Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-08-02
For the Register.
W.rrE SULPHUR SPRINGS, w. VA.,C
Julv II. 1873.


July II, 1873. )
Mr. Editor-After leaving your office
that sultry afternoon, your feeble cores
pondent went to Duffielas, purchased
horse, and started en- route foe Kanawha
Falls, Fayette county. This point she
reached after long and wealisome ride
of six days. Thinking perhaps that some
of her experience along the way might
be of interest to few of your readers
with many apologies for her boidneSs'
she humbly asks permission to drop p, =
few liaes" to the champion paper Oh '"e
Valley, the Register. -, .h,o,ob
It was our pleasure to ride 'hro"S :
.be far famed Valley of Virginia Inns
rrardsn snot still bears upon its bosom
snme Of The cruel vestiges of the war
S Somd Although the farmers have near ar,
" RECLAIMED their former equilibrium SUI,
,Ie nasser by can easily see, that some
.h;nr and upon time held high earnl-
. ISL 6var their fertile fields. We mss
,he cheerful and happy song oil inc III
slaves, and in its stead see ine ,ho ',nr
horer plodding his way behind the Prov row
or tieing the golden gram as IL ialis
G S"on the reapers scythe, while here and
,,. o near some town beautiful GENE
,orv marking the resting place OF those
Who fought and died i'll cause they
thought was right. How touching
those lines, Bring flowers tostrew over
the soldiers grave, they spring from the
land he died to save.
The crops On an average throughout
the Valley, are better than they were
last wear, especially the hay and corn.
Near New Market in Shenandoah coun-
~, is farm owned by Mr.. Mems, for
which understand he paid over two
hundred thousand dollars.
On the farm we saw large fields OF
wheat. which will yield thirty bushels
TO the acre, immense fields of corn rs
HIGH as the horse that walks between
the rows, in one meadow were thirty
one large stacks of hay, each stack con-
tanning at least eight tons. This is evi-
IDENTIFY the largest and richest farm IN
the Valley.
On some farms arc fine fields OF corn
and wheat with no fencing around them
rs the timber for many miles was de-
stroyed by the armies. TO prevent the
grain from being injured the farmers ell
Their watch or stable their stock. From
Stevensons Depot to Strasburg neither
no. nor COW were to be seen loose IN
the road, though We frequently saw them
tied to trees and grazing as far rs the
,ope would allow them.
On the pike near Staunton IS a large
willow tree from the centre OF winch
projects an iron pipe, through this pipe
ronrs into a large trough the best water
that mortal ever drank. The water Is
conveyed to this spout from nelghbor-
ing hill by means of leaden pipe, the
story of the tree is rs follows 4: At the
end of the pipe was placed uprightly a
hollow willow post, i'll the centre OF
which was inserted the iron spout. This
post in short time took root and IN a
few wears had developed into a beauti-
full tree and now the water as 1t runs
ont looks as if it came from the tree ana
10 where else.
Staunton is 4 beautiful place and full
of entcrprising business men The new
railroad connecting it with the VIM
chester branch will soon bc completed.
This will be of much importance to the
Valley as travellers will no longer be
compelled to rely on the sold slow
stage
Going ont from Staunton we leave
behind us limestone country and come
into one Astounding in sandstone, IRON
ore and mineral springs, passing 10y Va
riety and Crawford Springs IN ba'h
county, around which i'll the mountains
there are any quantity OF bears, wolves
and deer. We cross the AlleGhanics,
continuing our route, we pass through
irecnbricr into Fayettc. Here we flnd
coal. iron and timber in such quantities
that they are practically inexhaustlble.
On New River, (which with Gaulcy,
forms the Kanawha, is the celebrated
Hawks Nest. This Is an immense
hanging rock, several hundred feet
above the surface Of the water, ana 50
called from the fact that 4 large hawk
for many years built therein its nest E,
Soon we reach Kanawha Falls, which
is quite an interesting place. The Falls
present an imposing scene. Here We
found John III. Logic, son OF our es-
tcemed friend and citizen DIR. James
Logic, putting up claims. The Dr. had
arrived the day before, after giving us
some instruction in the claim business,
he left for Raleigh county, to meet us
in week or two in Lewisburg. The
mountains out here, make almost every
one strangers to each other. The poo
pie scarcely know where the roads lead
TO. After the DR. had crossed New
River, he asked stout West Nirginian
where a certain road led to, THAT road,
sir" says the mountalnccr, That road,
why that road goes to, goes hellwards. ="
We. ]. III. Logic henceforth will con
s,itute the other half OF the I'VE in this
letter. now return through Fayctte, and
oo,;n enter Grecnbrier, and on this de
li0htful Saturday afternoon, find our
selves in the shade of a tree, at the
White Sulphur Springs,that famous and |
nomlar summer resort, SO easily nested
1T the base of the Allcghanles, Here 1t
WAS our good fortune to spend day or
two very pleasantly , ,;,or,
There arc over five hundred VISITORS
Lan. ro,,rosentinr almost every city and