The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1846-01-15

this the public spirited advocates of the me-
county have not proposed On the contrar
when some years ago it was proposed to e.
tablish the county seat of that county at th
central point further south, this same littl
batch of Wapaukonnetta spectators remon
strated, and clamored against II, most voci
tefously. II was in their opinion then al
nonsense TO twattle about the hardship of 60
ing seventeen miles to do their county bust
ness. They were then patiently waiting fo
the seats of justice in the adjacent counties
to be fixed, and for the favorable moment fo
them to make spec. out of their town lots
The erection Of the new and elegant cour
house in Lima, they think now precludes ths
possibility Of their scheme being foiled by {
removal of the county seat from Lima to the
center, and now they raise their piteous
cry Of the hardship of being compelled to &C
from ten to seventeen miles to the county
seat.
But suppose the county of Auglaizo b
established as proposed; and what advantage
will it be to the inhabitants of the various
counties, SO far as it relates to their proximi.
ty to the various seats of justicey Lima
from being within six tfiiles Of the north line
Of Allen, will be twelve miles from the north,
and only six from the south line. Will moi
the peopleo Of the north part of that county
..lner nave as plausible claims for the erec-
ten of new county there, as the specula-
tors Of Wapaukonnetta now have for the new
county of Auglaize2
A part of the people taken from Putnam,
and attached TO Allen, who are now no more
than seven miles from Kalida, their present
seat Of justice, will be more than eighteen
miles from Lima, their new seat of Justice
Kalida, now located equi-distant between
the north and south lines of Putnam county
will be brought within Ave miles of the
south line, while some of the people of Put
nam, in the northeast corner of the county,
will be twenty miles from the county seat
Wapaukonnetta, the proposed seat of justice
Of Auglaize county, will be only four mile.
from the north line of that county, while il
will be almost as far from that to the mos
distant parts of that county, as it is now from
Lima to the most distant parts of Aller
county, And this is The proposed remedy
for the evils growing out of mislocation Of
the county seat of Allen county, "Rob
bing Peter TO pay Paul"-taking territory ly-
ing within seven miles of Kaida from Put
nam, and attaching it to Allen at distance
of eighteen miles from Lima! Creating a
new county because ten or twelve miles is
too far for the people Of WapauKonnetta to
60 to the seat Of justice, and making those
taken from Putnam, who are now within
from FIVE to ten miles of the county seat, &c
from twelve to twenty miles to do thei
county business! This is " carrying coal.
to New Castle" with vengeance! Thi.
highly plausible, and equitable scheme, il
strictly Characteristic, and only worthy of the
sapient heads tha! devised it. None but thu
village dreamers, who have built their hopes
of gain upon the accomplishment of th
fraud, could have conjured up sucn sense
less chimera.
But the kind and charitable, "small pota
toe "speculators of Wapaukonnetta propose
to obvate part of these objections by tax
ing upon themselves(ki souls) the trouble o
coming into our county, and locating thu
seat of justice at what would be the cente
of our county after the loss of the four south
ern townships. Is this project at all feasible
The first consequence of the removal weul'
be the total loss of tho $l4,500, expended
by Putnam in the erection Of County bull
dings! The second consequence would b.
the loss of the money paid for the lots in tn
town Of Kalida, about $4,000. Th'
next consequence would be the loss Of tn
money expended in building upon and i'm
proving the lots the town of Kalida, which
is not less than $4,000. This calculation
is based upon the fact that the lots in th
town of Kalida would not be worth one dol
lar piece If the County seat were removed
We presume that it will hardly require Al
argument 10 prove that fifth Of an acre G
land (the size of our in lots) would be wort
no more than dollar here in the woods, a
ter the removal of the County seat. An
vet for those same little lots, the County1an
the state (oNr southern townships receivin
their full share) have received in money frol
thirty to thlea hundred dollars piece, upo
the pledge, that I" the seat ofjustice should r'
main permanently at Kalida." All the bui
ding and improvements made here have bee
upon the same pledge. Thus about eight
thousand dollars are to be cast away--an
clearly lost TO the people of Putnam Count
and others, who have bought and improve
the property in Kalda upon the pledged fai
of the state, to enrich the half dozen spec
lators of Wapaukonnetta! 1t may not be o
of place here to refer to another act of I'll
legisl ature of Ohio, passed February fir
1886, by which the residue Of the sectit
out of which the first quarter was taken W
conveyed to Putnam County under the san
conditions as the first; and sold, at the san
high prices-the state receiving three dolla
m acre for the same, which would not Sc
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