The National tribune., 1895-02-28
MURFREES BORO,
And the Advantages of Middle Tennes

And the Advantages of Middle Tennessee.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: That little
article of Dec. 81, 1894. IN your-what the
soldiers call" grand old paper" has caused
me to be showed underwith letters from the
boys in the frozen country. 1t looks like
they all want to come South, and / think it
good idea, for they can always have some
thing to eat and no danger of freezing here.
Now, Mr.. Editor, will you please publish
the letter / send, Endorsed by the Board Of
Trade of this place, inviting all who want
to come, for there is r0OTe for all | always
liked THE NATIONAL Tribune myself and
all the old soldiers take IL aud compliment
it highly, and find il impossible to answer
all their letters, and am compelled to 90 back
to the old standby.
Murfreesboro, Tenn, is situated in q
beautiful valley 80 miles south Of Nashville,
10 from Chattanooga This valley or
basin is large and almost in circle. One
can stand in any place in this circle and look
in any direction and see mountains aud hills,
which encircle the whole basin. The land
is rolling and beautiful. Population of
Murfreesboro about 5000. / will give adj
dresses of persons and and firms, that so
many of my correspondents have asked for,
so that they may get their information. For
general information, Murfreesbor0 Board of
Trade, j. s. Baird, Secretary Banks, First
National, Stone River; Relics, j. T. B.
Nelson has the largest collection, and best
in the United States. Come and see them,
boys; they carry you back when the chance
for life hung on a rotten thread. For weekly
papers, l.. j. Burgdorf, Editor Home Journal;
r. K Henderson, Editor Independent Ban
ncr w. d. Fox, Editor Free Press, and w.
c. Frost, Editor Neus. Land can be bought
from $40 to $40 per acre then there are cheap
lands, rough and wel!-adapted to sheep and
goats, at from 81 to Sc per acre. This is a
great place for fast horses and all kinds of
horses are raised. Mules are generally used
for work. We have the improved breeds of
cattle, hogs, and sheep, and all are success
and profit TO the farmer
Fruits of all kinds grow we'll here, except
the tropical. We have berries four months
in the year On the vines Black berries
grow wild by the hundred bushel. Vege-
tables of all kinds do well, sweet-potatoes
especially; one man raised $4,000 bushels,
and shipped them North. Irish potatoes
are just as good crop. 1t is also fine
place for bees and honey. Chickens can be
raised all the year with little cost; it's SO
nice and warm the old hens lay all Winter.
Grasses 0raii kinds do just as well as in the
North, hay always brings a good price, and
is profitable crop. We raise Winter oats
for Fall and Winter pasture, aud then it
makes a big crop. We have fine wheat and
corn crops; in fact. all kinds OF grain. Most
of the fences are made of cedar rails. Where
they were not burnt in the war some of them
are 100 years old, and are good for that long
again.
Stone River runs near Murfreesboro, the
l r. a. =.
National Cemetery is three miles north of
town, on the Nashville pike. 1t contains
about 1000 graves, and is one Of the most
beautiful places on earth. 1t is kept by
Capt. Barrett, of Ohio and is decorated by
Phil Sheridan Post, 81, GAR, of Nashville,
Tenn. We have nice churches and almost
all denominations. We also have fine schools
our free schools, both In town and country
average about nine months in the year; the
| whites and blacks have separate schools, but
both share equally from the public funds.
Then there is Soule College for girls under
Miss V. o. Wardlaw, the University for boys
under Prof Brown. The building was used
as hospital during the war. We have
| plenty of water and a great many springs.
Most of the wells are drilled some are very
deep and afford fine sulphur and mineral
water; it is very healthy. My advice to all
of sick and weak lungs istO come South and
| try it, and you will get well. In town most
| people burn coal. There are fine coal mines
in this State, but wood is plenty and cheap,
and grows fast We have Ia pixies center
| ing in Murfreesboro. The people are friendly
and social and very accommodating So
many ask how Republican and Yankee
soldier is treated? Just as well as can be- /
am both, and always VOTE and never had
| any trouble.
The colored population is about one-fourth
of the County. The best part of the South
| to 70 is Middle Tennessee, and from the
Kentucky line to Huntsville Ala. TINS is
wide strip of good land, no malaria or chils,
the best OF water and very healthy; but don't
go to any of those cheap advertised lands.
Black bottom lands are low and unhealthy
| also, if the land is white, yelowish, or ashy
color, shun it, for it won't raise anything,
and white man can't live on it. Keep
away from McMinnville, for you will sE;; ely
starye; take the old red-clssy land and yoh