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THE FREE LANCE.
There being factions in the Democratic party after the election of Grover Cleveland for the second time in 1892, those opposed to the policies of the "Independent Herald," incluid- ing E. H. Peck, Hon. Wm. R. Thompson, Hon. Frank Lively and others, encouraged J. B. Henderson, an ambulatory newspaper man, and George C. McIntosh, later the distinguished editor of the "Charleston Mail" and "Fayette Journal," to found a new paper in Hinton, which was done in 1892, and christened the "Free Lance." It was launched as a factional Democratic paper by the firm of Henderson & McIntosh, publishers, but was owned by a joint stock company, incorporated as The Free Lance Publishing
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Company. It ran along for two or three years, became involved in debt, and was sold under a trust deed by James H. Miller, trustee, who caused it to be removed beyond the territory of the county, and the same plant is now publishing the "Greenbrier Valley Demo- crat" at Ronceverte, by the veteran newspaper man and editor, Howard Templeton, Captain C. T. Smith being the founder of the enterprise.
The career of the "Free Lance," as is usual with an enterprise of this character, was short, turbulent and inglorious. Mr. Mcln- tosh, being a Republican, was like a fish out of water running a Democratic journal. He retired to Fayette and founded the "Fay- ette Journal," of which he is still editor and manager, being one of the most versatile and able writers of the Republican party in West Virginia. The "Free Lance" was an enterprising paper, but its patronage was not of a character to warrant its continuance, and its abettors were glad to see it perish from the earth.
STENOGRAPHERS.
We have been aided in the preparation of this work by Miss Mary Miller, a daughter of James William Miller, a son of Irvin B. and a grandson of John Miller, Sr., the settler, she being now a proficient stenographer, located at Hinton; by Mrs. George A. Miller, who was the granddaughter of Augustus Gwinn, and daughter of Mr. Clark Gwinn, of Alderson ; and by Ben. D. Keller, a son of R. A. Keller, cashier of the Citizens' National Bank of Pineville, Wyoming County, and a direct descendant of Conrad Keller, the first settler at Lowell, he being now located at Hinton, engaged as court stenographer ; and by Miss Margaret McNeer, a great-granddaughter of John Duncan, Sr., and a granddaughter of William B. McNeer and Margaret, his wife, now engaged as stenographer with the New River Grocery Company, all descend- ants of the ancient pioneers of this region.
PENCE SPRING.
This celebrated resort for pleasure and health is twelve miles east of Hinton, on the Greenbrier Bottoms, and is now owned by Andrew P. Pence, a native of Monroe County, and a member of the honorable family located now in that county.
The land consists of a tract of two hundred and eighty-three acres, purchased by Mr. Pence from the heirs of Jessie Beard.
FOSS BRIDGE, Built by Charles Louis Miller, 1907.
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The land had been originally patented by William Kincaide, and later by Jesse Beard, the father of Mrs. George Keller, Mrs. Sa- rah Hines and Mrs. Caleb Johnson and Thomas Beard. When settled by Kincaide, the buffaloes regularly slaked their thirst, and traces of the old buffalo paths leading over Keeney's Knob to Lick Creek, no doubt leading to where Green Sulphur Springs are now, may yet be seen. Kincaide later moved on West.
Mr. Pence, some years after his purchase, sold a one-third un- divided interest in the place to Judge Homer A. Holt, and another third to Colonel James W. Davis, who had great faith in the fu- ture of the Spring, and they aided Mr. Pence in exploiting its virtues. Later, after the death of Judge Holt, Colonel Davis pur- chased his interest, and after his death Mr. Pence bought from his son, Mr. George N. Davis, of Greenbrier, the two-thirds ac- quired by his father, and which descended to him. Mr. Pence spent many years in introducing the water and bringing its cura- tive properties to the attention of the public. He erected addi- tions to the buildings for the accommodation of guests which were burned some fifteen years ago; but not becoming discour- aged, and having the utmost confidence in the place, he began over again, constructed a new and commodious hotel, adding to and enlarging the same from year to year, and still at this time he is entirely unable to accommodate and supply the demands of the public, and has to turn guests away.
The farm was bought thirty years ago by Andrew P. Pence, from the heirs of Jesse Beard. He began soon after its purchase to exploit the sulphur spring as a resort for persons afflicted with kidney, liver, dyspepsia and other afflictions, and by great persist- ence and energy he brought it up to one of the famous places in the State. Its curative properties have a wide repute throughout the Union.
Analysis of Pence Springs, Made by Colonel M. B. Hardin, of Virginia Military Institute.
Grains per U. S. gallon of 231 cubic inches :
14.568
Sodium Carbonate
1.312
Calcium Carbonate
Magnesium Carbonate 1.622
Strontium Carbonate 0.292
Lithium Carbonate 0.058
Ammonium Carbonate 0.009
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Ferrous Carbonate traces
Potassium Sulphate 0.052
Sodium Sulphate 0.682
Sodium Sulphide
0.426
Sodium Thiosulphate
0.402
Sodium Chloride
2.035
Sodium Iodide
0.002
Sodium Phosphate
traces
Borax
0.169
Alumina
0.407
Silicia
0.554
22.230
Carbon dioxide combined with carbonates to form
bi-carbonates 7.610
29.840
Milligrams
Grains
per litre.
per gal.
Ammonia
.016
.0009
Albumenoid Ammonia
.026
.0030
Cubic inches of the gases per gallon :
Sulphuretted Hydrogen 0.15
Carbonic Acid 0.18
Nitrogen 4.09
Oxygen
0.17
Reduced to 60 deg. F. and 30 in pressure.
In recent years E. M. Carney, of Kanawha, purchased above Mr. Pence a tract of twenty-two acres of land, and began boring wells, of which he has completed three by this time, seeking for the famous sulphur water, and finally finding it, and which for the past few years he has been pumping in large quantities. He also erected a large hotel-"The Valley Heights Hotel"-and enter- tains a large number of guests, who come by reason of this sul- phur water.
The operations of Mr. Carney have resulted in two noted law- suits-one in 1904, of Pence versus Carney, to enjoin the pumping and waste of the water. This suit was decided by Circuit Court Judge McWhorter adversely to Mr. Pence, who appealed to the Supreme Court of the State, where he reversed the lower court,
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but practically deciding that Carney had the right to pump the water in a reasonable way for beneficial purposes, but not for non-beneficial purposes or to waste it.
Later, in 1907, Mr. Pence again sued out an injunction to stop what he claimed was a non-beneficial and waste of the water. which he contends has been done to his injury. This case has not yet been decided.
It seems that when Carney pumps, the natural flow at Pence's ceases, and it then becomes necessary for him to place a pump and draw the water by powerful steam pumps. When Carney stops pumping for a few days, the water rises in Pence's Spring and flows as of old. As matters now stand, both parties are se- curing water by pumps, and neither has a natural flow. Mr. Pence does a large and profitable business in the bottling and shipping of the water, averaging some two hundred crates per week, at two dollars per crate, from which he has a profitable industry.
GREENBRIER SPRINGS.
This property was, from the first history we are able to give of it, the property of Isaac Carden, and was a resort for hunters and trappers before the war, and for their accommodation a row of double log cabins was built, with chimneys between. A large double hewed log house was erected, and this was enlarged by the addition of a frame dining-room. This house is still standing, and was inhabited by the first ancient settlers. Isaac Carden had a store at this place many years ago, and his goods came by canal from Richmond to Buchanan, and from there by wagon-some one hundred miles or more. This was one of the ancient stores of the county, and the house stood in front of the spring across the branch, and all sign of it has vanished. The title to the property passed to William H. Barger, who married a Carden, and his wife inherited one interest and he purchased others. He left a will. by which he devised the plantation, including the spring, to his son. Wilbur A. Barger. The spring was not kept up or exploited as a resort, having fallen into disuse during the war. The buildings went down, and the Bargers only occupied the land as a farm for some forty years, the spring being covered with a rough, rugged. crude covering. In 1903 a party of thirty gentlemen of Hinton formed a company, on the recommendation of T. N. Read, an at- torney of Hinton, who had for several summers visited the place and camped and fished in the river. The object of the company
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was to acquire the place and build summer homes for themselves and families. They in 1904 built a new covering for the spring, a neat structure covered with tin, circular in shape, with concrete columns supporting the same, and the owners of the lots built eight cottages-Messrs. H. Ewart, J. H. Jordan, C. A. Alvis, E. W. Taylor, W. J. Brightwell, T. N. Read and Dr. W. L. Barks- dale and James H. Miller.
The company first organized by electing H. Ewart, C. B. Ma- hon, R. R. Flanagan, Geo. O. Quesenberry and Jas. H. Miller as a Board of Directors, who elected Jas. H. Miller, president; C. B. Mahon, vice-president : H. Ewart, Secretary and treasurer, and E. L. Dunn, general manager. They had Andrew L. Campbell, sur- veyor, to plat the property, lay off a number of lots, including thirty for the stockholders, each of the stockholders having one lot deeded to himself, the lot to be taken being drawn by lot. In 1905 the present new hotel was built near the old log house, which is over 100 years old. the chimney being one of the curiosities of the place. Water works were constructed in 1906, by which the property is provided from the Greenbrier River by a steam pump, a reservoir being constructed on the graveyard hill, and the place thrown open to the public and guests invited, and quite a prosper- ous season ensued, Mr. Dunn remaining manager for two years.
In 1906, June 1st, the property was leased to Messrs. Keatley and Bolton for three years, and it is becoming a popular place as a summer resort. The cottage and store house were built in 1906. The company added to the property by purchasing three additional tracts, including Stony Creek Gorge, the famous "Turn Hole," and two islands in the river, the property now consisting of 315 acres of valuable land on Greenbrier River back of Big Bend Tunnel Mountain, three miles from Talcott Station. There are high cliffs, deep waters and a curious cave on the property. The natural location and scenery are unsurpassed in all the region.
In 1906 A. E. Miller, R. R. Flanagan, A. G. Flanagan and Rev. A. Lee Barrett and E. L. Dunn built their cottages.
Many years there was in this region of country a famous horse- thief by the name of Jim Fisher, who on one occasion stole a horse in the country west of the spring. The people as usual in those days formed a posse and went in pursuit. As of old, they followed the Indians. When they came to the mouth of Stony Creek they were in hot pursuit and they thought there was no chance for the escape of the horse-thief ; but he was familiar with the geography of the section, and at the mouth of the gorge he sprang from the
BARGER'S SPRINGS As It Was in 1903, and the Board who Improved and Bought it. Beginning at Left: Ewart, Flannagan, Mahon,
Dunn. Miller.
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stolen horse, ran up the point, climbed a large pine tree which stood at the end of the cliff and by its side, and at the top passed from the tree to the top of the cliff and escaped into the wilder- ness beyond. The pursuers were fearless men, but they would not undertake to scale the tree and cliff. They recovered the horse, but the thief escaped. This tree still stands as it did when this incident occured sixty years ago, and it would take courage and a clear head to perform this feat. Fisher was many years after, when Elbert Fowler was prosecuting attorney, prosecuted by him
and sent to the penitentiary for forgery from the county, where he died, being shot by a guard while trying to make his escape from the pen. The incident of the escape of this thief was detailed to the writer by John Sims, a farmer who lived on the opposite side of the river, and who died in 1907, about eighty years of age.
In 1905 a young man with a party of young people were visit- ing at the Springs from Hinton, over Sunday, by the name of Carl Fredeking. He and some young ladies and gentlemen went to see the scenery at the Stony Creek Gorge, above the bridge, and stopped at the fall. This young man fell from the top of this rock into the pool below. Assistance and aid came promptly, but his body, when recovered by dragging the pool, was lifeless, and all efforts at resuscitation were futile.
During the war a party of deserters from the Confederate Army from the Ciles country were making their way to the Union Army in the West, and passed down Stony Creek and crossed at the "Turn Hole" below the spring. They depended on Isaac Epling to aid them in crossing the river and for food. He lived in an old house just below the cave. They slept out in the woods to avoid detection by the "rebels," with whom the country was "infested" and strongly in sympathy. The first night Epling sent a part of the crowd of deserters over, but never returned. By some means unknown he was drowned in the river. His body was afterwards recovered, and one arm from the elbow down was missing, and never accounted for. The remaining crowd of deserters slept the following night on the top of the cliff overlooking the river and Stony Creek, Mrs. Isaac Epling providing them food for the time being, and, to enable them to continue their journey, they con- structed a rude raft, and the next night after Epling's death they made the crossing, landing down by the side of A. L. Campbell's farm, and proceeded on across the Confederate lines into the coun- try occupied by the Federal forces. The Stony Creek Gorge has
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in years past been the hiding place for violators of the law, espe- cially for the notorious French-Crawford factions.
These Springs have been known as Carden's Springs, then Barger Springs, and renamed by the present owners as the Green- brier Springs, the owners being a corporation under the West Vir- ginia laws, known as the Greenbrier Springs Company. The wa- ter is recommended as a valuable cure for chronic kidney, liver and other complaints.
Analysis of Various Sulphur Waters.
Mineral Constituent.
Grains per U. S. Gallon.
Greenb'r Pence Red White Cold Blue
Sodium Carbonate
14.57
3.51
Calcium Carbonate
11.53
1.31 5.25
1.17
1.84
5.05
Magnesium Carbonate
8.16
1.62
4.81
. . .
1.71
.94
Strontium Carbonate
.29
. .
. .
. .
. ...
Silicia
1.25
.55
.82
1.48
. ...
Organic Matter
trace
8.39
.01
.32
6.93
Ammonia
.0009
Albumenoid Ammonia.
.0030
. ..
. ...
Gases.
Cubic Inches Per Gallon.
Carbon Dioxide
18.84
.18 5.75
8.49
6.35
Sulphuretted Hydrogen. .
.45
.15
.40
.29
. .
.10
Nitrogen
4.09
6.92
. . .
Oxygen
.17 1.20
...
. . .. . . .
..
.
Ferrous Carbonate
trace
.02
. ...
Potassium Sulphate
.05
4.14
9.35
2.46
16.22
Calcium Sulphate
5.71
.55
73.19
2.91
46.55
Magnesium Sulphate
19.03
.29
6.38
Sodium Chloride
1.01
2.04
.52
.12
4.21
Calcium Chloride
.02
Magnesium Chloride
.16
Sodium Iodide
.002
Iron Oxide
Alumina
.05
.05
.02
.25
Sodium Sulphide
.43
Sodium Thiosulphate
.40
Sodium Phosphate
trace
trace
trace
...
Borax
.17
.15
.03
. .
..
...
.. .
.06
Ammonium Carbonate
.01
Sodium Sulphate
15.89
.68
. ..
. ..
..
...
. ..
.
...
Lithium Carbonate
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John Crawford was a blacksmith at Barger Springs, now Green- brier Springs, many years ago. While hunting on a flat back of the springs, between Stony Creek and Greenbrier River, or Blue Lick Branch, he found two pairs of very large buckhorns inter- locked, so that it would be impossible to separate them without sawing them apart, which he did. They were back in the moun- tain in the wilderness. The deer had been in a fight, and had come in contact with such force as to interlock their horns in such a manner that it was impossible for them to be separated or to separate them themselves, and died in this manner.
Analysis of Kesler's Cold Sulphur Spring, Made in 1906.
Per U. S. gallon. 231 cubic inches.
Ammonia Chloride
.174
Potassium
1.827
Sodium
5.174
Magnesium Sulphate
4.924
Sodium Sulphide
1.073
Calcium
4.924
Calcium Bichloride
16.275
Sidium
2.952
Silica
.231
Total
36.950
This spring was discovered by B. L. Kesler in 1906 by drilling into the earth seventy-five feet. He is now shipping the water for commercial purposes and introducing it into the markets, and it has the reputation of being an excellent curative water.
Lindeman Springs.
This is a fine sulphur spring on Little Stony Creek in this dis- trict, and is now owned by the Lindeman Estate, of New York City. It was purchased some twenty years ago by J. G. Lindeman, with sixty acres of land, from Dr. Eber W. Maddy for $2.000. No improvements have been made on the property, and it is prac- tically laying to the commons. There is sixty acres of land lying around the spring, forming the springs property. The water is very similar to the Greenbrier Springs water.
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Alum Springs.
There is a fine, cold alum spring on Elk Knob, on the Clark Grimmett place; also another on Beech Run, on the lands of John W. and Bent Barker, the waters of which are used for medicinal purposes.
Analysis of Green Sulphur Springs, the Property of Harrison Gwinn, Made by Booth, Garrett & Blair, Philadelphia.
This spring is sixty-five feet deep ; bored in 1819.
Grains per U. S. Gallon.
Silica
0.711
Sulphuric Acid Radicale
9.233
Bicarbonic
15.259
Carbonic ..
0.583
Phosphoric
..
Trace
Chlorine
8.026
Iodine
0.012
Aluminum
0.015
Calcium
2.671
Magnesium
0.571
Potassium
0.076
Sodium
11.339
Lithium
0.015
Ammonium
0.009
Oxygen to form Al
0.013
Total. 48.533
SURVEYORS OF THE COUNTY.
John Graham, while never surveyor of the county, was sur- veyor at one time of Monroe and Greenbrier, or assistant to the surveyor, and did all of the duties of that office for a large portion of Summers County before the war. He was appointed as the first surveyor of the county at its formation.
The first elected surveyor was Michael Smith, who held for twenty years. The second surveyor was John E. Harvey, who held two terms, and declined to hold the office any longer.
The third and present surveyor of the county is Andrew L. Campbell, who is serving his third term of four years each.
BARGER'S SPRINGS Transformed Into Greenbrier Springs 1904. Mrs. Julia Huddleston and Miss Daisy Miller.
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MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FROM THE DISTRICT OF WHICH SUMMERS HAS BEEN A PART.
K. V. Whaley, Republican, elected 1864, over John M. Phelps, Dem .; majority, 1,236.
Daniel Polsley, Republican, elected 1866, over John H. Oley; majority, 1,471.
John S. Witcher, Republican, elected 1868, over Chas. P. T. Moore; majority, 1,409.
Frank Hereford, Democrat, elected 1870, over John S. Witcher, Rep. ; majority. 1.493.
Frank Hereford, Democrat, elected 1874, over J. B. Walker, by 8,884 majority.
Frank Hereford, Democrat, elected 1876, over Benj. T. Red- mond, Rep., by 17,573 majority.
John E. Kenna, Democrat, elected 1878, over Henry S. Walker, Greenback, by 2,827 majority.
John E. Kenna, Democrat, over Henry S. Walker, Greenback, 1880, by 5,310 majority.
John E. Kenna, Democrat, over E. L. Buttrick, Republican, 1882, by 4,465 majority.
C. P. Snyder, Democrat, over James H. Brown, Republican, 1883, by 1,230 majority.
C. P. Snyder, Democrat, over James W. Davis, Republican, 1884, by 2,119 majority.
C. P. Snyder over James H. Brown, Republican in 1886, by 815 majority.
John D. Alderson, Democrat, over J. H. McGinnis, Republican, 1888, by 1,293 majority.
John D. Alderson, Democrat, over Theophilus Gaines, Republi- can, 1890. by 5,014 majority.
John D. Alderson, Democrat, over Edgar P. Rucker, Republi- can, 1892, by 1,946 majority.
James H. Huling, Republican, over John D. Alderson, Demo- crat, in 1894, by 4,018 majority.
Charles P. Dorr, Republican, over E. W. Wilson, Democrat, in 1896, by 3,631 majority.
David E. Johnston, Democrat, over William S. Edwards, Re- publican, 1898, by 765 majority.
Joseph H. Gaines, Republican, over David E. Johnston, Demo- crat, 1900, by 6,570 majority.
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Joseph H. Gaines, Republican, over Jas. H. Miller, Democrat, 1902, by about 2,500 majority.
Joseph H. Gaines, Republican, over Henry B. Davenport, Jr., Democrat, 1904.
Joseph H. Gaines was elected over George Berne, Democrat, 1906. These results are from 1864 to 1906.
U. S. SENATORS FROM WEST VIRGINIA SINCE THE FOR- MATION OF THE STATE.
Peter C. VanWinkle, Republican, Parkersburg, December 7, 1863-March 4, 1869.
Waitman P. Willey, Republican. Morgantown, December 7, 1863-March 4, 1871.
Arthur I. Boreman, Republican, Parkersburg, March 4, 1869- March 4, 1875.
Henry G. Davis, Democrat, Piedmont, March 4, 1871-March 4. 1883.
Allen T. Caperton, Democrat, Union, from March 4, 1875, to date of his death, July 26, 1876.
Samuel Price, Democrat, Lewisburg, appointed August 26, 1876 -- December 4, 1876.
Frank Hereford. Democrat, Union, January 31, 1877-March 3, 1881.
Johnson N. Camden, Democrat, Parkersburg, March 4, 1881- March 3, 1887.
John E. Kenna. Democrat, Charleston, March 4, 1883-March 3, 1895 (died in 1893).
Charles J. Faulkner, Democrat, Parkersburg, March 3, 1887- March 3, 1893.
Johnson N. Camden, Democrat, Parkersburg, March 4, 1893- March 3, 1895, filling the unexpired term of John E. Kenna.
Charles J. Faulkner, Democrat, Parkersburg, March 4, 1893- March 3, 1899.
Steven B. Elkins, Republican, Elkins, March 4, 1895-March 3, 1901.
Nathan B. Scott, Republican, Wheeling, March 4, 1899-March 3. 1905.
Steven B. Elkins, Republican, Elkins, March 4, 1901-March 3, 1907.
N. B. Scott, Republican, Wheeling. Elected January, 1905, for a term of six years.
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STATE SENATORS FROM THE DISTRICT OF WHICH SUMMERS COUNTY IS A PART SINCE ITS FORMATION.
Robert F. Dennis, Lewisburg; John W. Arbuckle, Lewisburg; William L. McNeal, Pocahontas: J. W. St. Clair, Fayette; M. Van Pelt, Fayette; W. W. Adams, Summers: William Haynes, Sum- mers; William H. McGinnis, Raleigh; M. F. Matheny, Raleigh ; Ault. Ballard, Monroe, and N. P. Baker, Mercer.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS OF SCHOOLS.
The county superintendents of schools have been : John H. Pack, appointed when county was formed and elected one term.
C. L. Ellison , terms.
David G. Lilly 2 terms.
James H. Miller 1 term.
Charles A. Clark 1 term.
J. Morris Parker 1 term.
Victor V. Austin 1 term.
Jonathan F. Lilly
1 term.
Henry F. Kessler 2 terms.
George W. Lilly 2 terms.
J. E. Keadle 1 term.
JAILERS OF THE COUNTY.
The jailers of the county have been: William Gott, W. R. Neeley, Jr., E. B. Neeley and John W. Wiseman.
DELEGATES TO THE SECESSION CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, 1861.
· From Monroe: Allen T. Caperton, John Echols.
From Mercer County: Napoleon Bonaparte French.
MEMBER OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION,
1870.
William Hayne.
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SUMMERS COUNTY CORPORATIONS.
New River Land Company, incorporated 1907; T. H. Lilly, Presi- dent.
Hinton Water, Light & Supply Co., incorporated 1903; W. L. Fredeking, President.
National Bank of Summers, incorporated 1905; Jas. T. McCreery, President.
First National Bank of Hinton, incorporated 1900; Azel Ford, President.
Citizens' Bank of Hinton, incorporated 1905; W. H. Warren, Presi- dent.
New River Grocery Co., incorporated 1901; Geo. A. Miller, Presi- dent.
Hinton Steam Laundry, incorporated 1906; T. H. Lilly, President. Hinton Hotel Company, incorporated 1905; Jas. T. McCreery, President.
Hotel McCreery Company, incorporated 1907; Jas. T. McCreery. President.
Hinton Toll Bridge Company, incorporated 1904; Wm. Plumley. Jr., President.
Hinton Foundry, Machine & Plumbing Co., incorporated 1906; Jas. T. McCreery, President.
Ewart-Miller Company, incorporated 1905; Jas. H. Miller, Presi- dent.
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