VOLUME XI.
LENOIR, N. 0;. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER S3, 1885.
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August 27th, 1884.
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BOONE.
BY A. M. D. . -
Among Watauga's fertile hills
Where music flows from crystal rilla
. And bealtb la victor o'er disease.
. - And rigor larks in ey'ry breeze
- And all tbe forests and the fields
A growth of richest verdure yields,
And fruits and towers profusely grow,
1 1 land where milk and honey flow ;
' Mountains scattered, heaped and piled.
And landscapes rapt in grandeur wilU,
And beauty lingers all around ".
And reigns in majesty profound.
Within this mountain solitude
Stands a yonng village, small and redo,
Hard by the baae of Howards' Knob,
' A mount in Priuoe, a proud Nabob,
Whose rocky bluffs forever frown
With dread severeneas on the town :
As independent, bold and free
As promontory on the sea,
But has a mission, noble, grand,
Born more to serve than to command.
And owns a mission more to shield
Than arbittary power to wield,
. And courts our rapture and delight
More than suspicion or oar fright,
So many blessings from him flow,
We crown him friend and not a foe ;
Be guards tbe town ss kind and mild
As a fond mother gasrds her child.
And when the town is wrapt in aleep
Hia mighty vigils faithfu. keep,
And holds communion with the star ,
And talk with Venus and with Mars,
And tain would shield from v'ry harm.
He checks tbe fury of the storm -And
tempts the thunderbolt to lurch
And spare the steeple of the church
And -waste all its electric fires
' On hit defiant rocky rpires ;
And all may quench their raging, thirst
Where fountains from his bosom burst
And roll through various gorges down.
And waters furnish for the town.
This mountain sage is old in age i
And has a fame for hisfry'a page.
He is as old as Eden's lawn,';
And he beheld Creation's dawn.
Men's lives are. like the flower or grass,
" But he lives on while ages pass.
A thousand years ago he saw
The Planets roll with perfect law,
And on hia head the stars did shed
Their light, and from her eastern bed
The moon rose np and made her bow,
And amiled the same as she does now.
He bails with wonder and surprise
The Nations si they fall or rise ;
And notes tha actions of mankind .
' Whether for ood, or bad inclined.
He aaw depai a savage race
, And saw anoper take its place.
1 A huudred yiirs or more ago
The Indian ijeut his deadly bow ;
The weU-ainled arrow quickly sped,
A deer did bound and then was dead.
JNo village ten, no glitfring spires,
'The Stars hbked down on Indian fires.
"HIV AND HORSES."
"Speaking of Hay and Horses," our Inter
esting Califfnia Correspondent Fills the
Chinks wkli Interesting Information
iboat Uriiopolies, Philanthropists,
Vineyards, Sc. The Urerncre
Vallef-Tha "Hay-KarkBt"- c
TfcarKaws fron Edga
fiefd, 2c.( c, Sc.
SACfiAMENTO, Cal., Sept. 9.
To the Editor of Hit Lenoir Topic: '
In thi first letter which The
Topic printed giving my impies
sions ofjCalifornia, j reference was
made, incidentally, to the Hay and
Horse 'interests of this State. Al
though t le facts as they first ap
peared t me seemed rather extrav
agant, I took care not to accept
them mjpelf until after they had
been thoroughly verified ; and even
then I ad did not write all I had
learnedln regard thereto. Havino
an houm leisure to night, - I , have
though! something1; additional in
regard jo what I have seen and heard
this weik in relation to the horses
and hay crop of California would be
of inierest to The Topic readers.
So here goes.
Nq such thing as grass is grown
in California as a commercial pro-ductf-if
we except Alfalfa and an
occasional field of a j kind of clover
called f 'Burr Clover." The hay crop
depenas on the season for wheat and
wild cits. Wild oats furnish the
great fedlk of the shipping hay. If
the early spring is very wet the oats
growi p spontaneously for no one
ever t links of sowing a croj) and
grow n great luxuriance and abun
dance and sometimes under these
circuiistance8 excess of spring
rains--the wheat fields, instead of
"tun ing to cheat," are pretty effec
tual! taken by the oats, when the
wholl is cut in its green state and
conv rted into hay. It is the same
case with barley, which is to this
Stato nearly what the corn crop is
to oi r farmers in the east for a grain
croplfor stock.
Tlere are, however, immense
faros, or "ranches", as they are call
ed Ijere, given up wholly to j wild
oatf. It is a crop that never fails, I
believe. There are whole - commu
nities that appear to devote them
sel' es to the industry of cutting and
bal ng this oat crop. In fact, I find
that nearly every particular section
es a specialty of som.thing
sat being a universal crop here.
few of the counties are taken np
ost entirely .by the grape and
ie. interest, others grow oranges,
ons, &c. Of these all, I hope to
speak, or write, more particularly in
future, telling you also of other
specialties in. counties and towns. I
want to write now some figures and
facts I have learned this week in re
gard to hay and horses. .
I have just run through the "Liv
ermore Valley," which is between
the San Joaquin Hirer and the Bay
of San Francisco. , It appears to
have been, scooped out by nature in;
the range of mountains that' are
arted somewhat in the form of the
ittle "Y" on the western coast of
California the Bay being in the
opening shown by the "V part of
the letter, the city of San Francisco
at the upper end of the outward
stem of the letter while Porte Costa,
Martinez and other towns -hug the
mountain edge at the other on the
east. About 40 miles down the Bav
the Livermore canyon debouches. It
soon opens out into one of. the pret
tiest little valleys I have ever seen.
It is 14 miles long and about 10 in
breadth. It contain two I thriving
towns -Pleasanton and Livermore.
As I ran through these two towns,
the whole face of the earth there
seemed to be covered with hay and
wagons, and teams""engaged in the
hay business. I became greatly in
terested and took some pains to ob
tain statistics of thi industry. I
find that these two towns alone, ship
on an average daily, more than four
hundred tons of hay in bales ! It is"
impossible to keep railraad cars on
the tracks there sufficient j to move
the incoming supplies from the wag-
on trains that deliver! at their de
pots. On last Moncjay, Sept. 1st,
fifty-five cars loaded with j hay left.
Pleasanton. The averagei from this
town is two hundred and pfty tons
daily. To prevent accumulation in
the depots, immense warehouses,
holdingtwo thousand) toni are built
by the men who control this busi
ness. The bulk of this business is
all in one man's hands ; he has man
aged to secure the inside irack, and
he keeps all competitors always in
his rear.. j j
By the way, while I amj on this
feature of the subject, I want to say
that in this one fact- that of mo
nopoly there is the greacj curse, or
evil, of California. ) Every thing
here appears to lead jin that direc
tion monopoly. But even nature
had set the example, j You find all
the good timber here monopolized
by the mountains, and alL the good
land monopolized by j the valleys to
a great extent a few individuals have
secured vast monopolies of the best
landed properties of the State. Sen
ator Stanford is oxiq of jthese ; he
owns hundreds of square I miles of
the finest lands on the Pacific coast.
Doctor Glenn "Dock Glenn" as
he is familiarly spoken jof here
once a Virginian, was one of the
great land kings of jthe State. He
boasted of having one field that had
sixty thousand acres' In .jwheat. I
referred to this in my first letter.
Glenn was killed only a short time
ago by one of his employees, with
whose mistress Glenn was alleged to
have taken liberties.) This is anoth
er curse here. Your readers are
familiar and sick with the details of
Senator Sharon's complicity with a
bad woman. 11
These are evils which will eventu
ally be uprooted in California. When
the curse of lawlessness ahd irrelig
ion begotten of the bid mining daysi
is exterminated by the influences of
the gospel, and when the; old" mo
nopolists die out, and their lands are
divided up among heirs and legatees
many of whom will in the course
of time become profligate! and run
through with their estates and be
sold out putting these lands into
the open markets then there will
come a better day for California. As
it is there is no possible chance for
any man getting a foot hold here, in
lands unless he is full:handed in
money. There seems to be a pur
posewhether studied or, not I dan
not ! tell to keep poor men, poor
farmers, out of California. I un
derstand that Senator Stanford, the
largest land holder i here, ! will not
sell a foot of his real estate, although
he is childless, his only son, a noble
lovely young man, as I am informed,
recently dying, j The ' father paid
Parson Newman, Grant's Chaplain,
thirty thousand. dollars, so said,, to
preach a funeral sermon, over the
youth. The other. I funeral services
cost over ten thousand dollars.
; Senator Stanford; however, is a
noble man, according to reports
; here. He is not a land seller, as I
ihave written, but buys every foot he
can find whererer he wants it. I
read in the paper here this wek of
his purchase up in the many thou
sands.' He is going to build a great
University for California far bigger
than the Vanderbilts have done for
Tennessee. Stanford is going to put
ten millions of dollars into his big
school,! and he gives it a footing be
sides of sit thousand acres of land,
near San Francisco. A noted edu
cator from Boston in now here as
sisting Gov. Stanford in perfecting
his plans. Of one thing it may be
certain, there will be no half meas
ures, no stinted outlays of money,
in this great enterprise of philan
thropy. But this has very little to
do with the subject of hay and hor
ses, about which I promised to write
However, you may find something
of interest in the digression, and it
is impossible to keep one's thoughts
entirely in one channel in this coun
try, especially, where there are so
many fruitful themes for discussion.
I wanted to tell you something par
ticularly about prices here, and es
pecially in connection with hay and
land. , f
I became interested in the Liver
more valley, and I ventured to make.
some inquiry in regard to the figuesH
on real estate in tnis nine paramse.
The poorest of the land there brings
$80 per acre, whenever tou can find
a man who will sell. "Good wildoat
land there can not be bought for
less than from $150 to $200 per acre.
Even the bare hill bare now, be
cause the season for cutting is about
over sell for the former figures
($150). I made no investments
there; ; . .. - '''
These hills are very beautiful. No
trees grow upon them not a tree is
visible in any direction from the E.
R., except those cultivated in the
streets and' about the houses. I
speak of them as "hills" they are
in fact regular mountains that sur
round this Livermpre valley they
of course run down to the "foot
hills." These foot hills are very
valuable for vineyards. One man
has here fourhnndred acres in vines.
- There is one feature connected
with vineyards that we see in the
east that irnot practiced here. You
never see grape vines in California
vineyards trained to post, trellis or
wire. Such a thing is unknown
here, save in rare instances around
houses. The vines grow up and are
cut back, forming a "stump" some
two or three feet high; and the only
branches that are allowed to grow
hang down from this stump, and
only a few bunches of grapes are al
lowed to grow thereon. These
bunches grow to an enormous size.
I have a friend in San Francisco
who tells me he raises them to weigh
7 pounds each. I see in the papers
that at one of the State Fairs there
was on exhibition a bunch weighing
8 pounds. I want to make the grape
and fruit subject generally, the sub
ject of a longer and more elaborate
letter when I get through the State
Fair here, which commences Mon
day morning. I am here oh an im
portant commission with reference
to the Sacramento City postofflce ;
and it will probiibly take me nearly
the whole week to finish it up and I
hope in the meantime to have a
spare moment to look into this Fair.
By the -way, I must say that I feel
that I have been very highly com
plimented by the government au
thorities for my selection to make
certain inspections of the postal ser
vice in two of the largest cities of
the Pacific coast Salt Lake City
and Sacramento both capitals. 1
spent nearly a week in Salt Lake
City in August ; and my report of
investigation was so satisfactory that
I have orders to make similar inves
tigation here. This I consider a
"feather in my cap," and I know if
I have any friends who are among
The Topic readers they will be
pleased to hear that much which is
all I have to say on that score.
All of which however has nothing
to do with the price of hay which
is seven dollars per ton at Livermore
and from $25 to $40 per ton up in
the mountains and so no more on
that subject.
about houses.
Perhaps I had as well wait and
i make a special letter on this score.
But there is one circumstance so on
my mind in connection with hay
and horses thatl must write itout.
mv first letter, I referred to the
lg wap;on8 and teams here. For
the past two weeks Ihave been near
ly all the while in the mountainous
part of the State - up among the Si
erras pronounced Siairy, and often
merely Si'ra by the miners and
mountain men. I have been off the
railway lines and in a country in
fact where railroads are quite an im
possibility. There is however a ne
cessity for an immense freighting
business for even the mountains
are densely populated with miners
and others who are consumers and
not -producers nearly everything
that enters into daily life of man
and beast up in these remote moun
tains has to be hauled from the val
leys below. The consequence is that
there are extensive trains of wagons
on the road at all times. Such wag
ons and teams are never seen now in
the east. Not even in the old times
was there anything to equal the Cal
ifornia development in this line.
Thirty years ago I had read in the
cavalry exploits of Col. Fremont,
during and at the close of the Mex
ican war, something about the ex
traordinary qualities of the Califor
nia horse; but I had no idea he could
be taxed as I have seen him during
the past two weeks. The team to
which I have special reference now,
was composed of eight fine large
horses. There were the two wagons
but only one driver. I counted on
the wagons twenty six bales of hay,
averaging about 350 pounds each, or
over nine thousand pounds for the
load more than a thousand pounds
to eachhoree! This was on a moun
tain road in Sierra county, that was
as steep generally as the Caldwell
road from Nelson's to the top of the
Blue Ridge That country reminds
me very much of the eastern face to
the Blue Ridge. I thought that
load was a big one. It was not long
however until our stage passed an
other long train. The foremost man
had ten horses and two wagons tied
together. The wagons were piled
more than four feet high with flour
sacks. I asked him how much he
had on. "A little over eleven thous
and," he said. I think I could have
counted fifty teams during the two
days in Sierra county, that averaged
eight horses to the team two wag
ons and one driver. But the biggest
teams J ave seen yet were on the
Sonora road. Our stage passed, in
a long train one day, some three;
weeks ago, f two teams that had six
span or twelve head of horses in each
wagon. They were hauling . immense
machinery up into the mountains.
These team3 make from 12 to 15
miles each day. j They make some
times as much as 2 cents per lb.
or two dollars and fifty cents per
hundred mile. The back loading
consists in lumber, either sawed or
split. This lumber business here is
immense. The bulk of that hauled
out of most localities is split. I
have seen immense quaitities of
fencing plank split out of the Sierra
Nevada pines ; it is worked j very
smoothly and uniformly to thelengtn
of 8 to 10 feet, and about 6 inches
broad and 1 inch thick. There is a
very large business done in split ce
dar posts. I have seen cedar trees
from three feet to eight feet in di
ameter and for 50 feet without seri
ous knots. These are split into fence
posts and . cross! ties for railways.
Another big industry is in what
they call here iShaiks. These are
pine boards, from 3 to 5 feet long
and from 4 to 6i inches wide,- and
split far more nicely and evenly than
the majority of j the jplanks used to
be sawed in N. C. This split lum
ber is a big element in commerce
here, and as it is only accessible bv
the teams that pull into the high
mountains, it makes a paying-business
for them as an item in back
loading.
One more paragraph or so and I
close. I found this week one of the
stopping places of our stage called
the "South Carolina House." I
asked the driver why it was so call
ed. He replied that it was owned
and run by a South Carolina lady.
When we stopped the driver went in
and told the lady that there was a
Carolina man aboard the stage. She
said she must tee him, for it had
been years since she beheld a man
from her native country. "I would
know a South Carolinian," I heard
her say, "by the cut of his eye."
I dismounted from my high seat
by the driver, and met the lady at
the entrance to her public hall. She
came with her hand extended, and
tears came into! her eyes as she spoke
of her long-left and still cherished
native home, f 'old Edgefield." , I
was fortunate in having acquaint
ance in families she had once known
in intimacy. She was a fair speci
men of ' well I preserved beauty,
though now on! the shady side of
life, I inferred : that there was a page
of sorrow and shame in her history,
which she could not reveal. She
had married in! early life an Italian,
and the two were living far up in
the Sierras her husbaad now large
ly interested in mines there she
running the hotel in her name. She
asked me so many questions asked
so much for 'news that I regret
ted I could not answer all her ques
tions, for our st ge must go on. I
had, however, a copy of The Topic
with me. I gave it to her as a North
Carolina paper; in which she could
perhaps find some items of interest.
She gave me a! fervent "God bless
you" as I told her good-bye. On my
return next day, she told me how
she had enjoyed that one paper as a
messenger from her native country.
And I beg to give expression here
to the great interest with which I
have read such copies of The Topic
as have reached me. It has been to
me an exceeding great -delight. I
find an interest even in its corres
pondence that once I passed over,
because I was there and felt no con
cern about the little social, gossip
that your writers spread before us.
"Old Hal" looms up before me in
living letters. I read his genial ef
fusions with more than ordinary
interest, because I know the noble
old fellow. 1 1 know he won't object
to me calling him old. And I know
why he don't enjoy the dance. Some
men have excellent reasons for not
enjoying things. If I had legs only
thirty-two inches long and thirty-six
inches round, and that carried as
much good butter, milk and buck
wheat as Old, Hal's do, I am sure
I couldn't enjoy 4a nimble shuf
fle of an August efening. Of
course D. don't dance, but here's
my hand old fellow. I have seen
you when youj would have danced, if
that Greensboro girl had asked you
for a waltz when vou were in your
lieutenant's coat f You would nave
danced again,! but to another tune,
if some of those fellows over the
line had caught you as well as my
self in the j dark and troublous
times of '65. Here's to your health
over the Sierras, Rockies, Alle
ghanies, and everything else may
your shadow never grow less, my
dear old friend I ' M. V. M.
OUH B&XERSVILLE LETTER.
Bakersville, Sept. 10. ?
To the Editor of The Lenoir Topic:
Mica is flatter than an old hat sat
on by all the girls and boys at a
country dance, and it has left Ba
kersville stranded upon the shores:
of discouragement. I will wager a -last
year's almanac against a "rot
ten pumpkin" that there are more ,
loafers m Bakersville than in any,
other town of its size in N;; Carolina.
It has'nt even got a school house ;
(and its population js about 700J.
Well,now, l will take that back, it
has an.old dilapidated trap of a thing
that looks like the gable-end of hard-
times Ah; the enterprising (?) men
of i Bakersville 1 are . putting their
heads: together and fare going to fit
up the basement under the new
Methodist Church that is soon to be
built here and r have it for a school-'
room." That's right,; put the boys
and teachers down in the cellar
where they will Vkeepcool" through
. "dog days." ;' X.
. We have the champion checker
player of the State here. He plays
so much that he dreams about it.
He dreamed the other night of play
ing a match game - with one of his
old chnms. When he exclaimed,
"Stop 1 Stop I it's my move and I'm
going to jump you I" "Well jump
then" Baid his chum. And jump
he did 1 Ker-slunghe went and lit
broad side in the middle of the floor!
"Ha, Ha! 1 told you, Reuben, that
I would jump you." ! . -
Corn, potatoes and cabbage are
fine. -The ground is getting; so dry
and hard that the farmers can hard
ly turn their stubble land for wheat.
Dr. J. K. Moose has a pumpkin
that is six feet around ; he has five
about ,the same size, t They: are the
" Henderson Mammoth." . 1
Sheriff Hickey and Col. Miller
have moved their families to Milli
gan college, Tenn., where their chil
d ren will go to school i Kitette.
Cur Boons Letter.
Boone, N. C, Sept. 10.
To the Editor of the Lenoir Topic:
Since I wrote you last I have been
thinking of giving your readers a
short sketch of ! early traditions of
Watauga, though everything was
Wilkes or perhaps Rowan at the
time. Long before any white man
settled in these mountains, old Col.
Daniel Boone, using the old Indian
trail from the Yadkin River, up Elk
Creek till the trail left the stream up
Eph's Ridge to Deep Gap of Blue
Ridge, then to the Three Fork set
tlement and to where Boone town
now is located, j Daniel Boone had
various camps or hunting stands on
this route. I 1
His rock house camp on Boone's
Branch, near where Esq. Calloway
now lives on Elk Creek, is a remar
kable camp. It is a rock house
about 15 feet square, formed entire
ly by the rock, a freak of j nature;
the branch runs over the house and
pours off below, making a nice little
waterfall. The branch has been
called Boone's Branch ever since old
Daniel camped in this rock house,
and killed game and stored jit away
in the camp or dried! the meat, or
what hunters called "jerking" it.
It is said that in this camp fire coals
and ashes that were burned by Boone
are still to be seen. :
During this time it is said that
the Indians were in close proximity,
being on the Watauga River, per
haps about where A.? B. Mast and
Henry Taylor now live. Col. Boone
finally crossed over the ridge and
located a hunting stand at Meat
Camp, where J. JE. Finley's farm, is
located. However, there are some
who contend that Boone's camp was
on the lands of Esq. John Greer,
while others claim the camp was lo
cated on the lands now owned by
Jacob Winebarger'8-heirs, j I am of
the opinion that Boone's camp was
on Mr, Finley's lands. I am very
sorry our people have been so neg
lectful about our early history. Our
mountain country is rich with tra
ditional hist6ry but alas ! it is lost to
the coming generations by neglect.
One thing is certain, however, Boone
had a camp on Meat Camp and no
doubt killed many fat bucks, bear,
elk, and other game all through
those ! pretty valleys and mighty
mountains. . The Elk Knob, Bald,
Snake, Rich and other mountains
surrounded Boone's camp on Meat
Camp. What a grand time Boone
and those fearless j comrades, who
hunted with Boone must have had
among tiiose high mountains sur
rounded by fat game of all kinds !
Tradition says that Calloway,
Greer, Finley, and no doubt others?
were with Boone in these mountains.
During this time Boone established
a hunting camp near where the town
of Boone now stands, it being im
mediately on the Indian trail. Here
he hunted and made trips across the
Blue Ridge to his family on the
Yadkin, taking them meat and re
turning with meal, : salt and other
equipments. .Tradition says that
Boone tfhd his comrades procured
powder from an old man near Vir
ginia or Tennessee line by the name
of Clawson. It was called "rag
powder" being very course, and was
carried in sacks. Clawson made the
powder. Lead that was used was
supposed to have been obtained from
the mountains and melted from 'the
ores. ; l''V'-: : v"'"--
1 While Boone was occupying this
section the Indians were moving
gradually further west and had lo
cated on Watauga River, near the
mouth of Roan's Creek, now John
son county, Tenn., and from there
to Boone's Creek, Washington coun
ty, Tenn. Boone appears to have
followed the same trail. This bid
trail is yet plain in many places! in
Watauga. South of Boone on the
lands of D. B. Dougherty jltl& T. J.
Coffey and brother and J. A. Gragg
you can find the old trail passing
through Hodge's Gap . of the Rich
Mountain to Brushy, Fork Creek,
down ; said Creek to Cove Creek,
down Cove Creek, ; crossing-1 Ward's
Gap to Beaver Dams, crossing this
valley and stream to Stone Moun
tain,, crossing- Stone Mountain at
what is now known, and from: the
earliest recollections W3 known as
the "Stare Gap." Here Col. Boone
crossed into what is'now Tennessee,
and left his initials "D. B." on an
oak tree in this ap ef Stone foun
tain. All we know from this pomt,
until he turns up on Boone's Creek
Washington county, Tenn.
- This old Indian trail was used-for -years
by the white settlers as their
only pass way. 1 Their first houses
were built on this trail. I can name
'some of them. The first at Three .
Forks, and several after inr sama
section. Two mills west of Boone,
old Kasper Cable and old Joln Bv ,
ker, who afterwards moved alonj
over this old trail by pack horses,-
crossing Stare Gap into Tennessee. -This
was 84 years ago. They settled
near the Watauga River, now John- ,
son county, from which sprung a
very large stock of people in size.
and numbers. On Brusny Fork im- ,
mediately on the old trail a house, ,
the first in that section, was built
On Beaver Dams the old Webb resi
dence was built the first in that sec
tion and immediately on this old
trail and in sight of old Stare Gap" .
in Stone Mountain. Here the old -trail
is still very plain. . ; . .
Your excellent correspondent n ,
doubt could give some very interest- .
ing traditions about those large
caves near where he lives. I have
no doubt that Boone occupied thesa
caves, as his route passed by them.
Perhaps they were originally Indian,
caves. . . ; m ,
. I should be greatly pleased if any
of the readers of The Topic could
give any history of Daniel Boone
from the Yadkin to Ky. Some of
the Caldwell Coffey family are rela
ted to Boone ; they may have some
traditional history of interest. Let
us hear from any one through Thi
Topic. Old Hal.
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