The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-11-08

stone on the Cumberland road contains
LWenty.seven feet cubic. The quantity
was fixed by tho U. s. engineer, Lieut..
Vance, because it was found by actualex.
pertinent that "a feet 0 inches Of unbro.
ken stone made q feet Of broken stone.
The gauge used for measuring stone is 10
inches across at tho top, 10 inches high
aud from Al 10 al inches wide OF the
bottom, there being little difference in
gauges. A little calculation will show that
if perch Of stone DO piled so as 10 fit
the gauge, the pile will be from 90 10 10l
inches In length, according 10 the
bottom width OF the gauge. Mr.. Fer
rel has always required l0l inches, Mr..
LunSford 20. But takiug the average, 100
inches, We sec that the perch Of stone
thus piled is only 81 feet long instead Of
q. Yet on this basis Of q lineal feet 10
the perch is founded tho elaborate tabu-
lar statements, and in fact the whole
argument, 10 prove fraud, corruption and
incompetency in Mr.. Ferrel's manages
ment Of tho road.
Governor Stanton kas 1861 perch Of
broken stone in O mile string, whereas
there arc in fact between $50 and GAO
perches. On his calculation the S., 672 O3
spent for stone from October l, 1866, to
October !, 1868, ought to have put on q
miles and l40 perches, while Gov. Stan.
ton and his people don't believe the half
Of it was furnished. We'll, II its my sat.
istaction, tho half Of it wasn't furnished,
and little, It any more, than the third Of
It. An explanation is loudly called for.
Here it is. To get tho result q miles,
81 80 has been assumed as the average
price per perch. If the gentleman had
seen fit to inquire, he would have learned
that the stone for those two years averaged
over 81 60 per perch, aud be knows from
the evidence that stone has been broken
for the first three sections alone this year
at On average Of over 81 60, that being
10 cents perch cheaper than Mr.. Luns.
ford got it done. If he will devote as
much time 10 his arithmetic as he did to
visiting the road without anybody know.
ing it,and will then take 640 perches to the
mile at 81 60 per perch, he'll find that
$5,672 03 would pay for Eve miles 345
PCICueo Iubtehu VI a ulleb' he nus huLllL'
ted that as much as Eve miles went on the
road, and if he hadn't, everybody along
the road knows the fact. The short Of i
is, that single string Of broken stone
costs about 81 900 mile. j,
The same mistake Is made in his esti.
mate Of the cost Of spreading stone.
!: Well, as this scholar don't do very well
so far over in the book, lett try him alta
sum in simple addition. -...
Mr.. Lunsford, when on tho stand, sta.
ted that the tolls while he was superin.
tendent were $500 o year. Hc was
superintendent three years and eight
months.
His total receipts then wCrc-.:":...""".. sl21OO
WOAru now told that Mr.. Lunsf6rl, on COM
Ing into Office, found and paid on debts
amounting iu round numbers tO.....$llOO
That LunsfOrl paid for masonFy........ $500
Tint when no resigned hO turned over
10 PCrfcl "..,.............,............... 1900
Ilo paid out for salaries annually, HIM s-=
self S953, ono cato keeper $5l9, and
another $3IS, amounting In thrcO
yUlrS and eight months tO,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 1900