Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-11-02
LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS.

FRosrRURG, Mn, OctOber..30, 1891
70 the MINING JOURNAL.

FRosrHURG, Mn, OctOber.3N, 1871
TO the MINING JOURNAL.
hear people blaming the county com
misSiOnerS for CXtravagant expenditures
on the county roads, and, to my mind,
much of this kind of ccnsurc proceeds
from ignorance or partisan malice.
Some of these people take free school
books without ever thinking that at
last they are not free. They don't See
anything on the levy list about books,
therefore they cost nothing. But when
a family of six or seven members has to
pay about a dollar year for roads
that's awful.
The same people do not see, as YOU
have SO often pointed out, the trtmen-
dOus sums that are laid out i'll Cumber-
land every year, or if they do, they
never grunt about it,
But let us STE about the roadS-at
least about those that have come under
the view of at least one of our readers
|, In travelling from Cumberland to
Frostburg you will find about one mile
of the National pike out of Cumberland
has been coated with broken limestone
This, when packed by over-running
traffic, is as good road as anyone can
wish.
=, On Eckhart hill, same road, You
will find the same coating and the road
in first class condition,
3, The county road from the Frost
burg G. and p. r. station to New Hope
is i'll the best condition it has been for 10
years, having been macadamizcd last year
I, Take the Legislative road from
FroStburg to Homecoming and you will
find nearly mile of macadam; then at
Midland you will see that the principal
highway through town is about as we'll
built Il stretch of thOroughfarc as any
street i'll Frostburg OF Cumberland that,
under municipal direction, have been
kept i'll the same way to my knowledge
for many years.
). At the north end of Homecoming
You can see IA piece of macadamiZcd road
that will bear comparison with any
road built by the most competent engi-
ncer i'll government employment 1t
may not carry all the marks of mathe-
matical adjustments and relations, but
for solidity and durability it is the equal
of the very best in this county, not eX-
ceptimg "the depot hill' at Frostburg,
constructed by the G. and p r at great
expense.
6, You will find that the public roads
being cared for rapidly as possible
People ought not to forget that there
is i'll this county nearly GW miles Of ,oud,
and that both money and Hmr are re-
quired to make showing. If the coun-
ty had to build trstclass road from
Cumberland to st. Louis, Mo, its prog
ress would be slow, yet that comparison
over-Steps but little the task it has on
hand within its limits. Located, as the
county is. i'll the toughest portion of the
State, and with the cuStlieSt sort of ma
rial to obtain, |, for one am not among
those who are willing to heap unmixed
cenSure upon the officials who have
the care of our roads. | am not writing
this for political effect, one way or the
other, but from Il sense of justice.
| have noticed that nobody objects to
the very liberal freight rates which the
Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad
company accord to the commissioners
for hauling road materials. nor does
anyone grumble at the fact that the
Union Mining company gi"rS Hrm the
HmrNton" for Uothing. FAIR PLAY.