Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-12-22

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'asn, ASH, ~ Ssf.s from the northwest END
-sN,Hh w. - citizens These particular
! ,Aes are tapped by what Is
~ reci,.s ria nsllr' railroads. When all so
-, The rev ,.l.rt, .tntable timber has been elr
or,,l ,,i,lo,ss .tticulur district the syndicate
n annual s,l4 I pull up stakes and move "a
4 his eonl,nf al to another forest. tie "oiazes
ann of Geo. through another forest OF un
- for a distance of 20 or 80 miles as al
sois tco.4 row would fy and Their lays down the
videnti Tnrallel lines of wooden rails, or TIM
i lboseSers over which he lays some old IRON
4 rails. He gets a few half xornsout nat
s1.,,x lf.rs and now has q "railroad.' He
so' ~ ~ &.,,ts the timber for mile or two on
loid ss.'H each side as the road works its way
~ into the forest. 1t finally runs out on
'ig ff;ssne other side in open land. into a
~ swamp, or TO a river, where it stops,
= s,,sd and another village is founded"
tnAntt The road starts from nowhere in par
sosisS ticular and ends almost anywhere, and
we've after all of the timber has been cut and
! sch transported to the mills, and thence to
w or the markets, the majority of the log
gers" remain at the camps, which have
"a now become villages. They get the
WI land almost at their own price, and set
Ma tie down into farmers. And thus the
timber syndicates are indirectly supply
IA ing the country with settlers, while de-
tXA nuding the forests Within the past
& few years, more especially, these sec
&&# tions have received a large number of
#@ emigrants, and, as q rule, the "loggers"
IN become good and industrious citizens
m But the Mississippi valley has received
N4SIN much larger emigration, owing to its
NJ greater advantages in transportation
m facilities and the richness of it's farm
ny ing lands and forests
AAD Lands are cleared for settlement
I which. only for the timber pure'---eds'
S would perhaps remain iisairIroad. 'eaas'
and the little "sRion 10 Az r,n 1pen
~x.ss lines of commp,yentpaIIvh ao... "iIous
camps" Wiling to villages. And -
JIG roadsances the spur" roads have
TuRsomedanged into regular feeders for |
o,I Though line railroads At this rate of |
-. ,rogress and settlement the Mississ;nni
- rforninpNiey in western Tennessee and south
- 80 Kansas and northern Louisiana will
n Ame as thickly settled as Coma ~ *
western states, and their rich
p IL WAS reSSnd oak forests will disappear or
Rnyery large holes will be cut "a =
lie here in the ohese sections have one great
no DISTRICT Of YeoT-tbAt of small streams and
Tho orle.i.sa clIstT Is no end 30 small streams .
he l,ewigged andipN numerically. and RATS are =
>LnQan presided Oiiu oue 1ntO The other
ress street, and looeeached, at no cost, save :"
t used TO look, but I'd muscle, which cuts y
ime misplaced upon,ite logger. This mode
ecay, and neglect has pea clear gain over
ravishments oby the great num- I
r. just little bit of Co. |
would make the quaint an \
lie frame building look q
ious again.
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government bLS
as erected in 1856 ap,sS TT
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