The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-09-13
THE EeIS AND INTELLlGENCER
BEL AIR, Md, SEPTEMBER 18th, 1872.
CORRESPONDENCE. T.:
Road from Glen Cove to COnowingO.
DUBLIN, September I'd, 1872

DUBLIN, September I'd, 1872.
Mr. EDITOR: On Wednesday last, the road
commissioners appointed by the Hon. Commits
soners of Hartford county to determine upon the
site of n new road from the west end of Como
wingo bridge to n point near Glen Cove met at
the Glen. The commissioners were Messrs.
VIM. 7. Clark, Henry S. Harlan and G. q. Kin
sey, all of them being gentlemen of intelligence
and good business ability. The commissioners,
accompanied by number of intelligent gentle
men, among them the Hon. Judge Price and Ar
chibald Wilson, our county commissioner,
started from Glen Cove and passed over the route
to Conowingo Bridge. The locality is wild
one; the river hill along the proposed route is
steep and rocky, but the intelligent commission
ers and several other gentlemen who were pres
ent and convcrsant with road making, pronounc-
ed the route to be entirely practicable, and of
the opinion that good road could be made here
at no great cost. | understand that gentleman
present (who is an adept in making roads over
rocky ground) offered to complete the road for
fifteen hundred dollars, which would be small
sum when the importance of the road is taken
into consideration. The distance between the
bridge and Glen Cove is half mile, and when
the road is completed the bridge can be APP
preached without encounterng any hill of con-
sequence. The road from the Glen to Dublin is
comparatively level and the road leading to
Darlington is an excellent one, having fine, easy
grades. Over either road teams can haul the heav-
lest loads without inconvenience whilst the
only avenue now leading to the bridge is long
tircsome hill, which is hard to ascend at any
time and in icy times it is absolutely dangerous.
And now as the Port Deposit and Columbia
X. B. is about to be finished and depot estab-
lished ut Conowingo, it is of the greatest impor-
tancc to our farmers and citizens in general to
have easy access to the bridge and railroad, and
as the proposed road is the desidcratum sought
for, it is to be hoped that our Hon. county COM
missioners will take the necessary steps for an
early completion of this important avenue, and
from their praiseworthy liberality towards pub
lie roads and public schools, which meets with
q hearty response of approval by their constitu-
ents, we hope they will encourage this impor-
tant road. The opening of this road will en-
nance the value of property at West Conowingo
greatly, as it WILL by offering an easy access to
the bridge render this valuable depot q site for
lime burning, which could not be carried on at
present with profit on account Of the heavy hill
that the lime haulers would have to ascend.
The petition presented to the county commits
sioners praying for this road is one of the strong
est ever presented to any board of our county
commissioners by our citizens for any public
road. The said petition represents taX-paying
basis of over half million of dollars, and surely
such petition should receive the serious con-
sidcration of the Hon. Board. When this road
is finished the great crossing point at Como
wingo can be approached at any season of the
year without encountering any hill or other Sc
rious obstacle, and the travelling public will be
accommodated by having good road to the
bridge, and our farmers and Others will have easy
access 10 the railroad, where lncy Will DC WITHIN
two or three hours travel Of the Philadelphia
and Baltimore markets. Although we did not
see any rock fish dinner on last Wednesday, yet
when we arrived at Mr.. John Shurc's hotel, at
Vest Conowingo, we had an excellent lunch of
good things, Of which VIC partook with right
good will. Mr.. Shure keeps excellent liquors
and other good things, and withal is a courteous
obliging gentleman-give him call and you
will be pleased
KWhile here was pleased to see some of our
leading, heightened Republicans join hand with
their Democratic brethren across the bloody
ley and Brown. This is as it should be- and is
the true course to disenthral our beloved coun-
try from usurpation tyranny and pepotism
MARS.