WEST riRGIXIA. 



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Tahle of farm lands and farm stock in the valley counties in 1860. 



Table of farm products. 



This exhibit indicates what may be done for West Virginia bj immigration, 

 facilities for intercommunication, and development of her resources of forest, 

 soil, minerals, and water-power. A portion of this territory is more precipitous 

 and rough than the country west of the mountains ; very little is richer in soil 

 than the arable lands of the State generally ; and yet the whole tract, to the 

 summit of the Alleghauies, is valued at $12 24 per acre. JcflPerson county, 

 with an average of $51 34 per acre for farming lands, almost double the average 

 for the State of Ohio, illustrates well the market value of a central position, 

 contiguous to great markets, over the richest prairies thousands of miles away. 



With two and a half millions of dollars in live stock, nearly half a million 

 dollars yearly in butchers' meat, almost a million pounds of butter, three 

 millions of bushels of grain of all sorts, little less than two hundred thousand 

 pounds of wool, and other wealth of the farm in like proportion, in six small 

 counties, let it not be said that West Virginia is a poor locality in which to 

 find a rural home. 



