Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-17

Materials. labor, expenses farm and
house vouchers flied herewith. 1857
Total. Observation-Disclosures. .........s3,775,4 IS
Average number of inmates supported at Il
cost of less than IS per month
FARM PRODUCTS.
During the year the farm yielded:
400 bushels of wheat
100 bushels of oats.
200 bushels of potatoes.
$50 barrels of corn.
Sc tons of hay.
$ tons of straw.
5000 heads of cabbage.
5000 pounds Of pork.
900 pounds of beef.
Milk and butter from 5 COWS.
Eggs and chickens from so chickens.
horses, 2 of them quite old.
II growing pigs.
Many Improvements were made, and
articles bought that We're necessary.
All affairs conducted as economically as
could be.
The farm produced less than former years
owing to late frosts, and early drought and
rains, a condition of affairs that prevailed
almost everywhere.
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD SCmILLING,
JOHN WEIBEL
THOMAS b. RICE
The general road supervisor laid the
following paper before the Commits
SlOnerS:
To tie HonoraJle, the Boa,d Of Con.ltj$Sioucre
Of AHcgony Coumty:
The undersigned begs leave to present his
third quarterly report as General Road Super
visor for Allegany county.
l have examined the Dutch Hollow road
as directed david T, Davis supervisory
found it i'll bad condition and directed it to
be repaired at once. | found Owen Crump's
road in very bad condition and recommend
a special levy of twenty-five dollars for the
repair of said road. | examined these two
roads on the 2Sth of October last. For the
new Hudson road | recommend a special
levy of fifteen dollars in the hands of Robert
Hudson On the road leading from Bucks
hollow in the Orleans District to Robey's
culvert, | recommend special levy of
twenty dollars in the hands of Joseph
Higgins and James P. Robey, for the pur-
pose of keeping said road in repair.
examined the site of the proposed bridge
ment it is not advisable to build it at this
time.
| examined Samuel Robinson's road and
report that it needs some repair at once.
| directed l.. NJ. Cresap to rebuild Il small
bridge on his road at the upper end of Old
town.
On November 18th | examined the road of
Otto Balke. and ordered two small bridges to
be put in on the MichaeIs road
| examined the Franklin bridge, over
Georges creek, near Ganuon's store, and
have to report that do not consider it safe
On the road leading from the school house
at Orleans to Lindeburgs hollow | recon-
mend a special levy of twenty dollars in the
hands of john III. Apple, to change the grade
Of said road.
| recommend that the road leading from.
Orleans to the mouth of Sideling Hill creek
VIA John Mills be changed so as to leave
said road at Jno. Mills farm and ntersect the
road leading to Sweitzer's mill at Jacob
Ieigler's farm; and | recommend a special
levy of twenty dollars in the hands of
john Mills and Jacob Zeigler to make said
change.
The Legislative road from Laurel run to
Homecoming is in bad condition. and recon-
mend special levy of fifty dollars. | also
recommend the riprapping of the road from
the bridge to the corporation line at Lonacon-
ing, Il distance of about 200 feet
hn A br,I
November 9th, and found the south end of
the bridge over Flintstone creek giving way,
and directed it to be repaired at once
On the Geo Lashley road ] found the reg
ular levy exhausted, and that it needed
some extra work.
find that the public convenience REQUIRES
Il foot bridge over Sideling Hill creek, at or
near Jas Nj. Norris house; to be built jointly
by Alegany and Washington counties, and
would recommend that Allegany county
appropriate fifty dollars toward the erection
of said bridge.
| examined the John Pickens road on Nov.
18Th, and found it in bad condition, and
directed him to repair it without delay. |
viewed the stone cuIvert near the Six-mlc
llpiNt dH NhiCttSd ny lllc DJuIt ana as III was
falling in, directed it to he repaired at once.
| would recommend for the ensuing wear a
liberal levy on the Legislative road from
Homecoming to Frostburg.
| also recommend that the road LEADING
from John w. Prices to the Baltimore pike
through the land of Nathan Trail, of James
be adopted as a county road, and that said
Nathan Trail, of James, be allowed S125 for
making said road, right of way, IGo. And
recommend an appropriation of $50, in the
hands Of Nathan, Slider, to work the road
from Shirclif's ford to Creek road, at Nathan
Slider for building foot-bridge over Terrapin
run, near ShirGlitt's schoolhouse.
| would recommend for the ensuing wear
liberal levy on the National road from
ClarysYjlle to Frosburg, as found it in bad
condition.
] found The Wesley Davis road wei
worked
have examined the River road and have
to report that | consider 1t difficult and cx-
pensive to reopen said road; and also, that
for from four to six months of the year the