The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-07-04
CROP PROSPECTS.

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| Prospects for living this year and for an
abundant reward TO the farmer are cheer.
Ing indeed. Spring wheat Ia excellent
and 10 expected to yield % bushels per
acre, promising much better than last
year. at which time the yield &versged 22t
bushels per acre. More than 800 acres
are sown In our immediate vicinity, and
harvest will begin within three weeks.
Corn, either sod or old ground, never
promised Q better crop 4 have 20 acres
o. sod corn. After turning the sod in It's
widest state took my spade and cut the
sod and then dropped the corn. Strange
as II may seem to your farmers, who hoe
their corn up like ant hills, my corn Is
now waist high, and ! have hopes VI from
% to 40 bushels per acre. ol7
| q 4 VEGETABLES AND TRRRs.
| Vegetables, are looking splendid, and
We aretdaily Allowing away Q goodly
quantity for the stomach's sake. We
planted some beech, chestnut and hickory
trees from seed sent US from Rome, and
the trees are growing fihelyss The chests
nut takes The lead. The BoIl seems, pc
culiarly adapted to It: II General Fre-
mont could be made to see this country,
now clothed as 1t 10 with the fruits of the
soil, he would have 10 conclude that the
Great American Desert" as he called 1t,
u myth Of his Imagination, that exists
only in that pumpkin head Of his. AL.
though within So miles OF Fort Kearney
and within 10 miles Of Platte river, the
principal old emigrant route across The
plains, yet 1t takes very close scrutiny to
discover the merest existence Of sand In
the soil. By our Oldest farmers the land
ls pronounced o rich black loan, with
clay mixture, to q great depth. Every.
thing grows with wonderful rapldity.
. THE CLIMATE.
As to the climate, after an experience
Of winter and summer, I pronounce It as
fine as can be found anywhere, Judging
from the absence OF sickness and disease.
The doctors complain thatit Ia "distress-
ingly healthy We have no doubt Of
our desirable location inthis respect. We
are seldom, il ever, deprived OF o fresh
breeze, which sweeps over the prairies
mostly from the south, southeast and
southwest.
COUNTRY FILLING UP.
The country Is becoming very thickly
settled. Government lands were ali
taken up o year ago and many arc now
buying railroad lands, valued at from
four 10 ten dollars per acre, and are 10
increase In price, very little being lett In
this county. wish l could prevail on
those who are roofing among the old
stumps and rocks OF West Virginia To-
come, out here where they can draw one
good long breath during the day without
the fear Of losing their centre Of gravity
as Is the case on those ancient hill sides.
Farming does not seem so much oil Q
drudgeryin this country as with your
people.
.-.-# GOING A FISHING.
We Virginlans are going a fishing to-
morrow, TO the Plat river, which abounds
with fine fish. We propose to have o lit
lie jollification and let our better halves
ASNS y sA9n4o AuOA A. t1o uuUld E6u
man." his squaws and papooses. These
copper colored native Americans arc
quite numerous this month on the great
bottoms, where they are hunting game,
which Is very plenty. A large, fne but.
ialo was killed few days ago within two
miles Of Us, and q good share Of 1t fell to
Us, and was excellent eating. Antelopes
and deer come almost to our doors, but
are always on the sharp lookout. Young
antelopes are being captured now, and,
MessrS. Editors, Il / knew how, ! would
like to send you one TO play with, and to
please the curiosity Of the Wheelingites.
They make beautiful pets.
RAILROADS.
Railroads are getting to be quite numer.
Gus. A new enc, nearly finished, will
furnish us competition by three principal
lines direct 10 St. Louis and Chicago.
With the impetus thus already given to
improvements IN this country I predict
for 1t future ouch as will ere long excite
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