The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-10-24


Estate of William II. Maxwell.
deceased. Order and return OF
sale of Real Estate confirmed.
Rockhill Iron & Coal Ca, VS..
The County of Fulton. Byagree-
ment of parties interested, the
case was submitted and argued be-
fore the Court. "After a very
careful examination of all the tes-
timony taken on this hearing, we
discover no sufficient reason to
justify us in altering the assess
ment Of the properties as made by
the assessor of Wells township,
and approved by the board of
commissioners; and we, therefore,
dismiss the appeal-By the Court
S. Nc Swope p. j."
The Rock Hill Coal Company
has several thousand acres of
land in this county, and had ap-
pealed from the valuation placed
upon their coal lands in Wells
township by the assessor of that
district. Some of their lands
were assessed at $40 per acre,
while other tracts were valued at
only 81 per acre. The company
appealed and their case was
heard by the court on Friday, con
suming the whole day. A brilli-
ant and formidable array of coun-
sci Geo. A. Smith, w. Scott AL
exander and Chas. Susserott, of
Chambersburg, looked after the
interests of the corporation, while
John p. Sipes, Esq, represented
the county. Mr.. Sipes was ably
assisted by Col. VIM. l.. Moseby,
one of the witnesses for the coun-
ty, who did the cross examining
of Mr.. Logan, an expert geologist
and mineralogist. He created
considerable merriment by his
unique questioning of the expert,
and showed that he knows some.
thing about the mineral resources
of Fulton unity in general, and
Wells township in particular.
Col. Moseby had about a half ton
Of rocks of different kinds on ex-
hibition in the court room during
the progress of the hearing.
In the matter of the Pittsburg
Bridge Company, appealing from
the report of the inspectors of the
bridge erected by that company
over Brush Creek, in Brush Greek
township, the court decided that
$400 should be deducted from the
contract price of 81, 900. The
facts in the case, briefly stated, ARE
these:
just previous to retiring from
Office the preceding board Of
county commissioners contracted
with the Pittsburg Bridge Com
pany for the erection of 72-foot
bridge over Brush Creek near
Crystal Springs. 1t seems that
the contractor who put up the
substructure failed to do good
job and before the superstructure
was put on there were two large
cracks from top to bottom of one
of the walls, which was also two
and one-half feet out of square.
When this was discovered by the
present board of commissioners
they very properly notified the
bridge company NOT to erect the
superstructure until the sub
structure could be put in better
shape. The bridge builders, it
appeared, paid no attention to the
notice but went ahead and erected
the superstructure, thus making a
decided botch of the whole affair.
The inspectors appointed to
view the work recommended that
S400 be deducted from the con-
tract price of 81 900 for the super
structure and this was done by
the commissioners. The bridge
company appealed from this ac-
ton, and the matter was heard be-
fore Judge Swope, Nelson and
Kirk on Friday evening. Sever
al witnesses from Brush Creek
testified that the citizens were
afraid to use the bridge, as it was
considered very unsafe. On Sat
urday morning the court handed
doun its opini0n which wa oiva