The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-03-28
FROM THE WEST
PLArrsBuRG, No. March 10 1888.
To tn. Editor OF The Morristown Gazette;
NOT MITCH

70 the Editor OF The MOrriatown Gazette;
NOT MUCH
w est either Here the people talk OF
he West and il Is Montana, New Me1i-
%. California or Oregon. And this
Kind of talk is as frequent A. In East
Tennessee. AS q rule the occasion Is
different. Here those who make such |
moves are sharp enterprising capitalists
NOT NEW.
No Indications of new country 10 THIS
portion Of Missouri. Some 800 miles
of st. Louis, it is old, "a to
enterprise and general progress IL
leads the new England States in all
that is advancement.
IN FARMING
the boosted Pennsylvania farmers who
have been the models for Virginia and
Tennessee for generation, are a hall
century behind the times. The model
the scientI1c-the farmer OF greatest
pessibilites-is here in the West, and
here in Missouri. If their farming i'm
PIGMENTS do not suit them, their fac
tories produce them, and such as will.
Patents are regarded, bur these have TO
keep pace with the wants of the farm
ing millions
THE WHY.
These farmers are educated, intelil-
gent men. They keep pace with
the commercial and educational spirit
of the times, aud blush to be behind 10
anything that pertains to their province
With them it is high calling, and they
dignity il.
HOW THEY FARM,
Not with "bull-tongue" or "shoVel
plows," but with plows that clean t'eO
rows at once, drawn by two horses Oh
mules. The man who does the work Is
perched on the pillow ms on mower he
can cultivate 40 acres. Two clearings
answer. One man, just two years
from jefferson county, with the help OF
his two little boys, made s, 56S bushels
of corn and / 800 of oats lastyesr, more
than he had made in ten years 10 Eas'
Tenn ssee hard labor He plowed hi
corn Truce.
Wheat ia cut and reaped, and offer
bound add threshed as cut. Corn Is no
all gathered yet. Nowhere to store IL
THE BUSINESS
Is cattle. Some hogs, but the farmers
are absorbed in their blooded short
horns. Rich are their harvests, as the'
get from 81 rs to So 25 for their marke
stock ATthe farmers have more o
less stack to sell every year,
RAIL ROADS
check this county like the leatiIna
roads 10 East Tennessee. Fourtee'
passenger and sixty freight trains rul
through this, Clinton county, every day
There are several roads running at RICH
angles with each other in this county
THE FRUIT
of this portion of Missouri is an item
commerce. More than so car loads weE
from Plattsburg to ether markets tn
past year Califoruia cannot sprpas
this section for its fine apples Pesche
are also fine.
| THE SCHOOLS
are graded-of high standard, aad feacf
ers accordingly. psid. The publ
school of this place is superior to IN
majority of the Colleges in East Tenne'
see. They are equipped with the hates
appointments and in keeping with th
en,erprising spirit Of this great century
THE TovyNs
take on the airs Of "vsung cities.
Plattsburg, with over 1000 inhabitant
has two banks, three hotels, two hard
ware houses, three drug stores, tw
livery stables, two market houses, an
some thirty business, mercan tile an
grocery houses, some of them whole
; sale, three newspapers, (sPven IN IN
I county,, two Garage factories, t"
steam mills for grinding grain, On
broom factory and seven churches.
THE CHARACTERISTICS
Z of western people are marked. They a
have something tangible as an occup'
tiou. and push it with all their power
No one is idle, except here and there
uegre. III they fail at one thing the
undertake something else at snee. The
are generous and hospitable, when the
: know you. Shy of the stranger VIII
. masses without any tangible means
living.
, They enjoy their money, OF whic
| they share beautifully. Their table
+ are burdened with the richest abunf
: ance. while their homes are elegtntl.
: vet not gaudily furnished. Every or
ia maid fer his work. The p cache
T here. is esteemed as the teacher an
leader of the people and not as the d
i. pendent "parson."
{ ENTERPRISE.
: A new departure in business is e.
gaging the purse and energies OF u
I people. "Credmaries, I" for making bu
ter. are being erected. They go oy'
: the country and collect frem the farm
: ers the cream of the milk from the
cows This is hauled to central pol
/. and made into butter for the market
We are TO have two.
GET RICH.
= Tennesseans and Kentuckians, wi
. rive themselves to secular pursuit
generally become rich, and. IN vel
c short time. They do so when the
erage Missourian gathers but littl
n One saves-spends but littlei the 9th
n liues, buys what he wants. There q
I men in this portion of the State WI
? came here, since the war, poor, vi
{ are now rich.
THE HEALTH
. of the people, SO far as l have note
= the equal of that South, The weatn
4 colder, but IL is dry and from all h1mi
itv and bleakness. Houses are CO
e | -..L -.f.-ancn To warmth