The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-30

Il horses which were tho favortes at that
T2ichmond Show mentioned, are still IN
5the stables at Lection Hill, the favorltes
NJ both master and mistress. But there
can be no more beautiful horse tnan
Magnificent, tho splendid thoroughbred
stallion at the head OF the Lection Hill
stud. 49,.
Tho Lection Hill farm embraces hve
hundred acres. A great portion OF II IS
in grass, twenty acres are wooded. anu
the rest Of II is cultivated. I VIII nave
= tho,,sand bushels OF wheat this year
said Mr. Maddux: "I'll sell 1T and buy
feed for the horses. ] never have to buy
hav or straw Mr.. Neddux has srecelv-
ed fancy prices for some OF the hunters
he has raised and educated.
Everybody about warrenton appeared
"a know Meatros, 1.-THE brown hunter
owned by Mr.. George Stone, VINO mas q
ffne farm near town. Meatros mas me
reputation OF doing his best. after having
been run twenty-five miles across coun-
try. 1t is Impossible to convince MT Mt
Stone there is any better animal taxing
the fences to-day. and MS ne s a ~ ~
seem inclined to agree with him.
Everybody round about Warrcnton ap-
pears TO be raising horses. There IS
large, hunt club here and every member
ha q two or three hunters. at the least.
while some OF the breeders, as Mr.a Mad
ldux. have forty or fifty Some Of the
horse raisers OF Fauquler are u. X. Mad
du1, John D. Hooe, George 3. stone
w. s. Sewers, "A. B. sDundas. g. W.
Smith, Dr&c Shirley Carter. 2. ".
Barker, George B. D. spillman, E. Ashley
Cooper. Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. b. $Portman.
j. Temple Gwathmey, Edwin Weld, J. r.
Townsend, Herbert Ashton, Robert Gil
let. Peter Il Cary Dick " allack, =. y.
Evans. Percy Evans. Mr.. and Mrs tsdW WI
King Mr.. and Mrs. LIE Bouisse, MISS
Lucy stone, Mr.. and Mrs. Blair Johnson.
u. ID. Benner, Fairfax Gaines =. -
Groome. Mr.. Tyson and others.
M Fauquier-bred hunters are as Well
known in England as In the United
States, and bring better prices IN Eng
land than horses bred in that country.
The line in the soil OF the Piedmont coun-
try builds bone.
OF course. everybody rides up here. The
children are taught to shoot stralghl.
ride a horse and tell the truth. Women
are some OF the most fearless riders to
hounds In the country. q 81.
felt that should I get to writing OF
FauuuIer horses It would be hard to. stop,
but what would Fauquier be with the
horses left out? Horse and cattle raising
and general farming are the chief In
tercsts OF the county. It Is her horses
as we'll as her great men that nave mace
Fauquier famous.
TFThere are few manufacturing interests
in the county. Peoples minds are on
the soil, whether as day laborers, tenants
| or owners OF great estates. Mr., Bedford
! Glascock, in the northeastern section OF
| the county, owns ten thousand acres OF
the finest farming land in Virginia
was told the estimated value Of the es-
tate was half million dollars. 1t could
| hardly be purchased at any price.
ut is hard to leave Warrenton. There
| * not much business done In .ha town
apparently, yet one would hardly call !,
sleepy. There are foot passengers anc
handsome turnouts on the streets all the
time, but pleasure has the call before
business, The people still cultivate thu
good old Virginia principle Of never al
lowing business to interfere with pleas
,ure.
The FauQuier Club Is delightful socia
organization, and the club house. fur
nished like n refined Virginia home, Il
attractive beyond expression to a. mar
who loves to hear men talk OF the things
that most move them, II the moyint
| power be not unworthy. Horse poll
! tics and Virginla-always Virginla--thes'
are the topics at the Fauquer.
1t would be improper for me to con
clude this Fauquier letter without SOM
! reference to one Of the very greatest son
| OF Fauquier, though by adoption, Extri
/ Billy Smith. Sooner or later every citi
| zen makes some reference to 1Goyerno
Smith in talking to the visitor, am
| many stories are told illustrative Of tn
! character Of this great man, whose statu
is soon to be placed in the Capitol Squar
at Richmond. Governor Smith was borl
In King George county, In the year 1So(
but he begun the practice Of the Law
in Culpeper when a young man. BY tn
j way, 1t was while citizen Of Culpope
that he received the cognomen OF Extr
Billy, by which he was known to ever
|Virginan, General Smith did not lik
the idea Of getting his mail only once
week, SO he undertook the operation Q
/ stage coaches from Washington to Cul
pepper, by which the town received ma
three times a week. The Congress mad
an appropriation to pay the cost Of carry
Ling the mall, of course, Governor Smlt
4 extended his line to Orange, then t
4 Charlottesville to Amherst to Lynch
. burg, to Danyille. and, finally, to NIL
4 ledgeyille, Ga, In the items Of posta
. appropriations every year would appea
an. additional appropriation for carryin