The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-02-25
THE CRIMINAL EXODUS.
A Remarkable Scheme to Rid Labor of
Criminal Competition.

5 One of the most remarkable prop
! ositions ever made in Tennessee
-as embodied in q paper read at tn
~ ing of the state bar asso
IasC nee.- ;etinguished juris
citation by "a. It com
OF the western distrlu,. III,
prised a complete scheme for :.
purchase of an island on the south
facltc and the colonization OF all
the criminals of Tennessee, thus
eDancipating honest labor from its
composition. The scheme was hard
~ thought feasible then. because
there was no suggestion of employ
ment Tor the convicts that promised
to make it pay expenses. Since
then The matter has been under adj
Vlsement by a number of gentle
men of capital and they have at last
been able to formulate a proposi-
tlon upon basis that means mil
lions in the Golfers of the state. The
Union has been permitted to exam
Inc the papers submitted for ratifi
cation to the board of managers
ana draw up in legal form to be
presented to the next legislature by
the Hon. Noble Smithson of Pulas
kl' The company is the Interna-
tlonal Americana Mexicano Goat
Company, the corporators being
Don. Jno. G. Brown, presidents:
Hon. j. ID. G.. Atkins, vice .presi-
dent; Hon. Noble Smithson. secre
tary and treasurer. Directors-W.
Z. Whittherne, S. f. Rose. H. M
DoAk, d.. B. Cooper and John j.
Littleton.
The 1. A. NJ. Goat Company
holds an island off the Mexican
coast 10 the archipelago, under ces-
sion from that government recently
acquired. 1t was discovered by an
early Spanish navigator and was at
once possessed by a Catholic asso-
citation for the establishment of a
monastery, called the "Dug Fork
Mission" They carried there
number of goats, and finally, when
the mission was abandoned, the
goats had fair start. This was
about the year 1867, as established
by monuments and muniments, and
corroborated by the wrinkles on the
goats horns and the remarkable
deiuge of goats may be conjectured
by one of the articles of the compa-
nys proposition, which guarantees
That three million goats annually
may be Withdrawn from the island
without apparent diminution of the
hock. They set out the following
facts as results already accom-
plished:
They have established on the is
land seventeen creameries, which
yield an annual product of IL, 5oO,-
900 pounds Of cheese and 6I,38O,-
OOO pounds of butter. The horns
are IN great demand for knife ham
dies and the clippings and hoofs
make an excellent glue. A shawl
factory utilIzes the hair and a
monster tannery turns out ship
loads of beautiful soft leather
Canned goat is used for ballast by
ships leaving Goat island. The
carcasses find ready sale and the
residum is used for making soap of
the most delicate flavor. A process
has been invented by which the pc
culiar odor is to be caught and com
pressed to be used in malarial and
pestilence infected districts as a
disinfectaut. The shipments of fer
tilizer are enormous, and wherever
1T goes a peculiar, luxuriant grass
follows and the health of the coun-
try improves. The company now
proposes either to sell it to the
state or tn tske the state in part
nership, so that the convicts may
be sent there and made 10 carry on
the monster enterprise. 1t will not
only relieve honest labor of disrepu-
table competition, but it will elimi-
nate from politics q troublous ques-
tion, solve a great problem and
yield thousands of revenue to the
state. Mr.. Smithson is now engag-
ed in finding patriots in each coun-
ty who for small block of stock
will make the race for the legisla-
ture and favor the purchase by the
state. The papers are all ready,
signed and sealed, the seal being
a goat rampant, embossed, receed-
ing-UniOn,