Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-11-03


BEDFORD AND ITS PRosPEcrs. 4
captionln Why; do you presume that Bed,
ford has no prospects, good, bad, or indiffer-
entl If you do, we pray the Good Man to
have mercy on your ineredulous soul. for
Bedford is destined for till rise.', M, up.
until her huge proportions have thrust the
majestic mountains back and covered the
captured space with her splendid palaces and
castles, or sprinkled the high mountain side
with gorgeous cottages, the seat of happiness
and comfort, and while she is expanding,
along her low vallies the startling, piercing
whistle of the iron horse viii echo from hill
top to hill top, speeding on his way to pour
the mighty wealth of proud old earth into her
spacious lap and verify, soon the sonorious
voice of the fiery furnace will be heard to de-
mand from our deep veins, the lustrous ore,
while the forge and the rolling mill will work
the rich molten lava into links to form mas
sive chain to grid the earth, again, the rattling
gathering loom viii ere long greet our ear at
every turn, and look at the sickly thousands
eagerly rushing to her Fountains of Youth to
drink her health restoring waters. Enough
Who dare say Bedford has no prospects filed
with the grandest hopes of brilliant success?
If there lives such an one, let him stand aside,
the beauties of the world have no charms for
HIM
This picture is a true portrait of what we
have right to expect. But to begin. To-day
Bedford demands fifty houses. Win they be
built? From all sides comes the wailing in
terrogatory of the wife, the widow, and the
orphan, "Am to be turned into the street?'i
and no enc who has the capital deigns to an
swer. We ask in the name of humanity, are
our laboring people to be left houseless? Ev-
cry one of fifty dwellings are urgently deman-
ded, win not some one, who has the money,
proceed at once to relieve this want? Let
enterprise rule the hour. You, old fogy,
who have stood by, with folded arms, for
twenty years, and done nothing, stand aside,
let live men, men who know our wants and
knowing dare provide them, take your place
In few short months wemust expect to have
all the railroad facilities that we need; shops,
furnaces, manufactures must follow, posi-
tons to erect necessary buildings will be re-
quired, viii our people have spirit enough to
sell at reasonable figures? Our progress can
only be retarded in this way, come up to the
work, old fogy, do the business yourself, or
sell out Provisions should be made for ten
thousand visitors to Bedford Springs, in a
single season, there is no good reason why
such a number viii not come here Philadel-
phia, Baltimore, Washington and Pittsburgh
can send out to this point as many visitors as
New York can send to Saratoga, with half the
beauties of Bedford. Enterprise is all that is
wanting, "come up higher" Bedford lacks
energy. Where are the live men that will
take hold? First and foremost somebody
must sell lots at a reasonable price! There
are fifty persons who win buy lots and pay for
them. Let the difficulty be met as soon as
possible. There are dozen persons who
can sell lots, and we hope to hear, in time
for our next issue, that they have done so.
Who will sell? Every body will buy Bed
ford must forwardl STAND ASIDE, OLD FoGY,
WE MUST oN