Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1911-11-08
APPLE ORCHARDS IN
SHENANDOAH VALLEY
Several Near Winchester Bring
to Owners Big Returns
$50 ACRES SELL FOR $40, 900
Colonel Ross Tells of Virginia's
Great Resources
LEXINGTON, VA, Oct. 2S, 1911


Valley Of Virginia as far as Win
chester. and was so pleased with
many things l saw, l am thinking
that il l can paint fair verbal pic
ture of scenes and events as they
presented themselves to me, it
might perchance serve to awaken
momentary interest in some OF
your many readers.
OF course in going north from
Lexington nearly every one has
first to go to Buena Vista, and |
spend large part Of the day wait
ing 'or train, which is usually |
twenty minutes late, but when it
does come is very comfoI table and |
runs smoothly over we'll surfaced |
aud well ballasted rails. L was i'm
pressed with the general air OF i'm
provement in the agriculture along
the line, since my last run over it,
many farms giving evidence OF clean
and careful culture, with a CORES
| OACOllOuSO VI StOPo- hN
young wheat along the whole route
was as promising as / ever saw at
this time of year, and the shocks
of corn upon the ground showed au
excellent crop OF fodder at least.
Just at the station in beautiful
Stuart's Draft, is field Of corn that
looks good for 100 bushels TO the
acre. and Is, think, the finest look
ing field | ever saw. understood
however upon inquiring. that the ap
pearances were somewhat deceptive
In IT in this particular field, but gen
erally) and that owing to the very
dry summer many stalks did not de-
velop an ear. Nevertheless, it was
a great comfort to see such evidences
that the live stock would have some
: thing to eat this winter, notwith-
} standing the failure OF the hay crop.
When | reached Boyce in Clarke
r county, the end OF my railroad ride,
2 | was met by friends in An auto car
3 and whirled in a few minutes 10
Pow hatan Seat the country home OF
Mr.. Peter H. Mayo of Richmond,
5 Va. This was the haven L was seek
ing; for the purpose of my journey
S was to take part in the celebration
2 OF the 50th anniversary OF his mar
e riage. Now when one comes to think
S Of it, it seems a difficult and unusual
E achievement for a man and his vile
t to go hand aud hand thro' all the
V joys and pleasures, the labors and
l. responsibilities, the sickness and
sorrow of fifty years of married life
II and many strive to turn the trick
:. but fail. Those who succeed are
e true heroes.
10 Mr.. Mayo's residence is the per
o lection of country home. 1t housed
A. in the most comfortable manner
n about thirty people during the sew
eral days that the celebration con
70 tinued. 1t is heated with hot water
lighted by gas and has every mod
q ern comfort and convenience. Their,
are 100 miles of fine macadam road
70 in all directions, and the countr,
around is the most beautiful in tn
70 famed Valley of Virginia. The com
pany gathered under his roof-tre
we're all near Of kin to him and t
each other, and while we were a
a. together there, joy was unconfined
IS Bishop Robert Gibson was Their
10 and the Rev. Robert A. Mayo an
BE wife, and a representative niece @
Dc nephew from the family OF each {
ia the groom's brothers and sisters.
at The party assembled on Saturday
I'D Monday, October 23rd, was the wee
es ding day. and the festivities cor
be tinued until Tuesday evening
on when there began to be break VI
h. The weather on Monday was perfe'
OF and about p. M stream of neigl
all bors began TO pour in andlcontinue
until that great house was full. Tt
W. rooms were gorgeously decked vii
he towers, suggestive of the golden o
st casion, the tables groaned under q
the best things known to the catere
and until the witching hour of mi
=. night, there was ono shout Of j