Bakerton, W. Va.February 16, 1891. EDITOR REGISTER– As we have not been represented in your columns for some time, we beg that you favor us this week if space will permit. While all is quiet here, […]
A correspondent of the Harper’s Ferry Sentinel says that Messrs. Moler and Keller have disposed of one-half interest in their ore land situated near the Virginia Ore Bank, this county, to the Sparrows Point Steel Co., […]
The first operation, probably, that was performed in this section of Virginia with the use of chloroform was by Dr. [John] Reynolds. It was on March 1, 1848 , and the patient was an Irish workman at […]
Items from Bakerton. The following items were sent us by a correspondent from Bakerton last week, but were not received until after the REGISTER had gone to press, owing to delayed trains: The stone crusher at […]
Mr. Charles B. Moler has been sinking a number of shafts in his field near the Virginia Ore Bank for the purpose of locating a vein of the iron ore that is so plentiful in that […]
The boom at Shenandoah Junction, or, as it is to be known in the future, Antietam City, is a go. A representative of the REGISTER visited that place on Tuesday, and from Col. Chas. T. Hood, […]
Mr. Charles B. Moler has been sinking a number of shafts in his field near the Virginia Ore Bank for the purpose of locating a vein of the iron ore that is so plentiful in that […]
The Charlestown and Washington City Improvement Company, has very beautiful residence sites in the eastern suburbs of town, and the engineers are dividing and subdividing the lands of the company to the best advantage, whilst energetic […]
Secretary of State Ohley has granted a charter to the Limestone Company of Harper’s Ferry, which has a capital stock of $10,000. It has the privilege of buying land, building furnaces, mills, etc. Its stock which […]
Considerable excitement was created at Moler’s Cross Roads, three miles below Shepherdstown, the first of this week by the supposed discovery of coal oil on the farm of Mr. R. D. Lamar. Mr. Lamar was at […]
In the Circuit Court at Hagerstown last Friday the trustees of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal bond-holders of 1844, Bradley S. Johnson, Joseph Bryan, Henry H. Keedy, Hugh L. Bond, Jr., and John K. Cowen, filed […]
A mile northeast of Bakerton, on a continuation of the branch railroad, is another busy scene at the Virginia ore bank. The books at Antietam Furnace show that over a hundred years ago the deposit of […]
Bakerton is the name of the new town that is being built up at Oak Grove school-house. It is two and a-half miles from the main line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, by which it […]
The Hagerstown Daily News says that Mr. Slaymaker, chief engineer, with a corps of assistants, arrived in Hagerstown on Monday, reported to Col. W. F. M. McCarty, and in the afternoon proceeded to Shenandoah Junction to […]
LETTER FROM CAPT. JOHN HOWARDA PRACTICAL MINER OF 45 YEARS EXPERIENCE,Recently in the Employ of Reading Coal & Iron Co. of Pa. Charlestown Mining, Manufacturing and Improvement Company, Charlestown, W. Va.: I have carefully examined by […]
According to the Harper’s Ferry Sentinel farm laborers are scarce in that vicinity and high priced, owing to all the laborers being in demand by the following industries in operation in the district. The Halltown Straw […]
According to the Harper’s Ferry Sentinel farm laborers are scarce in that vicinity and high priced, owing to all the laborers being in demand by the following industries in operation in the district. The Halltown Straw […]
