The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1893-01-19
THE CANAL IN LOGAN.
What About It?

i'So 0'u Pocc'o'y h'"JVi'0y vi 'hS
citizens, has been opposed to the
Abandonment. The Ferrel bill
provides that the original owners,
and owners of Ian d adjacent to the
canal lands owned in fee by the
State, shall be allowed TO take the
land at the value put upon 1t by
a board of appraisers, otherwise
the land will be sold 10 The high
est bidder.
Now let's look the matter square
in the face. The Legislature can
pass and enforce that law. but The
Legislature can not abandon"
the Falls Mill dam, slack wafer
10 Enterprise, swamps, floods, &c.
Suppose now the canal is aban-
doned; we have then a mud ditch
in Logan, mile in length. What
are we going to do with il? Fill
it up, of course. Who will fill II
mp2 The adjacent owners or some
body, who owns it? Suppose every
body don't fell disposed TO fill it
up. Joe Kreig will fill TO have a
potatoe patch, Ed Davenport next
or near 10 hm, concludes TO have
a goose pond. Another may want
a cranberry marsh and so on. So
we can't depend on individual
action. Then The town will fill it.
But first the town must own it.
This canal land, so long sought,
will become very high priced.
Well The town buvs it, bv private
sale or condemnation. Now
comes The filling of il. Where
are we to get the earth, what will
it cost, after bought, to cart it in
to the ditch? How much will it
cost TO fill, say only three feet, a.
ditch ten yards wide, and a mile
in lengih3 Then after it is filed,
what are we going 10 do with it?
Make a road of it. Who wants q
road there? A thoughtful man
saws We must have a sewer in the
he'd of the canal under the road.
All right. This costs more money.
We built 1t first. How are We 10
flush ilg The canal is abandoned
to the mill. The water from the
dam goes off into the river. We
can perhaps discover, or devise q i
running stream, later on, neces-
sity is the fruitful mother of in
vention. But we have the sewer
and road in place of the canal.
1t has been long season of
drouth, like now, or month ago,
blaze breaks out on a roof, it is
thought the cislerns should be
file d. Where are we gong TO e t.
the water. The river of course.
1t is only mile away to the
nearest pool. But we can build a
dam to hold wafer during droulh.
Then we can build power house
there, get another engine and a
whole lot of bigger hose, organize
paid fire department. We might |
build a stand pipe, ,----l
But we have got rid of the old
ditch, got road, got sewer, got
water works.
On a fine day Col. Railroad |
comes down. He rubs his hands |
in glee. The old menace to our
high freight is at last abolished.
1t is true it hauled in no coal, it |
hauled out no brick. No, bnt IT
kept me from doubling up the
rates of freight. Now's my time.
these brick works are healthy
plants. Let's tackle them. III
just double the freiehts. What
are they going TO do about IT. of
course towns with competing
lines of rail road will increase
their brick plants and try TO un-
derbid Logan. But Logan is
spunky. She paid abont a hun
dred thousand dollars 10 get rid
of the canal. She'll go another
hunlred thousand 10 keep her
brick works from being kept out
of the markets. Lets now squeeze
as hard as we can. now because
with no possible chance from COM
petition from The canal and not
much show for another rail road
soon. tle men of money TO invest
in brick works wont come here.
and we must make all we can out
of tke plants now in our coils.
And Col. Rail road issues more
bonds. The freight on coal is
doubled to our town, but that
makes no difference to the mag
mates on Wall street.
Will the people of Logan look
the situation staring us in the
face. The canal, as it stands, Is
moi wrong 10 anybody 1t was
on the land when The people now
living along it, bought their prop
erty. 1t was as apparent 10 them
as hill. We might as well, IN
all fairness, he asked 10 level The
hill across The river, because it is
a detriment to The oil well farm.
We are told nobody but Ike K0nt-
ner and Frank Rochester make
any thing ont of the canal. We
are sorry there are no more hui
glad somebody in Logan gels
something. We wish they got ten
times as much as thew do.
Last week We paid within a few
dollars, a hundred dollars of tax.
Of that sum, not as much as the
price of chew of tobacco, went
fer cost of keeping up the canal
in Logan. 1t don't cost Logan, so
we are told by those who have
ciphered it out, five dollars a year
to keep the canal in Logan.
Now it good sense, before
we let The canal 90, lock around
us and see whats to be done with
IT after abandoned. Will the stale
The property holders, the town ,
council, The County Commission ,
Prs. The post masters take the
matter IN hand and put SOME ;
THING, as good, at least no ,,
worse, IN its place. !,
Will somebody tell us what we :
are going to do without the canal
before we shut onr eyes, and wait
rnr 4 he cOn,ino of tha rnilieniun