The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-16

signed to protect his life should be
rigidly enforced and he should CO.
operate wItIEs mine and state ON
eislss ,2s-
CITY Mud NEarooned.
Mud n1arrIoons the city of 'clarks-
burg SO far as traffic over the high
ways with the outside districts are
concerned. There. is not a., single
road leading into the city that is
freely passab1e. The condition Is
simply terrible, not only terrible
butt most dangerous. What the sit
uation will be, when the rains OF
winter, come on in earnest no one
can conjecture. During the dry
weather the BiGhways we're salts
factory zeRbugh, but, recent rains
have transformed them into mud
channels and the end is not in
sight, The only exception is the
Buckhannon pike and it is not the
pride OF any road maker.
The startling announcement is
made that a few days ago a horse
actually drowned in mud less than q
mile from the city. The middle OF
last week the Telegram noted the
fact that a driver was thrown from
his wagon in Point Comfort and in
iured badly on account of a mud
hole. IA rubber-tired runabout was
seen recently buried in mud at one
end OF the Industrial addition
bridge. Good Hope residents have
diverted their trade, to Lost Greek
instead of coming to Clarksburg
simply because it is impossible to
get to this city on account of i'm
passable roads. Many other points
in the county are likewise cut on
from the county seat on account of
At Stealey Heights one
team pulls another out of the mud.
Indeed. it Is no stretch of the i'm
agination to state that mud maroOns
the city of Clarksburg. Happily,
within the city street paving has
largely overcome annoying and ex-
pensive mud conditions, although
some still remains. The yearly
movement of paving will soon elimi-
nate all such annoyances.
Outside conditions are far more
serious than may be thought and
those conditions have far more
disastrous effect than may or
dinarily be conceived. The terrible
road conditions certainly are neon
venient, dangerous and expensive.
In addition to the inconvenience
and dangers as already shown, these
bad roads are contributing much to
the high cost of living. Thy tend
to cause the farmers OF the county
to curtail farm production, for the
reason that they can not reach the
their products. Many a farmer ten
miles out or not living SO far out
may be heard to say that he raises
barely enough for his own con-
sumption for the reason that he can
not get his products to the market
on account of impossible roads.
And, when he does not come here to
market his production. IL any he has
raised for the purpose, he does not
come to buy either. This results in
curtailment of trade exchange. 1t
weakens tho farmers production and
lessons local trade. A belief pre-
walls that with greater farm tillage
in Harrison county, prices in the
city for such products as he raises
would be materially lower than
those that prevail owing to the abb
sence of home supply. The road
question assuredly has great bear
ing on this phase of the case. Good
roads would conduce to greater
farm production and greater farm
production in Harrison county would
make a greater and better market
here The farmer and the city resi-
here. The farmer and the city resi-
roads.
Harrison county Is far greater to-
day than it was fifteen years ago,
and yet the roads OF Harrison coun-