The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-07-19
MAGorYIN COUNTY.
When Formed, her Population, Wealth,
Party Vote, Etc.

and eighth county formed in the
state, and was made up from parts
of Morgan, Floyd, and Johnson.
The soil along Licking river is
moderately fertile. The hill land
produces from fifteen to twenty
five bushels (three to five barrels
of corn to the acre. There is a
great deal of poplar timber in the
county, which is hoated down Lick
ing river to market, each winter
and spring, in considerable guam
titles, whenever there is sufficient
water. There is also a great deal
of oak, beech, and other heavy
hardwood timber, none Of which,
however, is being shipped. There
is, too, some walnut timber, but
most of the choice walnut trees
have been shipped. Some camel
coal is shipped from Magoffin, on
poplar RATS, to the lower markets.
Magoffin has, as yet, no railroads,
bnt the "Kentucky Midland from
Frankfort, via Paris, Owingsville,
West Liberty, Prestonville, and |
Pikeville, to the state line, at the
Breaks of Sandy" will pass thro'
the county via Salyersville, the
county-seat, and it is believed will
be completed at an early day, it
being one of the numerous railways
recently projected to aid in the
development of the mineral and
timber wealth Of Eastern Kentucky
Already the forty-mile section from
Frankfort to Paris is under con-
tract, and in rapid process of con-
struction, while the means to build
the remaining sections, at least to
n self-continuing point, are practi-
cally in hand, or, at any rate, in
sight. Our county roads are not
in good condition. We have no
road laws, except the general law {
of the commonwealth, and the gem
eral character of our county roads
is not so good as it might be, and
certainly ought to be. There are =
no turnpike roads in the county. S
Licking river, heading in the eX-
treme southwestern corner of the
county, runs through the whole Z
length of the county to the center
of the northern boundary line, but
is navigable only for RATS and flat i
boats. There are no streams with a
available water-power for machin- "
cry. The character of the timber il
of Magoffin is that of the noun
tains generally. The oak, beech,
and poplar predominant in quanti- p
ty among the timber available for a
merchantable purposes. The prin- "
cipal agricultural products, of $
which surplus is produced for I
market, are wheat and corn. The t
grasses best adapted to the soil of d
our county, and which are consid- i.
cred most useful and profitable, t
are timothy, red clover, herds V
grass, and orchard grass, and are &
the four species of grasses mostly
,own. Timothy is sown for hay, c
while herds grass and orchard &
grass are sown for pasturing. Clo- o
yer is sown for both pasture and /,
lay. as we'll as for fertilizing. W
There has been no material change l
or the better in agricultural meth Il
IDS. The soil in the uplands is c
leteriorating in fertility because W
10 attempt is made to revive it by O.
he considerate sowing of grasses 81
fter an exhausting crop of corn or Of
obacco. There has been no immi- d
ration to Magofiin county in the
ast few years. There has been no re
aarked increase in the population fe
the county in the last two years. c.
avaral steam saw-mills and grist- ID,