The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-04-24
Wednesday, April "a, 1907.

Wednesday, April "a, 1907.
We copy the following from the Or
augsburg correspondence OF the Column
bia State of the 10th in reference to
the proposed new counties, which, il
they materialize, will cut Lexington,
orangeburg and Aiken counties:
aFirst-A county to be formed out
of portions of Orangeburg, Lexington
and Aiken countless with the county
seat at Wagner.
ssSecond-A county to be formed
out Of q portion of Orangeburg and
Lexington counties with the county
seat at st. Matthews. and comprising
aboutthe same territoryas the scheme
of some 10 years ago, for Calhoun
county, and which was defeated by
the people of the proposed territory.
eft is 80 miles from Aiken to Or
angebnrg, and the town OF Springfield,
In this county, is 80 miles from the
court house, SO that it would be log
zeal for the people of the Springfield
territory to want a new county with
the county seat at Springfield, yet
these people have already rejected
the idea and expressed themselves as
prefering to come to Orangeburg,
hence Springfield will not be included
in the area for the proposed county to
be formed Of Aiken, Lexington and
Orangeburg counties, with the county
seat at WAGNER.
ssThe survey for this new county
takes only aparto one township from
Characterization adjacent to the
town Of Saley, which is just across
the line in Aiken county, but this is
where the Grub comes in. Salley wants
the court house, and if they can not
get it are determined that WAGNER
shall not, 30 the prospects do not APP
pear very bright for this new county
at present
The above schemes, as laid out in
the article, is notdefnite enough. The
people in the territory proposed to be
acnt OFF, should know just where the
lines are to run-in other words
whether they are inside or outside OF
the proposed new territory. AZ the
proper time they must and will know.
So farsas the action of our citizens In
the final result is concerned, we feel
safe IN saying that they will take the
same view they have always taken:
that it is far better to remain in Lex
ington county, and that it is to their
interest to do. so. No glazing and
promising scheme will deceive them;
they will not heed the pleadings OF
these self designing individuals, who
see SO much prosperity ahead for
themselves at the final and everlasting
expense Of the rural people, whose
farms will not produce q single grain
more Of corn n peas, mol a boil
more ofcotton inside Of new county
than in the old; but higher values
will have to be fixed to run decent
county governments, paying capable
officials living salaries, court expenses
and to meet other legitimate county
government taxes.
Take the Comptroller Generals re-
port for years back and compare the
taxes then; and trose counties that
have been cut, add both the old and
the new, and you will readily see
where it will be to your interest to
be. The old counties with their ter
ritory untouched r run with less
taxes, and are much more prosperous
than the new counties.
There is more trouble and expense
back of these schemes than you now
see. The transfers. OF real estate of
every individual willhaye to be trans
ferred and recorded in new books,
etc. Let common sense and fair
Judgment guide you as heretofore,
and pass all petitions gently by, and
let these schemes be known as
aDennis,D