Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-22
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miles below the last ~encampment there is.
according to the author of the book above
referred to, a stream of water on the right
just above which con a rock under the hill
there can be scraped up, especially after
a shower and warm sun, a fine white salt;
where in winter the snow is observed to
smoke as If occasioned by the internal
heat of the EARTH
town Of S~teubenville. now a city or
twehty-three thousand inhabitants. The
river Is crossed at this point with a tne
steel bridge.
place, it not being in existence in his day.
but the book from which We have just
a9oted says. in giving its early history:
"Steubenville is handsomely situated on a
second bank, and occupies with its out
lots, a very fine bottom of the river, rich
and extensive, and well formed; The pen pen
town. owning land, and foreseeing the
probable progress of settlements in the now
State Of f Ohio }bs va Laid ,7 SSt a a T9w IN S So 5ne IT
the famous military character, Baron
Steuben,
Called it S~teubenville.
The town having had a favorable begin
ming, with several favorable circumstances
combined, it progressed rapidly, and in
1906 was Incorporated; and is governed by
a president, recorder and seven trustees.
The town contained in 1890, but 800 inhab-
itants, and on the 1st of February, 1917,
according to census, taken under direction
of the town council, 2,032 inhabitants. Al
which time there were BS houses, :
churches. a court house, and a market and
town house: Its rapid growth is 70 be al
tributed principally to the manufactures
established within it. The population gen
After noting at length its various manu-
factories, offices, &c, it says, There are
several valuable grist mills near sseupeno
New Orleans. The town has a postofflce,
receiving and discharging the public mails
weekly. The fuel used is mineral coaI ana
land it is only 50 miles in a ). w. dlrectlon;
by water 10 miles.
Returning to the diary we find that the
next eneampment made by masnl hggloM
Steubenville. This place. he a was 70
miles below Pittsburg. but according TO
Rye River m Guide E q i p opI y 70 p @iles nG TSi ah to oSs p Is
celebrated for its steel factories, and has a
population of between four and five
they At the 4 on TINE eo0 Of Mdsn aseventy
inhabitants of the Six Nations, and ABOUT
twenty cabins"
The river from Little Beaver to the
Mingo Town is described as much swifter
than it was between Logstown and that
stream on the previous day. The general
features of the country, was "hllly and
ton expressed an opinion that the lands
on top were good. During the day they
killed five wild turkeys. While yet at the
k Mlhgg o of two nt traders asae at a ' Place called
Grape Vine Town, "$S miles below This
caused them to hesitate whether to pro-
Their intelligence" The unwillingness of
the Indians at that place to believe the
murder had been committed by any OF
their people gave them courage at length
to continue down the river, far enough at
least to learn the truth of the report They
therefore resumed their journey, at 2
o'clock on the afternoon OF October -,
and as a precaution they took the two
Indian guides in the canoe witt them,
During their visit to this town they met
Nations on their way to the Cherokee
c caaVFs Two PaSS1 miles below Mingo they
a mile below which mention is made OF
two cross creeks" That on the rlght
side was afterwards known as Indian Cross
Cross Creek, the last named being the
largest of the two"
Wellsburg. formerly Charlestown, in
Brooke county, West Virginia is situated
though not mentioned IN the diary, it is
described in the Ohio Navigator as contain;
ing in 1877, eighty dwellings,, mad a sinai
court house., a jail and a pillory, a post
office. and an academy, public inns, sew
eral stores and two or three large ware
houses from which was delivered an nj Any
leans market. "There is" it also adds, "a
number of valuable merchant mills in the
neighborhood which deposit their flour
here to wait the rising of the waters.
Buffalo Creek joins the Ohio just below the
town over which there was erected in lSl2
a handsome chain bridge on the plan OF
Judge Finley's, of Fayette county, Penn
sylvania.
Wellsburg is a considerable place, of
embarkation, and boats can be mad mere
generally at short notice. From P1ttsburg
~ locd n on tho eta Oh rOIltp through Can
nonsburg, Washington and MiddletoWn, II
is SO miles to Wellsburg in a S. w. dlrec-
ton. Mr.. William McCluney conducts a
marufactory of delft ware in Wellsburg,
and Mr.. Blackwell has an extensive stone
ware mandatory at the upper end OF the
iowa: a large neat warehouse has been
recently erected at the waters edge, four
stores high from low water mark, from
the upper story of which the flour is. let
down into the boat by pullies and wind
lassss, at the rate of from three to hVe
bar. els in a minute.
Tie channel past Wellsburg is
Year the Middle of the River,
and in time of low water is from 4 to 5
feet deep" In speaking of the pllory the
wriser of the above says: What a pity
that an enlightened people in an enlight-
ened age, should so far lose sight of the
common principles of humanity, as to set
before the door, or public seat of justice,
such a disgraceful, inhuman and savage
machinery of punishment"
Six miles below Virginia Cross Creek,
Washington tells US. there were two other
Cross Creeks. That on the west side,