The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1906-08-17
CONCERNING FOR ELECTRICAL POWER.

On Tuesday, Sheriff Reasiu and a Jury
commenced to take testimony in the
case of the Susquehanna Power Com
pany against the Mccall Ferry Power
Company. This is a suit for the purpose
of condemning certain property belong
ing to the defendant company, which the
plaintiff desires to use in establishing an
electric power plant on the Susquehanna
river, near the old paper mills. The jury
is composed as follows: A. Henry Stras-
baugh. Clement X Sewell, George B. Os-
born, Elijah Kirk, Harvey Ewing. Joseph
M. Kelly, !. Royston Strawbridge, Ed
ward Savin, William w. Wilson, James
Dunnigan, Luther H. McNabb, William
B. Selfe, Joshua K Whitaker, J. William
ONeil, Clarence c. Pussy, Edward c.
Kelly, Charles F. Harry, William NJ.
Whiteford, James NJ. Scarf and David II.
Benson.
The Susquehanna Power Company is a
Maryland corporation, and if any cleo
trical development on the Susquehanna
river takes place in this State it will have
to be by this company. Therefore, our
state pride and self interest as well make
us feel great concern in the welfare of the
Maryland corporation. This corpora
ton is a successor to the SuSquehanna
Water Power and Paper Company, which
was originally incorporated in 1888, and
from 1884 until a few years ago success
fully operated the paper mills on the Sus-
quehanna liver, near Berkely. The en-
terprise was largely Harford capital and
it was managed by local men. The plant
and all the water rights were bought by
asyndicate headed by Mr. Harvey Welsh,
who is he promoter in the present enter
prise.
1t is proposed to put up plant capa
BILE of developing 5000 horse power,
which will be furnished to the cities of
Baltimore, Havre de Grace and Whining
ton, as circumstances may hereafter re-
quire. Another outcome OF this electri-
cal development may mean railway
running through Hartford county. 1t is
possible, too, that the establishment of
the plant may mean the location of close
by industries, such as has been the case
since the development of the electrical
power at Niagara Falls. Therefore, the
interests of Hartford are almost incalcul-
able, as the Susquehanna Power Com
pany has a capital stock of $6,000,00O,
and its plant. together with kindred in
terests, will make big additions to the
taxable basis of the county, thereby ma
terially decreasing the rate, and will
also bring money and its attending COM
forts in our midst.
The Mccall Ferry Power Company
first intended to locate on the Susque-
hanna river, in this county. 1t after
wards discovered what was considered a
more feasible place about twenty miles
above the Maryland line, in Pennsyl-
vania, and altered its plan accordingly,
taking its improvement to alien terri
tory, in which our people have no inter
est. The policy of this company seems
to include litigation against the Susque-
hanna Power Company, as application
for preliminary injunction in the United
States District Court last Saturday
plainly shows. Judge Morris set the
case for hearing early in October, when
the condemnation suits which the injunc-
ton was intended to prevent will all be
over.
These condemnation suits will set the
valuation on the old Susquehanna and
Tidewater canal, as we'll as number OF
other properties owned by the Mccall
Ferry Power Company.