The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-05-12

Allow me to call your attention to
some facts respecting this portion of
Tennessee, and especially Hardeman
County, where any one who desires
can find home or Investment among
us. 1t is to the county of Hardeman
that we wish to call your special at
tention BY referring to the map of
Tennessee, you will see that this
county is situated in the western por-
ton of the State, and that the Big
Hatchic river, together with a num-
Der of bold, fresh creeks, passes
through this county. There are also
numerous small creeks and springs
scattered all over the county, and
good water can be obtained anywhere
by digging from 20 to 90 feet, owing
To locality. Along these streams, as
well as on the hills, timber of various
kinds grows in abundance, where it
has not been cleared away for farming
purposes. The lands in Hardeman
county consist in bottom and uplands,
like the most of the West Tennessee
country. A great deal of the land
has been cleared and cultivated for
years previous to the war, but since
that time thousands Of acres of our
best lands have remained idle on ac-
count of the scarcity Of laborers to
cultivate them. These lands are still
very productive where they have been
kept from washing, which does not re
quire much labor. Upon these lands
are grown fruits, vegetables, cotton,
corn, wheat, oats, rye, potatoes, and
numerous varieties of grasses, and
especially clover and Lucern, which
grow in the greatest luxuriance in this
soil, not being surpassed by any other
State in the South. But these lands
are better adapted to the raising of
cotton and corn than for any other
crop, and consequently these form the
principal products of this section of
the State. 1t makes no difference
about the variations in the season;
this crop never fails, and when it is
made and gathered there is always a
ready market for it. This county has
as many as ten or twelve little towns
in it, and two railroads pass through
1.-THE Chicago, st. Louis and New
Orleans railroad, which runs through
it from north to south, and the Mem.
phis d Charleston road, which runs
ale n the southern border, and any
produce that is raised can be trans
ported with all ease and rapidity to
the best markets in the United States.
Besides, the Hatchie river is naviga-
bic from its mouth, where il cmpties
into the Mississippi, near Memphis,
up to Bolivar. the county seat Of this
county, distance of $50 miles. Steam
boats with a capacity for carrying
from n thousand to fifteen hundred
bales of cotton run up the RIVER ts
Bolivar, from Memphis and New Or
leans, as well as various other points,
during all the winter, and i'll year or
two the river will be put in such a
condition that the boats can run at
all times with the greatest ease. This
steamboat business comes in competl-
ton with the railroads, and forces
them to transport your produce to
market at reasonable rates.
This county has population OF
about $4,000, and since the war a
great many of the people have been
allurel away from their comfortable
homes by visions of an Eldorado in
the far West. Not finding what they
were seeking, some of them have re
turned, and others who were more un
fortunate, have either died or are toe
poor to get back. The climate of this
county is excellent, and is healthful, rs
general thing. The country doe,
not consist of low wastes and marshy
lands, but Of rich, productive lands,
and lands, too, that will rapidly adj
vance in the market beyond your ex-
pectation. 1t is this locality we wish
10 ofFer to emigrants and all others,
an inducement that will certainly
meet with their approval. You may
hear some say that this is an old,
worn out country, and that it was
good once, b1t is no longer So, but
when they tel You this they don't
know anything about It, and we only
ask you to investigate the matter and
see for Yourself This country has
never been advertised, and the consc-
Guence is that people are continually
passing through our State on THEN
way to Arkansas or Texas, where the
railroads and spectators hold out all
sorts of signs and Misrepresentation
TO induce them to go. They are actu-
ally passing through country that
will suit them much better than 'the
one to which they are going, but they
do not know it, and do not find it out
until it is too late. We have plenty
of good agricultural lands and plenty