Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-07-27
Pennsylvania Notes.

According to one of its citizens VIII
recently took the census of the towr
Hopeweil has q population Oslo. Th
valley in which it lies is very small
consequently there is not room for
very large place; but the houses on tn
Main street are built close together
The Huntington and Broadtop raj
road runs north and south through tn
eastern edge of Hopewell. Two an
one-half miles east of the town are lc
Gated the Sandy Run coal mines, an,
three miles south of it are the Six Mil
Run, or Riddelburg Mines. A few
days ago in company with the genia
and gentlemanly general manager O
the Sandy Run Coal Company, Mr.
John Langdon, I boarded the Goa
train and went out to the mines, anC
MIR. Langdon took me through then
and explained to me how they wer,
,, worked. We rodein the mines-whicf
go in the earth the distance of abou
one-half mile-on the dump cart
drawn by mules. About 5000 tons O
coal are shipped from these mines pei
month, and at present from fifty te
sixty men are engaged in taking it out
Every man that applies for work is EN-
ployed. I am told that one shaft in
the Riddelsburg Mines extends under
ground three miles. did not go in
there. They had another picnic and
dance near Hopewell last Saturday, ii
being the day OH which both Riddles
burg and the Sandy Run mines were
paid. Everything went off smoothly
during the afternoon, but about dark
when the men were feeling pretty
good" the fun commenced. Up to II
o'clock P. NJ, no less than fifteen fights
We're INDUCED in, both in town and on
the picnic grounds. Nobody was dam
aged very seriously. The whiskey sold
here l believe can not be beat in the
West. One glass ofthe stuff will make
a man lighting mad, two glasses will
make him crazy, and three glasses will
lay him out for about twelve hours.
There are three "hotels" in Hopewell
where liquor is sold, and q majority of
the male Inhabitants are hard drink
ers, while the majority OF the women
are strict Church members, and strong
advocates of Temperance.
LETT Hopewell on Monday at Z
o'clock, on the H. & B. r. r.. and ar
rived at Hyndman at 12:15 O'Clock,
where 1 took the Baltimore & Ohio
train for this place, which was due at
1:2O. 1t being nearly half hour be-
hind time, had to wait at HyEdman
nearly four hours, which was tire
some sold watt" as is generally the
case with the small places where pas
sengers have to await connections.
Hydman Is nothing but a One-horse
town. It has three hotels. two or three
stores, barber shop,a church-house, a
and about two dozen pri-
vate dwellings. A short distance above
the town is located a pressed brick
Two railroads pass
through the place, branches of the
and the Baltimore and
Ohio railroads.
/ arrived in Ursina, Somerset county,
at o'clock p. NJ, Monday. This town
is about the size of, and the houses are
over about the same amount
of territory as Ironton. It is said to
be only twelve years old. 1t was CIV
en- it's first start ny the coal excitement
near there; but the mines that were
opened have been abandoned on &C
count of the coal not making good coke. |
The town is still kept up by the lum-
Der business, which is carried on quite
The lumber is shipped |
by rail from here to Baltimore, where |
it is then shipped to England. Ursina
Is about 100 miles west of Hopewell. |
About the crops in theparts of Penn
sylvania through which have been:
wheat is harvested, and is about the
largest and best crop ever known here,
oats, also have turned out splendidly;
corn is growing nicely and the pros
poets are flattering; hay-mostly timo-
thy and clover mixed-will also pan
put first-rate in quantity and quality.
The early potato crop was never bet
ter, and the prospect for the fall crop
IS good; the Colorado bug has been
eating the vines some, but without
much injury to the potatoe.
Apples and peaches do not amount
70 anything in this section of the State,
md other large fruits are not much
better. There will be plenty of grapes
though, and wild fruits, such as rasp-
berries, dewberries, buckle berries and
black berries will be very plentiful.
Ursina, Pa, July Is. w. A. T.
Minnesota and Missouri.
ST. PAUL, July 20, 1882.
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