Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-06-04
HERBERT DOMAIN ACTIVITY,
Big Things Done on the State Property
and Mnch More Coming.


peated occasions, the state has estab-
lished a reformatory on the 10, 900 acres
owned and lying in Cumberland, Van
Buren,, Bledsoe and White counties.
Work has been in progress there for
over year. The property lies some
20 miles south of Crossville. Our act
i've and energetic news gatherer of
Winesap recently made visit to the
Domain and tells in an interesting way
of what has been accomplished and
what is IN contemplation. Our CORES
pondent says:
Work on the State property of Her
bert Domain is going smoothly on,
and one would hardly recognize 1t as
the same place of two years ago,
when the boys from the reformitory
began work there.
Buildings have sprung up as if by
magic; They consist of one dinning
hall. one kitchen, four dormitories. six
room dwlling houses, backery and
laundry, cannery, school building, al
most completed, machine shop, black
smith shop, four barnes, large mule
barn, dairy barn, cattle barn, and
one other large barn, one silo. and
plans to build three more during the
summer. Many small buildings to
numerous to mention. Original build
ings consist of two large dwelling
houses and one small one, and few
out buildings. School house contains,
assembly roon and two class rooms.
Power house contains two steam
boilers which are connected with plan
ing mill, machine shop, cannery. rip
saws and etc. Steam cooker will be
installed in the near future.
Cannery has a capasity of seven
hundred and twenty gallon cans. More
than ten thousand cans were filled last
year with only slight loss. They
expect to can on a larger scale this
year than last.
They now have a telephone from
Pikeville, and hope to extend it to
Crossville as soon as grade is com
)eted.
Electric lights are also peiug in.
stalled.
A drilling machine is operating on
he farm, and several wells will be
lrilled during the summer. A dia-
nond drills testing for coal, running
wo shifts each day. If coal is found
o be plentiful railroad will be built.
Farm has its own sawmlls to saw
he lumber for buildings, and it's own
rick yard for making brick used in
ues, chImneys and etc. Several
undred acres have been cleared up
nd put under fence, and several
undred acres mo1e of woodland have
cen put under fence, for pasture.
Large orchards, grpevines, and ber-
es have been set out. Orchard which
insists of about twenty acres, is
,wn in rye to be cut.
The approximate acreage of crops
insists of one hundred acres potatoes,
ghty acres soy beans and other hay
ops, ten acres tomatoes, eight or
N acres bunch beans, five acres cab
age, several acres of onions, sixty
res rye, twenty to be cut and forty
Irned under. Corn and cane to fill
'ur silos.
Several acres which were sown in
rnips for greens will also furnish
led supply for next year Several .
airy cows have been kept over from
st year and several other cattle. have
zen turned on the range, but not
early so many this year as last.
Something near two hundred boys are
wv at the farm and cther@ will be
ought when buildings are c;upleted.
hese are all colored boys. They do
| the house work, laundry work,
ending, cooking, canning, farming,
,iIdiEg and etc. They have had very
tile sickness and only two deaths
nee beginning work on the farm two
,ar ago. Have luckily escaped the
U epidemic so far.
are being made to
zen school about midsummer.
When new roads are opened up to
.ossville, they expect to make it.
cir shipping point.