Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-03-09


Twenty Four Thousand Five Hun
dred paid for it-Compromise Reached
After long DeIiberation-Th papers
are now being drawn up The Bridge
will be Turned over on the First OF
April and no tolls will be Charged
After that Date-A Matter For Uni
yersal Congratuation.
The county court has taken the
step. They did this after long delay
and tiresome negotiations but that
they did 1t gives them all the credit
in the world. The bridge has been
bought and it will not be long before
the structure will be free. April first
the citizens of the county and any one
else who may want to use it may go
across ii without having to pay
tribute.
The details of the sale have not vet
been consummated The price that
is to be paid is twenty-four thousand
five hundred dollars. This is to be
paid to the company in cash and the
banks of the town will furnish what
the court needs in order to have the
cash to give the company. This will
be given them at the rate of four and
a half per cent.
The final hitch occurred on We'd
nesday afternoon and it was nearly
five o'clock before the court had
bought the structure that has been
the bore of contention for so long.
They had had price fixed on it for
a long time. Mr.. Sturgiss on be-
half of the company had offered the
property TO the county for twenty-five
Thousand.
This had seemed an enormous sum to
the members for long time and they
had refused to consider it. But after
campaign Of education and the fact
becoming so apparent that the people
of the county would be satisfied with
nothing else they finally decided to
buy it.
Then came the dickering and at one
time it seemed that for one thousand
dollars the deal would fail. The
court offered twenty-four thousand
the bridge people wanted twenty-five.
al UnC AdSU DlOlhCdU UIC ulACiClSC
was split and the sum agreed upon
was twenty-four five hundred.
The papers are being drawn up now
and before very long all that will be
necessary to take the property from
the hands of the company and place
it in the hands of the people, will
have been finished.
Nothing has been heard but the ex-
pressions of the most profound salts
faction and everyone feels that the
very best days work ever done for the
town and county has been accomplish
ed. No one has any thing but praise
! for those who have worked toward the
great end and for the court in acting
as it finally did.
The town and county will feel the
results for years to come. There is
no single industry here that will re-
suit in bringing so much money into
the town. The old feeling of enmity
will be obliterated and the two parts
/ of the county will be no longer
/ separated.
An era of the greatest prosperity is
about to set in here. Morgantown
will this summer grow as she has
never grown. Not the smallest factor
in this will be the free bridge
The fact that the company did not
get great big price for their property
will he seen when the future is looked
at. The railroad on the west side of
the river and the consequent develop
ment will make it still more valuable.
A gentleman who is conyersant with
the situation told US in this connec-
tion this morning that in one year
the road would be open for traffic.
This is startling news but he stated
that he had no doubt but that it was
correct.
The members of the court who have
been enlisted in the cause will find
that they have done the best days
work for themselves and the county
that they have ever done. They de-
serve great credit for their recognition
of the justice of the purchase and the
rights of the people. While they
seemingly acted slowly it is becoming
public servants to be careful of what
they do and how they do it SO that
no discredit can be cast on their ac-
lions. What they did was from the
best of motives and the result shows
| that they were moving in the right