The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1893-01-14
THE CITIZENS MEETING
Monday Night to Arrange for the
Kentucky River Convention.

The citizens are showing a COM
mendable interest in the Kentucky
River Convention which has been
called to meet here next Wednesday.
Monday night, despite the Indictment
weather, there was good attend
ance of the citizens at the court
house to make the necessary prelimi-
nary arrangements for the conven-
ton, and the enthusiasm displayed
was an indication of the earnestness
with which this important matter has
been seized upon.
Mr.. Charles Exum called the meet
Hord, who has for years devoted him
self to the interests of this river, was
made chairman and Mr.. M. P. Gray
the secretary. Before entering upon
the work in hand, Judge Hord adj
dressed the meeting on the purposes
for which it had been called and the
object and scope of the convention
fixed for next Wednesday. He said
that if the people along this river
and in this city could only be made
to realize the great wealth of coal,
iron, clays, timbers and building
stones that were locked up awaiting
the opening of the river by the i'm
provement of the navigation, they
would not hesitate to make the jour
ney to Washington City in wagons,
on horseback or foot, to urge the
passage of sufficient appropriation
for the speedy completion of the
work undertaken by the General
Government, even as the California
pioneers in 1849, in the midst of
dangers, made their way across the
trackless west in search of gold.
He spoke of the necessity to show
Congress that the people of this
was coded to the General Govern
ment, had paid into the United States
Treasury more than 500, 900,
were in earnest now in asking for a
large appropriation to complete the
locking and daming of river which
will return to the people hundred
fold benefits for the amount required
to accomplish the work. The money
that Kentucky has paid into the
Treasury, he said, was used in build
ing harbors and improving rivers in
States which contain neither coal nor
iron, and he thought, as it has been
stated, that the Pennsylvania coal
mines are becoming exhausted and
more difficult to operate and the
necessity is making itself felt,
especially in this part of the Ohio
valley, for coal region to take the
place of the Pennsylvania mines,
that by proper effort on the part of
the people interested, Congress
could be brought to realization of
the Importance of the Kentucky |
river as an outlet for a coal field of
greater extent than Pennsylvania. !
He advocated the idea Of a conven-
ton Of the people and believed that j
such an expression of their will
would be given the consideration due
it by their representatives in Con-
gress. A motion was then made that
the following named gentlemen be
made the committee on reception for
the delegates who are to assemble
here on the 18th inst:
Pat Mcdonald, j. w. Pruett, VIM. |
McCloy, M. p. Gray, Jno. +. Miles,
w. IL. Newhall, Jr., Ed. M. Drane,
Judge B. G. Williams, Judge L. Hord,
r. @. Steele, A. II. Waggoner, Jerome
Weitzel, G. F. Exum, Thos. B. Ford,
VIM. Lindsay, e. H. Taylor, Jr., Capt.
Sam Sanders, r. Tobin, G. w. Daniel,
J. w. Chapman, s. b. Holmes, G. l..
Mckee, j. M. Wakefield, Il. j, Con-
gleton, w. j. Hughes, w. L. Pence,
David Nicol, Jno. @. Barrett, John
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