The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-03-26

such as cottonwood, soft maple, &C., tw
dollars and fifty to two dollars and seven
ty.dye cents per cord; good coal, fllet,
10 seventeen cents per bushel-nine cent
at the bank (though not 90 good as you
coaL. Stock pasture, forty.hve cents =
one dollar per acre-that means stocl
standing on the fields. Farms 10 rem
seem to be extremely scarce, more 90 thai
was ever known; every farmer will farm
oil he can; that 10 because we all look 10
good prices next season; We are going u
farm e25 acres this coming season; ",
raised over 1900 bushels oL smal
grain last year, nearly eighteen hundreC
bushels oi.wheat, the balance oats anC
barley. l 1sowed 80 much grain that thl
ends of my fingers on my right hAnt
would bleed In the mornings; my twt
brothers and ! done all the work in sow
ing, narrowing, and handling, ill thresh
ing, except thitty-seven dollars and iiltJ
cents for harvesting and you may know
we did not play. Our corn was mostly
light as the dry weather and q white worn
not as large as maggot worked on the
roofs OF It; It never bothers unless corn b.
planted three time In succession on thu
same ground; we have had very little rair
here since last fall was year, winter OF
summer, and SHOWS never do any good
as the ground scarcely opens from fall tc
spring; but we have 90 much faith In oul
soil, we think we can raise another iair
crop, with but little rain, and 1t may be
We will get 10 try 1t, although many pre-
dict very wet summer this season. / OK.
pect II unless VIC have q very heavy snow
fall; we so far have had the warmest win,
ter l ever saw, and to-day think the
snow Is fully IS inches deep. Mercury has
stood from ten 10 twenty degrees above
zero all winter except three or four days
1t Is changing this evening, and we look
Tor cold weather for few days but hope
We may be disappointed, as we have beer
all winter. We had good sleighing about
seven weeks. The hog market has held
out better than expected; fat hogs are
worth from "a 25 10 "a so per hundred
weight; very light or very heavy hogs
bring the best prices, that Is hogs weigh
ing from one hundred and twenty-five To
one, hundred and fifty pounds, Or three
hundred and twenty-five 10 four hundred
pounds In the rough. There was one
month that the buyers shipped from this
county fifty thousand hogs; they have
shipped from this county, over two hund-
dred thousand hogs during the last year;
this may seem large, but 1t is fact. One
month ago there were over ten thousand
head Of cattle feeding in the county; to
say nothing Of the stockers that are
wintering on hay and fodder, though
not so many feeding now as some have
been shipped; feeders will lose money;
they bought the cattle in the fall at iolr
to four and one fourth, and expected tobuy
corn for twenty-five cents or less. These
are facts in regard to the number Of head
shipped and being fed, so you may know
that we raise some corn in Warren county
or we could not do that; you may won
der where we got the hogs; we raise
them ourselves; we raised over one hun
dred head Of pigs last year, and have now
forty brood sows, with pigs Now where
we raise 80 many we can not count on as
many pigs at litter as if only few. They
will average about four pigs TO the SOW;
while writing | can think Of three hun.
dred or more soWs almost in this neigh
borhood. That Is the way we ship so
many hogs; good stock hogs are worth
four and one.iourth to four and three
fourths; lat cattle for March, five cents F.;
good yearlings eighteen to twenty.one
dollars per head. l am in the sheep
trade some; l am wintering three hun.
dred and fifty stock sheep; I have sixty
young lambs and have lost about thirty !;
| have about one hundred and twenty.
five to have lambs yet, though they will
not have lambs till after the first of May;
all that keep sheep IN this country let
them run together the year round l
expected, to have q big job with
them when I bought them, but
they turned out better than l
expected; I bought them In Nov.
ember tor two dollars and twenty-five
cents per head; I have been feeding them
well; they willshear about four and o half
tofour and three-touEths; pounds they are
good wooled sheep, and I am going to try
TO start flock from them; l am going 10
buy some more In the spring; think this
a splendid country Tor sheep Il will have
them herded on the prarie in the summer. !
dogs here are the worst; l have them shut
up every night; I am feeding them corn
in the ear on the ground; they do not
waste q grain, as have only had one
muddy day to feed; they get all the stock
feed they want; they eatabout FIVE bushels
Of shelled corn per day. Land is very
slow sale here but very little selling, but
more than was selling some time ago we
have had very hard times here, but they
are getting better; we think that in the
long run, the crash ishelping us; we think
We stood 1t better than the east; we feel
the effects Of eastern money here already;
we know that capitalists looked upon the
west as being bankrupt and would sooner
risk, their money In railroad bonds and
low interest, rather than send II here at
any interest; IL a man here hadza good
quarter Of land worth $500 he could not
borrow money to the amount OF more
than $3.50; but there are nowtwo or three
men here looking for a place to locate to
loan money as they say at reasonable In.
terest. Money has rated for three or four
years at from twelve to eighteen and
twenty per cent Now money begin.
ming to be tolerably plenty at from ten to
twelve with prospects, ofit being lower.
I forgot to say that one Of my neigh
bors is feeding four hundred wethers; he
refused FIVE dollars per head for them;
they will weigh one hundred d'snd twenty.
FIVE pounds; they are native COARSE =.
l must say a few words more about the
West and then close, have, written 3
long letter. but had 70 in order to tell You
what thought you wished TO know
about the West. You may In some parts
think have written some things to boast,
but far from Il, I have only told the truth,
so that you might form an idea Of your
own. In lew words more I would say
l know that'we will never roget that we
came West, we all like the country and
the people. The winters I like better than
rain and mud, but sometimes they are
very cold, but when 1t Is cold there Is no
wind and ypn ali Tgaar vVaFmaRs sNlNthaa