Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-08-11
FROM W. G. YOUNG
Roseburg, Oregon, July 20.

ed from an early drought, which has
been followed by some pretty warm
weather. l am sorry, indeed to hear
this for know what the loss of the
meadows are to the farmers, and /
sincerely hope there will he sufficient
rain fall to keep up the p; stures, AMI
fatten the cattle and sheep, the great
source of revenue of the county. | see
also that steps are being taken to
start work on the roads in the near
future, which l hope will be done
successfully, and to the satisfaction
of every one interested in that good
and much needed work The account of
your trip to Crockett's Cove, forcibly
bring to mind my last visit to that
country in 1897, when went over to
a saw mill close to Jos. Crockett's
store to 90 over some accounts of the
amount of the lumber that had been
cut, and after going over his figures
correcting few mistakes. The saw
mill man had me go over his and
also found some errors that brought
them so closely together that no diff
Guilty was found in making an imme-
diate settlement, to the satisfaction of
both parties, and one of the best
county dinners l ever sat down to-
followed. Going through the Gap
brought to mind the tragic death of
Pat Kelly, an Irishman, and we'll
known character, which occurred not
very far from where the road goes
throug h, during the building of the
Clinch Valley rairload, shortly before
you came to the county. He lived ov-
er OH Jacobs Fork, and was working
over on the railroad, and started to 90
home, at the end of the week, and il
being late, undertook to go near
way. He was driving yoke of oxen,
and the moon going down lost his
way, near the top of the ridge. and
tied up the cattle, and went ahead to
look out and find his path When he
, got on the brink of the cliff and fell
over His absence did not create any
T alarm at the time, as his wife thought
he had purposely staid away, and it
VISA MT until after some two or three
days that the cattle, which finally had
, broken loose, and were found straying
that search was made, and the body
of the poor old man was found far be-
low the cliffs on the northside. His
limbs and ribs were badly broken and
evidences showed that he had lived
two or three days, as he had worked
his way considerable distance, and
had moistened his parched lips from
the blood that flowed from his man.
gled arm, and it was very hot wealth
or at the time, as well as | remember.
Oh ! how the poor old man must have
suffered during that time!
| would like to see the new road
through the Gap after it is finished.
and those people certainly do need and
deserve it,
also see the John Thompson place
cast Of tcwn, is for sale. This place
was owned by DIR. Oliver e. Herbert
when | came TO the county in 1875,
and he lived On the northside of the
road. where Squire james r. Wittcn
lived. He came from Texas, and was
most compan ionnhie,a q genial gen.
tlcn AL, and died in 1850 or 81, and
was buried in the old cemetery east
of town, near tn entialce, just above
the graves of cd Prof. John h. Weiss
and man by the NAM OF Ir:nson.
who was brick mason. and died a
short time before Prf Weiss. These
are about the nearest graves to the
old gateway, and were unmarked when
| was there last, and but few people
are now living now know who are
buried there.
Well, talk about dry hot weather,
you ought to be out here. We had a
little shower in June that dried I'D in
a few hours, and will have no more
without an accident until next Octo-
Der or November, and everything is as
dry as finder, .and the forest fires are
giving trouble already in several
parts of the State and the forestry
tremen are trying to get tn m under
control
Now, that the deer season is open
and the hunters and people who 20
camping out during the hot weather
there is great danger of more fires
being started though the law is very
strict against starting them. Since
about the middle of this month the
mercury has ranged here from 90
TO lO5 degrees above. But there is
nearly always breeze that tempers
the heat. and the nights, as a general
thing, are cool. did not feel the
heat at 1O5 as much as / did in Vir-
ginla at SO degrees, but it was some
hot all the same.
l was sorry indeed to hear of the
death of Joe Moss. l could hardly
realize that endowed with the health
and strength he had always had, that
IL could be true and it is needless to