Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-03-24
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TAzEWELL COUNTY.
Observation-Disclosures.
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, In land where hospitality has
been one of the dominant characteris.
tics OF the people, it is not surpris-
ing that Tazewell county's newcom-
ers once settle within her borders, find
themselves comfortably established
, for life.
The home-seeker on reaching Taze-
well county discovers an inspiring
field for his endeavors. He finds a
large tract of land yet awaiting cul-
tlvation, land which, despite its fer
tility, may be purchased at an amount
i igal disregard OF it's value. People
coming into Tazewell County have
prospcred by raising cattle, oheep and
poultry, or through the sale of dairy
products; others have obtained wealth
through their orchards and cereal
farms.
No county in the State offers more
attractive Inducements, or extends a
more inviting hand to the homc-seek-
er and investor than Tazewell. In
climate, diversity of soils, fruits, for
ests, water supply, mineral deposits
and variety of landscape, she offers
advantages that are unsurpassed.
'The sun never shown on more
beautiful land, the plowman never
turned kinder soil and the stranger
never shook the hand of more hos
pitable people,"
Tazewell county was formed from
the counties of Russell and Wythe
in 1899. 1t is situated in the Fifth
great natural division of Virginia, in
the extreme Southwestern part and
forms part Of the boundary line of
West Virginia. 1t is three hundred
and twenty-five miles Southwest from
Richmond, the length being forty
miles. 1t contains five hundred fifty
seven square miles, about one-haif
being under cultivation. The assessed
value Of the land in 1904 was $2,513,-
SD, the property $1,87G,886. Most
OF the surface is mountainous, and
lying between are many extensive
and very fertile valleys. The soil is
principally limestone and very pro-
ductive. A striking popularity of
this land is that the soil is fertile to
the tops of the mountains and doesn't
wash.
The land is we'll adapted to grains,
such as corn, wheat, rye, oats and
barley, cultivated grasses, timothy,
grassciover, orchard and herd grass;
also a great variety of vegetables.
But while the bourtiful crops of
grain and grass can be produced, the
farmers prefer to preserve their fine
bluegrass sod for the profitable and
leading industry of sheep, horse, swine
and cattle raising. Large numbers OF
very fine cattle are sold annually
from, thic Of than, hai
for export purposes. They bring
their owners large profits. Also
sheep of the finest grade are pro-
duced, and no county is better sup
piled with fine draft and saddle hors-
es than Tazewell.
TaZewcll has perhaps the largest
grazing capacity of any of the South
west counties, with the exception of
a part of the coal belt perhaps three
fourths of the land is adapted to ag
riculture and grazing purposes and
within that area there is n wealth of
bluegrass lands which are the admit
ration of all who see them. High
ridges and mountains arc covered
with bluegrass to their SUBMITS.
Another important advantage of the
grazing land is that it is we'll wat
cred by the never failing limestone
streams.
Considerable attention is being
paid to the culture of fruit, to which
the county is we'll adapted. All the
farm products find ready market at
the nearby coal works.
Game is abundant and the streams
being we'll supplied with bass and
other fish. Ciinch river is the
principal river of TazewHll county.
1t rises seven miles west of TaZewell,
(the county seat), and flows south
west through the county. IL furnish
es power to few mills on its course,
but as yet it's power is undeveloped.
The far-famcd Burkcs Garden, an
cliptical plateau, three thousand feet
above sea level, an area of twenty
thousand acres, with an exception of
a single gorge in which its waters
find an exit, forms the southwestern
part of Tazewell county. The people
One man there thinks so much of
Burke's Garden, that when he is away
he keeps q bottle Of water from his
home, (Burke's Garden) on his man.
tie and says he wants it sprinkled in
his grave if he isn't buried in Burke's
Garden. The inhabitants there are
healthy, happy and prosperous. The
strenuous life is unknown To them.
The Norfolk & Western railroad
runs through the northwestern part
of Tazewell county. A railroad line
has recently been projected from the
great Pocahontas coal works to the
Jaeger coal works in West Virginia.
The most important mining re-
gions are at Pocahontas, Raven and