The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1904-07-21
JOHNSON CITY.
A Few FVCts About a Handsome and
Growing City in the Beautiful East
Tennessee Country Factories
and Farms.

If you wish a desirable location for
some good manufacturing enterprise,
or to buy nice farm or town property,
just visit aud look around for a few
days johnson City, Tenn. the princi
pal town of Washington County, on
the main line of the Knoxville Divis-
ion ofthe Southern Railway. in East
ern Tennessee, Here you will find be-
tween 5000 and 5000 people. all of
whom, from appearances, are busy,
too busy in fact to telk long with you
unless you are talking business.
Though located in valley proper,
the site occupied by the town is roll
ing and somewhat hilly, just enough
to make it one of the most picturesque
locations in the State.
Two other railroad lines branch ont
from this point, reaching far up into
the North Carolina mountains to the
East and South, in the heart of the
great hardwood timber belt and varied
mineral resources of that section. The
famous Cranberry mines sends its iron
to Carnegie Furnace, two miles out,
while millions of feet of logs are annu-
ally worked upby score Of mills and
factories right in the city.
It takes more than dozen wholesale
houses, dealing in dry goods, grocer
les, hardware, furniture, grain and
provisions, leather and harness, and
twice as many retail stores in all lines
to supply the trade of the city and sur
rounding country. Extensive street
improvements and additions to the
public school buildings are being made
by the city council, while many bnsi-
ness houses and residences are now
under construction. About fibe miles
OF street railway has been put in oper-
alton during the past few months, con-
Meeting the city with Carnegie and the
Soldiers Home, the latter now being
constructed by the National Govern
ment snd located about three miles to
the westward, on an elevation cem-
manding magnificent view of the
great Smoky Mountains, thirty to for.
ty miles distant. The city has a fine
water works system, being supplied
from several big springs of pure free
stone water, about three miles from
the city.
The surrounding country has a fer
tile soil, but the development of the
farming interests has not kept pace
with the industrial interests of tht
city. AS consequence large part o.
the produce required for home con
sumption is imported from other sec
tions and States. Here is fine oppor
tunity for some good experienced Ger
man farmers to engage In profitable
market gardening.
One of the residents of the city tolC
the writer that on vacant town lot o
Fifty by ond hundree and fifty feet are,
less than one-fift b of an an acre, b.
raises from sixty to eighty bushels o
Irish potatoes every year, and they ar
now selling in the retail market a
81. 40 per bushel. Yet with yield AM
prices, over half the potatoes consum
ed there are brought from far ava
Michigan.
This is only one instance of many o
like character that could be noted
Farm lands are comparatively CHEAP
depending of course upon location an
character Of improvements, but rang
from $50 to $50 per acre near the city
A few miles distant good lands can
had for much lower prices.
With the advantage of fine climat
pure water, good soil, the poorest {
I which quickly responds to intelliger
treatment, and splendid local mark
with an increasing demand for far
products, johnson City and vicinit
affords superior opportunities for an
experienced, industrious farmer to b.
come independent in very few year
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