Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-07-06
[From the Athens Mcssenger.l
Local Matters....Remi R

Assessors dhties when engaged i'll making
up their annral lists, under the Revenue Laws
Of the United States, leads to variety Of
facts, more or less interesting to the general
community. The increased Income returns,
of parties previously known to tn, assessor,
point them out with uncrring precision as
those who have been happily successful in
their pursuits during the past year, while the
labsence from bis list of some Names awakens
with him the inward inquiry us to the cause of
failure in such cases.
Comparisons are sometimes made by him
between two sister counties in the same Dis
trict, and the results in some cases surprising
ly equal, are followed with other cases where
the great disparity was wholly unexpected.
The business centers too in our own county,
are gradually undergoing changes almost
Iimperceptible,-and which the operations of
the Revenue system serve best to bring into
notice.
| The annual lists of Athens and Morgan
counties, just completed, are about equal in
amount, viz in Morgan, $l7,094, and in Ath-
ems, $l7,06S,--thc difference being but $26.
On the other hand, the list in Meigs county is
$50, 1926, and nearly equal to both the others.
We have no present data from Washington
and Monroe, the other counties comprising the
18th Revenue District of Ohio
Washington was the first county, in order,
that was formed in the State At the time Of
her organization in l7SS, she embraced with
in her original limits, all the others, now COM
prising the 18th District, Indeed the county
Of Washington, as first established, extended
to Lake Erie on the North, and to the Scoto
river on the West This mother of counties,
since greatly lessened in her territorial dimen-
sions, yet rightfully exerts commanding in
huence in the State of Ohio
Athens was formed from Washington coun-
ty, in 1905, by the formation in part from
her, of Hooking, in 1878, and Meigs in 1919;
and more recently two entire townships have
been set off to Morgan, and again three 9TH
ers were spared, being found necessary in the
erection Of the new county Of Vinton. In
this way the geographical limits Of our county
has been lessened to 4S5 square miles, but lit,
tie in excess of the minimum extent of coun-
ties fixed by the Constitution of the State
But Meigs county is taking precedence of
all the others in the District, in the variety
and extent of its business, and the amount Of
Revenue tax which it yields to the support Of
the Government.
From $1,000 bushels of salt produced in
1910, the production has increased to 1000,
0lD bushels per annum, with every prospect
of large increase in the future. The SAINT
may I've said Of its coal, the operations in which
would alone Zurich county, unaided by 9th
cr sources of prosperity. TO these may now
be added the further item of "ol which from
recent developments is well asccrtaincd to cx
ist there in paying quantities.
O,er this vast and varied mineral deposit
now being successfully developed, the county
of Meigs rested long and quietly, till the yeal
1888 she was suddenly aroused from her Rir
Van Winkle slumbcrs by the Inauguration Of
gigantic enterprise, in the hands of the SC
called "Pomeroy Company" which has since
been successfully prosecuted, and still give,
promise Of increasing prosperity in the fu
ture
Pomeroy, the county seat of Meigs county
was incorporated i'll the year IS4O, then q
feeble bantling, situated as has been oh.
served, ION a narrow strip of ground from e
to 30 rods wide, under lofty, steep hill, in
the midst of wild and romantic scenery" and
this town, however misshapen and uncomel y
in appearance, is now the center of the larg
est business on the Ohio river, between Gin
cinnati and Wheeling.
And mere too, we find the largest Income
returns in our Revenue District, two parties
unitcdly, returning $l3S, 7730 and paying a tax
thereon of thirteen thousand four hundred and
thirty-three dollars, nearly equal in amount tt
the whole Revenue tax of Morgan county
., A. B. WALKER.
Athens, June 81, 1865