The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-10-12
Tyler County-Its Soil, Timber and
Manufacturing Facilities-Price OF
Land, &c.
NEAR SIsrERvnLE, w. Va,
October 5, 1870.

NEAR SIsrERvILLE, w. Va,
October 5, 1870.
Editors of the Register:
As notes and notices from the State
of West Virginia are, you say, accept.
able matter in the office OF the valued
champion of the rights OF man, we
offer our mite to you "for your examin,
alton"
Having but recently become so
journer in the county of Tyler, we nat.
urally bestow an attentive eye on OBJ.
jects new aud strange to an Ohio observ.
er, but which are passed unnoticed by
those daily in contact with them. OF
these observations, embracing soil, agri-
culture, minerals and other kindred
topics, We will, to the best of our ability,
give our opinion for the benefit of the
readers Of the REGISTER
The topography of this county is de-
cidedly OF hilly character, though not
more so than the eastern counties Of
Ohio, which confront us on the west,
and in regard to fertility We should say
that West Virginia is immensely the
superior, as also in point of timber.
The soil of this section is q deep orav
loan, principally, varied by belts OF
black, loose, very rich land, similar to
the walnut new lands of Belmont
county, Ohio, though lacking the SUI
perabundance OF limestone found in
the latter region, and produces with or
binary cultivation the finest crops Of
corn we have seen anywhere. Wheat
returns as good yield per acre as the
average of Ohio, as shown by the latest
statistics of that State, though there is
no large area devoted to that grain,
which is matter of surprise to US, as
the blowing here is comparatively so
very easy in this loose, light mould, two
medium horses being amply able to
draw a plough any desired depth, while
in Ohio We observe many farmers use
the sub-soil plough with four horses.
And the timber! ITO the woodsman
It's goodly scene Far as the eve
can pierce through the sylvan shades,
are tall white oaks, chestnuts, poplar,
and hickories, straight as the classic
ramrod go often quoted) and often, with
out a branch for eighty feet from the
ground. A large business is sometimes
done in the cooper-stuff line, during
mild winters, here, the product bringing
sixteen dollars per thousand at the
river. A good chance for winter en-
ployment for stout young idlers about
town who can find nothing to dc" and,
as Josh Billings would say, docs it,
We believe that one day, perhaps not
long in the future, this will be the seat
Of large iron mandatory. Iron ore,
seemingly of great purity, is very abun-
dant, not one-fourth Of a mile from
where we write, the water of small
branch plunges over stratum Of solid
ore OF about two feet in depth, and
Jumps of the same can be picked up in
great quantities on most of the streams
of this section.
To the farmer tenant who would be-
come landlord on a small capital,
we would say, "here is the place you
seek Woodland is for sale here in
any sized tracts, at prices to astonish
you in cheapness. For two and half
to four dollars per acre with cleared
land proportional. We have known
trees, singly, to sell for as much in Ohio
as would purchase an acre containing
dozens of oaks, equally as valuable
here. For six hundred dollars you can
own a large farm near your old home,
Just as productive, not whit more
rough and within few years worth
dollar for dollar as much as the one you
have so long "farmed on shares in
Ohio. Is not this better chance than
if you emigrate to the swampy, agueish,
unapproachable, unleaveable, myster-
ious, humbug, known as the West J
We think so and have seen something
OF both
Here you will be debarred from none
of the blessings of refined and moral
society. School houses meet you with
their neat white fronts in every lovely
little glen. As you travel, churches
are very numerous, and of all denom-
nations. Your neighbors, though per-
haps not up to the latest styles, are
also. from the same causes, free, in a
great degree, from the follies conse-
quent on a very close walk with fashion,
which, we regret to say, is often COM
posed of some little vice with much
of nonsense" But we have trespassed
too long and must say "Quantum
sufficit. j. Ii. Ii.