Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-09-27
Letter from Leesburg.

ICorrespoudeocs of the Alexandra Gazette. |
LrESuuua, Va, Sept. 26, ls77.-The farmers
OF Loudouo have net much CAUSE for complaint
this year. There has been good wheat crop
at fair prices. grass for hay has been abundant,
the corn IS handling heavy 10 the cutting of,
the crop Ct peaches has been lair one, and
OF vegetables :here Is 80 abundance. 10 sd.
dition the interruption Of Western trains has
brought them fne prices for their cattle they
having sold out early at a profit Of from 70 to
10 PER ceat Now as to sheep husbaniry
gentleman told me to day that his ewes cost
i'm $3.50, their lambs sold at home Tor IS "a,
and five pounds Of wool brought Is cents
pou1d. Thus $4.49 on $3.50. or $l2o.2S Tor
an investment Of 800 This gentleman lives
10 he ueipito, hood Of Phlomont, about four
miles south OF PurceVe. Another one has
sbeep that cost him SC he sold the lambs for
s. and bis wool at % csLts pound. lie did
not know how many pounds no had, but 1t
ought GOT to have been less than fl0e and this
would have been 81 40 or $40 for an invest
meat Of &c. being Sl23.33 for 500. His
farm is 10 the Potomac Valley, Two miles from
I.acsburg. What would be said by these gen
temen To proposition to scale their sleeps
value; And yet il is gravel y proposed to cut
lOwo the value OF mab's bond because the
State promises to pay SIX per cent. On their
bonds, for which some OF them paid more than
800; some paid $43 aud could now sell for
sos, aud yet when they do sell they part with
| the entire body Of their estate they kill the
hen that lays the golden egg at the very best.
while the sheep farmer sells the eggs OF bis
hen for onc.iilh more than his hen cost him.
A gentleman living in Fauquicr tod ne he had
| land which cost &C. 500 that it was entirely 10
grass, ard that his share Of The graz ng was
| 5000. The fact is The farmer The merchant,
| tic mechanic, may get al he can for bis labor,
| skill and capital and he is on > talked OF as
shfewd, prosperous, business ua0, but let the
capitaIi.t make only fair gain 90 his invest
lncnt aud he is poated bobdhoIdcr, who must
be forced to REIMBURSEMENT Of the soemo obi.
ga:ijn Of the State thibk it hardly possible
that calm, sober reflection will tolerate such a
INDUSTRIOUS proposition. Dir. G. Il. Paxton,
who purchased half Of Exeter some years since,
and who has greatly improved il, and who
shortly afterwards purchased about 200 acres
CO the river, aud near the Fairfax line, called
'Scott's Bottom" for Sl2, aud who is also
improving it By fenciog, dtchng, &C.: more
recently purchased land between Belmont (Lud
we'll Lees former residence now owned by +.
P. Huotcr.l aud the Potomac, and containing
more than 500 acres, !or Sll,30 per acre, aud
who designs improving it 10 similar manner,
last Saturday purchased The other half of this
ilac, (Cilen) at 500. lie will, when this sale
is Confirmed, have mere than l,C00 acres east
Of Goose Greek, AID bordering 90 the river,
besides SCOTS Bottom and Exeter. Mr.. Pax.
tou was, and perhaps still il, President of the
Bloomsbury, Pa, Iron Works Company, and
is q gentleman Of means ard enterprise, who
will make these waste places blossom beautl.
fully Tha "Citen' tract had been owned by
Gusta7u. I4:rsner aud Geo. Kephart; the lat
tcrs land was sold to Mr.. Davis, q Canadian,
perhaps eight years ago, and he havi5g cut
| Of great part Of the timber, and sacrificed
the rest of the land, it was sold to pay The
remainder Of The purchase money; the one
tract is assessed at So, and the other at S.,
but the latter, by the sacrificing process, has
been vary much decreased 10 value, 50 We
20, poor farmer, without means scratches
his land to death; The one with means buys it
ard makes money on it. ALIQUES.