Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-05-24
The Shepherd Turnpike.

DV the secretary Vi StdeO ON 49,
inst, to the shepherd Turnpike Com
pany,n a notice of whose stockholders
meeting for June LIST appears In an
other column.
We have heard of this enterprise
several times recently, and been anx-
ious. but unable, earlier to get hold OF
the facts. which we are glad to SUBJ
nit TO our readers in so advanced and
promising shape.
The charter authorizes the construc-
ton of amacadamizedtu turnpike on the
county road leading from the corpor-
ate limits of Shepherdstown north
ward to the home farm of Mr.. Henry
Shepherd, a distance Of four miles,
more or less, with the right of making
short lateral branches Oh the county
roads leading thereon, the latter to
prevent carrying mud from the dirt
roads on to the main pike, a happy
! thought and relief to good pike.
While to comply with certain legal
requirements a company has been
formed, yet, the liberal hand of MIR.
Shepherd is plainly visible; and 1t Is
hardly necessaryto saythat the funds
will be furnished by, and the work
when done be practically that OF Mr..
S.. the road referred TO being the we'll
known Shepherd Grade, on which he
has at large expense in recent years
furnished the community the finest
summer drive in this section.
We learn that satisfactory terms
were arranged by the Company with
the County Court during its session
last week for such use of the road,
and that plans, specifications and es-
Inmates for the construction OF first
class turnpike, with fine gutter and
drainage Accomplishments, have all
been matured and are in readiness to
be cl osed as soon as some further de-
tails can be properly adjusted.
Among these, and in fact the main
contingency upon which the construc-
ton of the pike and the early begin
ming of work depends, as we learn, Is
the aid and assistance which the prop
ertv owners and tenants along the
line are proposed to give it. Not pc
cuniary aid, but simply the rights and
privileges extended of getting stone
and water. The response of the peo-
pie to this request ought to be such as
to make the pike assured at once.
We have from time to time alluded
to Mr.. Shepherds varied and liberal
benefactions to this community in the
past. and are glad to add to the rec
ord that while still they come they
still are even more liberal.
1t will cost large sum of money to
construct such pike as is proposed,
and the offer to build it free of any
expense to the county, and without
dollar in money from the people along
the line, is most generous PROPOSE
ton. indeed, such as We have never
heard of in this locality and wager
has not been made in the Valley OF
Virginia in the past century.
Such proposition ought to meet
with not only most hearty welcome,
but most cordial cooperation from
every individual on or adjacent to
the line of road.
No money, not load of stone to be
hauled, but simply the naked prlvl-
lege of being permitted to get materi-
al where, and in the manner most
convenient-th only contribution
asked of those who will be largely and
directly benefited by the work.
If you have field in corn or grain.
and the opening of fence, orperhaps
driving through it destroy few bush
els, what will it amount to at present
prices of such products compared with
the enhanced value such pike will
give your property, to say nothing OF
the discomforts it will save you and
your families now, as well as your
children, the probable occupants of
your homes and farms hereafter?
Profit by the experience of the linn
tied scope within our range where
good pixies do exist. Take Frederick
Md, for example and compare the
price of land along the fine pixies cen
tering there, with the price at which
recent sales have been made in your
section, and explain the difference.
You won't admit, and in fact it is not
in quality of soil, but mainly in im-
provements. Not only in houses and
barns, for when you get off the fine
pixies in that section prices depreci-
ate also.
We say with deliberation, complete
the proposed pike, and then offer at
sale the lands recently sold along and
beyond it, ano the increase in demand
and value will convince the most
doubling that its construction will not
only afford n personal comfort and
convenience, but be equivalent to
liberal donation to every property
holder in that section of the county.
And our town is no less interested.
That section of country is naturally
located as TO be tributary to Shop
herdstown, and at the source of their
supplies and the center of their bust
ness transactions. Hence, its trade
belongs to us and it is the towns in
terest to aid in advancing and devel-
oping it.
Again, it will be a pike, we are sor-
ry to confess, the only one in this sec
ton, a credit to show and a pleasure
to drive on. Any one familiar with
Mr.. shepherds method of doing
things can rest assured of that.