The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1882-03-18

to careful and energetic attention. Mr..
Allardt, who returned home last Mon
day, will be with us again in April, by
which time his enterprise will have
assumed a somewhat more definite
shape.
Meantime we would draw the atten-
tion of those of our Readers who take
an interest in East Tennessee, some of
whom, if we can shew them chance of
reaping golden harvest, will be down
amongst us,-and point out to them
the vast treasures only waiting the
hand of man.
That Fentress County contains exten-
sive and fine veins of coal is undoubted,
and there is also another fact, equally
undoubted, and one which gives not
only Fentress County, but this part of
Tennessee, a grand and striking advan-
tage over the great coal and iron
making state of Pennsylvania, and that
is the close proximity, in this section,
of iron ore to the coal beds, rendering
the making of iron an immensely easier,
cheaper, and more economical industrial
occupation, than it is, or can be, in and
around Pittsburg, Pa. The iron ore
used in Pennsylvania is brought almost
entirely from Lake Superior.
This great fact Of the proximity of
iron to coal in Fentress County, and
East Tennessee generally, is so preg-
nant with promise, and just now attract
ing so much notice, that it must very
shortly yield to energy and capital,
commanding the attention of the
country at large, and more particularly
the rapidly developing South, whose
consumption Of iron for generations to
come will be inconceivably great. Our
Readers should carefully peruse, and
consider, the article in another column
headed Tennessee Us. Pennsylvania,
as it admirably places the true position
of the iron question, and prospects,
before the public
This land will be sold from the sur.
face to the center of the globe, the
buyer being entirely unrestricted in the
use of what he may find on or beneath
his holding,
Tothe speculatorin pursuit of lumber
and the manufacturer of thousand
: and-one wooden articles, from planks
and slaves to toothpicks, these lands
give opportunity for developing exten
sive business concerns, not to be
improved in any part of the States.
Most of the land in the section o
Fentress County we are writing of il
adapted to good and successful farming
and will yield any kind of crop. Mucl
of the land on these mountain spurs il
comparatively poor, but once acros
NBrewster Ford and fairly tothe distric
to be opened by Mr.. Allardt, the farme
is struck with the good quality, promise
and advantages of the land now bein
offered to agriculturists and investor
seeking bond .fds land properties.
g Tennessee's day has not fairly com
, vet, but the sun is SO rising abov
the horizon that, situated as the Stat
is in keystone position with the res
:, of the country, its light, resources, an
conveniences for reaching the fou
quarters of the land, will, before long
! bring largely the capital and custom Q
the Republic within her borders, an
the present and succeeding generation
of Tennesseeans will, in their rapidl
increased manufacturing, agricultural
/ and commercial centers, know tina
their wealth has arisen in proportion t
their energy in developing the richnes
of their soil and the hidden Ell Dorad
6 beneath it.
Il IRON ore is found in over 40 Countie
!, in Tannnssna