Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-26

perhaps not half dozen copies of the
old Buckley history of Tazewell in ex-
istence.
While it has been a pleasure to dwell
upon the retrospection, the News has
not failed to keep abreast with the
progressive ideas and to point out the
prospective" especially along the line
OF agricultural advancement. Strange
that this most important of indus
tries Jagged so far behind others.
Many of us can remember wildly the
leap from the tallow candle to the ker-
osene lamp; others much younger re-
member the revolution from the lamp
to the flash of electricity. What a
stride it has been from the old fash
Toned rifle to the 5000 steel ball mag
azine gun or to the rapid fire machine
gun and the IA inch destroyers of a
modern dreadnaught battleship. The
old flint lock was the most powerful
and destructive weapon used back in
the BUS and 4O's, when uncle Billy
Moore related to the writer about kill
ing big black bear just about the
center OF where the prosperous CITY
OF Pocahontas now stands. Wonder
full change. We would like to know
what the next half century will bring.
Fifteen years ago Wise county didn't
Know 1t had the finest corn producing
soil in the State. 1t didn't know that
the soil would produce the finest of
grass for both hay and pasture. They
depended on Lee and Russell for
bread. In Il few years more the fruit
and other farm products will be worth
more than the coal.
l interviwed one of our farmers n
few days ago, Mr.. Beverly, who
came to Norton with n load of APP
pies. He was one of the several farm
ers who made the one acre corn test
last year. GLOW many bushels did
you raise on your acre?" he was ask
ed. "Well," he replied, "My acre did
MT have fair show. l used one ton
of TazewelPs burnt lime. 1t wasn't
enough for my land, and | used only
200 ponds of phosphate and little
stable manure. The drouth hurt. of
course, but | cultivated according to
the direction of Mr.. Stiles, our county
farm expert, and got 20 bushels off
my acre Whew! Man alivel Yes.
really alive! Resurrected! GLOW
many acres did you cultivate in old
times to get 70 bushels shelled corn p"
Oh" said he, "about 5, 6 or z, sum-
ers along there, and not very good
corn at that"
Next time I'll tell you something
about the fruit development The
wonderful Sandy Ridge apples. This
same Sandy Ridge begins in TaZewell.
1t runs through the Gibbony and the
Boyle farms and the Mundy farm, A
miles north of Tazewell. 1t ends here
IN Wise county against the chains of
the big black mountains and in TaZe-
well, guess against the Stony Ridge.
Peculiar Snow Storm at Norton.
Norton. March 23.,-The town of
Norton, and immediate vicinity was
visited last week by one of the most
peculiar snow storms that was ever
witnessed in this, or any other section,
Monday night of last week it began
showing and all day Tuesday, Tuesday
night it fell almost necessarily had
1t not melted rapidely at first no
telling how deep it would have been.
In the town it reached the depth of
lO or some say IL inches, on the north
side OF the Stone Mountain and up to-
wards the high knob the mountain
people say it was 10 inches deep.
The singular feature, however, was
the small territory covered, west of
Big Stone Gap scarcely any snow fell;
On the V. & S. w. Railroad towards
Bristol, there was no snow beyond
Duffield, a station only a few miles
from Appalachia. The N & w train
men were surprised, after coming
through big Bull" tunnel on the
mountain east of Coeburn to find their
trains ploughing through the deep
sonw, the deep snow did not extend,
1t seems more than fifteen to twenty
miles in either direction from Norton, ,
unless it was north into the Kentucky
A few hours of sunshine |
each day towards the latter part of !
week has about melted the snow from
the southland, but it still sticks to
the north of the mountain. And on
the shaded side of buildings which the
old timers say is a sure sign that |
more snow is coming, up to this mon
day a. m. the 22nd the snow has been |
falling at intervals.
Colonial Bob Seeds, the well known
platform lecturer, and who for several
years was employed by the State Of |
Pa. to lecture to the farmers of that
state, told the writer that one of the
best turned under crops he had ever
tried was the "Cowhorn Turnip." Two !.