Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-02-20
POTATOES, HOOPPOLEs FREIGHT
To Thurmont for Passenger Traffic.

Correct. The potato crop is about the
llrgest on the mountain, and they grow
in most any kind Of soil. So can rail-
no id be built in most any part OF the
country. But when quality of the potato
is looked for, the mountain potato has It
every time and the same should hold in
selecting the course Of the W., F. y 9.
Railroad. True we have to go to the val
ley for corn but where does the valley
look for material to make the barrels to
hold the corn? In reference to hoop poles
and huckleberries, chestnuts and bean
poles should be added as all four OF the
above named are in demand in the valley
when in season; even the water If the val
lev wants it, good, healthy and pure they
look to the mountain for it. | will ask
the writer of the above where the city
people go in the good old Summer time!
Ii they stopped off in the valley they
would loose what they wished to gain, the
good pure mountain breeze and bright
sparkling water. What locality does the
rich man from the city select to build a
summer cottage? Seldom does he stop in
the valley and had we better accommoda-
tons for coming and going we would have
to give up our potato patches to make
room for city people to build their cot
tages. Now come down to the subject,
take an unbiased view from Lewistown
via Creagerstown, Rocky Ridge to EN-
mitsburg, can you find passengers suffi-
Gent to buck up against Thurmont alone
with its 1000 or more inhabitants, not
saying anything about st. Anthony's
with 1000 members, and Mt. St. Mary's
wiz it's five or six hundred, and these
two last named places have people coming
and going the year round. Can you fig
ure out one fourth Of this above passen-
ger traffic through the above named val
ley? Note that have not said anything
about the thickly built up territory from
Catoc.in to Thurmont and on to Mt. st.
Mary's.
five miles further than the Rocky Ridge,
the form ar would be the cheaper in every
way. 1t is an Cd and a very true saying
that the first cost should rot be consid-
cred in the location of railroad it is the
dividend in litter years that is to be look
ed after. The officers of the Emmitsburg
Railroad so far have had little trouble in
paving dividends krew a stakeholder
in the Emmitsburg Railroad. After his
death his stock sold for SO per share.
How is that for shares of 1925 each? So
Ear have only cited the human traffic.
Now let us look at the telegraph and teie=
phone poles, shingles, slaves, posts and
rails, wood and sawed lumber Of various
kinds, building stone and sand, and last
but not least, the ore from the banks at
Catoctin, which is conceded to be the fin
est in the state. There are other points
al,ng the mountain VIII ere there are lots
of ore to be had if it were not for the
long haul to railroad. fear if the road
is built to Rocky Ridge via Creg gerstown,
the stockholders will find themselves in
the same prodictament that the farmer
was when he wanted photo of certain
COW. He used the back of the barn for
the back ground. While the photogra-
pher was getting ready to make the ex.
posure the COW walked away. This was
unnoticed until after the plate was devel-
oped. There was the barn but no COW.
The photographer asked the farmer how
about it? The rmer said, ''wel we
haven't the COW but that is good pict-
ure of my barn." They may be able tc
say well, we have not the traffic but we
have good road bel.
A MOUNTAINEER.