Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-24
HOMES
BOARD OF AID
ESTATE,
ON THE
CUMBERLAND PLATEAU.
COMPARATIVE ELEVATION.

COMPARATIVE ELEVATION.
........... $50 feet above sea level.
665 ~ ~ '; +,
RuGBY ................ 14l0 3, g, ,
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 zee from
malarial, pulmonary and intestinal diseases.
The Plateau has double climate, one
resulting from latitude and the other from
The air is pure and invigoi ating.
The water is freestone; cool and sparkling.
Mineral springs are numerous.
The mean summer temperature is " deg.
Fahr,, and in winter 81 deg. Fair. The
nights are always cool and refreshing.
The soil is q sandy loan upon q mulatto
clay subsoil. tits light, friable, holds manure.
is easily cultivated and responds readily and
to the least fertilizer.
sRsPs AND GRASSES.
Corn, wheat, rye, oats, and barley all grow
we'll, though this is not claimed as a grain
growing soil. Tobacco is a 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
pssturage is abundant.
VEGETABLES
Grow abundantly. Cabbage, onions. beans,
sweet and Irish potatoes all make fine return.
The Irish potatoes are unexcelled by any
grown in America. Sweet potatoes and onions
yield 500 bushels per acre.
fRurT 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 a
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, blackberries, raspberries, cur
rants, cherries, plums, and nearly all the small
fruits thrive and bear politically.
STUeK AND SHEEP RAISlne.
The excellent natural pasturage, good drain
age, abundance Of running water and freedom
from flies make these occupations eminently
suitable ard remunerstive. I'll.
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.
unD.-UTlEs WARRANTED AND OFFENDED.
The Board Of Aid Estate. centrally situated
Oh this plateau. consists of $4,000 acres Of
grazing, farming, fruit raising and vine
growing lands.
II SKIRTS Tn MILES Of FRONTAGE on THI
CINCINNATI S0uIHEan RAIL ROAD. WITH
FOUR DEPeTs LOCATED Oh II.
The lands enumerated below are belnf
offered in tracts suitable to all purchasers, Al
lou figures and with deferred payments.
Board lands On the Cin. So. R.R.. west o.
Glen Mary Station. About 5000 acres o.
very desirable land fronting on the Gin. So
R.R.. is here laid out in 100 acre farms. NJ
farm is more than three miles from either
Sunbright or Glen Mary Der6ts; to the latter
are adjacent the Crooke Coal Mines, employing
200 men and with an OUTPUT Of twelve Cal
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 tan-bark.
Also several fine tracts Of land fronting an,
lying on the east side of the C.S.R.R., an,
half mile south Of Glen Mary.
Board lands on the Gin. So. R.R., west o
Sunbright. These lands lie directly south Q
the above and are close to the thriving tow
Of Sunbright, with 200 inhabitants, two hotel,
Masonic Lodge, six stores and pcst-office
They are we'll watered and timbered, and hav
excellent market. shipping and especial
numbering facilities.
Board lands on the Gin. So. R.R., half
mile east Of Robbins Station. Splendid tim
bered lands; rich soil and abundant pasturag,
Underlying this tract is the Robbins 20,
Vein. These lands will he sold for farmin,
numbering and mining purposes, in tracts Of
size to suit purchasers.
|
Founded in 1880, has many social advau
tsges, viz, Two Good Hotels, Fine Churc
and School Building, Public Library wit
5000 volumes. Large Commissary, Drug Stor
J Weekly Newspaper, Post Office with tn
mails per day, and also numerous good hous,
and attractive villa residences. Choice build
ing lots are now being offered at very reasonab
prices.
Sedgemoor, the station for the above. h,
also been laid out in town lots, and the Boar
is prepared to offer liberal inducements
i. persons settling there for manufacturing
business purposes. Sedgemoor has two stor,
and boarding houses, and promises to be
tiourishing town in the near future. tt
C.S.R.R. has just put in there siding, Isl
feet long.
. The Boards Rugby lands comprise sever
tracts lying west Of Rugby, in Morgan an
Fentress Counties. As we'll a. all their territol