The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-08-22

SSsbie.. f1sn Ser rive htanirse
acres WIN be put under fenee ~ once.
An III brood houses % wen % Skke !
colony houses Will be locateH on tn1A
and 5. 900 acres viii be ised AZ 81
range and eoyr part OF - arnold
anti-bellum days under the Virginia
land system
This 900 cares the water shed of
Fiat Bush going west on the waters
Of Mfddlefork crossing the headwat-
ers of Kfttle run high up Then
Going south sgest il takes in all Kel-d
Ter hunting grounds. The range vial
cover the entire Flat Bush Waher
shed from west to east The sow
acres. In the range covers 81. ~ eer TT..ess
south west of Mabte up to the Uniteo
States signal tree, located on the
highest land between Mabie and Buck
bannon The north line Of the HOG
Companyss land will be the Con ana
Arnold Hilleary property line. term /
mating on the KingsvtIle ridge. AZ
Pumpklntown and at the junction
Staunton and Parkersburg tx hplke.
thirteen miles west OF Beverly. anu
seventeen mills west of Beverly. ana
The ompany has bridged Roaring
creek at Mabie The bridge Is 81
feet long and twelve feet above low
tide water, made OF hewn tAmoers.
strong and substantial. " JoySs
and Frank Shipman are the arcnA
tects and builders.
walter Kelly has charge of the
construction OF the fence and has
number of men under him Tne
fence is completed one and ana
half miles south west OF Mabte.
All the employees of the company
are citizens and residents OF Made
A car load of brood pigs mas
ready arrived. They number etghty-
seven and persons who saw them say
they are fine The men in the en-
ploy of the company speak we'll OF
them and believe the venture VIII
prove a success.
The territory occupied by the hog
company has been a wilderness IRON.
time in memorial and has been useu
as a cattle range by Tygarts vaney
cattle men for over nundred e Us
in summer time. 1t was one OF tne
most celebrated hunting grounds N
the mountains of West Virginia,
hundreds of deer. bar, turkeys.
wolves, panthers, wild cat, req anu
gray foxes, minks. offers. raccoons.
wild bees. lived in it. Roaring creek,
in early days was inhabited by I'M
mense quantities OF mounlain ~.
1t was the paradise OF hunter anu
sportsman, great quantities or gen
seng have been found on the hllis ana
ridges of these lands. 1t Is also mo-
torious for the great num-
Der of its reptiles. rattlesnakes, black
and yellow, blacksnokes. and fuil
family of smaller harmless reptiles.
There has never been a viper or cop
perhead found on the waters OF Roar
ing creek.
Rationale Region.
mn Tavb9
land ia known as "Crotalida, or the
rattlesnake region. 1t Is located high
up Flat Bush at the Three FORKS.
Here is four or Ave acres covered by
cliffs of conglomerate sandstone. Inc
surface of the ground is paved with
some parts OF those cliffs. blackSer-
rries ard huckleberries flourish here.
The other timbers in this location
have been nearly all starved by the
sterile soils. The sunshine OF June,
July and August pour down on the
Three Forks and make 1t the Ideal
abode of these reptiles. They came.
out of the ground through holes and
punches T. these rattlers have often
been seen here as large as -four bar
rels, hundreds have been killed here
at a time In early days. The writer
was one of party that killed a large
black rattIesnake at this point as late
as the tenth day of October. The
wilderness located on the Staunton
and Parkersburg turnpike and Casada
CANYON. is one OF the best known
hunting grounds of West Virginia.
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