The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-02-16
A FEW REASONS
OF the Many Why a New County
Should not be Formed
as Proposed.

l. Because, every man who is ac-
tive in support of the new county is
a disappointed politician, an Office
seeker or an INSCRIPTIONS adventur-
er.
2. Because, nine men out of every
ten in the proposed boundary are
opposed to it.
3. Because, the county seat will
be three miles from one boundary
and thirty-five miles form the other.
4. Because, the citizens of the
South East half OF the county have
no possible way of getting to the
county seat. They will be from
twenty to thirty five mile distant
with no railroad and no dirt roads
and an inaccessible billy country in
tervening.
5. Because. it has taken 100 years
and cost 100000 to bridge Rough
river and build roads from the part
to be taken off of Ohio county to
make it easy of access to Hartford.
6. Because the part of Ohio
county to be cut off is connected to
Hartford by one roilroad and an
other is in process of construction
through Hartford to Fordsville.
Z. Because, Fordsville the propos-
ed county seat, is located in very
billy country and it would require a
century and an enormous expense to
make it as accessible to all of the
citizens of the new county as they
are now to their respective county
seats.
s. Because, it will inconvenience
more than twice as many people as
it will accommodate.
8. Because, it would COMPEL thou
rands of people to travel % to 80
miles over horrid dirt road to reach
the county seat who now live within
10 to Is miles of the county seat.
10. Because, real estates in the
proposed boundary has already de-
preciated in value on account of the
agitation, the citizens realizing the
hop elesncss of an effort to ever pay
the county out of debt.
IL. Because, Ohio county with its
six hundred square miles, is pau
per county" and is in debt S25, 900,
II. Because, the assessment for
this year shows that the taxable
property of the proposed new coun-
ty is less than one million, clearly
demonstrating the fact that there
would nerve be any revenue for pub
lie Improvement.
l3. Because, the new county could
never be anything but ''pauper
county"
IA. Because, a glance at the map
will show that citizen living in the
northern part of Ohio county would
have to come through Fordsville to
get to Hartford, while a citizen liv-
ing in the southern part of the pro-
posed county would be compelled to
pass through Hartford to get to
Fordsville.
10. Because, Ohio, Breckenridge,
Grayson and Butler counties all
have good public building, and they
are all in easy access of all of their
citizens.
l6. Because, it would impose a
burden of debt on the citizen of
the new county under which the
great grandsons of the present gen.
Grafton would stagger in hopeless
despair, and the only possible final
solution of the i'll advised enterprise
would be the dissolution of the new
county and the return Of its consti-
tuent parts to the old counties.
II. Because, ties of interest and
sentiment have closely united all of
the citizens Of Ohio county in COM
mon brotherhood for more than a
century, and it is inconceivable to
the law-abiding citizen how a gang
of wholly selfish adventures should
be allowed to dismember the old
county.