The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-06-27
Around The Bend.

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enty-four acres off his Morgan tract
of land in Cooper district, to Geo
Click, of jackson county, $500 pei
acre.
a farmer when asked about drops
the other day said rain is needed
awful bad, everything suffering"
Then when it began clouding up
and threatening, said well, if it
sets in raining now it will spoil
lots of wheat that's out, and 80 it
goes.
1t is an old saying that, "a fertile
crop of wheat makes large crop
of marriages" which, if true, the
"orap" of happy couples to walk
up to the bride halter this year,
will be short.
New Haven at this time is about
the most prosaio little town around
the bend, since the coal works have
ceased to be and so many people
have moved away, separating wives
and husbands, lovers and sweet
hearts, not smile has been notice.
able on the face of either man or
beast. If anybody has prescrip.
tion for producing smiles, telegraph
it, homeopathic doses, to New
Haven.
If Ruttencutter can poll as many
votes as polls he has capped with
his summer caps, he will be an
easy winner in the fall race. His
name and caps are by far the most
numerously numerous of any from
Old Town to High Knob.
1t is wonder to us, why SO
many people who are building new
and expensive residences, should
SO persistently follow the old ster-
eotyped plan of custom made
houses, of an etfete civilization, in
stead of the modern plan of moro
artistic and hygenio principle. Too
many build on the principle we
have always built barns.
We met a gentleman from back
in Roane county the other day,
who is acquainted with the gold
prospect out there, and he says the
assayist at Baltimore pronounces
the sample quartz sent him "pure
California gold" and that it does
not belong to West Virginia" The
seem to bear the
truth of his theory. The rock con-
the gold found in Roane,
will weigh perhaps ton, and is of
A peculiar character, no other rock
Of tho kind to be found near it.
1t is thought possible the rock may |
have been carried down from the
North and deposited whore it is
during the glacial period. 1t lies
in Wilderness of woods.
If Taylor Fry, commissioners,
wants to do do anything upon re-
tiring from the County Court, to
mako himself renowned and his
cherished among men, he
should have that water vein open
ed up and a good big water trough
re- established at Hanging Rock,
by the road side, between Hartford
and Mason. If he don't he will be
eternally damned by every dog,
COW, hog, horse and passer by, as
long as the world stands.
1t has been some sixty-six years
since William Arbuckle, Esq, one
of Mason county's earliest citizens
of business enterprise put down
salt we'll at Leon, and struck what
was at that time regarded the
strongest salt water known any
whore in the country. Old Mr..
Greenlee, father of Morgan, de-
ceased, and one Vim. Lee, and 9TH
ers, worked at the well, all of whom
have since passed into the great
beyond. The we'll was about fifty
yards above the bridge on Thirteen
mile creek. not trace of whore
stood the furnace and works now
remaining. For many years an old
gum stump marked the place, but
it has been lost. The we'll was
tubed with copper to the depth of
200 feet, and thirteen barrels of the
best salt were made in kettles when
work was stopped, the neighbor-
hood being supplied with all the
salt needed and no demand fol
more, and Benjamin Byrum, then
an old man, plugged the we'll and
placed hollow gum over the toI
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