The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-05-08

"FO meet this expense there can be
levied local tex Of rs cents, giving
$1,000"
This local tax, II VIC understand it cor.
rectly, is to be levied on the immediate
districts through which tho roads pass,
and would leave the balance, 81, 100, to
be raised BY general taxation.
"THE RESULTS TO De OBTAINED"
by this expenditure Of money arc
let. The completion in proper man
nerot between twenty and twenty-five
miles Of road (uow partly msde) includ-
Ing five bridges over Short creek and
Wheeling creek, which are often impas-
sible in winter.
End. The building Of ten miles Of now
road, which the committee deemed the
most important oil those reviewed the
past year, and which the interests Of the
county imperatively demand.
%. Prepare to McAdamize about six
miles Of road, o portion Of which the
citizens propose 10 do by subscription.
4th. McAdamize about ten miles Of
road in proper and durable manner.
9th. Keep tho country roads in better
repair than for the past thirteen years."
This gives tho reader some idea Of the
extent OF road making proposed to be
done under the recommendation OF tho
chairman Of the committee. Ii covers
about thirty,fve miles, besides the gener.
al repair upon oil the roads OF tho county
THE CHAIRMAN FURTnRR sAYs
petitions for nearly every important
road In tho county have been referred
to the Committee, Those worthy Of at.
tentiOn 1t proposed to locate tho COM
ing year, to make which, It will probably
require an expenditure Of $4,000, and
$4,000 for matchmaking, giving $45,.
600 as an estimate Tor the year 1876; this
to DO followed by IN appropriation oil
$4,000 In 1875, and sfterward $4,000 a
aycar for a few years, during which time
every important road in the county will
be macadamized and in a condition TO DO
made self-supporting, and the County
Treasury forever relieved from this oner.
Gus road business"
The conclusion Of the above paragraph
would certainly be most desirable end
to attain. But since tho Chairman Of
the Committee on Roads admits that the
money expended during the past ten
years amounts to nothing in the way Of
permanent highways, 1t strikes US very
torcibly that Ohio county.will have TO be.
gin the work OF making roads anew. II
as the Chairman alleges, she Is MANY
years behind tho State Of Ohio, or even i
shc DO len years behind her little sister
Brooke, shc will, Tor aught We can
see, have to endure the opprobrium.
We rather admire the earnest zeal
Of The Chairman Of the Committee on
Roads for the improvement Of our high
ways. We agree with him that the fruit.
lees results Of our liberal expenditures are
mainly owing to an utter absence OF any
thorough system in our method OF road
making. We do not, however, agree
with him that our failure 10 have good
roads Is altogether owing to a false econ
omy, nor do we believe that $4,000 an
piled over so largo an extent Of roads as
IL contemplated in his report would result
in anything better than the results Of the
last ten years experience @ @H
We believe that the Chairman Of the
Committee on Roads Is a man worthy to
occupy the position that he fills, but he
must control his ambition: All the roads
in this county cannot DO built at once.
It would require more money than this
county can raise under the limit Of the
law enacted last winter to accomplish II,
Let us have system inaugurated that In
the future will accomplish results COM
mensutate with the wants Of the city and
the interest Of the county. ~
Itisol no use 10 weep over spilled milk
The errors Of the past II we profit by The
experience viii not prove an unmiTed
evil. III.
now THIN SHALL WE BEGIN,
that inthe future our expenditures upon