Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1875-12-11
THE MINING JOURNAL.
FKOSTBt re sc, DEC ii, 1870.
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THE tg5s}s fntuHs Of another new county
Is being revived again at FrosthUrg. II
new ,cQA,ssties generally produce no more
satisfactory results than in Garrett, we
would advise our Frosthurg neighbOrs to
let well enough alone. '-GarreH HeraM.
Let the FRosTBURG Journal deIve into
that and report Cumberland Ne~s.
For the special information of the Ne1nS
we will say the new county "poaol.ca On the
Her,tds preserves in that it proposes to
slice off part of Garrett territory in which
the Herald is supposed to be popular. 1t
has good cause to fear that the success Of
our project will Danish the 'ignis .f"t""s' of
a Garrett county seat elsewhere then Oak
land hence it is logically and intercstedly
opposed to any movement which promises
settlement Of bitter question at It's own
door
The Ueralds consistency, unhappy as ii
is, is better than its feat of illustrating new
county ''resulis' by citing iha experiences
of its own 1t might have travelled the
world without finding case less in point
Think of our rich and populous section-a
centre of activity the influence OF whose de-
velopment reaches the limits of civilization
itself-likeyed in any respect to any coun-
ty vet lin the wilderness ~ Is such dssim-
iarity Of resources to be put on the same
basis, and like results foIccasted Is Il
and Ohio Railroad far into he west and
south, not able to take care of itself as Il
county? Is its support of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal; its support of Baltimore,
and its efficiency in making Maryland bonds
the best in market, an indication that it
cannot succeed rs Il county? Is its unsetish
support and building up of Cumberland and
Cumberland enterprises, Gncuding the
Nsms,) and of the wealthy and populous
towns Of Mt. Savage, Frostburg, Eckhart,
Homecoming, Barton, Wcsternrort, etc, TO
be accepted as evidence of its inability to
take care of itself as a county? Finally, is
a section which already takes c'trs IF HseJ
and contributes, besides, SCI 900 annually to
take care of East Allegany, unable to take
care of itself-AS 4 COUNTY,
Now. if the Herald and Mems have no
richer suggestions to make on this subject,
will they please AXE a back seat:
The MralTs advice" lacks thickness
Indeed it is evident it half thought so Itself
when it preiaccd its doloroUs pIognostCa
ton with an ''if" No first class prophet
uses 'if" In such cases satisfactory re-
suits" are accidents. Hence in Garrett
trouble has come of such uncertain aspira-
tons as, IT we can only get the county seat
at Grantsville, Accident, Selhysport, or
McHenry's Gate" Yet it is certain that
the insinuating tendrils of the woodbine
have fonGly twined all over the prospects
Of county seat at each of these places.
This is why the Herald says (and the editor
brought up among new counitos) 1T new
counties generally produce II more satisfac-
tory results than in Garrett" lin plain Eng
lish) it is better not to have a new county ;
or rather, it is worse to have a new county
unless everybody has the county scat where
be wants it,
THIS is suggestive Of the Inconsistency
which afiiicts some people in our new
county. They say, 100, IF only IRE could
get the county seat" OF "if they will gudr-
antes the county seat to u.s." and So on,
"then we'll go for new county ~ In such
presided conditions that little unrcasona-
bic "if" is always Indispensable, and fire.
quently, as in the instances before us, inter
poses itself in the light in which it appears
in the childish inspiration which inquired
"Would il not be n grand time to catch
larks if the skies were to jail ?" Verify, it
would. Applied to our case, there will be
no county seat until we get the new county
And then q fair field and no favors, with
ont corralling the game in advance or back
ing from results when the fight is over
WILL IT PAY?-Continuins our remarks
with reference to the fallacy of increased
taxation as an objection against the forma-
ton of new county, we take occasion to
refer to some shOwings made in the Annual
Levy of June last. Our figures are as
nearly correct as can be gathered from the
dOcumen: referred to, and where estimates
have been necessary, liberal allowances
have been made against us.
In the first place, we find the entire as
sessment of Allegany county, exclusive of
100000 to the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company, to be $15,703,6l3, divided
as follows:
West Allegany, NEW county, ) 9,a67 ,OG3
East Allegany, 6,436,55
Total, $15, 103, Gl3
Wehave, therefore, an excess f$2 $50 ,513
which realizes S22 $40 more than East Ale
eany, as follows:
Taxes paid by West Allegany, s 11.1O3
Taxes paid by East Alegany, 1924
Total, $780,
OF the $l20,427 thus collected, not ovgf
$32, 1000 is expended in this region, $4,000
OF which is estimated as coming through the
School Board On the other hand we find
$4,000 certainly expended outside the coal
region, leaving $ls,427 appropriated to OBJ
;aota in which cannot nrpriSelV deter.