Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-07-10

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Tobacco by horseback mail, Friday is the
day of departure from here.
Salem or Port Tobacco station.
The County Commissioners have taken
measures for the early grading of Mount
Hill. This is move in the right direc-
ton, and will supply long needed, long
asked for facility, not only to those who
are interested as shippers of produce by
the railroad, but also-to those of our citi-
zens living far beyond Salem, in remote
sections of the county, who have business
transactions calling for their presence at
the county seat. Perhaps, however, the
greatest advantage to be realized by this
grading of Mount Hill, an advantage
which, in our opinion, is paramount to all
other considerations, lies in the fact that a
large and fertile portion of our county will
become of easy access to Port Tobacco Sta
ton as place of shipment by the cars
This proposed Station, for which we ask,
and which, it has been our understanding
was promised by the railroad company, is
not more than one mile and a-half from
Port Tobacco, while La Plata is about
three miles distant, and the next (Cox's) is
nearly if not quite five miles off. 1t is not
quite three miles from Port Tobacco to
Chapel Point. This matter of difference
in point of distance, taken in connection
with the serious difficulty presented by
having to ascend and descend Mount Hill,
to say nothing of the well arranged and
well managed warehouses at Chapel Point,
and the difference in the cost of Transport
tation by land and water, is ofitself enough
to divert very large proportion of the
freighting, done from hereabouts, from the
cars to the Point. BY this action, in res
spending to the wishes of the people in.
Tins pafeicuiar, r1e CommTssI0nefs s1ow
that they fully realize the pressing neces-,
stiles of the citizen, and their willingness
to use reasonable efforts to supply the de-.
mands of the public. We hope. the rail
road authorities will manifest CORES
ponding spirit, and give actual evidence
of their determination to encourage the
disposition ofshippers to patronize their
road. We would not, merely for the sake
of securing Station at Salem, SO persist.
emily urge upon the company the wisdom
of erecting freight and depot buildings at
that point, did we. not know that our, citi-.
zens actually need it, and that the result
would be greatly to enhance the receipts
Of the company. The advantages to the
company and to the people would be nau-
taal and of no insignificant nature. We
are well aware that ordinarily nothing is
really to be gained by manifold MULTIPLE
cation of Stations on the line of a railroad,
but there are instances in which to refuse
to establish Station is, indeed, i'll advis-
ed. Especially do we SO regard it in the
instance now under consideration. While
there are really no valid objections to per-
manently establishingoa depot at or near
Salem, there is every reason why it should
be done, and that speedily. tits urged by
some, perhaps, that freight and passenger
depot at Salem would be too near to Cox's
on the one side and to La Plata on the
ether, to- Justify the outlay and expense of
erecting the necessary buildings, but then
Il should be considered that, as matters
now stand, a Large section Of this county is
virtually debarred railroad facilities, and
that Salem is, by its location, the nearest
point to Port Tobacco on the road. j We
think it, too, very questionable if there
would be a greater nearness of Stations, as
referring to, Cox's- Salem and La Plata,
than is already to- be foumd along the road
elsewhere. We trust the railroad authorf-
ties will not delay in considering this mat
ter, and that the result of their considera-
tion will be to supplement the action of
the County Commissioners by prompt
and practical adoption of measures, in this
particular at Least, which could not be
otherwise than prolific of good, results. II
ssThe Rivals at the Court House.
We have not the time, as we would like
to, have. to give as full and detailed an ac--
count Of the play doings at the Court
House ON Tuesday night last as the mat.
tar really deserves: Thsweather assadly
unpropitious and not only prevented the
attendance of the large crowd that was exo
pected and would have been present, but
also most efectualfy enlarged what
would have been otherwise an inviting
feature on the occasion, we mean music on
the lawn and. refreshments under the trees
In the Court House yard The Court