The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-04-30

O'CLOCK IN the morning, alter beautiful
night ride on the Rio de Ia Plata.
N. F. A.
West Virginia NoRenclatuye- and
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70 the Editors Of the 1ntSllieeneer. q - %AN'A
Down the river from slstersyille, and
through Peasants into Richie county
although they spell the latter with q
IT. would seem an suspicious omen.
The first time | was in Este. Maries" they
gave me the French spelling aS proper.
A French settlement, ! believe, and Out
town few miles / crossed French creek.
Speaking Of names do not we Ameri.
cans beat all time In unmeaning, senseless
names? After the name Is attached,
without any kind Of reason, yet at times
a slight incident serves to hang thereon Q
name which sticks TO the locality, until II
becomes too outlandlbh 70 suit any kind
Of civilization. II one does not get salts.
fed In onr OWL, State, let him 10 to some
mining country or place where only males
do congregate; and when names become
familiar to his ear and glide from his
tongue that are never seen In print, except
in mutilated form, II nastinesS and sen.
selessness can be mutilated.
Il Lake dinner Rt Goose Greek, the
yeritabIe fdme ofs 4 postctIlc t6which
comes a copy OF your paper, with the
Tribune, Christian Statesman, q U. P. pa
per, etc.-a respectable crowd certainly.
Then l cross over to "Wolf Pen" and
again over the ridge to "Dog Comfort
Run" Presume the wolves were penned
before Dog Comfort was named and
probably the placid bosom Of Goose
Creek was never disturbed by one Of that
species, except the human one who
named II. "Cow Creek" and "Bull Run,"
! leave to the left, joining and together
forming "Calf Pasture" But time does
not allow more than the mention Of
Crock Camp" Bull Skin" "Fishing,nn
Panther, = ETC. all Of which may suit
our American ideas OF brevity-not hay.
ing time 10 pronounce Minehaha, Mem.
phramagog or Frankfort on.the- Main.
"Fine sleighing you have" remarked
to q young man who seemed to be paving
some attention to lady where Twas
stopping. ayes, If we had any roads to
sleigh on" This paragraph Is complete,
and tells the whole story Of why emigra.
ton passes by US, to go where roads run
on every section line.
The timber question looms up as one
passes through mile after mile Of inbroken
forest. II 81. G., OF the Tribune, had his
n1nthau town and hfa hat a,,,tkohnl aIP :
often as l, and his head scratched
nearly bald by this "forest primeval," he
would heartily wish for the open country,
and his cry would be changed to
"WoodmAu, go for that tree"
The billy country on each side OF the
Allegheny watershed has probably the
finest oak forests in the world-and the
world will need the timber. Some cor
respondent In the Cincinnati Commercial
recently figures and scolds about this.
Oaks are not the growth Of q few years,
but OF centuries, and certain articles can
only be made from oak, such as wine and
beer casks. In the Old World the ayaila.
BILE oak forests are nearly used up. France
is about drawing herlast supply of slaves
from Austria, and pays 20 cents per staye,
which cost along the Baltimore 6 Ohio
railroad two cents, delivered. II any of
our slaves 60 there somebody Is making
money. / was told that one firm alone
paid out over one million dollars wear
along the line Of this railroad. One nil.
lion dollars in q comparative small
section of the country Truly tim.
Der Is king there. Yet 1t seems
to reign like o curse over the country. as
those who are directly engaged in the
destruction Of the TIMBER are seldom
well.to do, however It may be with the
middle man who buys for the consumer
or manufacturer; and there being more
immediate money in timber, this Is being
taken away. Some Of the finest pasture
lands in the world, If cleaned of, are
left to grow up in briArs and brush,which
does not seem economy-call 1t a tpoliti.
cali or what.not; and, beside, "a product
Is taken from the land that can be neither
eaten nor worn, until turned into money /;
and maybe nature, never proposes such
industries" - - - =
Yet there Is another view to4his cues.
ton which may be taken in using the dol
lar as an eye.glass TO view the advantages
Tor otherwise) which may arise from any
transaction, Suppose you have one hun.
dred acres Of timber in this county near
market, you would realize much more
from the money the timber would bring
than all the growth Of the timber or ad.
vance in price Of the timber. Besides the
use Of the land for agricultural purposes,
and more money would be left 10 your
posterity, who maybe will not need the
timber. 7g "a esfNIfr
This view overbears all others ii, the
mind Of the practical American; and he
cannot stop 10 inquire what great climatic
and other changes this using up timber
Is producing. Prof Henry, Of the Smith.
about great climatic. changes, less ram,
sonian Institute, says this scolding ETC.,
Is not borne out by the facts. While
the little murky woodland rlvulet NAV be
converted into a raging periodical food,
there Is, he says, nothing to prove, but
we have as much rainfall as ever, and will
continue To have. -.
And more, our country looks so much
better cleared up, with her cattle upon a
thousand hills; and vet with only the val.