The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-01-11
A SLICE OF WAKE
Durham County Moving to
Get More Territory.
The Senators and Members From Durham In.
structed to Ask For Piece Of
Wake County.

Durham county folks have a way of ask
ing for what they want.
When Durham county was formed,
good slice Of Wake went to make up
that compact good county. The Wake
folks make such good Durhamites that
Durham wants more of them. 1t is high
ly creditable to Durham's good taste. but
it may not be when the end comes credi-
table to Durhams good judgment to try
to get another slice of Wake county ter
ritor-,.
At the meeting of the County Commits
sioners of Durham held this week. this
resolution was adopted:
BE it resolved by the Board of County
Commissioners:
Il. That the representatives Of Dur
ham county in the General Assembly be
requested to introduce a bill 10 add to
Durham county that part of Oak Grove
township, Wake county, embraced in the
following lines to-wit: Beginning at a
point where the present Wake county and
Durham county lire crosses Big Lick
creek. Thence down the meanders of Big
Lick creek to where the same enters
Neuse river. Thence along said Neuse
river the meanderings thereof TO where
the present Wake county line crosses said
Neuse river, the Fish Dam place. Thence
southwardly along the said present Wake
county and Durham county line to where
said line crosses said Big Lick creek,
the beginning point. Provided the people
living within said territory shall petition
the General Assembly to be added to
Durham county.
80. That the clerk of this board send
certified certificate of this resolution to
the Hon. Fl. A.. Foushee and Hon r. w.
Scott, and another copy tc Hon. R. G..
Russell, our representatives in the Gen.
eral Assembly.
Commenting on the resolutions of the
County Commissioners of Durham county,
The Durham Morning Herald says:
THE resolution was passed on account
If the fact that the people of the district
included in the above territory have inti-
mated to the board of Durham Commits
sioners that they would be glad to get
into this county and said that they would
send a petition to the General Assembly,
provided, the people of this county wanted
them
The territory in question includes, it
is said. about twenty-five square miles
of very fertile and valuable land In the
territory there are some where in the
neighborhood of forty families. not includ-
ing the tenants and practically all of this
number have signed the petition that will
be presented to the General Assembly.
'The people living in the district named
say that they live about twenty miles from
Raleigh and that the change of the coun-
ty line. as noted in the above resolution,
would be a great convenience to them.
Besides. they are related to our people by
blood and marriage and are in heart Dur
ham county people. The territory asked
for is in Oak Grove township, Wake coun-
ty and if added TO Durham county it will
be taken into Oak Grove township The
district is about two-thirds as large as
our Oak Grove township is at present.
THE people of that section are practi-
calIv unanimous for being changed to this
county and it is the general opinion that
the county lines will be changed as re-
quested."