The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22
AS OTHERS SEE US.
a Former Giles countian Sends US
Some Good Advice.

The writer of the subjoined art
Gle was born and raised in Pulaski
He has been all over the north an
northwest, seen the good and tn
5r3ad, and is therefore well fitted t
judge in the matters treated. Rea
him carefully:
GRIFFIN, Ga.
ED. CITIZEN In glancing eve
the columns of your paper, 1 an
panied to see that so many of tn
| good citizens of Giles county hav
left and others contemplate leavin.
one of the finest sections of country
in the world to seek their fortune!
in other states. 1t is true, perhaps
that those who seek more EXTENDED
and more lucrative fields upoI
which to exercise their mental ca
pacities can improve their fortune:
by migrating to those places where
learning, ability and tact are more
in demand; or to express myself
more clearly, where ignorance and
vice need the assistance of educa.
tion and refinement. But to those
who contemplate leaving in search
of more enlightened community,
or more hospitable people, more
salubrious climate, or more fertile
land, / would say, stay at home.
AS an agricultural country. Mid
die Tennessee stands alone without
competitor The great variety of
crops that can he successfully
grown, in addition to the natural
facilities it furnishes for stock rails
ing, makes it to stand pre- eminent
as the most desirable spot in
America for the farmer. There
may be lands in Texas that will
produce more cotton and wheat,
but the same amount of labor and
expense which is used to render
those lands ti,lable and carry the
produce to market expended upon
lands at home will yield as good, if
not better, profit. The climate of
a greater portion of Texas is I'M
healthy, as all new countries are.
No one has ever contended other
wise, except land agents and rail
road map-makers. From the pecu-
liar nature of the soil, the roads are
literally impossible on account of
the mud fully one half of the year;
and then again those rude northcrs
that swoop down from the summit
of the Rocky mountains and freeze
the coatless plowman before he can
uni ose his horse, are alone suifi-
cient to induce a thoughtful man
from selecting this state as a place
to farm.
Arkansas and Mississippi are
other objective points to which l
notice some are going. These are
the great cotton-raising states of
the Union, yet it is a notorious fact
that not more than one emigrant
out of ten ever becomes acclimated,
and after residence of three or four
years-if he does not succumb to
some malarial diseases compelled
to retreat with an empty purse and
n shattered constitution. Now, let
us swing around and take cursory
glance at some of the western
states. Illinois takes the lead in
the production of corn, wheat and
hogs, but it has the disadvantage of
suffering from severe droughts, for
rain is very seldom partial to prairie
lands. 1 have seen i'll that state, in
one view, thousands of acres Of corn
and wheat that would not make n
bushel to the acre. Michigan,
though it supplies the south witR
most of her apples and Irish pota-
toes, possesses a soil in its natural
state that Giles countian wouldn't
pay taxes on. The blue grass re-
gion around Lexington, KY, bears
a closer resemblance to Giles county
in the nature of it's soil than any
other 1 have ever seen. But even
over this far-famed county you
have many advantages. The eli
mate is more mild, its blue grass
equally as fine, and the variety of
crops greater. There are hundreds
of farms in Middle Tennessee that
would rival those beautiful stock
farms around Lexington, with the
same amount of labor and money.
1 recently had the pleasure of a con-
versation with the mayor of Griffin,
a very intelligent gentleman, and a
native of Bourbon county, Ky. He
was very lavish in his praise of his
native county. l casually asked
him if he had ever visited Giles
and Maury counties, Tennessee
He replied: 81 have. and I consider
it second to no country" Quite an
admission, / thought, to come from
snch a source. Then why do some
of the citizens of this country, so
richly endowed by nature, suffer
themselves to be lured off by the
flaming advertisement of some hired
migrant agent to seek a mythical
Ell Dorado in the west, while stran-
gers come in and steal away thei1
birth right? There must be some.
thing wrong. l fear your public
men lack enterprise. Georgia is
far outstripping you in progress
These old red and grey lands, some
Of which have been in cultivation
over a hundred years, and would
lily compare with the poorest spots
in Giles, by system of manuring
and artistic farming, are made tc
yield from three-quarters TO q bale
and a half of cotton to the acre. Is
to 80 bushels of oats, $50 TO POO
gallons of syrup, potatoes, etc, ii
like proportion. These results arc
accomplished, and the lands yearl,
rendered more productive. There
has been a complete revolution 90
ing on in this state for the past si1
years. in both the agricultural anC
mechanical industries. Atlanta
Columbus, Macon, Savannah, Ath
ems and Augusta are all beginning t.
be manufacturing towns of note
You had better look sharp or you
merchants will have to come t,
Georgia yet for their cotton goods
A tide of emigration from tn,
northern states is continually pour
ing in and scarcely any of her eiti
zens leaving. New Industries ar