Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-12-05
MINING JOURNAL.
FRosTBURG MD, DECEMBER 5. 1891
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its own frenzied invention and called
so loudly upon the public to watch the
ghosts it has raised that it might be as
we'll to let time, the mb-builder of
foolish alarmists, tell its tale.
Nevertheless, there is some talk in
its last issue that may pass current
among those people who do not read
the morally questionable matter re-
produced from its plates, and which,
possibly, ought to receive some at
tention.
For instance:
So far as curing defects" is concerned the
majority can do nothing without money.
That assumes, of course, that the
towns credit is ruined
We do not believe it,
Yet were it true, it would be the
legitimate result of the insane and
idiotic policy of the Ledger and those
behind it who have been for some time
pleading insolvency.
Believing, as we do, that the Leoger
is inspired by men who do not pay
corporate taxes, it will not surprise us
to hear soon that unless the town buy $
the old water works they, the non-taX-
payers, will repudiate the towns debt !!
The Ledger 'admits" that it knows
that the reservoir can be amended so
as to prevent muddy water. 1t even
goes so far as to confess that there is
not an incurable deficiency in the new
plant
But it will take money.
1t will take more of something else
that the agitators seem to lack-com-
mon sense.
That "the flow from Sand Spring can be
easily and cheaply lifted to the main above
the regulator" we are not so sure-not, at
least, until a skilled engineer says so. Mr..
Haverstick's opinion is worth nothing.
OF course the Ledger is very skeptical
1t has to be. If "skilled engineer"
were to tell it of hydraulic ram, it
would not believe it was a ram until it
saw the horns.
Our contemporary has no warrant for say
ing that the Hoffman spring can be utilized.
Mr.. Haverstck probably believes that it can,
but his theories are too expensive for ordinary
people to carry out.
AS we understand it, this is spring
which the Frostburg water company
claims-a spring to which, in its pro-
found concern for the interests of the
people of Frostburg, it permitted the
Water Board to lay pipe line and
use the water four weeks before
it asserted its right thereto--a spring
it would never use during all the years
when the people were suffering from
drouth, and which it does not now use.
Rather than turn the pure water of
this spring into its mains, it went to
the expense of boring artesian wells
down to the f1intstone level in order to
get water to ruin the good water it
had. And still the Ledger says this
spring cannot be utilized, because the
concern which owns the right to use it
will not let the people have 1.-THE
people about whose welfare they are
otherwise 50 solicitous the people
whose pipes are already laid thereto.
The rich town that has no money
and imphedly can get no more, lifts
upits eyes in hell and pleads for water,
but the gulf between Dives yell and the
Ledger's opinion is impossible. More
over, readers, think of the expensive
theory" of again turning water into
pipes already laid as bar against the
use Of the Holtzman spring 1t l.
worthy of the Ledger and the Ledger
only!
Seriously, however--is it not a little
too much to aver that the Frostburg
water company cannot be compelled
to abandon its right to that spring
ID right givenit for a public purpose
For instance, Mayor and Councilmen,
the Frostburg water company, having
failed before and after the pipe-,aying.
to avail itself Of the water from this
spring, how would it do to institute
condemnation proceedings to deter
mine whe her this dog in the manger''
business can be imposed upon the
people forever.
Our contemporary probably does not know
what it will cost to do any Of this work If
it knows so much about the cost of things,
why did it not tell us last year what the new
works would cost?
Why did you not want to know last
year what it would cost
We will tell you-
|, You had not then become dis
pleased with Mr.. Haverstick concern
ing matter that had no relation to
water works, and
,, You had not then become the
organ of the Frostburg water company.
How did our contemporary find out what
the Frostburg Water Co., wants for its plant ?
And can it prove that "the old works are
dear at any price,
No hocus pocus about that. We
believe the answer can be found in the
Ledger-that its price was at one time
$4,000. But the figure, at another
time fixed at $4,000, $4,000 and so
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