Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-09-03
OPPOSITION TO
NEW DISTRICT
Citizens Living North of Kent's
Ridge Will Fight Move to Di-
vide Maiden Spring-To Be
Heard This Term of Court.

Certain citizens of the west end
of the county have filed a petition in
the Circuit Court, asking that Maid
en- Spring Magisterial District be
divided into two districts. The pro-
posed division line would ruin ap-
proximately east and west, following
the top of Kents Ride. The reasons
assigned in the petition for the divi-
sion are that the district as now
constituted is very large, and that
since it was established the territory
comprised i'll it has become more
densely populated and that the busi-
ness therein has increased in volume.
and that there is need for moro Of
ficers to care for and efficiently
handle the business of the district.
Quite number of citizens of the
district have signed petitions to the
court, protesting against the division,
and stating that the reasons given
by the persons asking for the divi
sion are wholly insufficient.
The opposition takes the position
that the county is now equally divid
ed into the three present districts.
SO far as territory is concerned, and
that, the compensation to District
Officers is now barely sufficient to
justify competent men to accept the
same, and If the District should be
divided, the compensation, or fees,
would be so meager and Inadequate
that 1T would be practically impos-
sible to secure competent men to fill
the positiosn in either district, and
thereby result in great detriment to
the public welfare; that the courts
authority, under the law, to appoint
additional district officers, in case of
special need, is fully adequate, and
that the court has always been very
liberal in meeting any such special
need.
The opposition will also take the
position that this effort to divide
the DISTRICT is n move on the part of
a few large property holders to
escape taxation for good roads and
public schools, and that it was COM
menced during the recent agitation
of new bond issue for good roads
in that district; that the main mac
adam roads have already been built
through the section of the district
where the lands of these large prop
erty holders are situated, at the ex-
pense fthe whole district. and that
pense of the whole district, and that
the principal road has been taken
over by the State under recent
State law, and that it would be un-
fair to permit these large propertv
holders to withdraw from the dis
trict as now constituted. 1t is also
stated that many persons residing
south of Kent's Ridge have signed
petitions protesting against the pro-
posed division, and that even these
persons residing south of Kent's
Ridge will take the position that
these large land holders are not
specially interested in the public
schools, as they usually either have
private teachers in their homes or
else send their children away to
school, and that if the division should
be made these large nrnnarty hold
ers would not likely be in favor of
taxing themselves in order to in
crease the number and efficient of
the public schools in the new dis
trict in which their lands are sit
uated, and that this would be in
furious to the public welfare and TO
the prejudice of the children of the
new district, if division should be
made.
This case is attracting consider
able interest, and it is likely a large
crowd will present at the hearing
which will be had at this term Of
court. Messrs. Chapman, Peery and
Buchanan are the attorneys of the
citizens asking for the division, and
Messrs. Harman and Harman are
attorneys for the citizens opposing.