The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-15

the Democracy Of the candidates, and sets
the imblbGrs 70 yelling and fighting for
their men.
speaking Of the vote on the Capital loea.
ton, Mr.. Cunningham confirms what has
always been suspected In this part Of the
State, that in the Third district the vote
was Of the most Wholesale and unrestricted
character. In other words, and In plain
words, II was illegitimate 10 considerable
extent-in fact, q fraud. But as fraud
often Crystallizes into history and becomes
an accepted fat aeeompl," 80, wesuppose,
this Capital location vote on the State Of
West Virginia will crystalline by right Of
conquest into vested right.
Putting aside the past, and also some
features 0f the present, the Kanawha re-
HiOn Is ono Of the most interesting and
promising portions Of tho State. The spirit
Of progress has invaded II. Considerable
immigration is going into II. A new order
Of things Is gradually making itself felt,
albeit the country has still u long way to
travel to get out Of the woods Our friend
recently made a surveying trip up into the
edge Of Roane, 10 the Bruen tract Of land,
comprising several thousand acres.
We asked him particularly about
these large tracts Of land, and he
explained that in the Bruen case they were
being divided up into farms and sold out
To tillers Of the soil. The titles were gradu.
ally quieting, and in few years there
would be no more difficulty about con.
fliAing titles. Senior and Junior patents
were being reconCiled in some cases by
the holder Of the senior accepting the
mineral under the land Us his portion, and
the junior the surface as his portion. The
Asphalt interest had been making adjust.
ments Of this character. Good lands were
being sold at from S5to.SG per acre-Ihost.
ly in timber. In Mr.. C.'s late trip he found
some excellent and prosperous farmers OF
Irish birth named FOgerthy, who were set
tied in the vicinity OF C0penhaver's
Mills, on the edge OF Kanawha and
Roanc counties. Three brothers OF this
name had married three German sisters in
franklin county, Virginia, and had come
out to the Valley and settled on these cheap
lands. They were shrewd, economical and
prosperous farmers, had accumulated cat.
lie and sheep, and given an example to the
old native stock as to the possibilities OF the
country they inhabited. lie could not but
contract one night that he spent in the
cabin Of one OF the natives, with the next
night in the white frame and well arranged
farm house Of one Of the Fogerthy broth.
en-. In the former the farmer and guests all
slept in one room. Two pigs occupied one
portion Of the large fireplace.
There was no feed for the horses and iod.
der had to be brought from half mile
away. Supper consisted Of corn bread
baked in "DutCh oven" where the meat
was fried after the-bread was taken out. At
Fogerthy's there was biscuit and bread,
made out Of flour, as well rs corn bread,
and ham and eggs. preserves, good coffee
and cream, plenty Of room and good beds,
and all the comforts OF well to do house.
hold. And yet one farmer had Just rs good
a chance us the other. Thus confirming
the old couplet running
1.-THE luck Of a man lies In hissand;
There's more In the man than the land"
What the Kanawha county needs, as in.
deed many other portions OF West Vir.
ginia, is more OF the FOgerthy class OF set.
tiers. The old stock is too old for change or
progress, and new blood is needed. Ten
thousand industrious, thrifty, managing
families from the North, or from Europe,
would set the current in the right direction.
The State is full OF inviting opportunities
for this class OF Immigrants. Now is the
time, when farms are cheap, for to come in
and occupy the land. The next census will
see these cheap lands worth great
deal more money. Very much Of the land
is well timbered and great deal of it un.
derlaid with valuable coal. This lumber
and this coal are coming into market in the
near future. Railroads are projected in all
directions through the State and some oil
them will be built soon, and many OF them
at later day. The resources OF the State
are literally forcing themselves on the at.
tention Of capitalists in the East, and one
by one the most available opportunities
will be absorbed.