The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-06-25
FREE RIGHT OF
WAY THE SLOGAN
Non.Resident Land Owners Should
Promptly Come TO the Front.

promptly come 10 tAe Front.
As Indicated in our letter last week,
the bankers, capitalists. promoters, etc,
with whom we have been correspond
inc, on the subject Of financing the
hydro-electric plant for the "Youghio-
gheny Light and Power Co." all make
it sine qua non, or imperative condi-
ton, that they won't touch it" unless
the owners of the 1000 acres of coal
and mineral lands, surrounding the
plant, that will be doubled and quad
rupled in value by our proposed plant,
cooperate by conceding free rights
of way for forty years, (the nominal
extent Of our charterl to lay water
pipes, erect poles for transmission wires,
build electric traction railroads. and
houses for employees, etc.
They also make the further require
ment that each land owner shall con-
tribute sufficient timber for cross ties,
along or near the proposed railroads and
lateral branches, 50 for as they extend
through or across their respective
tracts of land.
If they wisely accede to these moder-
ate demands we shall soon have 10, 600
horse power harnessad up near Swallow
Falls.
All the local land owners, who have
been seen, in the vicinity of Swallow
Falls, have cheerlully acceded to these
terms, some of them offering, as an
extra Indictment, to hew the cross-ties
and deliver them on the spot as needed.
This letter is respectfully addressed
to the nonresident landowners, f" to
most of whom we nave mailed mark
ed copies" of numerous letters on this
subject during the past year
We hope soon TO receive personal let
tiers from each of them. accepting these
terms. Soon as we hear, from them we
will mail printed copies of agreements
for them to sign, acknowledge, and re-
turn to us.
We will then forward them to our
bankers and underwriters who will at
once authorize the letting of contracts
for the erection and equipment of the
plant, which will more than double the
value of ali the lands, within a radius
of at least twenty miles from the plant.
To prove perfect frankness, honesty
an unselfshness in our dealings with
the land owners, in this vast region of
more than 100, 600 acres of undeveloped
coal, mineral and timber lands, we point
with pride to the fact that we have
never asked them to give options" on
their lands, which might have been
done with view to securing ito our
selves the immense profits, or enhanced
value of the lands to be developed and
opened up to the markets of the world
at our expense.
The further facts should be apprecia-
ed, that for more than year we have
been writing up the possibilities of this
vast undeveloped region and that our
letters have been extensively copied in
all of the leading financial, manufact-
uring and electrical magazines and
journals, published throughout the en-
tire country.
Another inducement to landowners
generally to deal justly and literally in
the matter of concessions of free
right of way" is that we hereby obi
gate ourselves, in advance, to grant
them reciprocal advantages in the shape
of very low rates for the power they
will need to propel modern mining ma
chinery and their coal cars, ETC., to mar
ket, also to supply the electric energy
to run factories wherever they may be
locate on their lands, as well as cheap
electric lights for the same.
Here is another interesting fact that
has never been mentioned IN print be-
fore, viz: The rich alluvial soil of these
100000 acres of rich mineral lands
would make 1000 farms of 100 acres
each, the fertile soil of which will yield
crops of various kinds sufficient to re-
nay the cost of clearing and fencing the
first year.
These 1000 farms, if leased or sold on
easy terms, would bring into Garrett |
county including those brought in by |
the hydro-electric plant and its attend
ant traction railroads, factories, mines, |