The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1909-08-12
|EDITOR Starr TAKEN TO task
by AUDITOR MONTGOMERY.
AUDITOR STANDS PAT ON FIGURES FURNISHED The RC0RDEVE CRITICISM
FULLY ANSWERED NAP OF MUSY Date DISCREDITED STRIKING
COMPARISON BETWEEN old and new AREA PROER1Y INCREASE

Please allow me space SUFFICIENT IN
your columns to reply to Mr. STAIRS
vicious, malicious and INSCRIPTIONS
attack made upon me in his supple
ment to the Rutledge County News
of the 9th inst insomuch as it refers
to ME, as well as Mr. Wolfe and MIR
Lee. | will be as brief as possible
and will deal mainly with facts as
shown by the records.
Mr. Starr stated that from the
Comptroller Generals report Calhoun
and Bamberg counties will 'expend on
roads the present year $4,000 and
S6,7oo, respectively, and Williams
burg, having more territory than
both of these combined, intends to
spend $4,000. The facts are that
Williamsburg will have to the credit
of road fund for the year the follow
ing: From l mill road tax S., ,013,
odd cents dropped; from commuta'
ton $5,126 and $4,000, the last item
as a supplement to first and second,
making total for roads in Williams
burg for year 1909 S1S,l39. The
| ] mill and Communication road taxes
are paid in advance. The records of
county commissioners and auditors
offic will bear me out in this.
Mr. Starr says Williamsburg con-
tains ,12O square miles and refers
to the old Mills map. How old is the
Mills map, Mr. Starr? 1t appears to
me that Florence has taken a wback
| or two from the old county since
that map of ancient date was made.
The auditors duplicate of 1908
shows 657,556 acres, of which the
old territory, not affected by Rut-
ledge line, has 3S9,O2S acres. In
this new territory not affected, 49,
21O acres; and the three townships
when there is division, 12O,326
acres. Approximately in square miles
for old county not affected, 60S
square miles; IN new county, 231t
square miles; in those townships
through which the line passes, l8S
square miles. Approximate division
of this 1873 square miles: For old
county, 72 square miles; for new
county, l16 square miles. Total for
old county $50 square miles, fo-
new county 34S square miles. If
Williamsburg contains, as Mr. Starr
says, l l,l2o square miles, then there
are evidently 1924 acres of land in
the county not listed for taxation.
Reflect for a moment. Practically
this is one-fourth as much area as
Mr. Starr claims Rutledge will
"swipe" from poor old Williams
burg. What pity Mr. Starr could
not find this 80 square miles and
hitch it on to Rutledge, drop Sandy
Grove and relieve his much mud.
died mind of many hours of anxious
thought.
MIR Starr says l would be inclined
to "root for the home team" In
this, as in everything else, he has
erred. He states that l got mixed in
nv data and cites the Paroda rail
road. the same having been credited
to old territory. | have had no in
formation rs yet, except from Mr.
Starr, that this road is wholly within
new territory; and he told then that
the first survey left the road in the
old, but the last survey took it within
the new. He may be right as to this;
yet, granting that it is in the new,
the assessed value of the Paroda is
but 81, 900. He (starr) says he be.
lieyes there is more than one-fourth
of Mouzon township in new territory.
I don't believe any such thing, and
/ will endeavor to show you why:
The area cut off is one-half mile
wide at Cades and 23 miles at upper
end of township and s miles across,
making about IL square miles. There
ora S6 ennara miles in townshin. One