Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-10-15
Letter From Chattanooga.
CHATTANOOGA. October ]

CHATTANOOGA, October Is.
Mn. EDITOR: l never visit Chattanooga
without being impressed with the grand
great city, or 1 am prodigiously deceived.
There are too many indications of such
result cropping out in all directions to be
mistaken. Said gentleman to me: 4" Chat
tanooga has all the elements that tend to
make up growing and prosperous city"
This is the sentiment and conviction of
every man who has taken the pains to in
yestigate its advantages 1t may not strike
your mind, but it does mine and many
others with whom I have conversed, that
any point that was regarded rs a stragetic
one in war times, must be regarded as
commercial point. There was, as you know,
no greater and more important stragetic
point than Chattanooga. 1t was the key to
the South. Once captured, fortified and
held by the Union army, it was only ques-
ton of time, and short at that, when the
Confederate foxes would be forced to sue
cumb. This was terribly illustrated in the
movements of General Sherman, a fact now
become historic.
Commerce has her stragetic points as well
as war, and this, as intimated, is the exact
status of Chattanooga She is SO located
geographically as to command an immense
trade, and a trade that commands a vast
number of commercial arteries Had YOU
ever thought, in the first place. how far up
into the very heart of East Tennessee her
trade extends, and controlling q rich and
productive section beyond the reach of your
city? This is worthy of your consideration.
/ refer to the Tennessee River and its tribu-
taries, which, as you know, drain the richest
agricultural section of East Tennessee. Al
most the entire products of that section nee
essarily come to this point. There is no
other way for them to go, and here they find
a grand distributing point, passing out into
all the Southern States, and reaching the
chief commercial centers of the South. This
immense trade she has a monopoly of. She
can't be deprived of it, and this alone would
enter largely into the completion of her fu-
ture success.
But enough of this for the present
want to say q word for the Chattanooga
Times one of the strong institutions of this
growing city, and which is destined to be a
power, not only in Chattanooga but
throughout the State and in tie South.
You are aware, of course, that Mr.. Adolphus
S. Ochs, son of julius Ochs, ESQ, formerly
an honored citizen of your city, is its pro
prietor. He is comparatively very yonng
man and was raised principally in Knox
ville starting there as a printer, afterwards
permanently associated with the early for
tunes of the Knoxville Tribune, and finally
landing in this city and securing, III his own
right, the Times. Perhaps there is no
better business man of his age in the State,
and none who gives greater promises of the
future. He has succeeded in making the
Times q successful journal financially. 1t
has wide daily and weekly circulation and
growing at tremendous rate. He is a
pushing dashing, daring man and has q
pluck that but few men can lay claim to.
met your Mr.. Brown at this place, look
ing fat and sleek and as happy as man
can well look. ...-..-
You shall hear from me again.
ALoNzo DANTE