The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1888-03-09
The Egis & telligencer
EEL Air, Md, March o. 1855.
THE BRIDGE Ar THE ROCKS.

TO ne Editor Of the E0is.
DEAR SIR: notice in your issue of Feb. 2itb.
an article headed, "A Taxpayers Protest which
I aud citizens generally of this vicinity think
qures some corrections, as such statements
when they are passed BY unnotieed and not cor,
great injustice and injury. Now. Mr.. Editor.
this second district man claims that there have
been thirty thousand dollars spent inside OF four
years time in making. widening and repairing
roads, ana building and rebuilding bridges with
in two miles OF the Rocks of Deer Creek. Now l
defy second district or any other man to show
from record where there has been anything like
tnat amount, or even one-half Of 1t, spent within
mentioned. He claims the county spent from
$500 to $500 last year in widening the road from
kogers Bridge to the railroad station. This is
the work on this particular piece OF road and no
told me positively that his allowance on that
road did not amount to 800. And as for the
bridge above the Rocks, when 1t was washed
down by the August flood, had the Commission
.rs consented to move II and rebuild II a. inc
ut that time for that express purpose. there
would be no occasion TO have two bridges so close
together, because bridge at the Rocks would
accommodate the through travel equally as well
as where IL now stands, and would also accom-
modate the Jarrettsville and Cooptown neighDor-
hood In the way OF getting to the railroad with
out being compelled to travel nearly two miles
further TO get 10 where their business calls
them.
belongs 10 the county. The ford ng, as IL Is now
located was made by me at my own expense, on
with his consent, several years before the railroad
WIS contemplated, the old fording, some dis
lance below becoming. impossible and the i'm
possibility of repairing it permanently. Hence
the necessity for changing 1t, and at that time
my father, Mr.. Rogers aud myself, being the
most frequent users of the fordng, we did not
ask the county to pay the expense OF changing It.
There Ia not now even foot bridge at this place,
and those who live en- the opposite. side OF the
creek from the railroad station, II they are on
vnot, which great many often are. are compell-
cd to walk nearly two miles, whereas, II they
had bridge they would gain their point In
about one hundred yards.
| will also further say that the unfortunate
mistake which was made In building and rebuild
ing the bridge at Prcston's Mill should at no wise
be charged to those people who are asking for
way to get over the creek at tho Rocks. Neither
should the expensive new road to St. Glars
Bridge be charged in their bill of public conven-
fences, for they are not benefited TO the amount
of one dollar by either of these expensive i'm
pIovements, as they seldom have occasion to use
either of them. Notwithstanding we paid our
share of the cost without murmur.
/ am ever free to acknowledge that our "Coun-
W Fathers Gas your correspondent terms them.)
should go judioiously slow in this matter, and be
careful TO make improvements only where the
actual and ever-increasiDg necessities require
them. and the situation OF the Rocks Just now
certainly calls for something TO be done. The
foot bridge has been rebuilt twice In the last
four months and is now washed out again. 1t
costs from $40 TO SIS TO rebuild 1t every time and
this comes OF of say five or SIX persons In the
immediate vicinity OF the Rocks, not or the
county. JAMES w. GLADDEN..