Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-09-18
"ONIO CITF."
Manufacturing Enterprises-PrO'
hibitiGn and PrOgress-The
Approaching Vintage.

| ICorrespondence of the inteliigencer.l
History informs US that ADsaIom
| Martin, a Wheeling settler, in 1896
crossed the Ohio River aud opened a
farm where the town of Martinsville
now stands. In 1900 town was laid
out and called jefferson; but about
tbirty-five years afterwards the name
was changed to Martinsville. AS pop
ulation, manufactures, and a conse-
quent sense of approaching greatness
| increased in magnitude, public-spirit-
ed citizens realized the importance of a
title in keeping with their metIopoli-
tan strides, and now long to be known
and hailed as "Ohio City," The estab-
| Ilishment of several important manu-
factories recently has given the place
new life; and it has in the past ten
years nearly doubled in population,
numbering at present about 5000 souls.
Mr.. Clark, an enterprising citizen, has
| laid out a small town near the site of
rolling mill in course OF erection im-
pediately above Martirsville, which
is fast building up, and which in honor
of the proprietor is called "Clarks-
burg" Numbers of houses have Also
lately been erected in the vicinity of
the Etna Iron Works, between Bridge
port and Martinsville, and this COM
munity is known as Etnaville."
TEMPERANCE VS.. PROSPERITY.
Much feeling is manifested here on
the subject of temperance. The town
council refuse to grant license to sell
liquor; and the citizens claim that this
not only keeps away from the place
what they most need, skilled labor, but
increases intemperance. In regard to
the former argument it is true that two
| thirds of the mechanics most cOndu-
Give to the prosperity of any town are
what are called ''drinking men," men
who are industrious, frugal and useful,
| but who must and wilt have, as Paul
has recommended, something for their
ssstomach's sake" An intelligent citi-
zen informs us that there is more drum
kenness at present in Martinsville than
there was when liquor was sold in pub
llic. Those who cannot purchase it
here go to Wheeling and bring it over
| by the quart and pint, and, as he ex-
pressed it 'Wheeling has the money
and we have the noise and the shame"
THE GRAPE CROP
| this season will be a very light one
not as much by one-third as usual.
This is owing to the buds having been
frozen last winter; about one-fourth the
Isabellas were thus destroyed. MIR.
Adanirom Newland, who, i'll eOnnec-
ton with mis- brother Isaac, has vine
yard of thirty five acres, informs us
that in the last three years their vines
have yielded siXty-two tons each year,
but this season tho vintage will not ex-
ceed forty or fifty-five tons. 1'he Della
wares are now ripe-the Concords
nearly so. The vintage will commence
here about the 18th of October. On the
Messrs. Newlands' place where we
were shown what is thought to be the
LARGEST WINE PRESS IN THE WORLD.
We learn that this mammoth press
is in one piece, fifty-eight feet long, the
fulcrom standing eighty feet from one
end, leaving leverage of fifty feet.
The press has two tubs, each of which
will hold 200 bushels of grapes; but, by
the quantity of leverage employed, the
pumice of the grapes can easily be
pressed by means of a crank which is
turned by one man. The Catawba Is
the wine grape, and yields 16O gallons
of wine to the ton. The Messrs. New