The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-03-10
SURVEY SHOWS WORK OF
FEDERALRELIEF AGENCIES
Grantsville Sends Complete Re-
port of improvements Made

In cooperation with the Maryland
State Planning Commission, the May
or and Town Council of Grantsville
have had a survey made of the work
done within the corporate limits of
the town by the Federal relief agen-
cies and report the results of the sur
vey as a matter of public interest.
This survey was made by former
Councilmen Joseph F. Fahey and H..
C. Edwards, assisted by the present
town clerk, Clyde F. Bender. The re-
port, sent to the Maryland State Plan
ming Commission, follows;
Grantsville, Maryland, an incorpor-
ated town with a population OF only
400, located on the historic National
Highway, now known as U. S. Route
40, with the cooperation of the various
Federal relief agencies, has been a
very fortunate beneficiary to number
of very important and worthwhile i'm
provements. of which our citizens are
proud. These improvements are of
permanent value and were necessary
for the immediate preservation OF pub
lie health and safety. With this splen-
did cooperation of these Federal agen-
cies it has been possible for US to ad-
vance our local improvements at least
rs years. Therefore, advancing from
a rural to an up-to-date town with all
modern improvements within this
very short period of time, we begun
under RFC our first project and the
ones following are listed in order:
l. Beautifying and preparing for
use community ground, consisting OF
approximately two acres, the work
covering draining, building tennis
court, building 1000 lineal feet Of ten
foot driveway of stone, removing dead
trees, etc.
2. Under RFC we were able to put
into use the entire 4-acre public school
play ground by means of draining and
grading. Prior to this project it was
only possible to use about one-half OF
this now very fine play ground.
8. We then improved the roadway
leading to the local cemetery, which
in wet weather was almost impassa-
Bile. Improvement was made with nap
ped stone and covered with cinders
and is now in fine condition.
a. Under CWA we began the I'M
proving of our streets and alleyways
by operating a project which covered
a distance of 1445 lineal feet, 16-ft.
drivway, covered with mapped stone
and surfaced with cinders.
5. Under CWA we experienced the
beginning of project which had been
discussed by the older citizens of our
town over a period of several years,
and a project of the utmost impor-
lance: installing 1853 lineal feet Of
24-inch sanitary and storm sewer,
which was of course only a small part
of our sewer requirements.
6. Under MERA we began to real
ize that another dream was about to
come true, so we submitted an appll-
cation for the project making prepa-
rations for the occasion. Under this
project we cleared right 4400
lineal feet by ten feet wide on Negro
Mountain, west of town, for the pur-
pose of laying water supply line to
an adequate supply of mountain
spring water, which was necessary
for the safeguarding of our health
and for fire protection.
7. Under WPA our dream came
true. We installed an adequate and up
to-date water system with gravity
flow, no filtration necessary, lac, 900
gallon capacity storage stand pipe,
meeting the requirements of the un-
derwriters, thereby reducing our fire
insurance rates considerably. Our
system has approximately three miles
of pipe line.
s. Under MERA we relocated and
excavated the overflow ditch from our
water storage standpipe and installed