The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-30

a severe Arrangement OF the Policy
Parsasd-Ths Way ths Money .HIa,

RuFsued@the way the Money Has
Gone.
Editors IntelliEpneer.
The 1SrELuoEScER criticises the appro-
priations for our county roads this yeas as
q foolish waste Of money, because they are
scattered among 80 many roads To per.
sons acquainted with the roads Of Ohio
county these appropriations have a very
bad smeh. At the head OF their list Of
Heading or frst-class roads" tnd Bogg's
Hill, Springers and Bushfeld's Mil road.
Fromthe length Of the name this should bs
4 very important road; but, unfortunately,
the name Is ali there is Of It. These points
are not connected by any direct road,
neither is there any road in the county
known by that name; nor has there ever
been petition before the Board asking for
such IN absurdity. 1t gets two appropria-
tiona ! find . nameless road, from
"Roney's Point TO the r. S. & B. road"
gets $500. This Is all bogus. Probably the
money is meant for Roney's Point run, but
it has no lear connection by practicable
road with any other road. There Is sort
Of tOreiather's trail thai leads up the noun.
tain to the old ridge road, which Is part Of
road leading from q point near Triadel.
phia 10 West liberty, that was established
as county road when the latter place was
the county seat Of Ohio county, and has
probably not had twenty doliafs worth of
work done on it in al It's history. The
"B, S. & B." has no earthly existence,
People living above are DESTROYS OF getting
an outlet to the National road through that
run, but il seems TO suit Vinegar Hill poll.
ticians better to give them paper connec.
tons with fictitious roads.
The next ravine, Dixon's run (Terrills
road) gets 81 900, and fictitious rear con.
neCtton with the G. 9. & p. road, which Is
modern road, while its real connection,
such US II is, Is with the venerable Old
Ridge road. The B. S. & B. disappears at
this point. Perhaps the poor thing got lost
in the woods Battle run, the next rayine
on the other side Of Terrill's place, gets
500, and a Munchausen connection with
the 6. G. & P. road. The stupidity Of these
receptions to conceal the real character OF
these appropriations is amazing.
The Roney's Point and Haneytown turn
pike is the most important road south ofthe
National pike, and 1t was built by private
enterprise, and would be the best road in |
the county, except the National road. IL |
fairly dealt with by the road authorities,
The county undertook to AIacadamize Il. |
doing a section Of i each year, till last year
it got nothing. This year it gets $500. 1t
seems they did not vote ut the last election
in that section to suit the committee that
prepared the appropriations, and for this
Iaudable reason they try TO cripple that i'm
erOvement.
The Peninsula road, which was made
wholly by public money, gets 81 200 for re. |
pairs. SO it appears that the building Of |
good road in some cases was public ca.
lamity. A road that cannot be kept up by |
tolls or local taxation should 20 down, |
but it seems the Board has not sense
enough to relieve the county OF such an
improper burden. 1t would have been lust
as honest and sensible to have appropria-
tedSl 200 to buy potatoes and cabbage for
those interested in that road.
Atkinson and Terrill, OF the committee
remember their own local roads to the
tune OF a 81 900 each, which serves to illus,
trate their idea Of the way to handle other |
peoples money. To give every mans local
road in the county 1000 would run the
aggregate away up in the millions. That
cannot be thought Of For these men TO !
use their position to impose tax for the
benefit OF themselves, which must be for.
ever denied to the great majority OF the
taxpayers, looks so much like a direct
robbery that ordinary mostals cannot see
the difference.
They have put up q large Job. The
money is scattered among "Jack O the
lantern" roads, where it will do the most
good, not for the county, but for a set OF |
politicians.
The local roads mist be repaired, il at all, !
by local taxation; yet this is so corruptly
managed as to be Of little account. Atten. |
ton has heretofore been called in the Is.
TELLIGEScER to the fact that road surveyor
was reapp0inted in the face OF charges thatt
he was lifting the local taxes and not re-
pairing the roads, and was also guilty Of !
other gross frauds, and this committee nut
i'll day afterwards trying to whiteyssh |
him at the expense Of the county. That
road is not repaired yet, but the taxes dis
appear as promptly as usual.
In view Of the verdict Of the Coroner's
jury in the Kimberly case, and the general
maladministration Of road affairs, it will
be a disgrace to Ohio county if some rad
ieat change in our road policy is not intro
d1eed at an early day. W.C.S.
OHIO county, w. "a, March q, 1889.