West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1904-06-30
COUNTY LINE SURVEY
Interesting Notes OF Progress OF the
work-Old Monuments Ponnd.

work-Old Monuments Ponnd.
Prom the Morgantown Post.
The surveyors stayed over Sun
day at Cal. Rohr's and McCollums.
On Monday morning they started at
stone monument on the Brandon
vile pike and reversed the bearing
towards Chea, river; worked all day
thinking il was a corner stone at the
end OF the third line. Not finding
any marks, and from what people
people told US, we concluded that
we might be mistaken, so on Tues
day morning we began at the same
stone and ran the degree given on
the fourth line TO to the top of the
mountain and found the true corner
stone and chestnut tree marked NJ.
q +. with rS4I cut on the top. The
10 shows very good yet, but the last
two figures, 4 and L, will soon be
gone. The stone Is one of these
soft sandstones that wears and
crumbles away and should be re-
placed with larger and more dur
able monument.
After starting from this monu-
ment we found very well marked
line until we came to the
top Of the river cliff. Here the
marks end. We continued the line
on TO Cheat river and strike the
Beaver Hole at least four hundred
feet higher up the river than the line
run in the south side of said river.
The line we ran on the south side is
well marked from "Rohl" and
crosses Cheat river at the lower end
of Beaver Hole. We blocked trees
on both lines and fiud they were
marked sixty-three years ago. The
lines are marked different. The
south is marked with four marks in
square and one in center thus : /.
The line running north from Cheat
is marked with three marks down
the center and one on each side
thus
BY an act of the legislature of
Virginia in r84I, that portion OF
Monongalia county lying south of
the top Of the mountains and from
the Pennsylvania state line TO Cheat
river was taken off of Monongalia
county and added TO Preston Co. ;
and John HanwaY and John Royse,
the two county surveyors Of said
counties were appointed to survey
said line and set monuments. The
records show that they did the work
that they made three lines from the
Cheat river to the Pennsylvania
State line beginning at the Beaver
hole at stone and double chestnut
marked M. and =. We find stone
and chestnut stump about where we
think it should be. The stone has
no mark. We find the stone and
chestnut at the England ore banks
as described above On the second
line we find the gum tree that was
marked M. & p The M. shows
very distinct, but fire has DESTROYED
the side where the p. should be.
We also find the popular tree mark
ed M. & p. Both letters show very
plainly. These trees will soon. be
gone; forest fires have burned them
both near to the ground. We
expect TO reach the stone at Sand
Spring road by Saturday evening,
within two miles of the Pennsylvania
State line.
We are now staying at Mt. Pisgah
~ 80 =. auN- t. ID. w al Is. fTlQaY
evening we walked three miles TO
our boarding place. will stay here
till we get five miles out. With two
exceptions we have boarded ia Pres
ton county since we began the work.
Those big tracts Of land belonging
to Guffey & Co. and Chess & Co.
and other large tracts of Mountain
land kept for the timber have but
few inhabitants. The greater part
of the land lies on the Monongalia
county side. 1t looks to me il
would be good thing il those large
tracts we're cut up into small farms.
We killed one rather with eight
ratiles and button and two copper
snakes. The gnats are most to be
dreaded. We tied our handker-
chiefs round our heads and necks
and wore them for three or four
days as a protection from the pests.
Respectfully yours,
J. .--------~
West Virginia DaV.
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