The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-08-26
Mrs. Fleet Speaks
Up Again About
Lake Properties


Eigvwatef, Maryland
August pa, 1854
The Editor
The Republican
Oakland, Maryland
Dear Sir;
Thank you for your attention to
iny two previous letters. May l.,
Just once more, ask you to put
before your readers few COM
ments?
Having been a teacher for over
twenty years, | naturally endcaVor
to seek the truth before expressing
myself |, therefore, feel inDelleG
to take up certain sections of your
editorial as follows:
/. note with great interest
your statement that Garrett Coun-
ty tax assessment values are rated
at 40 per cent Of real or cost value.
Our house was listed by our build
Ell at $4,000. As you say, the lot
is listed at $500. Our tax bill is
$l26. Exactly 81 on full listed
value. How do you account for
this?
.. You state that in this county,
Anne Arundel, the rate is $1.95,
with an assessable basis of 1877
million dollars. Don't you see that
your statement PROVES CON
CLUSIVELY the point that ! have
been bringing out? Garrett Coun-
ty CAN'T AFFORD to have any
more assessable value taken off
the books by either the State or
IN.I,,,,1 ,raxya,4,,,N,at,f
del has very little public-owned
land. Note from the map that fully
one-third of your land is owned
by the State and Federal govern
ments. You take exception to my
statement about acreage of State
owned land. What difference does
it make which governmental body
owns it? It's off the tax books
either way!
3. Just where, in either of my
letters, do you get any statement
or inference about closing public
road? There just isn't anyi My
knowledge of law, having taught
it for ten years, tells me that no
road, if used for a certain number
of years, can ever be closed. We
who live along the road above
Glendale bridge object to its being
made a speedway. That is all.
4. As to the statement about the
Power Company's refusing to per-
nit trees to be cut on their safety
strip, may | mention that most
property owners consider the love
ly trees growing near the water a
part Of the natural beauty so much
enjoyed. They usually do not pre-
vent docks and floats being placed
for private swimming. However, a
public beach would require more
cleared area to be useable for
hundreds of bathers. My sugges-
ton was for consideration by those
who want another public park that
it be placed in location already
at least partially cleared. You sure
ly must know quite well that there
are other areas on the Lake that
would be easily adaptable, though
it is still a question with many of
US as to why the State doesn't
make use Of what it already owns
on Cherry Greek, for instance. In
a recent boat trip over the lake,
we saw at least five beautiful To-
cations with good beaches and
gently rolling land that would be
ideal for such a project, if more
land must be grabbed by the Park
Commission, some members Of
which have not even seen at close
inspection the proposed site and
others that are available.
s. You speak of the ENTIRE
BOARD of Forests and Parks hav-
ing approved Meadow Mountain
site. Can you furnish me or any
interested tax payer with state
ment that more than two of the
STEPPED ONTO MEADOW
MOUNTAIN for inspection? You
speak of the approval of the Leg
islative Council. Do YOU know
that when the Council members,
as guests of the Forestry Depart
ment visited Garrett County last
summer, Mr.. Kaylor took them for
boat ride, stopped in front of
Meadow Mountain and, like Brig
ham Young of old, stated, This is
the place." However, the Annapo-
lis member told me he doesn't re-
call having even stepped out of
the boat at all! Detailed inspection,
l would say, Mr.. Editor! The Wis
itors were left under the false i'm
preston that if the narrow strip
of 5000 feet of frontage were CON
demned, it would at once tie in
with other state-owned property,
when the narrator knew full well
that there were intermediate four
parcels of land making some 100
acres that must likewise be
grabbed" by the State in order
to make his words ultimately be-
come true.
6. | don't know where you Sc
cured the figures you give about
land already State owned. | be-