Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-01-17

and railroad, q total valuation of
about 81 $50, 00C as shown by recent
1905 re-assessment, upon which tax.
able basis the two towns are enabled
to maintain their fire protection,
their electric street lighting, their
public schools, their streets and
street crossings all in first-class con.
dition; each town provides a police
force to maintain order, and each
town owns it's own Town Hall, with
council chamber, mayors offices,
fire department and lookup, with
modern steel cells for prisoners,
equal in security TO the average
country Jail. All of this has been
accomplished by these two towns,
unaided or encouraged by the loca-
tion within their corporate limits of
any public buildings or work by
the county at large.
SON BETWEEN THE TWO
LOCATIONS.
Contrast these results accomplish
ed by the citizens residing at the
proposed new location for your
county seat, with the situation as it
is today at Wayne, and the results
as shown and we'll known by all of
you to exist today at Wayne after
sixty-three years of joint effort of it's
own citizens, aided in every Say
possible in legitimate way by the
taxpayers of the whole county to
build and maintain a suitable coun-
ty seat and then declare your hon.
est, unbi ased opinion, in your ca
pacity as juror, as you will be
when you vote on this question -
between this community of your
citizens and that community of your
citizens, which of the two by their
past record and their present condi
ton, are best qualified and Calcu-
lated to receive the care and respon
sibility as trustee and defender of
your public property, and which Of
the two contesting communities is
best qualified and equipped to main
tain county seat representative of
the advanced position that your
county must now assume by reason
of its recently acquired railroad
mileage, the longest in the state.
CONSIDER, AND REASON WITHOUT
PREJUDICE.
We have endeavored to present
the facts touching the relative ad.
vantages and disadvantages of the
two locations seeking the RESPONSE
biIIty of the county seat of Wayne
county. Not the Wayne county of
the sold horseback days" but OF
the more progressive Wayne county,
which should follow its great devel
opment as railroad county, the
county with the greatest railroad
mileage in the state. Think of 1t,
very few years ago we had less
than ten miles Of railway in our
county; now, more than any other
IN the state, numbering up In the
hundreds of miles-three of the
largest railroad corporations in the
United States now occupying your
principal river valleys, the natural
lines of progress, because they are
the lines of least resistance.
Your hrSt and greatest growth of
your county, must centre where
these railroad lines centre. There
your largest towns are now, and
must ever remain; it is the inev-
liable, and you that do your own
reasoning must admit the fact.
Some day your county seat must
leave its present location, if for no
other reason, for protection against
FIRE, and the hourly danger of the
records upon which rests every
dollars worth of the property Of
your county. Three or four times
in recent years, your county seat
has suffered from fre. Once your
court house was swept away in day
time, and by great good luck only
/ did tha poonla aave vonr reoorda