Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-31
KNOXVILLE,
The Capital OF East Tennessee, Makes a
Most Encouraging Exhibit Of
Progressive Trade.
One Of the Garden Spots of the World,
the Mountain Region is Also Rich
i'm Coal, Iron and Marble.
ipecial Correspondence of the Appeal

Speclal correspondence OF the Appeal
KNOXVILLE, August 29.-Inasmuch as
Memphis is connected commercially with
East Tennessee, it would not be improper to
say something of the extensive capabilities
OF that section. A careful observer will find
that Tennessee is excelled by no State in the
Union for the diversity of its products.
East Tennessee has an especially wide range
OF capacities. Its latent strength and riches
are being rapidly developed. Knoxville as
the center OF the country is looming up in
importance and rapidly increasing in popu-
latien:: 1t is city having the making of a
giant In its power. Commercially she stands
high. Her trade, the Knoxville Chronicle
states, amounts to S15,0O0,00O annually.
I'm dry goods alone che does "a SOC, 0G0,
while boots and shoes foot up 81 SOC, 900,
groceries amount to $4,000, 600, hardware
over 81 100000 and machinery g, 600 900.
The output of the manufacturing interests,
the retail business and other sundries
amount 10 50, 600, GOO, coal, iron and marble
bling included in this latter statement. 1t
is possible that these figures are not enough,
but they certainly are not too great, being OBJ
tanned from undoubted sources of authority
since $780,"
Knoxville has zinc mandatory, a car
manufactory, an ice mandatory and an
iron foundry, all of which have been re-
markedly successful. She is also rapidly
ocCOmluS having cOnQec-
tons with other parts OF the State and with
Kentucky and North Carolina. Her situa-
ZION is very pleasant one, and it is not diff
hcult to see tina: she is destined to grow.
East Tennessee is inclosed by mountains.
AS result of this the country is finely
watered. There is hardly farm in it that
has not its spring. This makes living COM
spring water and he is all right. But while
agriculturally it is an excellent country, it
has other claims upon the attention of immi-
grants and upon The money of capitalists
Ii is one of the richest mineral sections of
country, and in its cspacious bosom are coal,
iron, marble, zinc and copper in large guam
titles; while not SO plenteously distributed
are baryta, lead, silver and gold. The coal
IL OF the bituminous quality, and is highly
spoken of. 1t contains no appreciable sui
phur, and makes a fine, cheerful fire. The
iron ore is coming in for large share oil
attention. at is found" says a paper in the
Chronicle on the subject, "along the side of
the coal for the same distance of very su-
perior quality. But as good, if not the best,
iron in the world are found in orr Southern
mountains-the Unika range. A railroad
has lately been completed from johnson City
to the Cranberry ore banks, distance of
twenty-five miles. The Cranberry is a mag
netic ore of very superior quality, containing
ninety per cent. of pure ore. The quantity is
inexhaustible, and we understand the owners
of The mines expect to employ all their
time and capital in shipping the ore and not
manufacturing it. Even devoting themselves
to this single object of shipping, they do not
expect 10 be able to supply the immense de-
mand that will be made upon them for this
ore. There are several large iron manufac-
turing establishments in East Tennessee, near
the base of the Cumberland mountains, in
Immediate proximity 10 the coal. But we
expect to see in a few years line of iron
manufactures strung along our main rail-
road from Bristol to Chattanooga. This val
ley will be a most eligible location for iron
manufactures. 1t will be easily accessible
to the coal of the Cumberland mountains on
the north, and the superior quality of iron
in our Unika range on the south. The dis
lance on either side will only be about twenty
miles by railroad. Iron can be manufactured
in East Tennessee cheaper than anywhere in
the United States, and cheap as it can be
made in England. We not only have the
abundant supply of provisions, men and
animals"
The marble of East Tennessee is known
all over the country. 1t is to be found in
the capitol at Washington and in several of
the capitols of the States. It is now shipped
easily to Cincinnati, Chicsgo and st. Louis
in the West, and to Baltimore, Philadelphia
and New York North and East. Three years
ago there were only three or four quarries in
East Tennessee; now there are probably thir-
ty. The dealers in marble on the Atlantic
coast say if they could be assured OF a supply
they would ship it to Europe.
Another interesting feature of this fine
part of the State is the abundance of mineral
springs. There are sulpher, chalybeate, ep-
som and alum springs. These are already
becoming famous for their medicinal virtues,
and are growing in popularity as places of
summer resort. The climate of the country
cannot be loo highly spoken of. 1t is healthy
and equable, the winters being short and the
summers temperate.