Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-03-28
MINING JOURNAL.
FROsTBURG MD, MARCH q, 1891.
To the People ofFrostburg.

A year or two more will develop its
initial stages.
Great industries, wealth and popula-
ton will centre there.
1t is magnetic point for all three
elements of growth and commercial
importance.
1t follows as the night follows the
day that Frostburg ought to hold at
least its present relative position as
the second place in the county.
In order to do this it has got to
grow-grow in the number and i'm
proved architecture of its buildings
grow in the commOdiousness, facilities
and elegancies of its accommodations
for visitors-grow to that extent that
when stranger visits Cumberland his
sojourn will be incomplete until he
takes Frostburg in his tour.
The truth is, the bigger Cumberland
gets the more necessity for Frostburg
to grow-grow into an expansive,
cool refuge from the city's heat. and
place of residence for the city's
capitalists.
We have taken the first steps. We
have a magnificent water supply, and
are preparing to light the town as
never before, and also. as we believe,
to heat it. We have a national bank.
large friedrich and lumber works and
machine shops. Wecan accommodate
more industries, plenty of them
almost anything and everything the
readers mind can suggest.
The JOURNAL is asking for no
"boom." 1t pleads for preparations
for a solid and durable growth 1t
wants the G. and p. railroad to land
its passengers and commercial freights
at a point whence haulage in every
direction save one will be down-hill.
The first step toward shaping the town
into desirable, attractive place of So
journ, residence, purchase of goods,
employment its mechanics, is to make
its centre as easy Of access as its
suburbs. This can be done nom with
much more facility than five years
hence. Every year puts new difficult
ties in the path and piles expenses on
rights of way. When the first great
contamination is achieved ten persons
will come here to do business in place
of the one that comes now.
The JOURNAL hardly knows what
plan to suggest for concert of action
and unity of movement. But there
are older, wiser and better people here
ia multitude in whose counsel there
is safety" These can and should get
together to devise plans and inaugu-
rate preliminaries.
These considerations appeal to every
pocket in Frostburg. One years wise,
steady, confident faith in our future,
attested by our works, will add at
least a quarter of million to our
wealth.
AS mere speculation this is worth
working for.
One word of caution. If each cit
izen takes it into his head that his
individual interest is the almighty
consideration and act accordingly,
then he and all the rest of us will re-
main just where we are.
But if he will consider that when his
neighbors' values are on the rise that
his own must be in the procession
moving upward if he will reflect that
this movement will sell every saleable
house in Frostburg and build year after
year all over town all the market cannot
supply, he can see that no personal
objects should stand in the way of a
general good.
The fever Of improvement is abroad
it is contagious and it augurs we'll.
We can, if ece wW, have the best town
in this section. Nature has been
prodigal of scenic and healthful en-
dowments it remains for us to do
the rest-with undivided counsels-''a
union of hearts and a union of hands"