Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-03-24
AN1NDUsTRIAL CONVENTION.
EDITOR NEWS.
A. L. O..

l esteem the movements now
being agiLated for a change in our
organic law for the encouragement
OF the location of industries and
the investment Of foreign capital
in our State as a matter traught
with the deepest significance to the
welfare of Marion County and the
entire Sequachee Valley. What
profit is it to us that we have so
many elements of wealth in our
midst, il they are permitted to lie
dormantP
And how are they to be develops
ed and utilized without capital?
But it is a good citizenship that
constitutes the basis Of the greatest
wealth to any section, and the es-
Enlistment Of productive indus
tries necessarily brings with them
an influx of a valuable class of
people.
We could furnish homes and
profitable employment for ten
times our present population.
| When the truth comes to be known
as il viii some day, these nouns
tain slopes will be dotted with
handsome cottages, in the midsl Of
attractive and profitable vineyards;
and our mountain plateau, with its
pure and bracing atmosphere, will
become justly celebrated for its al
aptabiiily to produce fruits and
| vegetables in their highest excell-
ence and greatest variety. Does it
strike you, sir, what this would
mean to our section? / have Just
been reading an account Of the es-
innate of the present prospect Of
the berry crop for 1898, in the
neighborhood O. Chattanooga, on q
few hundred acres; and parties who
have taken pains to learn the facts,
place the value of the yield at five
hundred thousand dollars. l say,
this is the estimated product of a
comparatively small area around in
the Chattanooga district.
Suppose we had few thousand
acres along the line Of the railroad
in Sequachee Valley devoted to the
culture Of only these small fruits,
} what change would be felt in the
material welfare Of our commun-
ity. But this industry favors
small farms, and thorough and IN
tense culture, all of which demands
an increase Of population. Pages
might be written of the splendid
, resources Of this section of our be
loved State, of its salubrious anC
equable climate; Of its wealth o
soil; OF its heAlthgiving springs o
pure water: of its grand and i'm
measurable forests Of yaluab tim'
Der; OF it's building stone, and it,
2 its marble; Of its practically mex
i, haustibie supply Of coal and iron
resources, that most Communitie.
would feel proud enough OF then
to make them widely known.
There are thousands of home
: seekers, who, il they knew of tn
many valuable and attractive feat
n ures of this section, would gladl.
a settle in our midst. Born anC
r reared here, it is but natural that
i. should feel more than an ordinary
0 attachment for this section, an,
that is my apology for this brief al
ticle.
But l have depressed somewhat
from what / started out to say, an
9 what was the main purpose of NJ.
IS scrted.
t Ii is propose to call convention
ut Nashville, at no distant day, 70
s the purpose Of giving expressian I
= the sentiments OF our State, in re
d gard to the subject | have alludet
u to at the outset of this communi
D cation.
h 1t will be a delegate Convention
o aud our County should, by a
70 means, be represented. What
l. everybody's business, general
D. speaking, is noboGy's business.
l. have no mere interest in the matte
= than others. but as itrequiles som
one to take the initiative and th
y time is short, | assume the respol
sibility. AS the sentiment ct tt
1t community is largely influence
Of by the press, l shall be pieased
a have you support my motion MAJ
Is here and now to the citizens of NJ
le rion county, without regard
re party, to hold a Mass Conventic
lg In Jasper, at some early day me-
SO month q suggest the 9th) for Il
purpose of taking action in regal
to the matter Of instructing OF
ID approaching Legislature to provi'
le for so amending our organic law
ID TO permit counties and incOrpora
Of towns, in their discretion, to e
}. empt corporate industries locati'
as within our State from Iaxalio
Is and for the further purpose of a
al pointing delegates to represent NJ
w TiOn County in the Stale Conve
D. ton soon to be held in Nashville
re consider these questions. l tru
Il. that the importance of this NOV
ss ment will so commend itself
thoughtful citizens as to induce
l.