The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-12-25
ROAD COMMITTEEMAN HAS
CONFERENCE.-THE MIR. UHL
Mr.. Mccullough Informs People
Outcome of Meeting With
State Roads Commission

Mr.. j. w. Mccullough, of Friends
vile, representing committee of cit
liens of Garrett county appointed at
a recent gathering held in Oakland
where the feasibility of going into
road improvement work in all sec
lions of the county during the COM
ing summer and this manner reliev-
ing to some extent the unemployment
situation, was chosen at a recent
meeting of the committee to confer
with Roads Chairman Uhl.
Mr.. Mccullough, as he states in the
letter following, had meeting with
the chairman of the Commission as
explained in the communication to
The Republican published herewith:
To the Editor of The Republican.
AS I was selected to negotiate with
Mr.. Uhl for meeting with the COM
mittee to determine what we could
work out for the betterment of our
read conditions, I submit to you an
article which / wishsyou would place
in your paper this week that will let
the people know what has developed
up to this time as feel great many
of our citizens are anxious to keep in
touch with what is going on.
At the committee meeting at the
Court House, Saturday, December 10,
1 was instructed by the committee to
write Mr.. G. Clinton Uhl, chairman, a
letter for a meeting with him and the
Attorney General to see if it would
be legal to take part of the State
funds to pay interest on the proposed
bond issue. I received reply from
Mr.. Uhl saying he had taken the mat
ter up again with the Assistant At
torney General and he advised Mr..
Uhl that after looking the matter up
more carefully it would be legal to
use the road funds to pay interest on
the bond issue.
1 had the pleasure of meeting Mr..
Uhl last Friday evening in the Fort
Cumberland Hotel in Cumberland and
he told me that it would be impossible
to have a meeting with the Commits
sion until after the first of the year
as the Commission would not meet
during the holidays, and as this is a
question that he wanted the full
state board to pass on, he thought the
proper time and place for the meet
ing would be in the State Roads Com
mission office in Baltimore the first
week the Legislature convenes.
Mr.. Uhl and 1 talked some about
the bonding of the county and he said
he would not assume full responsible
ity, and the matter will have to be
settled before the members of the
Commission.
Personally I feel that it would be
only fair to the county to let the
county settle the matter to suit the
conditions and needs. Our county tax
rate is $3.50 and with the State tax
rate of rs cents, makes a total tax
rate of $2.05 on each $100 of valua-
ton, and with the business depression
every reasonable effort should be
made to reduce this rate while this
depression lasts.
The dirt roads of our county are
mostly of tough clay material and We
have the hardest freezing in the win
ter of any county in the State. When
the frost leaves the ground the water
remains in the clay and the results
are you cannot use motor vehicles on
our dirt roads to advantage more THAI
six months of the year, and that sea-
son is not regular. Some counties
may be differently situated and not so
urgently in need of roads. Let them
wait on the regular appropriation.
This should be left to the people of
the various counties of the State to
better their own conditions.
l had published in The Republican
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