Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1858-11-03

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Count. .sI0Hffs Of Collin county.
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..u.., nui upDn ihs mail TOu' irm Woo d.
/ C.s}s,i,s, IN which think inilsn.- he, b.su
done the couuiy iui Der olf,rrs, by an sfiu
upp hi, psu, To SIpo's Whist he coucriyss "a
BE- total want Of pr de aai enc ~ m the cil-
zen, aDl Officers ol me connly, through the
columns Of q publ, louraal, and now desire
through ihr ssmr medium TO make shoH re-
ply thereto,
/ lst | csnnoi conceive where hr 0baius he
hight 10 irus publish Coaply and her olll,rFs,
llcsunot be for me reason lhal be- ia the Mail
Agent alone, ioF this pgTPous Holhlng' many
prIsons might suppose lhlI from tie fern
Hall AgeHl thrLr WAS l,,s Government Of,
hctT cl0iral with lh, power 20 enforce counties
Through which ihr mai, liue ,lrsts, 20 build
brides, make reads, rul keep everything IL
elegant order aui repair iur lhrir ease and Uc,
.commnl ton, Such, however, ., Uol lheca,r,
he o. oul, ,hr rgwi al tie Governments for
.m,i purpose, anl the counties know uoiuisg
Of h,W,
! Pad, Il must be- admitted ghat The Company
who t0ss the contract from the Government
were aware Of the coudiIion'o Of the road, aud
the want Of bridges thereon md that these ob.
slncles would have To he suImounIed BY them,
aud thor price for the carrying of the mail
was doubtless made in reference thereto, when
the contract was let, aud they placed them.
selves ia competition with others for the con.
/ tract, aud they succeeded ia obtaining the
same why complain; have they not received
iall for which they contracted TO carry the
mail certain distances, aud when done TO be
paid given sum thrcior; this was matter in
which the counties along the line ofroad could
have no voice whatever; nor no choice as 10
who should have the contract; then il there has
been any violation e the contract, or breach Of
good faith, they ought TO look 10 those with
whom they contracted for repantion, and ask
that their contract lie enforced. They have
nothing TO do with us n ga county, nor we with
them as company. If i, suits our conven.
fence and particularly our. funds to build bridges
along the line Of the road, we will do so; if
not we will nat be forced by those who sup
pose and that too by mere within Of the brain
tina; they con exercise authority over us. And
if this company is dissatisfied, they can find
Others that will take the contract of their
hands; and with II take the roads and bridges
as they are.
3rd, Why should We as county place oil
our funds that We could appropriate to the build
ing of bridges, upon that line of road, exclu.
slye Of all other roads in the county. Wei
conceive i, to be our duty in making appropri-
attons Tor improvement purposes to exclude no
locality whatever in the county, that has 3
mer!0riops claim upon the treasury. Weregard
!: IS our imperative duty to discard all Sec
e.. a, al e III
t. in the order Of distribution that the greatest
good may be accomplished for the greatest
number, We have in our county other public !
roads, aud other neighborhoods besides those
that gre upon this mail line, and whopay equal
taxes With those that are upon the line, but
from the argument, they must be excluded en-
tire Y, and their funds be taken for the build
ing Of bridges upon that line in which they
have no particular interest whatever. This
may suit the mail agents notion Of Justice
founded upon interest; but we who have to
act for whole county think otherwise and
shall act accordingly.
A h. We deem it necessary under the cir
cumsnnces to say something of the condition
of Collin County in the way of public improve
mentS. we are driven to this by this pnhlca-
ton. We have in this county no jail at The
present, but are about erecting one Of Il sub
stantia character, and owing to our distance
from large quantity of the MATERIAL it will
cost considerable sum Of money more than
one in those counties where they have the ma
terial. We nave in this county court house
that was built in early times, and owing to
the increase of population. it has become mad:
equae 10 the wants and necessities of the pco
pie of the county either for judicial purposes
or political meetings, hence our attention has
been and will continue to be directed to devils.
ing ways and means by which one may be
erected in due order of time There are some
means i'll the treasury Of this county which
will be appropriated to the two proceeding
buildings, and they will be advanced as fast as
possible, these will be done first for the reason
that they are public edifces of the first i'm
portance to the county, and in which every
citizen has an immediate and direct interest.
We will now state that the old County
Court of this county previous to the election,
let out contracts for the building of three
bridges, one across Wilson's creek, and ON the
nail route, two upon the lower Bonham road,
one across Pilot Grove creek, and the other
across Sister Grove creek, the last two are not
upon the mail route. So, it may be seen that
the county is making the best effort she can to
build bridges in proportion to her means; we
will now say to the travelling public and the
in charge of the mail route, that we
are extremely anxious to see bridges built and
roads improved in the county of Collin, as
well as in other counties, and indeed if it was
in our power, we would rejoice to see her in
4 nee of all other counties in the way OF
and would willingly use every
possible exerton to accomplish the same, and
will do il as rapidly as we can. But we can
not nor will not take the responsibility upon
ourselves to submerge the county in debt to ac-
compish the object, the opinion of the Mail
A gent to the contrary Notwithstanding
Very respectfully
Your ob'dt. serv't.