The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-29
Communicated.

To the People and the County Com
nlssioners of Marion County Ohio.
In the matter of the Improvement, of
the Little Scioto River and Its
Tributaries
tlemen:-Inasmuch as / am the
moving petitioner for this improve
ment, | feel under obligation to your
honorable board and the public In
terested in this grandest waterway
Improvement that Marion county ever
had. to do all that Is in my power
to prevent any injustice and wrong
coming to any one owning property
along the line of the Little Scioto
river and its tributaries. / do not
want my name to go down I'm infamy,
and have 1t said to my children and
theirs, that / was the cause of orig
mating this Improvement, and then
permitted 1t to be the means of un-
fairness, injustice and wrong to the
public, or to any person Interested
in its proper construction. Lam and
have been in favor of improving the
Little Scioto river, Systematically. /
believe that 1t should all be improved
together; that the main channel, and
the channels of its tributaries, Rocky
fork, Rock swale and Honey run,
should all at the same time be i'm
proved according to their respective
needs. so the entire system of drain
age shall be new and all I'm running
order, and one part not differing from
another, but ali parts doing their work
like clock work. For this reason |
have wanted the tributaries to CONS
under the hand of this Improvement
so that all the good people along the
Inc of the whole valley, the garden
If central Ohio, would have good
drainage and be benefited and have
the waste places, caused by unsani-
tary conditions and improper drain
age, to blossom as the rose. All |
lave ever wanted Is perfect equity
md fairness, without the suspicion
Of graft or favoritism, i'm assessing
and I'm apportioning the assessments
of this magnificent Improvement. And
knew all the time, and / know now,
from the spirit of fairness, which
characterized your ultimate holdings
md decisions i'm this matter that with
such a spirit this Improvement could
not and would not fail. When once
the comparison was made between the
ment and the Little Scioto River inn
provement and the facts and figures
brought before your honorable board
md the people interested I'm this inn
provement, and you knew the whole
situation, you would recognize the
great difference In the situation Of the
two cases, and at once declare that
there was no parallel between the two
md that the decision of the supreme
court did not apply to the Little Sci
oto Improvement And for the bene-
tit of our friends who are interested
and absent from this hearing / viii
briefly state the difference in the face
If the conformation of these two inn
provements.
Bean creek was afflicted with a
marsh covering 1000 acres; back from
marsh and creek are uplands, rolling
and hilly from 10 to 80 feet high,
with streams OF large fall and swift
flow making full and ample drainage
with channels 3 to 10 feet deep and g
to 40 feet wide, running through ra-
vines with bluffs from 10 to 40 feet
high. All the farms hilly and rolling,
10 part low lands, but part sand hills
and table lands; all of said lands
from 10 to so feet high above the
streams that flow through the farms,
nd from 10 to 80 feet above high
water mark of Bean creek. When
this was compared with our lovely
low and gently undulating Scioto val.
ey and its little more bold tributaries,
we all, with one accord, concluded
that Bean creek Improvement was
vas not a parallel to the Little Sci
oto Improvement but the main chan
lel and its tributaries should pass the
ordeal the whole system be assessed
according to benefits to each tract and
lot of land. 1t looks as though, as
Mr.. Crissinger. Mr., Mouser and 9TH
,rs remarked, most everybody were
low in favor of the Improvement, 1t
would go through and the improve
ment so much needed and desired
would go through at the earliest pos
ibe time. A yeritable love feast in
the court room was had this after
loon and many kind expressions COM
plimentary to the county commissions
ers and others were heard on every
hand and that justice, fairness and
impartial apportionment of the as
sessments for the Improvement would
be made by the county commission
ers. M. Il. Chase.
A great electric power generating
station I'm Germany will make use of