Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-10-13
CHEAP HOMES
ON THE
BOARD OF AID
ESTATE,
ON TIE
CUMBERLAND PLATEAU.
COMPARATIVE ElEVATI0N.

COMPARATIVE ELEVATION.
Cincinnati. ......... $50 feet above sea level.
Chattanooga. 1856 >. -. e, f,
RUGBY ................ l4l0 , @, -, ,
HEALTH AND CLIMATE.
All health seekers. whether from Northern
or Southern States, should try the climate Of
the lakeland. The recent United States
Census shows it to be almost the only district
east OF the Rocky Mountains, entirely flee from
malarial, pulmonary and intestinal diseases.
The Plateau has double climate, one
resulting from latitude and the other from
elevation. The air is pure and invigoi ating.
The water is freestone cool and sparkling.
Mineral springs are numerous.
The mean summer temperature is II deg.
Fair, and in winter 81 deg. Fair. The
nights are always cool and refreshing.
SOIL.
The soil is a sandy loan upon mulatto
cay subsoi. tits light, friable, holds manure,
is easily cultivated and responds readily and
generously to the least fertilizer.
CROPS AND GRASSES.
Germ, wheat, rye, oats. and barley all grow
we'll, though this is not claimed as grain
growing soil. Tobacco is a profitable crop
here, as also is sorghum. Herd grass, orchard
grass. German and pearl mllet, timothy and
red clover have all been tried, and take hold
and root we'll. Kentucky blue grass also
thrlves wherever introduced. The natural
pasturage is abundant.
VEGETABLES
Grow abundantly. Cabbage, onions. beans,
sweet and Irish potatoes all make a fine return.
The Irish potatoes are unexcelled by any
grown in America. Sweet potatoes and onions
yield sou bushels per acre.
FRUIT AND GRAPE CULTURE.
This region is especially adapted to fruit,
and particularly to the winter apple and the
grape. The apple crop here has never been
known to fail. The trees are healthy, and the
fruit smooth, plump, juicy and firm. rarely
ever speaking or rotting. The grape is also
sure crop where proper varieties are planted.
| The vines are robust, and the grapes make
excellent wines. which are in good demand.
These two fruits are destined to become the
great and staple products Of the Tableland.
Strawberries, backberries, raspberries, cur
rams, cherries, pums. and nearly all the small
fruits thrive and bear prolifcally.
STOCK AND SHEEP RAISING.
The excellent natural pasturage, good drain
age. abundance Of running water and freedom
from flies make these occupations eminently
suitable ard remuneratve.
Stop feeding stock for eight months in the
year. Come South, where you can buy cheap
lands, work outdoors all the winter and turn
your stock into the woods most of the year.
LAHD.-TIIlEs WARRANTED AND DEFENDED.
The Board of Aid Estate, centrally situated
on this plateau. consists of $4,000 acres of
grazing, farming, fruit raising and vine
\ growing lands.
IT SKIRTS TEN MILES OF FRONTAGE ON the
CINCINNATI SOUTHERN RAIL ROAD. WITH
FOUR DEPICTS LOCATED on IT.
The lands enumerated below are being
offered in tracts suitable to all purchasers, at
lou figures and with efsrred payments.
Board lands on the Gin. So. RR, west of
Glen Mary Station. About 5000 acres of
very. desirable land fronting on the Gin. So.
R.R., is here laid out in 100 acre farms. No
farm is more than three miles from either
Sunbright or Glen Mary De6 OTIS to the latter
are adjacent the Crooke Coal Mines, employing
200 men and with an output of twelve car
loads per day. Glen Mary has 200 inhabitants,
, three stores, telegraph station and post Office
and is stopped at by all trains, four passenger
, and four freight daily. Good and ready market,
, with best shipping facilities for either agri-
cultural produce or timber and bark
. Also several fine tracts Of land fronting and
wing on the east side Of the C.S.RR., and
half mile south of Glen Mary.
, Board lands on the Gin. So. RR, west of
Sunbright. These lands lie directly south OF
| the above and are close to the thriving town
of Sunbright. with 200 inhabitants, two hotels,
, Masonic Lodge, six stores and ptst-otfice
/ They are well watered and timbered, and have
excellent market, shipping and especially
. numbering facilities.
Board lands on the Gin. So. RR, half a
1 mile east of Robbins Station. Splendid tim
bered lands; rich soil and abundant pasturage
G Underlying this tract is the Robbins Coal
l Vein. These lands will be sold for farming,
numbering and mining purposes, in tracts OF q
size to suit purchasers.
$ RUGBY,
Founded in 1881, has many social advan-
tages, viz, Two Good Hotels, Fine Church
and School Building. Public Library with
5000 volumes. Large Commissary, Drug Store,
Weekly Newspaper, Post Office with two
: malls per day, and also numerous good houses
and attractive villa residences Choice build
ing lots are now being offered at very reasonable
prices.
a Sedgemoor, the station for the above, has
also been laid out in town lots, and the Board
is prepared to offer liberal inducements to
o persons settling there for manufacturing OF
e business purposes. Sedgemoor has two stores
and boarding houses, and promises to be a
tiourishing town in the near future. The
C.S.R.R has just put in there siding, l,5OC
: ieet long.
The Boards Rugby lands comprise seyera
:, tracts lying west OF Rugby, in Morgan ant
Fentress Counties, as we'll as all their terrtor,
, between Rugby and Sedgemoor and Robin,
Dep6ts on the CS.R.R. These lands arr
!. traversed by the Rugby and Sedgemoor Pike
y graded road. seven miles long and pronounced
y the best dirt road in tennessee. and are OF
e account Of the superior communication, a.
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