West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-11-22
Freeman Trip Notes.
From Huntington to Hinton Through
the New River Gorges-Hoeo the
Country scas Made, What%s Worth,
&c., &C., DC.

Country aons Made, Wh0t@S "o'"''
&c., &C., &c.
Last week we set out to give some
hasty notes of our recent trip,
through Ohio, down the Ohio and
up the Chesapeake & Ohio K. Il. to
Hinton and return.
Getting as far as Huntington, we
sent back the records OF our Jour
ney to that point, and thus much
was duly filed away among the
classics in last weeks FREEMAN.
Further notes of our trip were duly
indited but failed to reach the
FREEMAN's base at Parkersburg IN
time for last issue.
When we reached Huntington
we expected to 60 on through lE
the night. Why we didn't will
appear from our notes jotted down
next day while perched on stump
on the mountaih-top overlooking
the wide-awake little city of Hin
ton.
Taking a few fresh whltfs OF su.
per-mountain air,thus thousands OF
feet above "tide" and a halliday be-
hind "time," we thought it a safe
occasion for some observations on
TINE AND TIDE.
Cline and Tide wait for no man )"
yes, we understand that, and we've
found its converse to be true, as
we'll /; that every man has got to
wait for Time and Tide, especially
if they're coming on belated train ;
and thus it was with us last night.
Instead of coming through in the
darkness as we expected, it was for
US to wait on Time through the
dark watches, and come through by
daylight. But then the G. & 0. Of
icials were
VERY ACCOMMODATING,
in that they only asked us to wait
little bit at a time; SO that our
waiting was not so monotonous and
wearisome as otherwise might have
been. There had been a wreck
somewhere toward Lexington, and
the train. was an hour late, we
were told. The hour up, an hour
and half more was announced, and
when we had enjoyed that time to
the full, it was three-quarters again,
and then a half, and so on for five
hours. So, having the delay cut
up into "reliefs," we got through it
very we'll, and at last came whiz-
zing up the rich Kanawha Valley
on the Express, and on up through
those fearfully and wonderfully
piled-up
NEW RIVER GoRGEs,
that give man so small an idea OF
himself as to wish himself hawk,
to sail from cliff to cliff and crag to
crag and see as man can't see, the
wonders of this wonderful country.
AS we shot under the rocky ribs
of these perpendicular mountains
and ratified along beneath the cliffs
and above the boulder-b blocked bed
of New River, we clean forgot we
were behind time, and our awaken
ed wits went back to the origin of
things below, to figure out SOM
logical theory as to the construc-
ton of this part of the country, and
if possible be able to answer the
first and most natural inquiries a.
TO
FAYETTE CouNTY-WHY AND HOW
MADE?
And here IS our theory. A good
spell ago, when the world-makers
were in business, an immense
amount of all sorts of necessary ma
terials had been gathered together
in the Universe Yards: and after
completing according to contract,
the moon, stars and all the planets,
and cooperin up few 'mets and
things by way of. extras, with no
orders for any more worlds, they
found the yards Uttered up with a
great lot of shapeless rocks and
hills and mountains and rejected
trees and stuff of all kinds, and in
cleaning up to quit business they
just hauled all this conglomerate
mass of rubbish to the edge and
dumped it newfoundland here's
where it dropped-and stopped and
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