The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-07-11

TO the Editor OF Inc NorrlstoNn o@-rste-
A friend from distant State, So
journing for time in our little city,
asked the question: At what season OF
the year Is money most plentiful In
East Tennessee, and out of what pro-
duct does it come?
began to reflect for an answer.
January. = Logs, lumber, poultry,
eggs, butter, cattle, sheep, ali moving
to market. Money coming in return.
February and Mareh.-The stream
continues to flow, swollen by ship
ments aud droves of mules and horses.
April and May.-Some cessation In
the egy trade. Mules and horses not
going, but poultry, dairy products,
sheep, beef cattle, heavy lots of wheat
and corn which have been held up by
easy farmers-an going. Bacon still
going. Early fruits and vegetables be-
ginning to make their imPressio-.
June.-Beef cattle, poultry potatoes,
lumber, wheat, corn, dairy products
still moving.
July and AuZust.-Wheat by the car
load crowding out on every train.
Fruit beginning to move.
September and Oetober.-Wheat still
moves. The dried fruit crop disposed
of. Egg trade opens. Poultry and
dairy trade continues. Hogs, cattle,
sheep-active.
November and December.-Logs and
lumber, wheat, corn, oats, hay, poul-
try, eggs, butter, fat eattle-all NOV
ing. Hay all along the line.
81 can't tell you, sir, when money
is most plenty, or what product brings
it. Its possible more money comes
from our mineral resources, including
coal, iron, zinc, lead and marble than
from any one agricultural product;-
but these, like some things from the
farm, are all the year rOund-a con-
slant stream.
Thirty years ago wheat was the
money crop. 1t still brings it. But for
eight or ten years, dried fruit has per-
haps brought more than wheat. L re-
member TO have packed myself the first
two barrels of eggs ever shipped from
Morristown, in 1850. Now-23 years
later-it is probable that chickens and
eggs yield to East Tennessee more mo-
ney than wheat. / notice the sale,
very recently, of a crop Of 1000 pounds
of tobacco, grown Oh an East Tennes-
see farm at % cents all round-a sale
rarely equalled by Virginia, Ken
tueky or North Carolina farm.
East Tennessee's pure bred Jerseys
and shorthorn cattle, merinO aud IT'S
void sheep, Berkshire and Poland-Chi-
ma hogs, have found their places in al
most every Southern State in few
years past"
"why," says my friend, edo you
tell NE thai all these products are sue
cessfully made, and made TO pay in
East Tennessee"
81 do, sir; and il is no exagge-atien
to say that so far as they are intelli
gently attended 10 each one of then
pays as well as at any place on the con
| tinent."
"Why," says he, "what a country
you have. IL is not so South, North
East or West. II you only had manu-
featuring facilities-water power, TO
instance-it seems TO me this sectioI
where everything grows out of the sol
or is found i'm the hills, would soon b.
filed with capital, engaged in manu-
featuring your tim 0ers, minerals grain
wool AMI the cotton from just South 0
you?"
"Why," said L, ''there is not on tn
continent a section of equal area witt
East Tennessee that contaius so man.
available waterpoweIs. They are ev
erywhere, in every county, in almos
every civil district, and for sale, toe
for a song, with the time thrown in
Ny friend seemed a little astonishc
, aud somewhat lost in revery. close
the conversation by saying 10 him =
''My friend, if you have money to in
vest in land or in any MANUFACTURED
enterprise, you will miss il if you leav
East Tennessee for any other part
this continent to make your invest
ment"