The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-11-10
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Tennessee produced 40, 8O6 ton, at a
cost of $50 per ton, while any one of
the larger furnaces in the State to-day
would produce more iron than all the
forty-nine did in 1854, Large numbers
of men are employed in the industry,
and it is one of the great sources Of
wealth to the State.
The coal fields within a radius of six
ty miles of Knoxville embrace about
one hundred thousand acres, including
the Jellico and Coal Creek districts,
from which about one million tons ale
mined annually. The annual produc-
ton of the State is about 2, 600, eco tons,
wholly of the bituminous variety. The
coal field Of Tennessee covers $500
miles, and is all in the east and eastern
middle part of the State.
Probably no section in America pro-
duces more or a greater variety of fire.
brick clay. 1t is estimated that there
is a million tons of good fire clay al
ready mined and thrown out among the
debris at the coal regions. These clays
usually run from tifty-fve to sixty-fve
per cent. silica, and from twenty to
tweuty-four per cent. of aluminium.
Cement rock is equally abundant. TAX
ing coal, iron, coke, fire clay, cement
rock, limestone and timber, no stretch
of territory anywhere produces such
quantities and variety for general in
dustries. When to thesei is added trans
portation facilities and unlimited water
power, everything is present for the
most prosperous development.
East Tennessee is noted for its mar
BILE, which exists in practically mex
haustible quantities and almost endless
variety and tints. There are now about
one hundred quarries in operation,
which produce 300, 900 cubic feet a year.
Forty Of these are in the vicinity Of
Knoxville, which is one of the largest
marble shipping points in the United
States. The marble columns and bal
ustrades in the Capitol at Washington
are from Hawkins county, East Ten
nessee, and some of the finest quality
is seen in the new Congressional Libra.
ry Building. New York's Capital al
Albany is finished in Tennessee marble
and so are q number of the handsom.
est buildings in Chicago, including the
Public Library, New York and other
cities.
A large amount of timber has been
shipped from East Tennessee, but the
supply is practically inexhaustible.
Hard woods of the finest quality
abound. Oak and poplar are mos
abundant, but hickory, cherry, chest,
nut, walnut, maple, beech, sycamore,
ashe, persimmon, dogwood, Eastwood
sourwood, sassafras, gum, hemlock
buckeye, spruce and balsam are amone
the most plentiful woods. There arr
81, 900, coo acres of forest lands in til,
State, and the lumber output from 20.
saw mills located in every division o
the State is over 400, 600, 600 feet annu
ally.
The growing Of tobacco is one of tn,
most important industries in Tennes
see, and in some sections as a none,
crop it takes the lead. There are eigh
teen States in the Union denominateC
as tobacco-growing States. OF thes,
Kentucky leads in number Of acres ant
value of the crop; North Carolina next
then Virginia, and Tennessee is fourth
The number of acres planted in Ten
nessee in 1890 was So. 351; number 0
pounds raised, 35,9 11 500, and value o
the crop, SO, 44664, S16.
With a climate so salubrious ant
scenery so picturesque it is most nat
ural that East. Tennessee shoulC
abound in health resorts. There ar,
numerous mineral springs, summe no
tells and mountain resorts where thou
sands spend the heated season. Sui
phur, chalybeate, and epson are tn
prevailing waters. Among the hes
known places are Lookout Mountain
Roam Mountain, Tate Springs, Lei
Springs, divers, Hale Spings, Mont
vale, Galbraith's, Glenn Alpine, Noun.
Nebo, Melrose, fuckers and Whit,