50 BULLETIN 393, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
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A farm near Big Stone Gap, containing 100 acres, was valued in 
~ 1910 at $70 an acre and in 1913 at $100 per acre. 
A farm 1 mile east of Coeburn, containing 100 acres, was valued 
at $60 per acre in 1910, before the road was improved, and in 1913 
at $90 per acre. | 
A portion of a farm between Big Stone Gap and Minton, contain- 
ing 30 acres, was sold in 1914, after the road was improved, for $50 
per acre. This whole farm -was purchased in 1908 for $10 per acre. 
A tract between Coeburn and Norton, containing 12 acres, was 
purchased in 1910 for $33 per acre, and was sold by the purchaser 
in 1914 for $150 per acre. 
A portion of a farm on the road from Wise to the Dickenson County 
line originally contained 80 acres, valued in 1911 at $30 per acre, and 
was sold in 1912 for $50 per acre. 
On the same road, 35 of the 160 acres of a farm, valued at #50 
per acre in 1911, olde in 1912 for $40 per acre. 
A farm Dereen Norton and Wise, containing 30 acres, was valued 
-at $25 per acre in 1911, and was sold in 1914 for $33 per acre. 
Another tract located on an improved road, and containing 100 
acres, one-half of which is cultivated in grain and fruit, was valued 
at $60 per acre in 1910, and had increased in value to $100 per acre 
in 1913. 
EFFECT OF ROAD IMPROVEMENT ON TRAFFIC. 
As the principal exports of the county are coal and coke, for the 
transportation of which there is an exceptionally large railroad 
mileage in the county, the traffic conditions from the public-roads 
standpoint are not especially striking. The county does not raise 
enough vegetables for its own consumption, and probably 75 per 
cent of all the green truck used in the towns and mining camps is 
shipped in from outside the county. Not over 60,000 acres in the 
entire county are devoted to agricultural purposes. As nearly as 
can be ascertained, the tonnage hauled over the improved roads in 
1915 was as shown in Table 16. 
TABLE 16. 
2 Tons 
Panmproduets.203- 2 0/3222) Sao ee eee eer coe eee ee 10, 000 
Rorest, products: ¢ 2esic. 2 oe eee eee gee eg ein ee 32, 000 
Ny re) a a ee eee Ree eae ee Oe ae ee eB cB 4,000 
Hertilizers, orocertess el. 24th 20 2 eo Se eee ea 4,000 
1-21 OMe, ea SIRENS Fae eo nn a ah EY SIR 50, 000 
The tonnage of farm products amounts te about 0.16 ton per acre 
for the 60,000 acres devoted to agriculture. 
Based upon information secured from drivers of teams, it was 
found that the average load on the roads before improvement was 
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