The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-01-01

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Nine Miles OF Manufacturing Sites
I'm The Hands Of the short Creek
shyIocks-The Wealthy Cid Farm.
ers OF That Regi0n-They Must
be Got out of Their Hands-HO! to
the RescueI You Voters Of Ohio
County.
"These sites are on the line of the
Pittsburgh. Wheeling Il Kanawha Rail-
road"
So says the REGISTER Of yesterday.
in its appeals to- the voters of OHIO
county. - e [ d. q
1t calls upon all classes, working
men and property-holders, TO vote in
favor Of subscribing $225, 900 TO said
road. Mr.. Editor, why not appeal to
the owners OF said manufacturing sites to
take this out in stock or furnish the
amount of money required to build the
road? 1t is for their good, and it is
they who will profit most if it is built.
This would be better and more appro-
pirate than your appeal to the tax
payers.
Again, Mr.. Editor, should the
Taxpayers agree, on Wednesday
next by three-fiths vote to
make said subscription has your
Board of Supervisors the power or
authority under the constitution and
laws of the State to make said sub
scription. If they have, then, our
organic laws are imperfect and shonld
be amended or changed by the conveu-
ton about to assemble, and I beg to
call their attention to the case.
In the State of Ohio no county or
municipal authorities can make such
subscriptions. If the people along any
particular line. or in any particular
section, want a road, they apply for a
charter, and the charter members organ
lie a company by the sale Of stocks for
the road, or by individual subscriptions
to the same. This is right; they don't
ask county authorities or municipal
authorities to use or pledge public
money for such purposes, because it is
not right, nor have they the authority
for 80 doing.
Are not our taxes high enough now ?
Besides, if we make this subscription
how long will it be until we are called
on to make another to the Wheeling
and Tuscarawas route, and another to
the Hopedale, and | don't know how
many others.
But, to come beck TO the start
ing point, nine miles Of manufac-
turing sites, belonging to who? A lot
of rich old farmers who never were
known to expend dollar unless they
were sure it was going to pay them back
a big interest whose highest ambition
is to raise big crops, own the best lands
in the county and make the most money
possible out of them.
Why, sir, if your COW was to wander
away up in that direction they would
take her up as a stray, turn her into a
back field, milk her as long as her
milk would pay her keeping, and then
beef and sell her to the first butcher
that came along, and perhaps not even
comply with the laws providing for
such cases by advertising stray. And
if you were to advertise her yourself
they would say, although they took the
paper you advertised in, that they had
no time to read papers, &c.
This is the class Of men, working
men of Wheeling. you are appealed to,
to make rich by voting increased taxes
upon yourselves to build this road.
Will you do it? think, or hope, not
Again, C. D. Hubbard, Thos. Swee-
ney, Mr.. Scott, Of the Central Pennsyl-
vania railroad, and others, tell you it
will be paying road; will never cost
the county anything, &c.
If so, why don't they build it with
their own funds and not ask the Board
of Supervisors of this county to take or
pledge your taxes or mine to build it
with? We pay our taxes to the Sheriff
of the county for other purposes. not for
building railroads with, and we don't
want them used or pledged for other
purposes than what they are levied and
collected Tor.
Again, admit that it was right for the
Board 20 do this thing, and that we
were willing they should do it and
would so vote on next Wednesday, and
that they would 90 on with the i'm
} rovement and all that sort Of thing,
how long would it take Mr.. Scott, the
Central Pennsylvania railroad, and who
ever else might be behind the scenes,
to frame this thing in such a way as
to make the County Board of Super
visors and all of US glad to get rid Of
it on any terms? 1t could and would
be sold in less than four years for song,
to whom :? Nobody would want it, OF
course, but Mr.. Scott and his company.
They would get it at just what they
pleased to pay for it, after which it will
become paying road, and no sooner
r he Board of Supervisors say; yes, but
we will watch that part Of the business
and see that i. is managed right. Why,
my dear sirs, you will be out Of office
before it is ready to watch. You are
elected for just one year; it will take
longer than that to build it, and it won't
be ready to watch before ii is built
Nine miles OF manufacturing sites
How many Of them would be built on
by their present owners? Not one.
Commence this road and up goes the
price OF these lands to treble what they
are now worth or can be sold for and
as fast as the present men can sell they
will do it, put the money in their pock-
cts and leave your State to buy lands
and farms in the West or elsewhere,
leaving you behind to pay the bills Of
accrued taxation, NC, they not helping
you one bit Don't do it, voters; if
they want this road and want more
money for their lands and farms, let
them take hold and build it, not off
their own friends and not out of the
county treasury.
Again, they tell you one Of our mills
has furnace in another State. What
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