Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-01-13
The Staunton Vindieator+
FRIDAY MORNING. JAN. 49, 1858.
LOCAL.
The Proposed Extension of the City
Limits.

AGo-oPINIoN OF PROMINENT GEN
TLEMEN ON THE EXTENSION AT
TEMPTED IN 1870 WHAT Is PROPOSED
TO BE BROUGHT IN NOW, sc.
The extension of the corporate limits Of
Stanton, for which the City Council has
given notice it will petition the legislature,
is the subject of general, and, ia some
cases. warm discussion. Some facts about
former extensions and propositions fer ex-
tension, may be OF Interest to those en-
gagged in the discussion as well as all citi-
zens of tie town and of the district pro-
posed to be Incorporated.
On the map, Staunton presents pretty
much the figure Of a boys housekite-
the tail of the kite flying at "OAkenwold, "
Capt. T. D. Ranson's place; the head at
Sears Hill, and the two side points, one at
M. e. Miller's residence and the other at
Thornrose cemetery. This is the form
given it by the extension of the corporate
limits made in 1860, twenty eight years ago,
by the legislature, On application Of the
City Council. The survey was made by
Mr.. A. d. Trotter. AT that extension a
part of the land of VIM. Frazier and Of
W. W. Donaghe was taken in and it was
part of this latter land. later owned by the
late Robert 6. Bickle, that brought $500
an acre, when it was purchased by the city
for the reservoir. The extension, however,
did not as many suppose, include Thorn
rose cemetery, but only d few feet of it on
the eastern side.
Twenty-eIght years ago the tendency of
Stanton was to run northward. and iG
was to give it room in that direction that
the large addition from John B. Evans
corner to the first descent of the Valley
pike was made. But this tendency gave
way to the almost universal custom Of
cities to grow westward. and it commenced
growing West. In 1870, the City Council
seeing this, determined to ask for another
extension. The Council appointed five
prominent citizens-Hugh W. Sheffey.
Geo. M. Cochran, Jr., James H. Blackley,
John B. Evans and Robert G.. Bickle, to
investigate the expediency of the extension
and report on it. The Committee made
the following report to the Council, which
it adopted:
To tile Council Of tile Tom Of Stauaton:
The undersigned members of the Committee
appointed by the Council to consider and re-
port on the expediency of extending the cor
porate limits of the Town Of Staunton, beg
leave to report
That they have had the matters to them re-
of -
opinion that it is expedient to extend the town
limits so as to embrace therein a population
CT several hundreds in great part recently set
tied upon the Southwestern borders of the
town, the heads of whose families are engaged
in business in the town, and all of whom are
more or less dependent on, and participants
in the benefits of the corporation and its i'm
proyement.
Your Committee are of opinion that it is
not only proper in view of the interests of the
town that this suburban poE ulation should be
included in its corporate limits, but that such
action will increase the prosperity of the town
and contribute ultimately much to the advan-
tage of the district now proposed to be en-
braced by the extension of the town limits.
1t will entitle the residents in said district to
police supervision and protection now denied
them, to beneficial participation in the school
system of the town, in the new order of things
about to be inaugurated, which they may not
otherwise enjoy; to the right to call upon the
town for increased facilities of access to the
town; for connection with the water works,
and other advantages, which in the opinion of
the Committee, will greatly oVerbalance the
slight increase of taxation to which they will
be subjected.
Your committee are informed that this ex-
tension will insure to the town the continu-
ance of the Hastings court under a town
Judge, and they think it important to all the
citizens of the town and its suburbs that this
court should continue to exercise its saluta-
ny influence on the town. We therefore rec
emmend that the Council pass the following
order:
That the Street Commissioners cause sur
yey of the line Of extension referred to in the
report of the committee on the extension of
the town limits to be made as promptly as
practicable, and report the same and the ex-
penses thereof to the Council at its next m Get
ing, and that they return a fair plat of the
district proposed to be enclosed in the town
limits, laid down in connection with plat of
the town.
HUGH W. SHEFFEY,
GEO. M. COCHRAN Jr.
JOHN B. EVANS,
JAS. e. BLACKLEY,
March 10, 1870.