Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-10-20
CHEAP HOMES
on THE
BOARD OF AID
ESTATE,
CUMBERLAND PLATEAU.
COMPARATIVE ElEvArIon.
HEALTH AND CLIMATE.

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HEALTH AND CLIMATE.
All health seekers, whether from Northern
or Southern States, should try the climate Of
the Tableland. The recent United States
Census shows it to be almost the only district
east OF the Rocky Mountains, entirely Fl ee 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 invig" ating.
The water is freestone; cool and sparkling.
Mineral springs are numerous.
The mean summer temperature is " deg.
Fair, and in winter 81 deg. Fair. The
nights are always cool and refreshing.
The soil is sandy loan upon a mulatto
clay subsoil. ltis light, friable, hollis manure
is easily cultivated and responds readily and
generously to the least fertilizer.
eRoPs AND eRAsSEs.
Corn. wheat, rye, oats, and barley all grow
well, though this is not claimed as grain
growing SOIL Tobacco is q profitable crop
here, as also is sorghum. Herd grass, orchard
grass, German and pearl millet, timothy and
red clover have all been tried. and take hold
and root we'll. Kentucky blue grass also
thrives wherever introduced. The natural
pasturage is abundant.
VEGETABLES
Grow abundsntly. Cabbage, onions. beans,
sweet and irish potatoes all make fine return.
The Irish potatoes are unexcelled by an,
in nt.tn N and AMI
yield 500 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 q
sure crop where proper varieties are planted.
The vines are robust, aud the grapes make
These two fruits are destined to become the
great and staple products OF the rableland.
Strawberries. blackberries, raspberries, cur
rams. CHI res, plums, and nearly all the small
fruits thrive and bear politically.
STOCK AND SHEEP RAISING.
The excellent natural pasturase, good drain :
age, abundance of running water and freedom
from flies make these occupations cinilentiy
suitable ard remunerative.
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.
lAnp.-TIrlEs WARRANTED AND DEFENDED.
The Board Of Aid Estate. centrally situated
on this plateau. consists Of $4,000 acres o
grazing, farming. fruit raising and yin'
growing lands.
II SKIRTS TEN MILES o. FRONTAGE on TIL
J CINCINNATI soyTHeRN RAIL ROAD. WITH
FOUR uEPoTs LOCATED on IT.
offered in tracts suitable to all purchasers, a
lou figures and with def rred payments.
Board lands on the Gin. SO. r. e., west o
J Glen Mary Station. About 1000 acres o
very desirable land fronting on the Gin. So
R.R., is here laid out in 100 acre farms. N
farm is more than three miles from eithe
Sunbrisht or Glen Mary Del 6,s to the latte
are adjacent the Crooke Coal Mines, employin,
200 men and with an out put OF twelve ca
loads per day. Glen Mary has zoo inhabitants
three stores, telegraph station and post -otice
and is stopped at by all trains, four passenge
: and tour freight daily. Good and ready marke,
with best shipping facilities for either agri
| cultural produce or timber aud tan bark.
: Also several fine tracts OF land fronting an
lying on the east side Of the C.S.RR, an
a half mile south of Glen Mary.
+ Board lands on the Gin. So. R.R., west {
Sunbright. These lands lie directly south q
o the above and are close to the thriving tow
Of Sunbright, with 200 inhab itants, two hotel.
Masonic Lodge, six stores and cst-otfict
d They are well watered and tinbered, and hav
Il excellent market, shipping and especial
t numbering facilities.
Board lands on the Gin. So. R.R.. half
: mile east Of Robbins Station. Splendid tim
IS bered lands; rich soil and abundant pasturag,
IT Underlying tins tract is the Robbins Go,
IS Vein. These lands will be sold for tarlnin,
e numbering and mining purposes, in tracts OF
size to suit purchasers.
: RUGBY.
- ~ Founded in 1885,, has many social advar
y tages, viz, Two Good Hotels, Fine Chur,
: : and School Building, Public Library wi,
IL 5000 volumes Large Commissary, Drug Stor
90 WCchiy Nc"SPoPcTs EVSL OIucc WIN w
= mails per day, and also numerous good hous
"A and attractive villa residences. Choice built
N ing lots are now being offered at very reasonab
10 prices.
=, Sedgemoor, the station for the above, h
! also been laid out in town lots. and the Boa
~ is prepared to offer liberal inducements
= persons settling there for manufacturing
:. - business purposes. Sedgemoor has two stor
y and boarding houses, and promises to be
l. dourishng town in the near future. T.
- C.S.R.R. has just put in there siding. is
;" rect long.
The Boards Rugby lands comprise sever
- =. tracts lying west OF Rugby, in Morgan al
~ Fentress Counties, as we'll as all their terrific
:" between Rugby and Sedgemoor and Robbil
:, Del6ts on the C.S.R.R. These lauds a
10 traversed by the Rugby and Sedgemoor Pin
graded road seven miles long and pronounc
the best dirt road in Tennessee and are,
- account OF the superior communication,
en accessible to the railroad as the less reno
\, ~ lands Of the Board. They are situated on
direct and, in winter, only line Of traffic frt
the e. 5. Il. X. to Jamestown, Livingstt
Cellua and Byrdstown, respectively the cour
-. seats OF Fentress, Overton. Clay and Pick
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