The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-05-23

The New Orleans Times Democrat
'peaking Of the Tennessee Exhibit at
he Worlds Fair, says:
Almost first in the galaxy of Southern
States Tennessee has taken stand as
a concrete force in the formation of
what we know to-day as the "New
South" In whatever of progress our
section has accomplished, Tennessee
has been prominent. In development
since the war, whether agricultural,
industrial or political, the great cen.
trail commonwealth of the New South
has led the van. Perhaps few Of our
readers have appreciated the close COM
mercial and material bonds that unite
the Crescent City with Tennessee. The
latter is one of the greatest, if not the
greatest, producing State of the South.
With degree Of energy and enterprise
that the Invest Northwestern State
might be proud of, it is pushing its
interests cut at home and abroad, until
four continents now feel the effect of it's
propaganda. First to recover from the
disasters of the reconstru 'tion period,
Tennessee was also first to shake off the
lethargy bred of that industry-killing
period, and before the world could be-
levs that the staunch old common
wealth had survived at all, it appeared
among the leading States Of the Unior
in new agricultural, mining and manu-
featuring developments.
Each one Of the Southern States rep
resented at the New Orleans Exposition
has created surprise throughout civil
ization, and none more than Tennessee
The world was not ignorant before that
such region existed. Tennessee marble,
Tennessee iron and coal had been heard
of; but the thousand rich resources
that the State has introduced to man.
kind through it's wonderful exhibit had
not been dreamed Of; and possibly many
Times Democrat readers do not yet ap
preciate them! One county, Shelby, o
which Memphis is the seat, was for Z
long time the banner cotton county o
the world, and last year it was only thu
fifth in point Of production of all cotton
producing counties tennessee leads thu
United States in corn This is the more
astonishing when it is remembered tina
several States belonging to other sec
tions have made their displays at tn,
Exposition almost on the basis of corr
alone. Before the supremacy of Tennes
see corn they lave all bowed the knee
If competition were allowed among thu
State exhibits it is not certain tina
Tennessee might not capture the palm
in tobacco az we'll As to minerals Their
is no doubt about the proud position i
maintains. There are twenty-three pro
ducing coal mines in the State, Just OH
of which supplies large proportion O
the firesides of New Orleans. In tn
production of iron Tennessee rank
with Alabama and Georgia From Chat
tanooga to the State line railways ira
verse region teeming with iron, coa
and limestone in such proximity tina
the history of the industry does no
show such golden opportunities for in
vestment and development. As to mar
bles, it is only necessary to inspect tn
exhibits of furniture factories from al
: parts of the country to be convince,
that the State has captured the interes
so far as decorative purposes are cor
cerned. In woods she acknowledges II
superior, in grazing lands hardly a
equal. Perhaps it is not as well know
as it should be that the Blue Ora.
region Of Tennessee is far greater in are
than the same in Kentucky. The torms
ton over which it lies is identical witt
, that of its neighbor, and so are all tn
physical conditions In brief, Tennes. e
, includes the climatic and all other COZ
ditions of all the regions of all tn
regions of America, between the tropit
l. and Canada, and as field of settlemer
+. offers the greatest rage of productio
S and industry Of any locality on the fae
!. Of the globe.