The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-10-12
OUR TAZEWELL LETTER.
THE DROUTH

THE DROUTH
has ceased to be tie topic of general
Cheerfulness has taken
the place of dependency, aud activity
that of inertness.
TIE BLUE GRASS
is springing up in the beauty and YER
dure of May day, while cattle and
STOCK generally, are evidencing CORES
ponding thrift. Cattle men are far
more confident. The
CORN CROP
is much better han was supposed. In
some localities q mean north Of Clinch
mountain) the corn is far more abund-
ant than it has been for years ; in others,
not so good. In the main toe crop is
good. 1t is the exception where it is
inferior, and is due mo1e TO The soil
and tilling than to the season. Han
cock county never had such crop of
corn; especially on the rivers.
THE WHEAT
is light, but an abundance for home con-
sumption. The people have learned a
lesson-that the yield is far more gati .
factory and comparative where the
soil is well prepared in seeding. Now
and then we have the ground we'll turn
ed and twice narrowed.
THE PEACH CROP
is the marvel of this generation 1t is
worth more to these back mountain
counties than all other crops-more than
the largest wheat yield. Dealers do not
regard 500, 900 as high estimate for the
yield of this county. The same Is said
o. Hancock. 1t has been better than
THE BANKRUPT LAW
in aiding men to get md of their debts.
Numbers have not only "paid up" but
have 'Taid up" and provided against
the contingencies of the forthcoming
year. Not few sold more fruit from
their little farms than they cost them.
The crop is not only worth two or more
millions in direct revenue to East Ten
nessee, but will result in the develop
ment of
A NEW ENTERPRISE
that of fruit culture. These old fields.
long since abandoned as worthless, will
be made to yield more revenue than the
richest river lands. That twenty five
years from to-day East Tennessee will
be as famous for her fruits as for her
corn and wheat twenty five years ago,
is one of the possibilities.
THE LOG BUSINESS
is not less a mania. Fortunes are being
made at the expense of our country. In
two years there cannot be found enough
of walnut, pine and poplar, to make an
ordinary raft. The people are reckless
in the sale and destruction of their beau
tiful timber - timber which, in five
years, will bring. twice present prices
for even home consumption The riv-
ers are lined with RATS and logs. Wal
nut cannot be found, while poplar is
scarce. Chestnut IS attracting attention.
In fact, almost anything that Is timber.
LIKE RECKLEssNEss
Is shown by men who have mineral
blossom on their lands They arc Ieas-
ing to tom, Dick and Harry"--tieing
up their wealth in the interest of mo-
lopolies and swindlers. The day is at
land when our mountain people have
promise of realizing their long entomb-
I'd wealth if they will only keep the
tile in their own hands at least until
hey know to whom they are surrender
ng their rights
GREAT EXCITEMENT
n the locality of the Zinc Mines, eight
niles north of this place, over new
finds, " supposed to be silver 1t must
re valuable, as they will not suffer so
much as an ounce of the ore to be vast
d The miners found this at tile depth
# rs feet. That it is silver there is but
title doubt. New energy has been ex-
ibited since the last "fnd. "
MILLIONS OF 1T.
This table land, lgiog letwqen the
}linch and the Cumberland, has mil
ions of mineral wealth stored away in
Is bosom. Silver, lead, iron, zinc,
marble, slate by the bank The, wealth
n these is simply fahulous There is
vein OF as fine marble, lying just north
f Clinch mountain, as the famous Roy
rsville quarries. It's variega ions and |
lsceptibilities Of polish are just as
larked. .r.
THE HOFR
81 the development Of all this wealth |
in the proposed railroad enterprise
'om Morristown to Cumberland Gap.
Fhat wonderful auxiliaries would these
vers be as feeders to railroad in get
ng the ores and general products out
this great Egypt of the mountains.
HARD TIMES
Our mountain people have no cause
} complain; nor do they. They have
Ienty, seldom sick, and never die-on-
: when they cannot help it. While
Tiers starve, and do have hard times,
ley have their abundance, and truly
We Sin land flowing with milk and
oney.a
NOT FORGOTTEN
Amid all this abundance and wealth
thereon, the people have not
rgotten their lamented President. The
igretg regarding General Garfeld's
cath are genuine and are epoken by all
agardless of party. There Is & general
ar that General Arthur will not dupli-
tie the most praise-worthy beginning
President Garfield
OUR SCHOOL
res we'll. We have more students than
c have ever had at this period of the
ssion. We have enroll. d 1870 The
&c schools are closing, which will
yell the Rttcndauce to more than that
the preceding years. We haNe Tie
me corps of teachers as last year
rofs. w. r. Sawyers, G w. Mont
,mery and Miss Minnie Rayle; also The
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