The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-28
Around the Curve.

Everything about the same il
not little samer.
Wildwood has declared boycott
on water.
Truth is stranger than fiction,
around the curve, for the reason
there is less of it in circulation.
Prof. Harris, of the Ohio Valley
College at Ravenswood, has been
circulating about, soliciting stu
dents for thst institution of learn
ing.
All our produce men have return
ed from the South and all report
as having done very we'll, with their
potatoes. UP in New York pota-
toes are selling at % cents, while
here the same are 60 cents and
more, and on an ascending scale.
The East End Literary Society
of Pomeroy, and the Morning Star,
above Letart, will discuss the Pro-
hibition question, at the latter
place, next Tuesday night, Pomeroy
taking the affirmative. After the
debate all members participating
will be banqueted by the Letart
Society.
There may be lead in this coun-
ty, and if so there are but few who
know it, and they are SO reticent
as to say nothing about where it is.
Many years ago older inhabitants
remember of several tar kills hav-
ing been conducted for the manu-
faoture of tar, at different points in
the upper part of this county, and
one of them WIS located near Mrs.
ShirIey's, about whore it is now
rumored lead mine was operated,
and where they say lead is still to
be found. May it not be possible
that the ruins now strewn about
there are but those of an old tar
kill? It may be true they are.
Some sixty years ago famous
sugar camp stood in the same neigh
borhood, where every season the
men and women for miles about
used to gather, camp out for weeks
ct time, enjoy themselves and
make sugar. Another long forgot
ten industry, but quite a paying
one, was lamp black factory, con-
Quoted by Mr.. Mattox, near the
same historic ground. The pro-
duct of this, as we'll as the tar fac
tories, was taken to Letart, and
from there shipped to southern
cities, to market. There may have
been other factories, but if SO there
are remaining but little evidences
of them. There was story current
a week or so ago that the Indians
had taken old Grandfather Love,
long since departed, to spot in
Cooper district, and showed him a
lead mine and where together they
smelted it. It is said the good old
man died, having kept the secret
OF the spot in his heart from every
one, except Byrd Rayburn, Esq"
to whom and whom alone he i'm
parted it, but your reporter has fol-
lowed this story far enough along
the road, to believe no oredenoe can
be placed in it. One thing we are
certain of anyhow is, knowing Hon.
Byrd Rayburn as we do, and know
ing him to be the great broad lib
eral minded man that he is, that if
he knew anything about where a
lead mine is or was in this county,
he wouldn't let the people go very
long in suspense about it.
OF this much people are certain,
that some few years ago when
saw mill was running, on what is
now Deputy Sheriff T. q. Bless
ing's farm, they put we'll down
for water to the depth of about $50
feet, and passed through vein of
very bright, pretty metal of some
kind, no one knows what. Some
pronounced it silver ore, and many
are of that opinion yet who saw it.
But the probabilities are it was
the same substance as found at a
much greater depth in the Letart
oil we'll, and the character of Mica
and about foot thick.
SNAPPER