The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-07-02
A TIMELY WARMING
To the Purblind, NONRESIDENT Land
Owners.


gress, in the vicinity of Swallow Falls,
To be frank, from what we have
heard about them. and their insulting
refusals to reply to our civil and polite
( personal letters, which were written to
them months ago on this subject, we
had little hopes of convincing them of
the folly Of their ways and bringing
them up to the stool Of repentance, at
all.
! An active and widely varied business
experienced, of nearly sixty years. has
taught US many useful lessons, one Of
which is, always try mild means first. "
This we have already done; another les
son is, "when you On up against a sur
/ ly dog in the manger. who won't eat
hay nor let anybody else eat hay" you
might as well throw diplomacy to the
dogs and seize him by the throat and
choke him into suomlss ion, metaphor
cally speaking.
| We took the pains last week, and sew
erai weeks previously, to mail marked
copies" of our arguments on this sub
ject, to each one Of these would be
princes of Monaco" who are attempt
ing to establish a verita5le "Monto
Carlo in the vicinity Of Swallow Falls.
Thus far they have treated our offers
of reciprocal advantages. " in ex-
change for right of way through their
lands, for our harmless but indispensa-
bic enterprises in their vicinity, with
silent contempt.
We now warn them in advance that
we are not going to tolerate any insult
ing nonsense on this subject, nor crawl
up to them on our knees, begging them
for the privilege Of doubling and quad
lupling the value of their lands, at our
own expense. On the contrary we shall
go ahead in spite Of them and build our
plant. lay water pipes to our impulse
wheels, erect poles to transmit electric
energy wherever needed, build traction
railroad wherever the demands of the
'soYernieen people" require that they
shall be built, as work Of public neces-
sity, then if these purblind Obstruction
lists prefer law to compromise, on our
liberal terms, let them jump onto US
with the law and we will cheerfuIly sub
NIT to the decisions Of our Maryland
Courts and the verdicts of Garrett coun-
ty juries of condemnation.
We have taken legal advice on this
subject, and have no fears for the re-
suit of legal battle royal, with fixed
bayonets, against them.
The question of their liability for dam
ages will surely come up if these OBJ
structionists persist in delaying the de-
velopment of these absolutely indlspen-
sable works of public necessity.
/ Before declaring open war we will
hold up to their gaze few more phen-
omenal enterprises, which have never
been published before, and which they
are now holding back by their nefarious-
ly insane opposition, in the hope that
they may yet see the errors of their
ways and tell US so before it is too late.
We will begin where we left off two
weeks ago. at No. 7, and continue the
same subject with some hitherto I'M
published data.
No. s. Along the banks of the upper
4oughiogheny and its score of tributa-
ries, there lies dormant billions of tons
of rich iron ore waiting for railroads to
convey,it to Pittsburg, or for blast fur
naces, rolling mills, steel mills, and
other factories, right at our hydro-eec-
trio plant, which will rival Pittsburg it
self, in the cheapness of these products.
No. 8. In the same neglected region
of fabulous wealth in embryo, we can
point out billions of tons of the most
beautiful lime and building stone, which
will bear transportation when we get
electric railroads) to cities 1000 miles
distant
In addition to the building stone these
same quarries, ranging from so to 50
feet thick, will supply crude limestone
sufficient to flux all the blast furnaces
in Pittsburg, and burned building and
agricultural lime sufficient to supply
the surrounding country for at least
100 miles in every direction.
When we consider the billions of tons
of lime, iron ore, fire clay, kaolin,
glass sand, coal, etc, lying dormant in
this wonderful region it is plain to be
seen that single track electric rail-
road will not be sufficient.
1t will require a double track of six
miles from Swallow Falls to the B. & o.
at Oakland to transport these billions
of tons of valuable freight that are
seeking an outlet to the south, east,
and west, and also another double track
of thirty miles to Uniontown, Pa,
where they can connect with both
steam and electric railroads to Pitts
burg.
Soon as the six mile link to Oakland
is completed the B. & o. won't be able
to furnish freight cars fast enough to