The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-06-07
Wesf Vlrlnin Lands.

have imigratedtothis State, purchas-
ed lands and become thrifty and in
dependent. we are informed that
number of the Inhabitants of the
mining and manufacturing districts
of that State, who have suffered so
much in the late financial crisis,
have determifd either at once to
seek homesteg1 elsewhere, and oc-
cupy and deveRp them, or to buy
lands and makepartial improvement
in order to guard against such calam-
ityin the future, and provide for their
families, We know OF no otherState
better suited for this purpose than
West Virginia, The climate is mild
er and more genial than that OfPenn-
sylvania, aud is eminently health
full. Most of the lands are clothed
with magnificent timber. Poplar
white oak, wild cherry, walnut, ash,
sugar,maplc and birch-mach of it
of immense size; inlaid with almost
inexhaustil beds Of coal of different
and superior varieties ,and large
quantities of iron and other minerals;
and supplied with water well suited
to furnish power for machinery for
manufactures. The sugar-maple,
which abounds in great profusion,
affords the material for making in
definite quantities of delicious sugar,
which is in great command at prices
that are profitable to those engaged
in manufacturing it. The soil is
rich and loamy, or clay suited to the
production of wheat, rye corn, buck
wheat, oats, barley, potatoes, tobacco,
grapes, and other fruits, but more
especially to the growth ofblue grass
timothy, and other grass for the fat
toning Of cattle and sheep, and for
the production of butter ard milk.
Our hills and many of our noun
tains are often more fertile on or near
the tops than our valley; while we
believe in Pennsylvania the noun
tains and many of the hills are bar
rem.
The advantage of this State which
we have suggested, and many Others
that our space will not permit us to
mention, are nsiriking contrast with
the disadvantages of the plains west
of the Missouri. Cold, fierce and cut
ting winds from the Rocky Noun
tains, unbroken for hundreds ofmiles,
without wood for fences, houses or
fuel. or water to irrigate the soil or
slake the thirst of man or beast, sub
ioct to the ravages of grasshoppers
and other insects, and the diseases
that such condition naturally pro,
notes, are few of the disadvantages
that country is subjected to. We
would suggest that it may be well for
citizens by letters or otherwise, to
call the attention Of their friends else
where to this subject. In the parts
of the State where poplar, sugar and
beech, principally prevail, there is
but little underground. This may
be cut withanaxe without grabbing,
and the trees not retained for lumber
girdled, at but small expense. The
brush so cut can be burned, and as
soon as the trees. are sufficiently dead
to let in the sun to the virgin soil,
blue grass spontaneously springs up
and fiourishes. Thus the labor and
expense of clearing for gass farm is
not one.fourth what it is in many
countries. Those who have means
would do well to purchase lands and
hack and girdlc, and give them some
attention, with Il view to the com
pletion of their improvements in the
future. 1t is believed that lands can
now be purchased at lower figures
than they can in the future, and we
would advise all who entertain the
idea of looking for new homes to ex-
anime this season the West Virginia
lands Weston Democrat.