Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-12-07
Cost Offences.

N.Sf-A Va = O--ANos
Those persons who are not dismayed
by great array of figures, and do not
object to making calculations, may
probably ponder over the following Dill
OF particulars: The cash value of the
annual farm products of the United
States in over 81, 450, ,000,00 while the
value of all the live stock, including
horses, mules, cattle, sheep, hogs, was,
on the 1st day of February, 1872,
81 .659, ,21o, ,933, or about $50, 600, 900 less
than the annual farm products. To
protect this 81, 450, GOO, 900 worth OF
growing crops from being Destroyed by
the 81 sos, ,2lI ,933 worth of live stock,
we have built 6,619, 199, ,42S rods of
fence. iuclosing 2,050, ,565,6l4 acres of
ground, with an average of GIG rods
per acre, costing 81 0S per rod, or Sc 9S
per acre, making total cost of 81, ,74S,-
529, ,1S5, or about 9,3l7 1872 above the
value of the live stock. The annual
decay and cost of repairs cannot be
less than 10 per cent of the original cost
of the fence, or S174, ,852, ,9lS; interest at
per cent per annum, Sl22, 397 ,042; to-
tai annual cost 1921, ,24Q, $50. But this
is not all. A fence occupies and wastes
an averege of one-half rod wide, or one
acre for every fifty inclo5ed, making a
total fer all the fences of 50,1OI, ,123
acres. The gross. proceeds, per acre,
for the cultivated grounds in the Unit
ed States for the year 1871, amounted
to 50 rs. Call il 81 ne- acre, and taking
two-thirls as the cost of cultivation, we
have S3 as the net proceeds per acre,
which would show an annual loss of
$l50, 1903 1863, which. added to the an.
nuai cost to settle up and develop the
country, gives those who improve and
cultivate the land the heaviest burdens
of taxes to pay, and they expend more
than ali the stock in the country is
worth to fence in their crops. and to
give free range TO the stock-owners,
who need not own or improve. or pay
lakes upon single acre. But people
are beginning to believe that, when
they have bought piece Of land, and
paid for-it, and paid taxes upon it, they
ought TO own the land, ami the cror~
growing thereon, and be protect s."
their right to do with it as y ,ey nIaaSe
providing that aothing y nich tbav |' Dc
or grow, OF keep, si'' !, Interfere win
the Tight of otbe'
NAsbe ~ lowed dowd with despair
lie Wi'r = to the Toledo Blade that the
.zens ofthe Corners are nearly bro
ken, adding: "The iron has entered all
our soies. A nigger will be continued
in the postoftis, and l, wich am entitled
to the place, will hev to live in de-
snltory r.lanner all the remainder of
NV life. l shell never be postmaster
ls.ur more yecrs cut Nv nay place will
kin me. Before another elecKshen
,her Will be an unmarked grave at the
C,,rners, and ef, perchance, there shell
he a pine slab set up onto it, the in
scription will be: "Died Nv broken
z neart and unwarmed bowels.'" War
was proposed with this result: "The
war sperit lifted up the face Nv every
man in the room with a domoniac
glare. never saw sieh yOOnanimity
nor sich self sacrificing sperit. 'Wari
,yarl agin the yoosurper! wuZ the cry
nv every wun NV EN-, and ez if by one
Impulse they marched out uv Bas-
coIn's to the lneetin house and organi-
zed a meetin. NO compromise! No
veeldinp shouted the entire meetin;
sWe will die rite here or anywhere in
defense of our rites 'Gentlemen,' sed
/. in Iny capassity Nv perpetyOoal
cheerman, lis it your purpose to march
TO wuuSt onto WaShintOn, AMI lay
down yer lives ther, or will 700 devas-
tate the ablishin parts Nv Ingeany and
Ohio. till sich time ez the DemOcrisy
NV the other States shell jine us?' To
Washington,' shouted ISsaker; the
Treasury is lhere?' 'Injeany and Ohiop
said MePeIter; them States is rich in
hose and sich!' 'And in the southern
part NV them IS distGleries!' said Dee
kin Pogram, quietly but determinedly.
,Jist at this critkle moment Joe BIZ Ter
apueered a the door, and whispered
to Squire McGrati that hostilities mite
commence to wunst, and glorious be-
ginnin mite be he'd, for "A Yoonited
States Marshel, wich wuz in the vlcin-
ity. lookin after some crooked whisky,
he'd heerd Gv the proceedins, and wuz
on his way ther TO arrest the entire BIZ
I'm for reasonable proceedins, and in
a mint tine intelligence wuZ all over
the house. The Avengers put ther
revolvers in their pokkits, and dis
tressin stilinis pervaded the meetin.
Silence wuz broken by Issaker Gavitt.
sParson,' said ne, 'would't it be well
enough to destry that roll?' did it
promptly. My presence Nv mind don't
often forsake me-"