The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-05-14
FROM HIGHLAND TOWNSHIP.
The Wcather---EIiecis OF the winter
The GrOpS---ROad-, DE.
D-,,..,-r. T,,yNSurP MAY 10

Editors Register.
Not having seen anything from this
mart of the Pan Handle end Of our little
State. concluded to make my first at
tempt at writing 10 EXPIRES, my views on
few leading topics Of the day.
Spring. it appears, has come ut last,
and summer with it, "a usual. On the
sth the thermometer stood II! go in the
shade, which Is quite remarkable at this
time of the year, rs 1t was only tour de-
grees higher than that one time last sum
mer. and il was supposed to be the hot
test summer in this part for years.
Owing tothe severity OF the winter, to-
ecthcr with our usual April storms, our
wheat crop has almost failed We think
We can safely say it will not average
over two-tirths Of Il crop. Many of our
best Short Creek farmers have pIowcd up
whole fields of wheat, while others might.
with prudence, follow their example.
The fruit, We think, Wa, pretty generally
DESTROYED by the last frost, the leaves
and buds being frozen black on the
branches and dried to crisp. Some
farmers entertain hope that We will
have -omc small fruit. such as grapes,
brrrie, and 50 on. The hay crop, we
think, owing to the length OF the season,
will be light, rs most farmers had to
pustur, their meadows late.
Our roads still continue in Il bad con-
di,iun. being 50 rough that some of them
ar" almost impossible, and We suppose
unless new system of road working
is established they never will be any bet
ter. SO long as men are required 10 work
on roads they do not travel, You may not
expect them to take sufficient interest To
keep them in order. And they are not
warmed on any road Is generality until
fall. and now We think this fall system
of road working should be done away
with. Ii might have done a hundred
years ago, when they went altogether on
horseback and brought salt and other
produce over the mountains without the
all Of wagon, or railroads. But IN tins
enlightened day we think roads should
be- workcIin the spring. We thus have
TWO benefits arising from it: First, we
bnve the use uf said work all summer,
and second, il makes the road bed solid
for winter. We also think men should
bee required TO work on the road they
have 10 Use and We think they will do
more work in less time. Our old Board
O. Commissioners made some effort to
Grade the roud, Of the county, but We
,aink. had il not been for tie never firing
energy OF Mr.. Whitham, Of Liberty
township thew should have failed badly.
| speak in this place otthe Boggs hill road,
the particulars of which | was more ac-
quaiutrd with and more interested IN, al
though in Triadclphia township ii Is our
main outlet ~ Is gencueraIly known 1t
Wa, th" wish of the farmers the Boggs
ridge "a, well - that Of Mr.. Whitman TO
locate this road anew but the board would
not agrecto II. but appropriated money
for grading said hill When partly done,
they saw they had missed their mark,
and they wanted then to locate it anew.
but tn, farmer, would not do their hare,
and they only changed 1t in
part which part Wa, finished
last fall, but never been opened. Now,
what We are trying to get at is this:
Tie Commissioners did the work, and
agreed 20 make certain fence If the
farmers would make certain other por-
tons. TAc farmer, nave complied with
their part oftGc contract, and why do
t.. Commissioners no: fulfil their part.
Oh" farmers are expected 10 bear the eN-
ue.-a # getting new road, and wncn
tnr- 90 20. T.. must tug on, on the same
..I road near aboutly a year before they
can Use the new one, We think >om"-