The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-05-04
fnrm SOtCs from the Interior.

We had pleasant cail yesterday, from
Mr. s. l.. Boyd, OF Glen Easton,a merchant
OF that place. Mr.. Boyd was raised in
Wc,zcl. and Il few days ago made n trip on
to The region around Silver Hill and Knob
Fork, where he used to live. lie speaks en-.
Enthusiastically OF the changes that have tax.
en- place in that part OF Wctzcl, in the way
Of improved farms and improved methods
Of living generally. Silver Hill, where he
used to hun, squirrels in the woods, is now
n thrifty hamlet in the midst OF n well cu.
tiyA,ei region, and the farms, now green
with excellent pastureand promising wheat
and oats, present very marked contrast
10 the scenes with which he was familiar
twenty-five years ago.
Sheep tusbandry has become an impor-
tant element OF success, and the amount OF
wool yearly marketed from that region
shows handsome increase. The profits
OF this culture have enabled the farmers 10
substitute handsome white houses for the
old time log cabins, and good fences for
very poor ones, or rather for no fences at
Nil, and also to clean up the land and cover
it with good live stock. The wheat pros
poets never were better. A large acreage
was sown last fall and no injury was done
by the freeze There will also be an abund,
Vncc Of apples, and also some small!
fruit, although peaches, pears, cher
ries, &c, were generally killed.
The country around Glen Easton, and up
about Tcrrill's school house and Rock Lick
has promising prospects in the way Of
cops. We need not say to those who have
visited that part OF Marshal! that it is
one OF the finest sections OF the
Panhandle. A great many sheep ure
raised in that region, and the land rates at
so, and $50 per acre, being highly i'm
proved. Twenty yearsago it went begging
at hall these prices, just as over in the
Silver Hill region land that is now worth
s25 used to sell for 81 80 per acre.
The farmers are discussing wool prices
just now, and their views are forty cents
per pound. 1t will take forty cents to
move the new clip. Some OF the largest
and best tloc. i are owned by such men as
silas and John ingram, Peter Grow, the
Pearcc brothers. Thos. Allen, Squire
Habbs, William and David Phillips, Isaac
Cox and John liagerman. These men arc
paying constant attention 10 tho improve,
ment OF their breeds, and are contributing
largely to raise the standard OF sheep cul,
ture in the State.
There is still some wheat and corn in
the hands OF farmers in the Cameron dis.
trict, but the holders are not very much
disposed TO part with it, even ut Sl.3O fol
wheat and SO cents for corn. 4 large acre.
age OF corn is being planted. Ii the sea.
SOD is favorable, the farm products Of that
region will be unusually large this year in
the way OF wheat, corn, oats and potatoes.
High prices always stimulate a large plant.
Ing, and this year will prove no exception
to the rule. The farmers are in good shape
tinancialiy-out Of debt and able 10 pay
Tor all they ueed--and able also. 70 hold
their wool aud grain until prices meet Their
views. 5.,.
a large amount OF timber is still shipped
to the city from Glen Easton station, con.
sisting mostly at present OF cooper stuff
The sale OF this timber, cut as it is in the
winter brings great many dollars into
the hands OF people who follow the bust.
ness and assists very materially in scduc.
ing the expenses OF clearing oil land and
reducing it to cultivation. The time was
when all, or most, OF this timber was
burned of the land for clearing purposes,
but now it has an increased value. Farmers
are finding ont that 4 bunch OF timber is /.
good thing to have, Us, in close proximity
to shipping facilities, it is rs good ms money
at interest. It was only the other day that
J. ". Mason, Of Grafton, was telling It's,
when speaking OF the great necessity for
arailroad from Grafton up the valley OF the
Valley river, that it would bring into
market vast amount OF excellent lumber
that Is now wholly lost TO the farmers Of
that region. There is no telling what
wealth has been sacrificed in log heaps by
the burning Of Cherry, Ash, Poplar and
even Walnut for want Of shipping facilities.
a railroad would nave 81 rcd mint OF
money i'll this way. The Gay is coming,
and is not far distant, when West Virginia
will see lumber hunters from other sections
OF the country coming into this State in
quest Of the very trees that have been thus
wasted.
Mr.. Eloyd has brother from Kansas
listing him who has been refreshing him.
self with visit to tho old stamping ground
in Wctzcl. lie says that it is mistake
for our people to leave tho cheap lands oil
such counties rs Wetzel to 30 West.
Here they have good soil, and healthiul
and genial climate, good markets ana sure,
crops than in Kansas, and lie advises all
who have land il West Virginia to stick 10
it, and not be lured away with iar Off pros,
poets in the West, most Of which arc never
realized.
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