The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-01
TURNING 70 TENNESSEE.
The Awakened Interest in Our
State Being Felt Among So
Ohio Farmers. a

The Awakened Interest in Our
State Being Felt Among is.
Ohio Farmers. 80
From the American.
No later than last Monday the
American made mention of the fact
that party of Pennsylvania capi-
talist, representing large number
of farmers, stock raisers and manu-
facturers, were in the city. 1t is
stated that these gentlemen were
considering the advantages offered
by Nashville as a manufacturing
and business point, and would also
make tour of the state at large, in
order TO arrive at a conclusion as
to whether its agricultural advan-
tages were great enough to warrant
the removal to within it's borders of
quite a number of Pennsylvania
farmers who have determined to
emigrate to the most eligible part
of the country, ,either.in the south or
west. AS set forth in the interview
held with these gentlemen, they sta
ted that, of the large number of
states they had visited, none had
impressed them so favorably as
Tennessee, with its great coal, min
ing and agricultural resources.
They were convinced, they said,
that were the plain unyarnished
facts of Tennessee's agricultural re-
sources set before the eastern and
northern farmers that a large immi-
grafton would Immediately set in,
and the state be made to blossom as
the rose; that on returning to their
native state they would inform
those whom they represented that
the Volunteer State offered greater
inducements to the farmer, the
stock raiser and the manufacturer
than did any western state in the
Union; that the eye of the northern
farmer already turned upon our
state-the fact that a number of
Ohio farmers have deputized gen.
tleman to select land in the best
localities and report forthwith is
strongly significant. The gentle
man in question is Mr.. Asa NJ. Egg
bert, general agent of the celebrated
VIM. A. Wood Mower and Reaper
Company, Youngstown, o. An
America reporter was informed by
him last evening that he has been
requested by acquaintances and
friends, at present engaged IN ag-
ricultural pursuits in Ohio, to in
yestigate carefully the comparative
merits of the different portions of
our state and advise them as to
the results of his inquiries. This,
he said, he had been enabled to do
while travelling through every
county in the state in the interest
of the company he represented.
Upon his return to Ohio he
would recommend every farmer
who desired to emigrate to buy land
and settle in Tennessee. I
"Upon what grounds will you
make this recommendations
"Simply because. no. state in the
Union offers the advantages IL
does.' aca
'Are you fully prepared to make
this statementT r2
''I ought to be. have travelled
through almost every portion of
thirty-two states, and 1 am inn
pressed with none so favorably as |
am with Tennessee. 1t has greater
lumber resources than Michigan or
Maine, without the injurious cli-
mate of either of those states. The
farm lands of Middle and East Ten
nessee will produce as many bush
els of wheat to the acre as the
fresh lands of Kansas and Nebraska.
B ut she is not visited by the de
srtuctive cyclones, terrible billiards
and devastating swarms of greedy
grasshoppers that almost every
year by.visit the northwest. 1t has
the coal of Pennsylvania and iron
of the Lake Superior country COM
bined. Its water power is unlimit-
ted, and is greater by far, and cas-
ier utilized than that of any
of the New England States. Yes,
sir, its resources are boundless, its
climate salubrious, and its people
hospitable. Once that Tennessee and
her agricultural, mineral, manufac-
turing resources are held up as a
mirror to the world, stream of inn
migration will set into the state,
that will diffuse and spread itself
throughout her entire borders from
Kings mountain on the east to the
Mississippi river on the west"
"It was held as a creed by GER
tain political parties that read
justment of the state debt would
serve to deter northern immigration
and capital" H h51
ssThe contrary will be the result,
sir. Greater confidence will be Gre
ated and felt in state and its fu-
ture that can assert it dignity and
power, by unsaddling itself of an
unjust debt, and taking lit from the
clutches of the lobbyist and the
speculating bondholder. The stran-
ger, the farmer, the manufacturer
and the capitalist will always prefer
to move into state, or invest his
money within the borders of one in
which taxes will be uniformly low
and just, than to take up his resi-
dence or place his money in one
where he will be required to pay
his pro rata of debts incurred be-
fore he became a citizen, and of
which he reaped no advantage what
ever" f --- atao grI