Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1909-10-08
W. G. YOUNG
HEARD FROM
Tazewell Man is Despondent
Over Loss of Peach Crop,
on Which Much De
pended.
Roseburg, Oregon.

Wy DeaI DIT. your KIND letter OF
Inquiry has just been received,
and il gives me much pleasure in
deed to know that am so kindly
remembered by our friends, and not
a day passes but what we think of
and talk about them, and both OF
the Tazewell papers are always
eagerly looked for, to see what has
transpired since the last ones came
We are all enjoying our usual
health, and barring whooping cough
and measles, L think we have had
as little if not less than we had fol-
the same period in Va. My health
at this time, is better than 1T was
when | came here one year ago, al
though L have been very sick twice,
and at one time last Decem Der, IL
| looked to me as though my time
was about up, but responsive treat
ment soon put me on my feet again,
and whilst l have done good
deal of work this last spring and
summer, / find that the work need
ed to be done on ranch-as all
| farms are called here, lis too much
| for my strength, and that | am no
longer physically able to work as l
once did. Yes, ii is true that had
the misfortune To lose my peach
crop, out of over 100 trees did not sell
single box nor have as many as
the family could use. Two oil
my neighbors and myself, pooled
together to buy our spray, and help
each other as our orchards joined,
and owing to one of them being
sick and the continuous rain, we We're
delayed, until the trees were in full
bloom. We used vitrol spray
which we failed TO dilute enough
with water, and put it on so strong
that il burnt the leaves red at once,
also killed the peaches. L never
saw rs full peach bloom before in
all my life as we had and if they
had not been killed, would have
had big job to thin them to keen
! the limbs from breaking, and let
the remaining peaches grow larger
! for market. IL was n great loss to
us, and We feel it. | arrived in
| Roseburg one year ago the % of this
month, and l have learned good
many things that the books did not
speak OF, which l have not time nor
space TO speak OF now. like the
climate, though we have had NJ
rain since the 4th of July, until the
night OF the 24th when it rained
gently all night, and yesterday even
ing it rained little here and at
distance il Numbered and lightened
like il does III Va. and ii seemed as
though an old acquaintance was
talking. TO me, and this morning
the air is so sweet and fresh. l do
not like the laws of this state.
They are cranky TO say the least, 10
my notion. They have the Iniative
and Referendum and statement
nubmers SO and so, that voters or
candidates are pledged to stand for,
and to read in the newspapers the
letters of recrimination against il
by men OF both parties, you would
| think there is more "tri"ks' OF the
trade in it than there ever was in
both the Democratic and Repub-
ilcan parties in the 9th Cong. Dist.
of Va. if everything alleged against
them was true, and hope Virginia
will study long before she ever
adopts it. We thought of yuu ALL
during the Fair, and the great many
of our friends that we knew would
be there. The County Fair here
came about the first of The month
but none of us went, as the pear
and prune picking was on, and out
here every body works but father"
| Sabra went to Medford with some
friends and picked pears and she
and Mary, with couple of their
neighbor friends are at big prune
orchard on Roberts Creek, some IA
or 10 miles off toward the Cascades
picking the prunes where they will
be for the next two weeks. A letter
from her yesterday in which she says
they are camping about quarter
of mile from another camp, and !
about the same distance from Mr.. |
Hatfields house to whom the orchard |
belongs, and that about dozen big /
HoOt' owls light in the trees over
there evrey night, and that the night |
before the coyotes came right near to |
their camp and gave them a sere-
made that scared them badly, and /
that Mr.. Hatfield had given them a
% Winchester To protect themselves
with. This is an experience they
would never enjoyed in Old Va.
We have HatfieIds and McCoys out
here, but they are not engaged in
the 'Feud" business, as they are
prosperous and peaceable citizens.
II