Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-24
CHEAP HOMES
ON THE
BOARD OF AID
ESTATE
ON TIE
CUMBERLAND PLATEAU.
COMPARATIVE ELEVATION,
HEAITN 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 invigol ating.
The water is freestone; cool and sparkling.
Mineral springs are numerous.
The mean summer temperature is u deg.
FAIR, and in winter 81 deg. Fair. The
nights are always cool and refreshing.
SOIL.
The soil is a sandy loan upon mulatto
clay subsoil. tits light, friable, holds manure,
is easily cultivated and responds readily and
generously to the least fertilizer.
CROPS AND GRASSES.
Corn, wheat rye, oats, and barley all grow
we'll, though this is not claimed as a grain
growing soil. Tobacco is 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 well. Kentucky blue grass also
thrives wherever introduced. The natural
pasturage 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.
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 a
sure crop where proper varieties are planted.
The vines ere 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 rableand.
Strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, cur
rants, cherries, p!ums, and nearly all the small
fruits thrive end bear prolifcslly.
STOCK AID SHEEP RAISING.
The excellent natural pasturage, good drain
age, abundance Of running water and freedom
from flies make these occupations eminently
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 ard turn
your stock into the woods most of he year.
LIABILITIES WARRANTED Ant rEFEsnED.
The Beard Of Aid Estate, centrally situated
on this plateau. consists of 5000 acres CT
grazing, farming, fruit raising and viae
growing lands.
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FOOT DEPICTS L6GATsD on II. :
The lands enumerated below are bang
offered in tracts suitable to all purchases, |;
low figures and with deferred payments.
Board lands on the Gin. So. R.R., west Of
Glen Mary Station. About 1900 acres Of
very desirable land fronting en- tie Gin. So.
R.R., is here laid OFT il 100 ecre farms. No
farm is more than three miles from either
Sunbright or Glen Mary Dep6ts; to the latter
are adjacent the Croose 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 pest office,
and is stopped at by all trains, four passenger
and four freight daily. Coed and ready market,
with best shipping facilities for either agri-
cultural produce or timber and tan-bark.
Also several fine tracts of land fronting and
lying on the east side of the C.S.R.R., and
half a mile south of Glen Mary.
Board lands on the Gin. So. R.R., west of
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the above and are close to the thriving town
Of Sunbright. with 200 inhabitants, two hotels,
, Masonic Lodge, six stores and pCst-ottice.
icy are well watered and tmbered and have
excellent market, shipping and especially
numbering facilities.
Board lands on the Gin. So. R.R., half a
mile east of Robbins Station. Splendid tim
bered lands; rich soil and abundant pasturage.
Underlying this tract is the Robbins Coal
Vein. These lands will be sold for farming
, numbering and mining purposes, in tracts Of q
size to suit purchasers.
= 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
mails per day and also numerous good houses
and attractive villa residences Choice build
ing lots are now being offered at very reasonable
prices.
!, Sedgemoor, the station for the above, ha.
also been laid out in town lots, and the Boart
: is prepared to offer liberal inducements tt
persons settling there for manufacturing Oh
business purposes. Sedgemoor has two store.
3 and boarding houses, and promises to be 4
! fourishing town in the near future. Tn,
C.SR.R. has just put in there siding, 500
! feet long.
r The Boards Rugby lands comprise severa
tracts lying west OF Rugby, in Morgan ant
Fentress Counties, as well as all their TERRITORY
' between Rugby and Sedgemoor and Robbin'
DEPICTS on the C.S.R.R. These lands ar,
i traversed by the Rugby and Sedgemoor Pike
i a graded road. seven miles long and pronounced
the best dirt road in Tennessee. aud are, OF
account of the superior communication, a