Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-10-22
ROAD DELEGATES ENJOY
TRIP TO TAzEWELL
Fifty or More Who Took Auto
mobile Ride Think Clinch Val
ley Is The Finest County
They Ever Visited.
(Thc Daily re,cgraph.)

II WAS Jeff 10 the delegates TO the
Southern Appalachian Goods Roads
convention to choose between either
the trip over the Norfolk Il Western
identification zone or TO be the guests
on an automobile trip to the Tazc-
we'll Fair, and ii was the preference
of iifty-odd delegates 40 attend the
fair and see the good roads and the
agricultural territory FOR which Taze-
well county is so widely noted. The
notables who headed the delegation
were Governor Stuart, of Virginia, and
Attorney General Lilly and Congress-
man Cooper, of West Virginia. 1t
was noted that the greater number of
the delegates from the several states
of tn association who occupied the
positions of state supervisors or state
road commissioners chose the "trip to
Ta2ewell, evidently to inspect the
highways of that county.
G. A. Martin. of farewell, was the
official guide of the delegates and it
was his purpose to secure the name
of and the position every delegate
held in connection With good roads,
but it proved Impossible to secure in
detail this information. Among the
visitors were representatives of the
supply concerns who had exhibits at
the convention representing states
throughout the union.
Every delegate who was heard to
express himself said the Clinch Val
ley was the finest country he had cv-
en- seen. One delegate who had trav-
eied through Europe said that none of
those countries could surpass the pic
turesque landscape which the Tazewell
highways traverse. In the several
automobile parties were persons from
many states of the union-scveral
from the Western states-who snid
they had never seen section sur
passing in grandeur or agricultural
wealth the farming lands through
which they passed from Bluelield to
Ta2ewell. Enroute they passed drove
after drove of export cattle, which
showed them the indepedent fortunes
accruing to the farmers of that coun-
ty, while the magnificent estates with
the elegant mansions which occupied
them, opened wide the eyes of every
stranger to that exceptional country.
The agricultural exhibits Mt the fair
attracted general interest. Visitors
from Ohio and other noted agricultu
raj states compared products of Tazc-
wei WIFI lnOSc OF lnclf own rcSDcc-
tive. sections of the country and une-
quivocally declared that Tazewell
could not be surpassed. They took i'm
the exhibits with wonderment. Both
fruit and grain crops were displayed i'm
superabundance, the like of which in
quality and size had never been before
seen by the greater number of the
visitors, even from the most noted
agricultural states.
The visitors spent from $3.50 10 r
o'clock mt the fair grounds. During
this time running races, riding con-
test by couple of ladies', n mule race
and motorcycle race were pulled off.
The running race was good one.
inc riders were garDed in regular
jockey style and they spurred their
steeds to the utmost speed
Governor Stuart took in the exhibit
and the races and everything there
was to be seen. He sat in the grand
stand with his old friend, Frank Moss
one OF Southwest Virginia's big farm
ers. No person seemed to enjoy the
doings of the fair more than the gov
ernor, who, it was said, never lost an
opportunity to take in the Tazewell
1alrS. His farmer friends gave him n
cordial welcome, and the trip was n
great outing to him.