Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-08-05

lest timbered country in North Ameri-
Cd. Our tan b. k and hoop
poles alone, if utilized, would make Tennes-
see wealthy State. Vast quantities of
Tennessee timber is shipped North and East,
and is manufactured into hubs, spokes, fef-
lows, chairs, &c, &c, and sold back to us
in the form of vehicles, furniture, &c, at a
small margin, to cover cost OF manufacture
This is all wrong. What we want Is manu-
factories at home, to save the cost of trans
portation North, and express charges back.
1t is all folly to send bushel of corn to
Cincinnati Touring mill via Chattanooga,
and employ dump cart to return it through
Cumberland Gap. In the end it will be
much better for us to realize that we have
the ne plus ultra of
NATURAL WATER POWER
of the world Rivulets, branches,
and creeks and cataracts descend from
every mountain top, romp down every hill
side, and leap from the top of cliffs $50 feet
from base to summit. East Tennessee has
suffice 1t water-power to drive all the fac
tories in the world in perpetual motion"
There is perhaps
NO BETTER wATERED COUNTRY ON THE GLOBE.
Tennessee River heads up above Saltville,
Smythe County, Va, and finds its way out
into the Ohio at Paduch, KY, a distance of
perhaps over one thousand miles. The
principal tributaries are the Holston, Wa
tauga French Broad, hiwassee, Clinch, Sc
quatchie, &c, which are all East Tennessee
contributions
OUR MINERAL SPRINGS
abound in nearly every county III East Ten
nessee. The therapeutic value of these
summer resorts is yet unknown. L do not
hazard my reputation as a physician IN say
ing that their value to a bed-ridden invalid
is pric less. Many of these springs have
been tested, and the analysis resulted in a
happy combination which no chemist can
prepare. and [ might add that their waters
ripple near the grave of men who, had their
virtues then been known, would to-day have
enjoyed, with the living, the boundlesS bles-
~smgs peculiar alone to East Tennessee.
There are yet hundreds of these springs III
IomOte mountain districts, which III the near
fl ure Will be sold at fabulous prices, the
ms Zeal virtues of which are not at present
known to the scientific world, and other
huu6 eds yet undiscovered.
''Ah, many flower is born to bloom
| And waste its sweetness on the desert air. y
OUR MINERAL RESOURCES.
/ 1t is not eXtravagant, perhaps, to say that
/ in point of variety, quality and quantity,
| we acknowledge no superior, but | can only
! give a limited glance In this brief article al
/ some of the most prominent. Large rich
| strata of iron ore extends along the Unaka
| Mountains, passing through johnson, Car
| ter, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington, Greene,
Jefferson, Cooke, Sewer, Blount, Monroe,
Polk, McMinn, and perhaps some Other
| counties. There are three species of ore tC
be met with in this region, as follows:
| First Magnetic, which contains seventy
two per cent. of metallic iron; second,
Loinonite, which contains about sixty pea
cent, and third, Homatite, containing
about seventy per cent. There is alsc
another extensive range, known as the
Cumberland belt, +" which passes through
| Hancock, Claiborne, Granger, Campbell
Anderson, Roane, Rhea Neigs, Hamilton
and other counties which have escaped my
memory. [ would refer to our exhaustless
banks of varlegated marble, our extensive
coal mines, our salt works, &c, but thest
are already attracting the attention of the
commercial world | would speak of tn,
silver mines ON Clinch River, and othe
sections but the reports are little colored
the excitement at red-heat, the news ex
travagant. At all events, whatever, thi
novel bonanza may or may not pan out, W,
are content and satisfied to know that ''s'
is not silver which shines
AGRICULTURE.
In agriculture the capabilities of Eas
Tennessee are unknown. Indian corn, fax
hemp, cotton, and all the cereals succeed
wei. The root crops are always Il success
Wild grapes festoon our forests, wild straw
| !.
our climate, grow very large and of gUU,
flavor, without cultivation, but would d.
much etter with it. l regret to say tina
v ith few exceptions, but little interest ha
been tahen IN fruit and grapes, although
the soil and climate of California is no bet
tel adapted to the success of such enter
prises. We have market for native wine
and our soil and climate Is peculirly adapte
to fruits of every description
CLIMATE.
East Tennessee lies between parallels 8
degrees and SO degrees 1 minutes north
and its mean latitude is 900 feet above tn
level of the sea. A pleasant breeze
always present in summer, whilst in winte
snow is seldom seen except on the noun
tain SUBMITS. This gives us d mild, equabl
climate.
of East Tennessee is proyerbial and estai
lished The gradual undulating surface c
the country leaves no stagnant pools an
putrid ponds IN which to hatch malarif
bugs and propagate miasmatic gnats, an
but few feyers ever find their way with
our healthy borders. The rapid, rolin
rivers, high mountains deep shaded fores
all join in concert to keep the air delgh
fully pnre
OUR RESOURCES IN RELIGION AND EDUCATIO
might be out of place here if l was wrtin
standard" orthodox literature for sol
school, critics." but [ am not, and am Their
fore at liberty to state, for the benefit
those who may wish to come among us
make their home here, that we are a Chri
tan people, and we pay literally for, an
receive the best gospel to be had in the ma
ket. Our colleges and minor schools are
healthy condition. Whisky thoI
are now unpopular, aud VII
we hope, in the near future,
entirely lost sight of. And IN conclusion,
would say that many families since the clos
of the late war have emigrated from Mass
chusetts and Florida, New York and Cali
fol lia, Pennsylvania and Oregon, to max
East Tennessee their future home; thes
families are OF the most wealthy and INTEL
gent of their several States. They com
prise stock raisers, merchants, machinist
apalians, fruit growers, &c, and have idel
titled themselves with our people, and W
are glad to adopt all such and invite ther
from every cline and nation, and we ca
sell them good homes and cheap homes fC
them and their children.
[ refrain from saying more now, bI
should be glad to give any other Informs
ton wanted if in my power to do so.
FRANK LINDSEY.
The Collection of the Interns
Revenue.
) The following report upon til
workings of the Internal Revenu
Bureau during the past fiscal yea
has been made to the Secretary {
the Treasr Y by the commissions