The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-07-25


the junction of the Paladora with
the Beaver River. You can look
down the Beaver River for four or
FIVE miles and can look up both the
Beaver and Paladora nearly as far,
while on each side is gently sloping
hills about one hundred to one hun
dfed and fifty feet above the level
of the Rivers. These Rivers are
only what we would call large
creeks in West Virginia; they are
from ten to thirty feet wide and two
to seven feet deep and furnishes an
abundance of pure, clear water, the
year around. The Beaver River
flows East and forms the North
fork of the Canadian River. The
public land strip is bounded on the
North by Kansas and Colorado,
Feast by Indian Territory, South
by the the Texas Panhandle and
West BY New Mexico It is one
hundred and sixty eight miles long,
East and West, thirty four and a
half miles wide North and South,
and contains ,349, ,44O acres of land.
The strip is watered nicely from
West to East by the Beaver River
and its tributaries, the principal OF
which is the Coldwater, Paladora,
JaclSsons creek, Fulton creek, Chic
hata creek, Sharp creek, Willow
creek as we'll as a great many others;
but must not forget Sat creek.
which is name familiar with many
Mason county readers. This creek
flows into the Beaver River just be-
low Grand Valley; the water in it is
very salty and certainly would re
quire very little boiling to make
geod salt.
In the Western part of the strip
is found deposits of coal in album
dance as well as gold, silver and
other metals; there is also timber in
the Western portion. The princi-
pal towns are Opina, Hardesty,
Central City, Grand Valley, Boyd,
Paladora, Rothwell, Beaver City,
Neutral City, Alpine, Benton, Ivan
hoe. Fulton and several others; all
of these are places of only few
houses except Beaver City, which
is a town of three or four hundred
inhabitants and quite business
place. Mr.. C. c. Maddy, who owned
the large peach orchard on Georges
Creek, Ohio, opposite Point Pleasant,
lives mt Beaver. No doubt many of
your readers remember him. He
and his wife are living here very
comfortably. They have a claim
about one mile from Beaver City,
which will be very valuable in a
short time. We also have a West
Virginian at Optisna, Capt. Vandi-
yer, from Huntington. This is an
unusually healthy country. There
are very few Doctors. an they, poor
fellows, are about starved out. The
air is so pure that it will cure
diseases that Doctors can not.
Fresh meat is hung up in the air
in the shade and keeps for several
days before spelling.
The wind blows constantly;
have been here now for more than
month, and the wind has not stop
ped blowing since 1 arrived; and it
is we'll it does blow, as the heat
would be terrible without it. The
principal crops raised here now arc
corn, millet. oats and potatoes. All
kinds of vines. water and musk
melons and cucumbers grow with
out any cultivating scarcely. The
country abounds with antelope,
wolves, cayotes, prairie chickens,
jack rabbits, as well as several other
kinds of small game. There is in
the western part of the strip few
buffalo yet, but their race is about
run. In crossing the prairies their
old paths, which always led to water,
are plainly seen yet.
The strip has very few churches
SO far, but nearly every settlement
has its preaching once or twice
month. The Rev. r. NJ. Overstreet
has built a very substantial and
neat Presbyterian church at Beaver
City. We have preaching at Grand
Valley twice month, by Rev C.
F. Mellor, Methodist Preacher,
and have Sabbath School every Sun
day,
There are nc public schools in the
strip, but each community club to-
gether and hire teacher and have
4 to months school each year. We
have two mails a week from Lib
eral, Kansas, a distance of 30 miles.
Grand Valley, which we have rea-