Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-02-04
MINING JOURNAL.
u. u. ODER, Editor.
\ Conclusion Reached.

lowing most mysterious statement:
The Water Committee has plans on hand
for an enlargement of the towns water sys-
TEN and it is probable that bids for the work
will be advertised in few days.
Just where the water is to be obtained is
not now stated but the Committee gives as
surance that there will be plenty Of good
water before there is any danger of scarcity
by reason of dry weather.
1t is safe to say, however, that no pumping
station will be erected and no artesian wells
will be bored.
The cost of the proposed work is not expect
ed to exceed IS 600.
enlargement of the towns water
sgStem' is good as describing some
thing that is unnecessary until the
town can secure an enlargement of
Its water supply.
The JOURNAL has heard several I'M
satisfactory surmiscs of the m0tiHs
ope'und now uppermost in the occult
minds of the reconcile Water Com
mittee to secure more water. but it is
evident we have got to wait upon the
enthusiastically "mysteriOus way
the Committee ''moves its wonders to
perform.
The peril which bcsetS that 5000
would make polar bear shlver.
Lotel-Since our articles on the
greatness Of the mystery OF water sup
ply movements were written the Ledger
adds Il chapter which rcverses its
pump statement and dispcls somewhat
the impenetrable shadows which have
hitherto been ominously cast by ''com-
ing events 1t says:
The plan contemplates the use of the water
from the other side of Savage mountain and
a pump will be used
This will occasion, us we UNDER
stand
|, The purchase Of water rights at a
figure above value =
., The purchase of machinery, held
in mechanical circles as totally in
sufficient for the purpose; or, if
sufficient, so complicated that a high
priced engineer will be indispensable
when needed, and on pension when
not needed. and
3, The maintenance Of such an out
fit at that distance from town will cost
a continuous sum which will grow in
exorbitance as it gets older, and so on.
With a spasm of hurry, too, the
Committee gives notice that on the
18th, an unlucky day fortunately, it
will open bids, etc.
Believing this to be ruinous piece
OF business, the JOURNAL thinks
enough popular pressure should be
brought to bear upon the Council to
delay action until a movement, now
on foot, to bring a man here who
knows something about the business
can be cOnsummatcd.
Iu other words, the JOURNAL wants
the other side to be heard, and it is to
the interest of the owners of the towns
49, 900 that it should be heard.
Must Have 1t.
Service on the iuries of this county will
hereafter be confined to those of whose
personal fitness the judge of the court has
personal knowledge. Judge Stake CONSTITUTES
the recent decision to mean that the court
shall accept no suggestions from any one,
not even members of the bar, as to the fitness
of a person for service of this kind, and if he
can accept no suggestion it would be useless
for him to make any inquiry because the
answer would be in the nature Conformation
or suggestion. Our future iuries will, there
fore, be composed exclusively of those of
whose personal qualifications the court has
knowledge derived from sources peculiarly
its own and not obtained by hearsay or rep
resentaton made by others. 1t strikes us
that this is narrowing the field of jury service
to a limit not contemplated by any exigency
of the public service, but it is the law as laid
down, and it must be obeyed and respected
accordingly.-Cumber NewS
They die hard, but--they die
And in dying they give more and
more post norton emphasis to the fact
that jury commission is Just the
thing to "fll want long felt"--so
long, indeed, that it has often been
maryeled exceedingly whether there
was any way out of the little jungle of
self-appointed jury commissioners.
1t is apparent now that the acoualnt-
ance of three commissioners, each
from one Of three centres of popula-
ton, will be at least three times wider
than the acquaintance of a judge in
one centre, and that the acknowledged
infrmity of the present Jaw will thus
be most economically and effectually
cured.
Hence, if Frostburg gets the county
seat of Allegany, or the new county,
we want also the jury commission law.
In fact, it is wanted anyhow.
An Ugly Balance.
The fact that 6, 1872 murders were com