Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-06-12

not do one thing to relieve the situ~
alton, but left 1t years, and until the
wilson administration said fix it, and
1t was fixed.
Now, Mr.. Editor, there are two
ways and only two, to reason this
matter out: One Is that you did not
nave the Judgment or executive abil-
1ty to do the work. Or that 1t was
gross negligence on your part, and
yet you set your opinion up as the
model by which the present Council
should &C.
You also allowed very bad mud
hole to exist at the depot during
your entire administration, and when
Mr.. Wilson had 1t fixed you liked to
have tainted, and cursed out every
body and everything that had any
thing to do with the work, and you
are still kicking.
will again call your attention to
some more improvements that were
made by the property owners during
your administration. Take the ce-
ment block wall Of Mrs. Fahnestock,
opposite j. f. Craig's; and then take
Mr. Craig's cement block wall, op-
posite Mrs. Fahnestock' The walls
are about 105 feet long, and there Is
Il Variation Of eight inches in that
distance, making the street eight
inches narrower at one part than at
the other This looks like laying
things out to the line.
You are very much distressed
about the shrinkage in property
values, and cite to the Mrs. Eaton
old home as an example of the depre-
citation In property values, and would
have the general public believe that
this property is almost worthless
Again, want to ask that you be Just
a little bit fair Have you ever been
IN and around the premises for some
time and took little look around?
If so you will possibly see that some
very needed improvements would be
IN order, and besides, Of my own
personal knowledge, the place could
have been rented had these improve
ments been made and the rent put on
an equal rating with other buildings
near this place.
Now, as to the shrinkage in prom
erty values: If the editor will secure
good title to the property at the
price that Mrs. Eaton asked for II
before the street was graded, please
have the title made, and | will find
a man who will pay the money for
the property and who Is not such a
very cheap DIRT skate either. So don't
let the value shrinkage in real es-
tate worry you, especially where the
streets and sidewalks are graded
down to where people can walk with
out danger to their lives. Your SYM
pathies go farther along financial
lines than for the safety Of the lives
or the people who walk our streets.
You also speak of "arbitrary cut
CT ri,
without regard to such rights must
inevitably, result in the material low
ering Of property values" Now, Mr..
Editor, will you please be generous
enough to tell the public Of one sin
gle instance where the Council has
done any cutting down where they
did not have the full consent Of the
property owners? And moi only
that others are only waiting until
snch time as we may be able 20 get
to their places 10 have their side
walks cut down so thcy viii have Il
docent looking walk in front Of their
homes, and not COW trail propped
up on stills.
Now, getting back to improvements
on Main street: We have done fully
as much on the side streets as we
nave on Main street, and yet one
esed Ilall can see tnat all the work
that has ever been done until the
present Council went in power has
been done on Main street. If have
been able to keep anything like a
line on the work that has been done
In the past, I would say that the only
thing Of note that has been done on
the side streets was to kill little
pepper grass, and continue to prop
our sidewalks up on stills. Very lit
tie grading, If any, was done during
your entire administration, and, if
any at all, 1t was all done on Main
street. You very scrupulously avoid
ed pulling down the hills that you
recommend to the present Council as
being the best thing to do. (Why
didn't you take your own medicine?j
Now, Mr.. Editor, am good deal
like the old darkey: 'If YOU Sc got
nnf, IZe got nuff," and we will pro
ceed along lines Of improvement that
seem to the Council to be for the
maj upbuilding Of our little town.
Yours very truly,
w. NJ. Brown. Mayor.
Walhalla, June 7, 1912.
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