Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-08-13
TAzEWELL PEOPLE )
ALL OVER THE WEST
Visitors to Exposition From This
Place Have Pleasure of Meet
ing Many Former Citizens of
Southwest Virginia. - 49,.
Editor of C. V. News:

Editor of c. V. News:
We made our visit to the Exposi.
tion and great National Park ant
found every wonder of Nature anC
work of man beyond our expectation
and power of xpression-"G and
see for yourself!"
want to tell our Tazewell friends
something about the Tazewell people
we found ON the way. First, at Seattle
we met DR.. Miller Ward, brother OF
jeff. He has not the gift of gab-(that
trait is not general in the family
nevertheless we did not doubt the
warm grasp of the hand. We went to
the home of w. G. Young and his
excellent mother, in Portland. They
were so glad to see us! The years are
deepening the lines on Mrs. Young's
face, but the steadfast purpose of
duty is stamped so plainly that she
is beautiful. Will is frail of body, but
the same kindliness of heart and vim
in politics are his yet.
There is n colony of Tazewell people
ut Lodi, who seemed to vie with each
other to give us II great time. Our
visit with Charlie Black and wife
and Charities drives through the frui.
orchards, surely was the best. Billie
Hurons hearty LAUGH and jokes of ole
tines, his handsome VIC. happy IN
meeting her sister MRS. Moore) she
has; not seen for forty years, MAS
also the best. Our night with Will
liam Correll and his good wife and
the stately refined Miss Caroline =
was just as good, and the dinner with
Charlie Smith and wife, served by
the lovely daughter and young Char
lies wife, could not have been better,
as also the kindness of my sister,
Mrs. Carr.
You have had an account of tire
picnic where iifty-three people cele-
brated Virginia day in our honor. l
would like to name and thank each
one if l could, but space forbids.
The box of choice fruit brought by
Thomas Busket stands out prominent
in my memory. He moved to Califor-
MIA from Tazewell forty-two years
ago. Besides all the good things
usual to the picnic there was music
and dancing, all planned without one
fear of rain. A grandson of Charlie
Wilson, little fellow of two sum-
mcrs, was the hero of the day. He
has already undertaken to keep his
father straight.
We went from Lodi to see the great
trees in Tontume Grove. We had
the honor Of passing through the
Dead Giant in a four-seated auto
mobile. Scientists has estimated that
this tree was at last four hundred feet
high and forty feet in diameter This
tree was n dead giant when this wes-
tern world was first seen of man. 1t
is now great shaggy burnt stump,
fifty feet high and the tunnel through
it is thirty feet long and ten feet
wide. We saw General Lawton," one
of the most perfect trees in the world
also the "Siamese Twins" and the
"Fallen Giant" There are many won
derful specimens of these great trees
to fill the soul of the beholder with
wonder and admiration. 1t is said
these trees never die natural death
being exempt from all diseases that
affiict and kill other trees. They live
indefinitely, unless destroyed by man.
or fire or lightning, or storm, or the
giving away of the ground on which
they Stood
ate our dinner in sight of the
Yosemite Falls, and under the shadow
of the great cliff, Gel Captain" which
rises 5000 feet above the valley. A
continuous front of solid granite
smooth as if chiseled off, without foot
holds, impossible to clim. This is
claimed to be the most massive rock in
the world. 1t is estimated that if, by
some great convulsion of Nature, il
could be thrown on its face, it would
cover 100 acres.
At Los Angeles we had the plea
sure of visiting Miss Lillian Harman
daughter of our kinsman, Capt