The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
Or. SwARTzwELDER.
Impressions OF Ohio and Illinois. Left
for California Last Week.

OdieSuu1R, ILL.,, NOV. oO.--Alb-
erleaving Republic, Ohio, where
we had a very pleasant visit with
our Fulton county friends, we
came to Fostoria, Seneca county,
O. Here we visited my cousin, w.
E. Robbins, VINO lives on a farm
of 40 acres, which is as level as a
floor, and the soil as black as your
hat. This may soundahttle" "fisby"
10 some of the Fulton county peo.
pie, but there are thousands of
acres of that kind of land. You
can stand and look in any direc.
tion, save for hedge fence or a
cluster of cultivated tree, and see
as far as the eyes will carry, and
it looks like a floor. This land is
not only valuable for It's agricult-
ural products, of which corn is
king, but hogs, horses and cutie
in their order. Not only the sur
face products tend to make the
farmers rich; but the surface is
underlaid with gas, petroleum,
and various minerals. Ga this
farm is an oil we'll and gas well,
with a tank Of 100 bbls. of oil to
ship. The Ohio oil is not as good
as our Pennsylvania oil, the for.
mer Is a black oil, and the latter,
a beautiful golden, which is bet
ter for illuminating purposes, and
worth two or three times as much.
/ forgot TO mention another farm
product which Is being raised ex.
tensively, lately-which is sugar
beet. | saw some eleven carloads
of them in one train, being haul
ed to the factory where they are
made INTO sugar. | am told they
are q very profitable crop and sell
f)r about five dollars per ton.
The seed(as well as tobacco seed
of which considerable tobacco Is
raised in some localities is sown
in hot beds, and as soon as the
plants are large enoush to set out
they are pulled and set out by
machinery similar to the corn
planter, except the machine car
ries tank or barrel of water to
moisture the ground. Fostoria
Is an active place, of 5000 lnhabi-
tants and has five rail roads and
several electric interurban lines.
IT McConnellsburg had either the
one or the other of those lines,
she would not know what to do
with herself This is not the only
town that has these facilities, hut
all of them have one or more, ,and
you can look in any direction and
see or hear the trains running.
Our next stop after leaving Fos
toria, was Hartford City, Ind.
The weather was very inclement
while we were there and our visit
was confined to DR.. Il. w. Sharp
and mother, except Call on Mr..
Ezra Stahl. We had very pleas
ant visit with the DR.. and his
. mother, and left lot only feeling
better for the visit, but with some
of the Doctors gold on our Ca
mines (teeth) which. by the way,
Is only a gram of the Doctor IS Int,
tie fortune of thirty thousand dol
lars ma le since leaving McCon-
nellsburg. Hartford City Is a
beautiful town aud has the west
ern hustle, but not so active as 1T
was thirteen years ago when |
visited it, due to the failure of the
OIL and gas. From Hartford City
VIC went via Gas City over an in.
teruroan electric line to FAIR
mount, Ind. There we VISITED
Brooks Hill and brother James.
They are engaged in meat mar
ket, buying, butchering, and sell
ing by wholesale and retail, live
stock and poultry. They arehust-
ling boys, and are doing a paying
business.
Our next stop was Galesburg,
ILL.,, which is 226 miles from Fair.
mount, and where we are now
stoppingln the hospitable home
of Henry Slpes, half brother of
George w. Sipes, who was born
and raised on the Slpes farm, now
owned by Alexander Mellott near
Needmore. Henry came west 89
years ago and has family of two
sons and two daughters, all of
xybos,a ora tnarr,a1 and baya fos.,