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North settle with us and join in develoi)ing our wonderful resources. 

 The immigrant will be as safe here as in New York or Pennsylvania. 

 This is more certainly true of East Tennessee than of any other part of 

 this State or of the South. 



Let not East Tennessee be confounded with the other divisions of this 

 State, or with other i^a^ts of the South. We are a distinct and peculiar 

 people. We hail the coming of the immigrant with a hearty welcome, 

 and give him the assurance of perfect security, as long as he obeys the 

 laws. We point him to our agricultural fields, to our vast mines of iron, 

 lead, zinc, coal, copper, ochre and slate, to our vast quarries of marble, to 

 our splendid water powers, now "running idly to the sea;" to our grand 

 old forests of jjine, oak, ash, birch, maple, hickory and walnut ; to our 

 equable climate as lovely as that of Italy, and invite him to participate 

 with us in these golden bounties of Providence so lavishly bestowed on 

 this beautiful region. 



Minerals. 



In East Tennessee geological surveys show that we have the following 

 minerals, to-wit : coal, iron, lead, copper, zinc, lignite, marble, salt, nitre, 

 epsom salts, oxyde of manganese, hydraulic limestone, roofing slate, potters' 

 and fire clays, sand for glass, albuminum, ochre and asbestus, not to men- 

 tion gold and silver which have been found in limited quantities. 



Stone Coal. — Our gi-eat coal field begins near Cumberland Grap, in 

 Claibourne county, and extends South and South-west to Middle Tennessee 

 and into Alabama, and is confined to the Cumberland range and its cognate 

 ridges. Most of this coal region lies in East Tennessee — in fact nearly all 

 of it The coal is mostly semi-bituminous though in some cases it is 

 properly bituminous. Professor Safford, in his report, says that he has no 

 hesitation, after reviewing the whole field : 



"In saying that our coal, in good quality and in beds thick enough to 

 be profitably worked, is at least equal in the aggregate to a solid stratum 

 eight feet thick and co-extensive with the table land, and hence equal to 

 four thousand four hundred square miles. ' ' 



This may be an extravagant estimate, j'et it cannot be questioned that 

 the quantity is practically inexhaustable. 



In 18C)5, S. W. Ely, an experienced geologist of Ohio, made an exami- 

 nation of this coal region, and in his report to the company which employed 

 him, he says : 



"In truth this inestimable mineral is so liberally disposed in the 

 structure of the Cumbei'lands that it would tax the imagination to com- 

 prehend the quantity. * * I trust the time is near at hand when 

 Cincinnati and Louisville and the interior towns of Kentucky will seekin 

 the coals of your Scott county lands an article which exceeds in }iurity 

 and other excellent qualities any I have ever seen from the bituminous 

 fields of the North. ' ' 



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