Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1902-07-19
Interesting Informal ion.

The number OF FrOStburT corporation
taxpayers is ,32l.
OF these the sir-nalnc initial, $, lead $
with l2l. Next is W with III, NJ with
II3, II with ll2, with l01, and so on
down to L with ,.
The average sum levied on each is
$3.50.
The water bills last rendered We're to
go town consumers. ...............Sl.712 . 81
10 " metre consumers. BIB. II
- Welsh Hill consumers. ......... l229l
Total Observation-Disclosures 193 Is
At rs cents thousand gallons, the
average metre rate, this sum ought to
Z bring over H., million gallons "A day into
town. But as not over $1,000 gallons
can be brought from the other side of
the mountain i'll il day, it is easy to see
there is a wide discrepancy between the
amount supplied and the amount
charged-a discrepancy which the water
supply on this side will not remove.
Take the JOURNAL, for instance. At
Ii cents thousand gallons it ought To
have 6, 40 gallons il month. 1t is as
sure, however, as it is that it lives that
it does not get 200 gallons. For this it
paws at the rate of 81. 40 il thousand gal
Ions, or $40 more than is charged the
highest metre-rent consumer.
The truth of the matter iS-the town
consumes less than one tenth of II, mil
lion gallons, or about 125,O00 gallons IL
day. This at 20 cents Il thousand would
realize ii larger income than now, enable
the town to treat all alike and nobody
would waste water.
In other words the prime want by
town and people is-mct,r$tor r"crgLodg!
The Frostburg Water company has
lately complctcdits extension to Graham
ton. To the Bowery finch main it at
tached Il Pinch pipe, carried it ont the
county road, down Warn street to the
c. and p. r., across to Yates alley, again
to county road, up Armstrong street,
Grahanlton, to terminus, i'll all about
1000 feet. Branching off with linch
pipe, about 10 families are thus served.
In town tie company's mains extend
along Union, Broadway, Charles, Beall,
Loo, Maple, Oak. Bowery, Hill, High
Frost avenue, Orman, Mechanic and
Water streets, supplying about 80
families.
There are extensions also to Eckhart
and the G. and p. II. station.
HazclhurSt Sprigg, of Cumberland, is
superintendent of the system.
Alfred Jetfries, cX-superintendent of
the town system, supervised the laying
of the Grahamton extension.
Turning to affairs i'll which the peo-
pie have or should have almost equal in
tcrest, an analysis of the county levy
recently issued by the organs of fractional
Imperialism, the Cumberland Times
and Homecoming STIR, shows the con-
tinued ascendancy of impcrialiStic Cum
bcrland in county affairs. Outside of
the jury, school and road fund the ex-
penditures for the year amount very
closely to $50, 1919. OF this sum there
is paid out in
Cumberland. ........... ...... .... 500 l9l. II
County ........,...' ...'........ 2OdoN.h'
On the other hand. if the collectors
are equitably paid and considering only
the regular levy, the taxes are paid by
city and county, respectively, very nearly
as follows:
Cumberland ........... ....'..'..S 'f,''--t'
The city thus gets back all it pays and
S14,64S. 66 more. Not only SO, it obtains
n big share of the remaining So, 59S. G-
not less than $4,000 of the amount
that cannot he accurately differentiated
In short, it pays big to be the county
seat of Allegany-so big that if each
\ Cumberland stakeholder i'll the county
will take the trouble annually to study
il, the levy-sheet is nothing more nor
less than declaration of Il 80 per rent
dividend upon his investment.