The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-22


is the party injured, and has the best
grounds for complaint. Now, Mr.. Ed
itor, just here wish to make o practic-
oil test as to the relative value Of these
two tracts of lands brought into COM
parison here by the Reverend Turner u
Co. Mr.. Price authorizes me to say
that he wants to sell his hundred acre
tract. and that he will take two thou
sand dollars for it. am authorized by
Q friend to say that he will give Mr.. Bur
lev ten thousand dollarsf for one hundred
acres Of his four hundred acre tract
which is tax only fifteen dollars
per acre, the boundarys of the said
hundred acres to commence on the
front next the town, and running back
taking twenty-five or thirty acres of
that sterile barren region spoken of by
the mouthpiece. Here 10 chance to
test the real value of these lands. Will
Mr.. Burley dispose of his land at the
price offered. If so, let him make the
fact known through the public press.
My friend is ready to close the bargain
ut once. Cannot the virtuous assessor
prevail upon his bosom friend, the Sena-
tor, to dispose of one hundred acres Of
this barren region of his for the snug
little sum of ten thousand dollars.
Now to the records again, for know
the virtuous Turner and his especial
and we'll beloved friend, likes to see the
figures in this case in print, and 1t at
fords me pleasure at all times to please
my neighbors, and the task is in this
instance, the more agreeable from
IL. e. hola
nifty is interested in these figures
as they feel the smart inflicted upon
them by the manner in which they are
arranged on the land books. The rec
ords show that Captain David Roberts
farm of 1s9 acres is assessed at $50 per
acre; R. /. Curtis, 163 acres, at SIS per
acre; Col. w. Alexander, 262 acres, at
$50 per acre; VIM. Koontz, 20 acres, at
S75 per acre; B. w. Price, 81 acres, at
$50 per acre; Rev. Joseph Alexander,
25 acres, at $125 per acre, and James
Burley, 576f acres, at $34 so per acre.
All these lands are adjoining, and lying
upon the flats of Grave Creek, except
about IS or 100 acres of Burley's, and
about the same proportion of Roberts,
rnnning or extending back upon the
Alexander's also extends back upon the
the ridges, not better, if as good as
Burley's hill land. AS to improve
ments, location, &c, Burley's has the
advantage of either of the farms men,
toned, quality of land about the same,
and taking into account everything
that makes a farm, James Burley has
one of the best in Marshall county.
And yet, he, through the partiality of
his friend Turner, is to pay about half
the taxes per acre that is paid
by any other landholder i'll this
vicinity. Can there be any propo-
sition more clearly and correctly
demonstrated than is shown by these
figures that Mr.. Turner has not well and
faithfully performed q very responsible
duty, as is attempted to be shown by
the attorney writing for him, but rather
that he has so arranged this assessment
that the honest laboring men of the
county will have the very unpleasant
and Improbable duty to perform of
paying money into the treasury of the
State and county that in all fairness
should have been paid by Senator Bur-
ley. Taxpayers of Marshall, are You
willing to bare your necks to the yoke
still longeri Can you consent to take
from yourselves the means that would
make you and your families comforta-
ble and happy to pay not only your own
exorbitant taxes, but make up def
cheney in the revenues of the State Gre
ated by this unjust anG partial assess
meut of Mr.. Turnersi --.-l
T. l. Mr axr'o far
Many Of you haye been around and
abont it, for thirty or forty years. Can
you of truth say, that it is worth but
half as much as the lands surrounding
it. Ialmost imagine hear the response
from all your honest hearts, saying that
it should have been taxed equally as
high as Roberts Alexander's Curtis's
and all the lands on these fats, and for
fear some of you may think that this
article has been gotten up in partizan
spirit and the case not fairly put, l re-
fer all such to the land books in the
clerks office. There are other favor
able assessments of Mr.. Burley's lands
in this county, rirer bottom lnnds at that
which are taxed but seventeen dollars
per acre, the particulars of which will
be made known at an other time, but
of course, when this matter is investi-
gated and exposed, it will then be dis
covered that old mother nature has
been in one Of her frolicsome moods,
and from some freak or fancy of hers,
taken it into her head to remove Senator
Burley's round bottom farm out upon
the mountain regions, just back of
where it was q short time before, and
the news will then spread far and wide
that Burley's round bottom farm is
hardly worth having. e';ss,F ~
The National will please copy.
MARsALL.