Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-10-15
Enthusiastic Meeting Held on Saturday
Afternoon and Steps Taken to Secure
Funds to Defray the Expenses OF
a Preliminary Survey of Route

subscriptions as possible and report at
meeting TO be held at the Y. M. q.
A. building at 100 on Saturday after
noon. October %, at which time fur-
Their steps will be taken to push the
enterprise. Engineers will be invited
to be present at that meeting o. send
representatives or proposals fot max
ing the survey.
Some of the gentlemen presen. were
of he opinion that the money would
readily be subscribed One man across
the mountain has promised to contri-
butte $50. or sufficient to make one
nile of the survey. Others have said
that they would contribute five dol
lars.
The people over in Back Creek val
ley are sincere in their efforts to get
trolley line down the valley. They
are anxious TO have some better
means of getting their products and
produce to the markets. Some OF
them haul as far as twelve AMI four
teen miles to get their bark, lumber
and other produce to the station Ihe
hauling OF the apple and peach crop
is big thing now and with the com
ing into bearing of thousand of new
trees the people of that section Will
DO up against a proposition when 1t
comes to getting this fruit 10 the mar
ket They can raise this stun over
here but it takes them too long to get
1t to a shipping point. One man said
Saturday that it took so long TO make
round trip that your children all
turned out and made a demonstration
when you got back home.
Ii takes many of them two nights
and day to get load of lumber.
bark or ties to the railroad and get
home. With a trolley handling this
product none of them would have
haul of over four miles and most OF
them could reach the road with
haul of two miles. This would re-
lieye them of all the hills which they
have to cross In wagoning as they do
at the present time.
The gentlemen interested have
made a pretty thorough estimate OF
what they produce over in that coun-
try and the value of the product. A
careful calculation puts the money
value of the produces of that valley at
about S275 900 for 1909. Some of the
things that enter into this and are in
teresting are as follows.
There are $3.50 apple trees in bear
ing this year.
Added to this there are over 100000
that are under years of age and will
be coming into bearing yearly from
this season.
In 1909 there were gathered and
marketed in the valley from Hedges
vile to Glengary, or in the territory
that will be tributary to the proposed
trolley. 1891 barrels of apples and
81 ,607 packages of peaches.
There are in the valley 1866 peach
trees under two years Old.
There are .463 acres of good fruit
land that is not now under cultivation
and all available for either peaches or
apples.
$4,000 feet of lumber was manu-
fac,ured in the valley during 1909.
1850 crossties were marketed dur
ing the year.
3,1S6 tons of bark were gathered
and hauled to the railroad fof ship
ment
The country produce, such as chick
ems, ducks. turkeys, eggs and butter,
raised in 1909 was valued at s42,S77.
$500 bushels of wheat, 16,940 bush
els of corn and 452 tons of hay was
raised on the farms.
The fertilizer hauled back on the
farms was S12 tons.
This shows that the people IN Back
Greek Valley raise something and in
order to get it to the marke have
to do some hauling This expense
of hauling is proving big thing to
the producers over there and they are
anxious % have some means of get
ting this immense product on the mar
ket
Exclusive of Martinsburg the troll
ley line would be the outlet for about
itUuV people.
The people of the valley have given
up the idea OF getting their line to
Williamsport, That they feel is out
of reason. They want the line to come
Martnsburg. They feel that it will be
as much advantage 10 the people of
this city to have the line to Gengary
as it viii for them 1t would bring
more trade to the city and increase
the volume of business.
The idea at present is to start the
inc in this city and run it out the
Warm Spring road to Hedgesville and
then up the valley, as near the centre
as possible but passing all the towns
from Hedges Vile TO Glengary includ-
ing Tomahawk,- Jones Springs. Shang