
ave for long time believed and fan fan
that this road would Ger. stOl
Iinly be constructed, and he who liz
ould now doubt it is extremely 10. I
'rant of the situation Of affairs-is of t
IDLY posted. We no more question Al
} early construction than we CUES ity
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soon question the rising and set men
g Of the sun. the
Following this will come the fina. SOM
npletion OF the Louisville connec. deed
n via Cumberland Gap. Perhaps a spl
> reason why that road has been The
long delayed was to see what succ'
lld be done with the North Caro- sre1'
; connection. 1t could gain but ho,s ,
lie by reaching Morristown before co thu
completion of the latter. There emba
be no doubt that. as soon as the guard
er enterprise becomes a certainty. WIN
former will be put through. AL tion
ly the Louisville road is within a bilant
It distance of London, KY, and. niaoer
curse, the management have no thund
of allowing it TO stop there. 1t . l.1soa
1liged 10 GO forward if it expects the loft
zap the fruits of the vast amount Pueblo
money expended upon it up to tain pa
present. time, SO that MorrisLoWn capital
as we'll get her house in order WI. VIZ -, -
aratory to Its coming there. Ii with sn
10 1t as certain as the stars shine shell FIR
clear night. deafene
Steel al
'NSa o"SSO vi SuiASso'hOes' Snefe' thousan
1t is not difficult to foresee the fortress
e awaiting that fourishing town. tees nea
)orders will be extended. her try, and
lerce augmented a hundred world al
her real estate will advance u.H ~, !.
twenty-five TO one hundred per oOntinen
manufactures will increase and and mea
business interest will receive square n
ng and bounding impetus. y true ~ y