The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-03-16

objection, imaginary or real, tnat
farmer candidates for Office cannot
cope with professional politicians, a
correspondent of the Charleston COur-
Ter says that converts are not made
from the stump, and that the people
naturally sympathizo with a plain
man who has a plain story to tell
Speaking of farmers versus politi-
clans, reminds us that the master
granger of West Virginia, B. NJ.
Kitchen, was an old politician. At
the last annual meeting of the State
Grange he thus addressed the breth-
rem.
Then, Patrons, come to the front;
let politicians who exhibit in our
halls of legislation so much doeskin
and beaver cloth, to say nothing Of
their misdirected legislation and
questionable morals, take a more
humble position.
The Mountain Herald (Braxton
county, says that the leading farm
ers of that county have ordered
twelve of the Watt & Call turning
tplows. rr,
Bestor, State Centennial agent, has
found n vein of coal in Randolph
county thirty-eight feet thick.
A correspondent from Harrison
county infoms the editor of the West
on Democrat that he has cattle two
years old weighing from 1900 to Il
400 pounds each, and yearlings that
weigh 1000.
There are now 440 oranges in this
State, with and aggregate member
ship of about $4,000.
An IMPORTANT LAw,-By the laws
of West Virginia, land owners are
not permitted to dig or mine coal
within five feet of the line dividing
their land from the adjoining land.
That is to say, coal cannot be mined
or taken from within five feet of the
division line. For every violation of
this law, the land owner shall pay
$500 to any person injured thereby.
See Code of West Virginia, page 4S6.
We clip the following from Mr..
Geo, w. Atkinson's history of Kama
wha county, now being published in
the West Virginia Journal.
MASON COUNTY.
Along the Ohio river, in Mason
county, are number Of manufacture
ing towns, which add much to the
wealth and enterprise of the county.
For u distance of perhaps five or six
miles along the shore of the Ohio, OPP
posite Pomeroy and Middleport, the
tall chimneys of salt furnaces and
rolling mills blackcn the air with
volumes of coal smoke which con-
Stantly pours forth from their tower
ing SUBMITS. The sound of the me-
chanic's hammer, the hum of the en-
CINE, and the whistle of the steam
boat, all evidence the fact that there
is life and vitality in that section of
! the State,
MASON CITY
Is the largest of the five towns that
Join each other and form n series of
towns for five or six miles in length.
Hartford City and New Haven lie i'm
mediately above Mason City, while
below it, in the order in which they
are mentioned, lie the towns of Cliff
ten and West Columbia. The aggre.
| gate population of these places, were
they thrown together, would make a
city of fully six thousand inhabi-
tants.
SALT MAKING
Is the principal business which is
carried on in all of them. In fact, |
believe there is one or more furnaces
ineach of the towns named above, and
a large quantity of salt is annually
made here and shipped down the
Ohio river by barges or steamboats,,
TO the western markets, thus employ
ing thousands of laborers and bust
ness men at reasonable wages At
Clifton is a large
NAIL FACTORY AND ROLLING MILL,
Which turns out several hundred
kegs per day of the various kinds of
nails. 1t is one of the largest estab-
lishments of the kind on the Ohio
river, and has been q source of vast
wealth to Mason county and its citi-
zens 1t is a forcible illustration of
the already well understood facts
in political economy that manufact-
cries of every class and kind are the
life and hope of any country,
The gardens will soon demand at
tontion, and the head of the family
will be yelling for the shovel and
the hoe.
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