Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-05-25
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AN OID-TIAIE LETTER.

The following letter, date! Fire.
donia, New York, June 'S, ,S2G, Of
years ago, was clipped from Il recent
issue Of the Rural New YORKER, sent
us by J. G. Buston. Tho postage on
this letter was 25c 1t may III rf in
tercst to our readers;
Dear Parents:
1t has been very dhy weather
here for three months past; for one
week their has been double the rain
fall than in four months before it,.
Hay will be very scarce; wheat worth
so cts. pr. bushcl; corn, - cts; wry,
81 L. Stock very low; good five
year old cattle SO a yoke; good
cows so piece. | vii! now pro-
ccde to write you my sitiation. list,
am poor; 2nd, ! am rich. live
seven miles from Frcdonia in the
town Of Portland. have Purchased
so acres Of land. pay 81 pr. acre for
tins land; four years to pay it in.
| mooved here the first day of Mar.
last. This land lies on the main road
from Buffalo to Erie; first rate land.
Better if possible than your mcader
land on the point us you call it. |
have Il very fine house that / live in.
| will give you Il description of it:
1t is 30 feet long, II feet width,
build of logs, high enough to stand
make Il fire. l now will tell YOU
how much land have cleared this
Summer. | let out Il job of 20 acres
to be cleared and fenced by the 18th
day of June, which was done accord
lng to agreement and have planted
1t all to coln---if it should do we'll
likely | should raise six or seven
hundred bushels (t looks very well
now. | intend when the corn comes
off to put it all to wheat---I paid $40
per acre for clearing this lot, in
property which takes most of my
loose property. have one horse lfet.
one COW, one calf, four hogs, one old
SOW, s pigs, Is sheep, about 1925 due
me the first of January next. | have
paid the first payment for my land.
first of January next have rot 10
make another. have my lumber
all ready for building my new house.
but shall not build until can see nv
way clear. : + *There is a NOR
chant in Fredonia by the name Of
Walter Smith, from WcthersfeId,
Comm which do good deal of
business for in the course of q wear
Last Fall went to Ohio and bought
100 hoags for him. This Summer
have done good deal of busi,...
1or him in Butfalo--thc first Of An
gust expect to start to 20 to thn
ONO about 300 miles after honps fo,
nm. calculate to drive 500 his
drove. These hoags are put into =
stlli and fattened and then killed
ana barreled up and sold. / wish
you would come out and see me- I,
VIII cost you but little. You can
come all the way by water. II will
cost you cts per mile on the canal
ana be found and you can make vo,u.
calculation what it will cost vo,, 10
go to New York ami from there to
Albany. The hole cxpcnce canot cost
you over $40 from Connecticut boro
If you should conclude 10 come
please write me so 1 can calculate
my business to be at home.
Yours with respect,
may add that .hepostare poid nm
TINS letter was % cents. and on tbc
lace Of II the writer has written
with Speed" One NAV
question, however if he was enabled
thus to much accelerate its delivery
which must have required about a
week. In those days il took some
thing like four days to get a letter
from Boston TO New York
by the Swift Mail."-B. +. Case.