The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-26


vently trust that before another season II
may be used to replace the floating soil
that so invades the cars between Memphis
and Mckenzie, and reduces all passengers
TO one uniform suit Of deep brown. AS
the country improves and better roads
are needed, this gravel bed will be OF in
estimable value TO West Tennessee and to
Memphis. AT Brownsville, among other
industries, is largo and well-equlpped
canning factory, made necessary ana
profitable by the fruit raising.
On the Big Hatchio River there is an
abundance OF thSiinest quality OF hard
wood and cypress timber, which il fast be-
coming very valuable. II is easily accessl- |
Bile and can be purchased at very ialr |
prices. At Humboldt, which has greatly |
improved during tho past three years, |
noticed large wagon factory, box lac |
tory, pillow factory. and two extensive mar
Bile yards, which do largo shipping BUSH |
ness, furnishing monuments and marble
work 10 West Tennessee, Arkansas and
Texas. From Mckenzie to the Kentucky
line the road runs through q fine tobacco
country, which makes Clarksville the
second leaf tobacco market in the world;
il will ship this year at least $4,000 hogs
heads OF tobacco. Capt Gracey has Just
added. to the numerous tobacco ware
houses of GAINESVILLE by completing what
is probably the largest and best equipped
tobacco warehouse IN the world. Clarks-
vilc has q very elegant and commodious
Tobacco Exchange building and the finest
courthouse in tho State. IL is also located
in very superior general farming
country, with lovely houses scat
tered all through 1t, and with thirty
ING, well kept prosperous towns ana
villages ut frequent intervals. The Clarks'
vile and Princeton branch runs from
GAINESVILLE TO Princeton, KY, iilty-soven
miles, through the finest and best region
OF Kentucky, the famous Blue Grass one
not excepted, aud brings all its wealth,
beauty and productions TO add to Clarks-
Vile.
At Stewart and Erin n very large lime
business has been built up. At Stewart
there are two kins and ut Erin i've, OF the
best improved patterns and with oil the
modern facilities They make a very su.
perior quality Of lime, and have acquired
a large shipping trade West aud South.
! The rock from which this lime Is maniac
turcd shows by analysis little over % per
cent. of pure lime.
From the Tennessee River to PALMYRA,
crossing Tennessee Ridge, distance OF
sixteen miles, tho road runs through q
continuous iron ore bed OF the finest quail
ity OF brown hematitc. yielding about 80
| per cent. OF iron. There Is an abundance
OF limestone for iluX easily accessible, and
| the whole territory Is covered with the
finest quality OF timber for making char
coal. Here arc ineNhaustble beds OF iron
ore with all the needed facilities for the
manufacture and transportation Of iron OF
| n quality superior 10 that OF the furnaces
OF Alabama and Georgia (the superiority
of Tennessee Ridge iron is recognized OIL
cially, not only by the United States Gov
eminent but all over the world, and as
cheap or cheaper than charcoal iron can
be made there, aud several hundred miles
nearer market Before the war there were
some for those days very fine furnaces In
! this region, but lack of transportation then
aud lack OF enterprise aud advertising
since has diverted attenton from this
country and is advantages over the fields
aud beds OF Alabama aud Georgia. Iron
cannot be made here for ~ or IS ton,
| but IL can be made fully rs cheaply ~ tho
same class OF iron at birmingham or any
whore else south OF Tennessee, and no
better iron was ever put ON the market
The country but meals the touch oi cap.
iial aud energy 10 "bud aud blossom with
the stacks Of furnaces aud the fires Of the
roling-mlls." The LAOmngc Furnace
Company has built n standard gauge rail-
road six miles, TO their furnace and org
beds, and Is making It's full capacity OF fifty
tons a days. This company, although hav
ing river transportation, built nj their owl
expense this six miles OF road parallel will
the Tennessee River In order 10 get ia
output OF their furnace To the railroad an
, a market rather than depend on the water
Tho bear Springs and Dover Furnace PROF
| erty Is ior sale aud development. and o.
l icrs great Inducements To some enicrpri.
|, ing iron man. This bolt OF ore Is ines
a haustible. OF uniform quality aud pcrcen
~ aud reaches, with varying width, rom vi
10 Ohio River TO Florence, Ala. All the VI
n rious industries OF the country are rcpu
4, gentcd along this road. There are We
n conducted aud thoroughly equipped lou
"A ing-mills at Brownsville, HUMBOLDT, Ire
~ cvant, Henry, Paris, GAINESVILLE, Guthr
aud Russollvillo, each OF which does n lar
!, shipping trade. Those at Paris aud CLARK
4 yille arc the largest. and manufacture
sufficient quantities aud OF such quail
10 aud nj such prices ~ enable them 10 cot
4 pctc with the largest mills Of the count
"a, In the markets OF the Southland the Sout
ds crn Atlantic cities.
nj With very little exception all the lal
M. along this line and tributary thereto is
he the finest and most fertile quality, cspc
,r. ally adapted for fruit, large and small, ~
Inc early Vegetables, rs well as wheat, colt
or and tobacco. The climate, temperate
I'd aud natural conditions otlcr unoXcell
X. inducements 10 homo-scokcrs. IL lies
ia tween the North and the South, with I
AZ advantages and promises OF each, aud
~. ills and discomiors OF neither. II Is
old, well established country, with pier
Ia. OF churches. school OF high grade, we'll {
nd fined society, cultured, educated, hosI
In. able people, plenty Of timber, most Oh
rty oughly watcrcd; there h scarce farm
l7s there be any, which has not pure, Oh
civ running stream or q fine spring, and
mn. | winters are mover cold enough 20 raise
a." question, "Who owns the Ice ON the u
,,u. pondY' II there II country anywh
gu. having all the conditions requisite Tor
mt earthly paradise il Is surely West Tenn
.ket sec. Tho fact that this line or diyis
his crosses no many leading lines oi railr
kul and comes Ia direct competition With
ntly Tennessee, and Cumberland MN
my aud their tributaries and for ~
ami distance runs parallel "
,res the Cumberland, near liz junction v
the the Ohio, will ever prove protection
and this country against any danger OF 'o'
arly charges and unjust Discriminate
Inn. There aro nj least 1000 desirable IA
ain. along and contiguous 10 this limo OF !
this road inviting the industrious and econo
In cal settler, and which can DO purchl
inc, on easy terms at prices ranging from ;
sod SO per acre. There arc at least 10
d Ill 81 a