Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-04-14

better road Will be the better
compensated. Thus for Their
own interest as we'll as the in
terest of the public it will BE-
necessary to secure the very best
road that can be made. And
this fact alone IS enough to show
that the establishment OF the
new ferry will be for the inter
est Of the pnblic. However,
am aware that promises are
made of a better road on the
part of the owner OF the Lam b s
ferry. and that these promises
are being realized by a few
loads of hoatable material and
dirt, bvt this same promise and
same work has been going on
for twenty years, and l leave it
to the people as to the faith in
which these promises have been
kept. Is there any better road
to-day than there was one, FIVE,
ter, fifteen or twenty years ago !?
Is it not a fact that the road is
sinking mole and more every
day? Political parties are shorn
Of their official robes for faiths
lessness to promises often in
four years. Still another re
ward that will be enjoyed by the
public on the establishment of a
new ferry will be in the reduce
ton of rates. It is not right, it
is not just that the people of
Camden county should be taxed
to the amount Of Fifteen Hun
dred to Eighteen Hundred dol
lars per annun to swell the ex>
chequer of a single individual
who has only invested from five
to six Thousand Dollars in the
enterprise. But in the event of
the esta blishment of the new
ferry they only ask the people
to pay them expenses and inter-
est On the investment at the
rate of six per cent. instead of
about twenty-five per cent.
which thy are now paying.
Therefore, the establishment of
the new Jerry will introduce
competition and by thus 50 do
ing will guarantee a better road
and leave more of the peoples
hard earnings in their pocket
which IS clear to the unpreju>
diced mind will be to the good,
to the interest and to the con
venience of the public.
Besides the advantages that
will accrue to the public from
competition there are others
that are freighted with sound
reason and Judgment for the es~
Enlistment OF the new ferry,
and one of these is in the route
of the two ferries. Limbs fer
ry as is we'll known to all runs
for a great distance parallel and
In close proximity to the rails
road, and as a result there IS a
great danger to the travelling
pnbllc from encounteriag trains
at places where to leave the mar
row road is to be thrown into
an y Utmost bottomless bog.
While the contemplated road
over Goat Island Will not only
be shell road but a road runs
ming near no mills and no rail-
roads, so that the public Will
hnd not only a good road but a
safe road. All of which will
much enhance the public cons
venience and good. Another of
these advantages is the increase
valuation Of the real estate of
the county that will be brought
about by the completion of the
new rosd. The new road will
lay wholly in Camden county
aid run over lands that are at
present worthless and add little
to the revenue of the county,
BIT as soon as these lands are
opened by an avenue of public
travel, such as the new road will
bring, it will not only add to the
taxable value of the property
of the county a road own
ed, constructed and operat |
ed and paid tax upon by a
corporation, but still anotuer in>
terest will be advanced by the
construction of this new indus,
try, aud that is farming lands |
will increase III Value. Lands
a rddius of three or four
miles of Elizabeth City are
worth more than twice as much
as the same lands at the same
distance from Elizabeth City in
Camden county, and these lands
are increasing in value while the
lands in Camden ATE decreasing
in value. The reason for this
difference is that Elizabeth CITY
not only affords a market in it.
self which is closed to the people
ot Camden because of almost i'm
oassable roads leading to Eliza
beth City and exhorbitaut rates
ot ferrlage, but because it affords
better advantages for the trans,
oortatlon to Northern markets,
make Elizabeth City easy of &C
,ess to the people of Camden
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