The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-02-23

Pike Irom Lne SLoWnt OF Bridgeport
10 the city Of Clarksburg, which
meeting was attended by very few
people outside OF enc persons direct
ny Interested in the road. A num-
Der OF citizens OF Bridgeport nave
already signed "a petition to- the
county court asking the cos....yfsourt
THAT when they build q road 10
Bridgeport to Guild 1t by the way
tof Grasselli. :
Let us consider some of the rea-
sons why the county court should
build the road ia. bridgeport, via.
GraSselii and not over INC Cd North
western turnpike. It being ccnced-
led by all that q road leading from
lClarksburg in an easterly direction
should be built at once or during
the coming spring or summer.
First-There are at keast two
thousand and hve hundred csople liv-
ing between Clarksburg anu Bridge.
| port by way O. Grasselli, anu on
| the Northwestern turnpike there are
not more than eight or ten houses,
| in fact, old people claim that there
ar not as many houses on the North
western turnpike today as there were
in the days of the stage coach be-
! fore the Civil war. We believe that
| the road ought to be built the way
that the most people will be accom-
odated.
second-To build the road by
way OF Grasselli when the road Is
lcompleted to that point the general
public in travelling east from Clarks-
burg, will have three miles Of per
manent road built toward the town
of Philippi, also by turning OF OF
Philippi road at Grasselli, you are
three miles on your way to Grafton
and likewise II you are going to
F,airmont or Morgantown; inisother
words that by building the road to
Grasselli you will. reach the county
seat Of three counties east of ..Harri-
Ison, while IL you build It over the
Mile Fill or the Northwestern turn
pike you would only reach the two
county seats Grafton and Fair
mont. 80 - - ~ = {.
Third-The grade Of road OF
route should always be considered
| by the engineers and by the people
building same, and the better grade
should always be selected and al to
this point there Is no comparison In
1.-The grade from Clarlkshnrg to; Bridge
port by way Of Grasselli The one
great proof Of that Is, had the grade
been better to have built It over the
Northwestern turnpike. the street
car line when It was built would
have gone that way, but 1t did not.
1t went through the lowest possible
grade; to go over a mountain re-
tquires great excense of power and
that continually: and further the
street car line was built the way the
most people would be accommodated
or in other words, the way that the
greatest revenue would be received
! in return for the operation OF the
road. With but little work on the
summit between Grasse1li and
Bridgeport, the grade. OF the county
road or new road could be made for
almost, If not quite. as good as the
street car, line, which mould make
traffic east to be pulled through the
easier than over the Mile HILL"
Fourth: Another argument for the
road by way of Grasselli, is that the
road bed would be permanent and tho
county tax payers would not be liable
to great expense in keeping up the
same, while II built over the North
western turnpike, there are 80 many
slips along the road. at least from $50
Ito 22o yards Of road is continually
slipping away, and in some places the
road has sunk and cracked and great
expense will have to be made on the
road even after a permanent road is
built, by the reason Of. the fact that
/, the coal underlying the right OF way
of the old Northwestern turnpike has
/ been removed and there Is danger Of