Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-03-02
}. w. o. Hardman's Mill
Burned; Loss $I5,ooo
The Railroad Of Incaleulable Benefit to
the COunIy-SOme tImpOrIant Facts
About May 1St-The Survey Almost
CONVERSATIONAL Citizen Dead.
Special to thu Review.

sion at the court house today and
passed the necessary order to hold
an election in Lincoln, Ellsworth,
McEiroy AID Centerville districts
to vote on the question Of issuing
bonds as capital stock in the con-
struction of a narrow gauge railroad
from point at or near Sistersvllle
through the county by the way of
Elk Fork, Middlebourne and Nc
Elroy creek to the mouth OF Big
Flint. Lincoln will vote on SIo,-
900, Ellsworth SIS, 900, McElroy
SIS, 900 and Centreville $500.
The vote is to be taken Saturday,
April I, 1893. 1t seems hardly
necessary to say that such a
railroad will be of great benefit to
the county, for that is conceded by
everybody. But let us consider for
a moment these advantages. First
it will give an outlet to Sistersville,
the Ohio river and Ohio River Rail
road to the people of the back end
of the county, and market for
their surplus products. Secondly,
it will keep many persons from
leaving the county who have money,
and bring many new citizens in the
county, and thirdly it will help pay
our taxes, and in fact the taxes paid
it will pay off the bonds and their
accrued interest within the thirty
years the bonds run. TO show
what taxes the various railroads of
the state pay to the counties
through which they run, let us re-
fer the reader to the county Of
Marshall.
The B. & o. pays the state 49,
1o1.17, county $5,796 81, school
$5,4o3 80, and town taxes $2,658.
IS, making total tax of SI6.95o.o4,
and all the railroads of said county
a total tax of$21,674.S1.
From this statement which comes
from the auditors office, it appears
to every citizen of this county that
railroads are good thing to have
in a county. 1t is then the proper
thing for each citizen to go to the
polls and cast a vote for the bonds,
and thus encourage the road. The
incorporators pay the expenses OF
this election, and say that if the
bonds carry they will build the road
and have men working on the
grading in thirty days after the
election. The surveyors who are
making the survey of the proposed
railroad commenced at Sistersville
last Thursday and have reached the
"Hog-back," about two miles east
of this town and report good grade
and a small cut on top OF the river
hill. Now the question for each
voter to settle is, do you want
railroad to Sistersville so you Can
travel easily, comfortably and rapid
ly or do you want to continue to go
through mud hub deep? Do you
want it to take two hours or two
days to make trip to do one hours
business? Let your vote decide the
question and we hope it will be on
the side of the railroad and progress.
MILL BURNED.
The roller Touring mill of 0. ".
0. Hardman, near the mouth OF
McElroy creek, burned to the
ground Friday night between 10
and II O'Clock. The FIRE when dis
covered was in the back part of the
mill near the dam, and as the mill
was run that day with water and no
FIRE was in the stove in the front
part OF the mill and it being gas
fire, had been turned off when the
mill was shut down for the night,
if the fire was not caused by a
heated journal of the machinery In