Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1882-12-07
Read Mr.. Abraham Toms estrsy notice

Read Mr.. Abraham Toms estrsy notice
, in another column.
e4ls' A Liberal SALARY win be paid to an
active salesman to take charge of our bus
mess in this section of Frederick County
Address The Singer Mfg Co.
Nov164t Frederick, Md.
r Heavy purchases of Holiday Goods will
, be made here rs usual. VIII lie they may
all "scll out" there IS not the slightest
doubt about those who advertise in the
: CLARION closing out their stock, but they
will be besct by customers who will not
, cavil at prices.
We counted almost q half-carload of
Mecharicstown workmen, returning home
from different points along the line of the
, Western Md railroad on Saturday last.
, The Bridge Gang, masons and several la.
=, borers made up the number.
The Memphis Express is q charming
train on which to ride to the City. Only
four stops between this point and Fulton
Station aud with Captain Jesse Sheets in
command, one not only goes thr ough quick
but is made to feel perfectly at home by
:, his courtesy and grniality.
c THE MlDDLETowN VALLEY RAILROAD,
This section feels some interest in the
$ proposed new Mddletown Valley railroad
as we are now shut off from that grand
valley and its excellent people, by rugged
mountain chain, that persists and to a GER
tain degree succeeds, in keeping us stran-
e gers.
t A road through that valley, passing out
# at the Caloctin Furnaces Gap and thence
n along the foot of the mountain to tap the
: Western Maryland railroad at this point
t would, we are assured, be the most practi.
Il cable, for the distance would lie but little,
t if any, greater than to Lsntz, four miles
west of this place. AS the grade is some
q thing less than ninety feet per mile bet ween
:. this point and and Lantz, there would be
s hut Il saving of, say $50 feet, in going to
!. I.anz instead of this point. and to olse,
n that be the enormous traffic that Col Kun
d. kcl's furnaces would give to the road, no,
only to this point, but if the proposed road
g should tap the b Il o, the shipments, thai
!. he would make over the new road to Its
:. southern terminus, would BE- d very con
r siderable item, We do not speak. by any
authority, but bnsc our OPINION CD what
We know of &Ec enterprise otlhe man, when
He affirm our belief Tia, hIr kunke! would
be deeply interested in any such PROJECT
and as he has already several miles Of track
graded from his furnaces, to his ore banks
. on this side, would probable be in a post
ton to render the work of building til.
=, road to this point very orally lighter
III. ConvcnicnCcs for housing, turning
. watering ami coalng engines, we have
here already; it Is stopping poInl for all
trains cast and all save one west a0G Is II
every way better fitted to be loc tcrminu:
of road
We know nothing rs TO tie propah''
difference in The COS; of bulldog the roa'
-. to I.antz and to this point, but allowing
. the latter to be much greater, we can se'
y AN increase in the revenue, from the tMt e
y tin Furnace. station, including with IL,
= p.oiuc, of the furnaces, the shipments OF
grain aud produce from Lcwie'own ano
points even beyond, that "onl1, We verify
brleve, he almost the equivalent OF that
beyond the mountain
Come oyer, brchren come over 10 see
'us who live on the east side OF The spur
and Won may be surprl scl to find To what
; extent u,,l loN directly wcare Interested
IN your most .audahc railroad enterprise
o THE puHLIc PRlNTING There are
i eight weekly papers published in this
!, county, four in Frederick city, the other
four in As many eyeny divided sections OF
, the territory outside Of the city. We srs
y no, prepared to speak as to the actual cir
ca,Ation of each in the county, but Of the
) CLAHlo% we may give q few figures i'll II
comparative statement, that nle more eio-
uucnt than any language that we might
! use in an attempt to reinforce them
. BY actual count the issue OF the CLARION
2, distributed at this p"stottice is more than
f three and one half ines larger than the
combined Frederick press; allowing the
circulation of these papers through the
Graccham, Creagcrslown and Catoc'n
Furnaces offices to be equa., each, to that
, of McChanicatown which we lave reason to
, doubt, we ale able to show " circulation in
f excess Of that of the four Frederick city
papers at the four points named, which
may be accepted as the home or local cir
culation ofthe CLARION. In our estimate
of the four postoflces We have kept Oh the
safe side, in this, that at two Of the three
points outside of Mechanicstown we know
, the Frederick papers to have less than
at this point.
: We are assured that Bro. Rhoderick, Of
, the I'oHty Register is able to make even q
: better showing, the Banner probably better
| and the Chronicle equally as good, each in
; their own locality.
We would therefore ask not merely as
4 forms'ty, but with view Of having IL
S.. answered; under what rule of right our