The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-05-07

music of locomotion. But the altitude
of her situation is still above the iso-
thermal line which divides her winter
from the budding fields, southwark,
along the line of
THE NEWARK, SOMERSET & STRAITS
VILE R. r.
If I were in search of burning words
with which to utter the highest eulogy
npon the sagacity, the literally and the
POWER of Somerset, / could find them
all by uttering the simple fact that ''She
built the \. s. & S. R. R." If she did
not possess the S2,O00,OO0 required to
build and equip that road, she found
Others who did. after she and her friends
had donated S5OO,OOO, or % per cent. of
the whole sum, to make them willing.
Is she not worthy of that ancestry which.
we have seen, donated $4,000 to get the
county seat in 1S1S-equivalentto to Sl75,-
600 now? Surprisingly liberal as was
that donation in 1918, it is fairly eclipsed
by the sacrifices of Somerset in building
her read to the coal fields. Somerset
and her friends donated $4,000 in 1918 to
establish her right TO the county seat, but
she and her friends donated 100000 TO
get railroad into Saltlick. This she
did without even promise from the lips
of Saltlick men of future support; this
she did, knowing it would benefit Salt
lick and Coal and Pike and Monday
creek and jackson townships millions of
dollars more than herself; this she did
to furnish the Legislature of Ohio
good reason TO grant her one more chance
to set herself right with New Lexington;
this she did to furnish the men of Salt
lick, and Coal, and jackson, and Pike,
and Mondaycreek, with the best reason
she could furnish for soliciting their sup
port. We hope, at least, the men and
women of these townships will not feel
insulted if we open the question and ssk
them to give us as good reason for thank
ing them as they are able to furnish us.
Most of the men in the townships named
gave good reason enough for voting
against Somerset in 1859, but we have
done our best since then to furnish
better reason for voting for her the next
round, We feel that we have succeeded.
If we have not, we must proceed in an
other direction with our railroad dona-
tions and our costly reasons. We must
reach out toward Clayton, and Harrison,
and Beartield. We need another road, any
way. We can't get coal at 7c. per bushel
without it. But we do think we have
furnished reason enough by building to
StraitsvIlle, via of Junction, to be con-
ueaieat, and to make Saltlick and Coal
&c. convenient. But coal at cents. per
bushel is worth good deal to a city
| like Somerset, and much more to such
city as she means to be, for she don't
confess to having got her full growth,
and like most women, an men too, she
prefers being thought somewhat youth
| ful. Whatever her true age may be, /
believe Somerset is young enough, and
strong enough, and willing enough, to
get coal at cents. per bushel, if she did
make mistake in supposing she comld
make herself sufficiently convenient to
Saltlick township for a county seat. Now
the main reason why we fatter ourselves
with convenience and accessibility to
jackson, Coal, Saltlick &C., is founded
on the opposition we had from Lexing
ton when we were finding ont our best
road to them. Lexington evidently
thought Saltlick and Coal, were becom-
! ing too familiar with Somerset and too
conrenient, also. Lexington regarded our
proposal to go by Junction City as en-
tirely too familiar on our part, with one,
at least, whose fealty to Lexington was
not, is not, and perhaps neUer lriu be, en-
tirely beyond suspicion on Lexington's
part Finding we could not be coaxed
off from our attentions TO Junction City,
and that our designs were fired to pay re-
spect to thetslnnel at
JIMMY CLARK's
Lexington told all kinds of scandleous
stories about the tunnsl, its bad charac-
ter, its extravaganza in using up money,
and other gossip equally designed to in
duce US to break away from our inten-
tions and to make proposals to Moxaha-
la Valley. IF we had done this, "Good
by John" We never could have look
ed Coal and Saltlick in the eye and pro-
fessed ourselves true TO them. They
would now berate us with our folly in
yielding to the charms of Moxahala
and the gossip of Lexington. l have
made up my mind that Lexington is a
very willing but a very unlucky maker
of matches, for the more she attempted
to prevent familiarity between Somerset
on the one part and Junction, Clark's,
McCunesville, &C., on the other, the
more determined these parties became
to disappoint all jealous intermedling.
JUNCTION CITY
Is of opinion that the county seat is not
where it ought to be. There is perhaps
a round thousand majority of the voters
of Perry who think the same. This is
not bad fruit. 1t grows of necessity
from the disappointment of Lexington
when she tried to turn off our road al
Somerset so as to miss Junction and hit
herself. Every man in Junction has out
: grown his old notion that Lexington was
the best place for the county seat
Every man in jackson township, with
brains enough to be outside of the asy-
lum for idiots, is of the opinion that
the county seat is not at the right place
True, not every man there, or in Coal
or Saltlick, believes Somerset should be
the county seat. But every one of them
knows that Junction cannot be the coun-
ty seat in opposition to theyote of Read
ing, Madison, and Clayton. The life O
Lexington is to promote disagreement
between Junction and Somerset, because
s she knows that such disagreement is thu
t death of both on the county seat ques