Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-11-21
MINING JOURNAL.
IRosTBURG MD, NOVEMBER IA, 1891
Water Works Paragraphs.

ltIt 10 lOolu III buC LChL llitN an
effort is on the tapis to eventually
compel the Mayor and Council to buy
the old water works.
Various circumstances and outgiv-
ings point with great significance to
the resumption BY the old water
works company of its old-time dom
ineering reign over the town.
1t seems to already own almost the
entire gang in immediate control of
water affairs.
And the current management
appears to be running things with the
distinct purpose of making the new
enterprise worthless and unpopular.
Its majority will not do anything to
cure defects nor let anybody else do
it.
The muddy water that ran in from
one brief rain lost the town several
customers "a casualty that could have
been easily prevented.
And it goes still unremedied.
Such fatuousness all round is q
calamity more disastrous, if possible,
than twenty years of drouth. projected
and superintended by the imperial
Frostburg water company.
The people can bear the idiotic and
impotent conclusions of the Ledger,
but it is hard to stand, and see, and
feel our greatest and best work slipping
into worthlessness, and, worse than
all, into degradation.
The partisans of the old water COM
pany are the loudest annunciators of
the pretense that ''there is not water
enough" and some add to this intel
ligence the SANDER that what water
we have is not good"
How illimitably deep the perception
Of some men, and correspondence
gullible are some others
Never in all history has occurred an
instance more palpable of people who
have been as easily and effectually
inveigled into discounting their own
property at the rate of about 100 per
cent
But the truth is--there is not de-
feet or deficiency in the new works
that cannot be cured.
The reservoir can be amended 50 as
to prevent muddy water.
And the flow from Sand Spring can
be easily and cheaply lifted to the nam
above the regulator.
There are other sources of supply
that can be utilized, one of which is a
spring the Frostburg water company
does not use and will not permit the
town to use.
The amount required to do all this
will not near reach what the Frostburg
water company wants for its water
right, which is really all it has to sell.
And then the debt of the town will
not amount to i per cent. of the towns
assessed value, nor 3 per cent. of its
real value-a very small obligation
for au indispensable element.
But do not buy the old plant. 1t is
dear at any price.
Aud remember that all the com
plants, impeachments and SANDER of
the new works are nothing more or
less than the echoes of consuming
fear of extinction and an inveterate
desire to load the old works on the
people Of Frostburg-a clientele forced
by reconsideration, neglect and de-
tiance to build a new plant.
Hence, had it been for moment
suspected by the people at the election
that the old plant was to be bought,
the proposal to issue bonds for new
works would ha e been showed under
beyond all hope of resurrection.
So that will be day for Frostburg
to go out of buslness-the day TIE old
water works are bought.
Said old Lord Fairfax to his body
servant when the news of Burgoyne's
surrender reached him
Put me to bed John; it is time for me to
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