Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-01-24

/ 'O''S' uon you think
the Wayne Citizen was "nervv,'
when 1t began to draw comparisons
on the question of who paws the
taxes?
When the additional half million
valuation for the y. Il w. Bio
Sandy division is added TO theta
basis of Ceredo, Butler and Lin
coln' the proportion aud compariso n
Will be still more "odious." IL will
be seen that great part of the tax
able basis of our county is due to
railroad property; 1T being said that
our county has the greatest rail.
road mileage of any county of our
| State.
herefore one more comparison
from which the railroad valuations
have been wholly eliminated, NAV
be ot interest to the voter seekin o.
tscts. This is comparison between
this community, seeking the loca.
ton, and that community, that has
had the location and benefits of
your county seat for sixty-three
years, and is confined TO real and
personal, exclusive of all railroad
valuations In the two locations. al.
so restricted to the corporation linn
ITS, which must IN each case provide
the local means of support for
maintaining the town as a represen-
tative town of your county.
Ceredo and Kenova show for real
and personal alone, S6l7,407.
Wayne, on same basis. S92, 35S.
Being over six and e.half times
greater IN favor of the the new 10.
cation than the present county seat.
Re illy, now, voters of Wayne
county, looking at these figures, all
taken from your county official rec.
rods, where will "The greatest good
to the greatest mber" be found
in thus question? With the people
OF the west side of our county. in
Ceredo, Butler and Lincoln. who
pay over seventy per cent Of all the
county taxes, a majority of whom,
now have TO spend two nights and a
part of three days to get about FIVE
hours for business at their county
seat as now located at Way ne-or
1T changed to the new location on
the river, can, by reason of the rail
roads in and adjoining cur county,
reach their county seat from the ex
treme upper end, by four railroad
routes in about three hours time?
And when you get to your county
seat, be it for day, or a week,
which location appears to you, hon
estly, to be best equipped TO supply
the requirements of a county seat,
for a progressive county?
Which location is best equipped
to guard and protect your county
property and most valuable records?
Winch community, on the basis
of what II pays toward maintaining
its county seat, viii have the great
est interest IN seeing hat the money
paid out for the benefit OF the
county seat by the Taxpayers brings
the best results?
viii your decision fall with the
community that pays considerably
over one third Of all your county
taxes, or with the community that
pays only one-eigbth Of all your
county taxe-2
Yet you hear the people Of
Wayne frequently say: "Ccrcdo is
trying to steal OUR court house
IL was even stated publicly at
Wayne, when tbis question first
came up, that wr, " meaning The
little crowd around Wayne. have
built the court house for the county.
% belong 90 us, it is part of our
lTeuonaD property, and these smau-
gy dog-,etc.," Chat arc asking your
honorable body, (lhc county court
tor vote for removal are trying
20 steal OUR court house.
Companions are odious, but for
pure, anadulterated gall and nerve
We commend you to the people of