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There is a factory in the State for weavuig woolen good.s, but there is not 

 one for weaving cotton goods beyond plain brown domestic. 



We import from other States all of our reapers, mowers, threshers 

 and engines, all of our chains, axes, shovels, spades, hoes, rakes, forks, 

 wire, sheet-iron, iron pipe, hinges, scythes, picks, willow-ware and rope, 

 and even our axe and pick handles and wagon spokes, most of our i)lows, 

 brooms, furniture, wooden-ware, fire grates, stoves, corn shellers, horse 

 shoes and horse shoe naUs, domestic, prints, woolens, boots, shoes, hats, 

 clothing, most of our carriages and many of our wagons, besides hundreds 

 of other articles. The average cost of transportation upon thirty of these 

 articles, as given by a leading hardware house, is seventeen per cent, 

 as compared with the original cost. On stoves it is from twenty to twenty- 

 five per cent. ; on reapers, mowers and threshers, fifteen per cent. , and on 

 fire-i)roof brick one hundred per cent. Hundreds of reapers and mowers 

 are sold here tliat are manufactured in Chicago or Ohio ; plows and axes 

 and even horse shoes are brought from Connecticut ; stoves are brought 

 from Albany, Philadeljihia and Cincinnati ; carriages are brought from 

 New Hampshire ; even brooms are brought from New York. So it is of 

 all articles except those which are the most simple in their construction. 



Knoxville as a Manufacturing Point. 



We boldly assume that iw point in the South or Southwest, all things 

 considered, commands so many advantages for cheap and profitable man- 

 ufacturing as Knoxville. Let facts speak : 



1. Our climate, as has already been shown, is perfectly healthful. It is 

 emphatically a temperate climate. Out door work can be done the \vhole 

 year round. 



2. Labor. — Unskilled labor is cheaper liere than in (he North; prices 

 ranging from seventy-five cents to one d(jllar and thirty cents per day. 

 The reason for this is that laborers can work the year round, that they 

 need less fuel and clothing, can live in cheaper houses and can get cheap 

 food. Skilled labor commands about the same prices here as in the 

 Northern States, with the advantages above enumerated in favor of the 

 mechanic. 



3. Provisions are cheap and abundant. Our remoteness iVoni the great 

 centers of trade forbids the carrying of many of our bulky articles to these 

 distant markets. They must be consumed at home. We raise cattle, 

 sheep and swine, as well as cereals and esculent roots. The immense 

 supphes drawn from this valley, by both armies during the late civil war, 

 forever estabUshed its character as one of the most productive spots in all 

 the land. In 1860, Tennessee produced 50,748,226 bushels of corn, 

 5,409,863 bushels of wheat, 7,703,086 bushels of oats, 550,913 bushels of 

 peas and beans, 1,174,647 bushels of Irish potatoes, 2,613,558 bushels of 

 sweet potatoes, 246,027 tons of hay, and slaughtered $12,345,696 worth 



