Wellsboro Agitator, The (Newspaper) - February 27, 1907, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania Accurate Water Rates from Obtained Correspondence Within the Last The has not assumed to de- fend the Wellsboro Water any intelligent reader may readily It to be fair in of any public and any intimation to the contrary .is simply The is perfectly will Ing that and figures from its col- obtained by should be palmed off a week later as original by any other paper which bas me for them will nuke a clear and fair pre sentati -n of all points relative to the question for the information of our readers The is not and will cot be it aims to tell the news truthfully and present facts lr as it finds If water rates in Wellsboro for public or private nse are too high in comparison with other towns of under it will clearly appear in these supported by facts and The placing of gap pipe in some of the streets Instead of 4 inch mains is a mat ter of no great anyway whenever the decides to a ping on any street containing the se small the Water Company will be obliged under its contract to at once re- lay mains of sufficient The question is simply and solely whether Wellsboro pays too much for its fire protection and whether the ple pay too much for water for domestic citizens of and the patrons of the Water Com- pany may be fatty and accurately in- formed about water rates here in com parison with the charged in other the last week ed a circular letter to a large t umber o making abont their water systems and the rates charged Only auch towns were selected as offered a basis for fair comparison of fo it would be to the water rates of a large it army of patrons with a plant like It must be remembered that con- ditions differ the cost of ry greatly and it will feet purity drawn from 24 wells 60 feet deep t per room up to and in- and 59 cents a private N. Pumping system from rate for dwellings one five rooms or more than five one each 75 bath In closets lawn sprinkling ex- tra and a graduated scale of rates for of- fices and business for barber for chair and 50 for esch additional Mahanoy cost 000, both pumping aad gravity system first for including 80 at annual charge to town of for sprinkling of streets done by tne fire companies and water is purchased at the rate of eight cents a thousand gallons A FARMER'S OPINION wry ed that the rates are not The Wellsboro water rates for en for closet and for full dwelling each for fire vf pumping system from Fishing creek and for for for service and bath a year for each fire street sprinkling by private water costs a year for that brought from springs for first for ence sprinkling of treets done by property Lewisburg Cost gravity White Deer first for dwelling with closet and bath tire per street sprinkling done by prop erty owners at meter All water is sold by with maximum as and cost 500 000 and all these towne long condnit and gravity ply from mountain water sold at meter fire for six to and t3 borough owns waterworks since last before that borough paid for 30 fire pings and for each additional street sprinkling raises his wages by i and system first and two families in each 50 and closet 50 stores and special rate per time limit for use of hose for pave ten minutes morning and system from artesian wells kitchen f wash pave or meter about 16 cents per j and borough furnished water free for fire protection and spring water for first each for closet and bath each for i Pa gravity and pumping spring water first 46 50 bath sprinkling for lawn first a month 50 cents a month a To the of the Feb 28-Permit me to thank you for the clear and statement of the waterworks question contained in your last There are a few in that ment would like to the second contract was made between the borough and the Water for fire the mount paid by the borough was 82. and as stated amount of pipe laid last year is as German 700 Water 871 289 Charleston 606 Tioga 250 and not 4 000 as per your statement This pipe was laid not in of the contract with the but at tbe strong solicitation of parties living on those streets who thought their health endangered by using well water who could not afford the expense of buying and lay ing tbe necessary Prior to 1904 small pipe was laid in Morris and Norris streets by several parties at their own expense and because they could not be supplied by existing Allow me to say a few words in A B whom I believe to be a recent arrival in this He the Wellsboro Waterworks could be operated and maintained for or less and when they claim they have made but 5 or 6 per cent on the in- vestment they are allowing gross He also states thai the present local plant water could be furnished for a year instead of the and make then more than the legal rate of What proof has he that at a year company can make more than their legal Wellsboro people are uot novices in business matters the question who Is this wise man? Has he ever had experience in the management of Assertions based on mere assumption and not on experience will be accepted for exactly what they ate mL As to the Maryland Company Their representative Mr. B. C. Jacob applied for a water rate last When asked by the Superintendent of the Water Company what rates other towns had he replied We paid 25 cents per This rate was giyen to Mr. Jacob and apparently was factory to the that the local He Writes Well on An Im- portant Good Roads Situation in Tioga County Viewed by a Richmond To the Editor of the B F. D. 3 the last three yeart I have read several cles In your and In of neighboring on the of roads in Tioga county and of macadamizing and paving the streets of the gist of which did not meet with my Neither do I believe that those articles are in cord with the better judgment of the of Toga county at l know there is a large undercurrent of feeling against these pr positions as a rule and it is in behalf of this feeling that I write this article to I noticed in your issue of Feb. what was said in regard to a proposed scheme to your town for several dollars for the purpose ot ing a cement foundation in your that the pavement which the state con- to help build may have something substantial to rest upon Yon state that without this foundation the work will be practically worthless and the money spent under the contract already entered into about the same as thrown This is an admission that your airs have been Itf t In pool hands For it certainly looks from a distance as if yon had something yon did not want simply the state stood ready to help you pay for it. And in order to make it something you do yon find it necessary to bond your town in you yourself that future generations will hive to pay Wouldn't it have been wiser for your borough authorities to have poned their agreement with the state authorities until they knew what they and then required that the state help fix the Or else let the matter rest until such time as the state would to help fix it right? People of a few words to I am a of Richmond ship and yon will say its none of my business what course you And so it not only for the f company was largely made np of women who look forward to dividends and know little or nothing abont prevailing conditions Nearly every woman who owns stock in the waterworks was born and brought np in and they have lived quiet conservative lives here in the Their business ability needs no commendation on the part of any Many of those women have been appeal for aid in various ways in nearly every business enterprise that has been started in Wellsboro in the last years and their assistance in such matters have been principle which feet us For the time seems ing when our county and the several townships will called upon to bond themselves for road purposes This is a business But in order to be worthy of the name it bears must be founded on sense and W hen yon invest s dollar so that it brings you back two you are using good business but when it brings yon only fifty nothing at then yon are playing fool in And when you enter into a scheme to build up at ex- people you are forsak We farmers find a great deal more fault with the taxes than we do with the and if tbe state wants to help the farmers let her relieve local instead of lending her to raise If the she has to Tioga and which has been used on tbe contracts already had have been used to construct county and township bridges under state super vision we would have been benefited far more than the fact is cur macadamized roads do not begin to be worth the money they They will bring back 50 cents on a As a business sition they are a but as a debt tax raising they are a I read in your issue of Feb. 13th an by Hon. Simon B. Elliott stated he had ridden over the in He found it badly worn and suggests that to properly repair it will be a somewhat difficult and expensive We of Richmond have known for some time that the road fell short o. our tions in everything except the cost of that last you can always depend The advocates of good while willing to admit that the rosda are not worth what they are ever claiming that the money furnished by the state is so much clear a dowry from a rich that all we are to look at Is the cost in county and township taxes This is false The in the state treasury belongs to the people of this state; and it is our right and duty to demand that it should be used to the best advantage for our people and not squandered in buying something at twice its It is not a dowry to which we are it is our own money and should be used as Macadamized roads are not a History proves For the last 25 years tbe business in this county has been done on dirt so it can still be even better than in the past The the the mine and the men in general who are engaged In hauling heavy loads are not these The business of the county does not demand Such roads are a luxury more than a necessity The men who ride in top in rubber tired and the drivers of are the men who are clamoring for good The pleasure seekers are very anxious in this while the the backbone of the are content as matters And shall the farmers down with taxes or By tttt George Washington wss born Feb and if the people were as long lived as they used to be in the days of Abraham and other the Father of his Country might have been m years old last But died December of less than 68 What we started to say is thai George Cook Pott and the Woman's of Wellsboro celebrated the of Washington's birth with a and last af and The veterans were handicapped many of the and bers of the Corps kept at home by sickness while others too feeble to the bitter cold that cut like a knife all But instead of com plaining they went ahead and did the best they 5 o'clock unt Tor supper was turned to all comers in the Belief The bracing air outside WAS conducive to good a id the way acd baked beans disappeared was a should have been The post Surgeon was considerably worried and predicted that the thing in der might be an epidemic of It being evident that the at- tendance in the evening would be lew than usual the boys concluded it won d in WHOLE NO. PLANTING FORESTS 3 be more crzy and to stay In their own quarters instead of going to the Court House after y after 8 o'clock the camp fire opened with prayer by Post Chaplain Andrew Then came a Tenting ott the Old Camp Ground the Wellsboro Glee composed of four well known young Alt good Hon. H. B. Packer and Cam eron were the principal Of course most of the talk was about Without saying thina especially new about the Father of his the reminded us in forceful words of some of the great things George Washington had re- ferring especially to his services as Com- chief of the American Army during the Revolution and aa a level headed statesman in the early days of the and other Americans wero also mentioned and atter if we are a ous nation to day the credit be pre eminently to the Men behind the who made 1t possible for Washington to drive the British across the sea and for Lincoln to save the themselves with debt in order to give the sporting class an easier Whether 100 automobiles go whirring past a door every 24 hours or only a year does not change the value of his and money spent on such issues ia money thrown Let the sports accept such roads as we can afford to build for ourselves or else go out of They would not be I am opposed to macadamizing roads for the same reason that I am opposed to building a 110.000 house on a Or for the same reason that a All this and State Nursery at Asaph for Crowing Trees from Importance of the As Simple as Growing Onions and More Profitable than To the Editor of the sh Ing a nursery in Tioga county for sole purpose of raising Valuable of trees to be set out on her forest lands is a matter of far er importance to the material of that county than is likely to be at first To fully understand its im- portance we mnst look at past as well ai present In the early days of the hist uy her hills and her valleys were covered with as fine a growth o' timber trees as could be found in the while that timber there a prosperous But that is all or soon will In her hills around Fall Morris Ban and were deposits of the best coal for general purposes that was ever ed. Millions of tors have been but it will soon be exhausted A few years hence and the last carload will have pass d beyond her In the destruction of forests and the mining of her coal she declared dividends out of her capital in natural resources until that capital is prac on the removal of her forests her streams have wrought destruction or damage to farms and villages bordering on and such destruction and age will not cease until the cause ia re- With her her and her tanneries mnst soon must depend entirely on the products of her farms and such industries as can be- induced to locate within her borders where material is not abundant or Her mines cin never be restored bnf her forests and the problem now how can that be done It is generally thought that all that is needed for that end is to keep fire out and the forests will restore That be true if no fire had been permitted to destroy the seed trees and the young But that mischief has been Fire has devastated abont every foot of the was said gave to think v I G Stone Was called on for a but asked to be I he this is a meeting of old soldiers and I am too modest to take the place of an old That's the son I didn't telling a fanny story or down and was followed by Major The Is Always loaded for bear on such occasions but declined to make a speech time because Chairman Sheffer had agreed not to call on bnt of he told a couple of funny until but I The following gives the figures far H we have bad replies up to the hour of going to press pure spring water for first for domestic for closet for bath fire Canton Waterworks cost gravity system source creek and lake first for whole 50 each rate Ing 20 for use of hose for a year each T lawn sprinkling forty year contract with borough for fire protection at a year and tbe borough may use as many pings as are contract has 16 years yet to Coin jibia Cost of pumping system water the river rate for first i ing sell water at ten cents a thousand gallons to private consumers for street water free for fire the fire pings being owned acd installed by the cost and is gravity mountain springs of fine quality rate for fix rocm seven to eight nine or ten each additional 50; in with family sup wash pave maximum for private ing fire a year street Is done by the borough at the cost to it for of both gravity and pumping rate for first for first room and for each ad- room per tbe town owns the hydrants and keeps them In repair water for sprinkling the is free a year for lawn OD 50 foot extra for larger lots at same ratio Barton Pumping system the Delaware first private no charge for street sprinkling done by pr I vate parties at 25 per thousand cubic feet for system from banna river good water cold water hot and cold water in hot an private street for 25 foot front and extra for tvery 25 foot additional or frac yard and garden hydrants to street sprinkling done first family a year lawn Wind Cost 000 and gravity system from mountain springe for first for closet and for bath for whole house street done by private party who pays 5 cents for a tank of 600 a year for each where no borough tax is and where borough tax is Port gravity for first fcr rate for residence with bath and one lawn sell er to man who sprinkles the streets for a year have 51 fire plugs at rental of a year each meter rate for from 10 to 30 cents per and PROPOSITION tO TAX for To the Editor of the Agitator Feb 23.-1 wish a space in your columns to ca 1 attention of your readers who are interested in game and propagation to a proposed soon to in cnr It is known as no 67. Tbe chief purpose of this measure is to mae It will provide that each ind every person above the sge of shall pay a license fee of one dollar for the privilege of hunting for game in this All sons between the ages of 14 and 81 ye rs may hunt upon property owned or con- or bnt shall a license before hunting upon other The money now used by the Game O is mostly appropriated from tate This Imposes a tax ou all whether banting or Under hunters only will be called on to bear the t A favor cost rate for for water closet a month for each family for owned by the town and cost gravity system Crater very good and from rate for bath sad closets for fire free for patrons of company no storage two milet of conduit Gravity cert rate for dwelling for and for special rates for we Of 17 plug on ten-year contract with borough a latt by and cost gravity water of eu When these women were for contributions recently by the Board of Trade they cheerfully gave money and assistance in other material This question has been asked Does any one know of the stockholders dig ging down and paying the bills r In re- ply I will say The stockholders of the Wellsboro Water Company subscribed and down into their own pockets six years ago and paid for of ad- stock to improve the water work's When the subject of waterworks was brought np for consideration In this town about twenty-three years ago it was thought a stupendous undertaking and even broadminded business men asserted that could never support water The work was begun and carried on by seme of our business of ability whose characters were wherever they were Often the work was hampered by lack of means to carry out plans for the betterment and enlarge ment of the Year by year im- were bnt as the rev ennes from the waterworks would not 1 cover the coat of the desired improve 1 ments it was decided by the stockholders to subscribe and pay the above mentioned additional stock and apply it to the enlargement of the plant and to 1 other of tbe waterworks It is considered one of the best system in the State and not only the pride of the bnt also the pride of th Thanking yon again for your fai and thanking yon also In ad- vance for space allowed for I am Supf Water Dated Feb 1W7. Gooa For The following table the prices Dili X DO ear the f paid for milk during the past few months great many of our are In R condensing concern at favor of this becoming a N. Y. It takes two and one- they can see for their dollar In pounds of milk to many different ways It would create Metr many different sufficient revenue wherewith to and and cwb tbe of the was a better ed for game protection or for protection to from tbe of tin and should it be enacted it it will only a few yean when a liberal food may be ob- from Tbe earnestly dertre tnat farmers and others write our Mewn and to vote for Md work for 084-5 03 0325 8S 1W I During the season the factory l on tbe average about I per hundred The prices given above by the condensing aver 38 per These prices are said to le about t average paid by the majority ot milk tog right and lowering the standard or your In all both public and pay your own If yon want an expensive pavement in your streets pay for it with what help the state and county are ready to give If you cannot afford it just at the present it's a pretty good sign that yon had better wait until It Is not proper for yon to willfully flter into a scheme by which yon are to some favor for yourselves to en- and at the same time defer the ment of the same till yon shall be dead and Yon have no right to sesure for yourselves at expense of generations yet That is taking an unfair for they cannot speak in their own Yon can rob them If yon for they cannot defend You may argue that the road will be left for then when yen are done with it. Bnt as individuals do yon like to receive a gift from other people and be compelled to pay for It for not thank anybody to buy me a and have it charged to me. If I have got to pay the I prefer to choose the And people of If yon have made a blunder by entering into a foolish agreement with the state yon are the ones to blame and should stand the expense of your own not charge It np to generations yet to A word to the general There is a movement on foot in to bond this state for for road improvement I think we bad better go a little bit The laws of this state are bad enough without making them If the state goes to borrowing to build roads the several counties and In order to keep their ends will have to do the same For the State appropriations will M so large that tbe counties and in order to secure share of the iy portion ot the expense la a certain will be compelled to borrow money A road cannot be d In any kind of proper shape for less than 000 yn To all tne rvads in Tioga county require a sum f to the valoe of all tbe real estate In this And do tbe en want to pay ht their farms over just to It wonld not only lack business It would be folly with After the were made their farms would not a ton more bay nor a more of ers of Tioga county manage to deliver all their to market over the roads we now bate oom We easily deliver as dressmaker would hesitate to put worth of trimming and lace on a calico And if this state cannot find better solution of road Improvement than a general system of macadamizing the with borrowed capital at she had better give it up as a bad Let no bonds be given to further this pr The state could nse a billion of money in building roads to just as good advantage as she can twenty-five And if the borrowing plan be once where is it to The time to stop it is before it The best time to be wise is before yon have made a fool of 4t is a clear case of spending money for what we can get along without Bnt if we balld at all let w down Balse the taxes high enough so we can pay as we Let us stand up and take our own take it It will be no sweater by waiting a There'll never be a time when the taxes can be settled any easier than Then when we get sick of the taxes we can step building the and stop the taxes at the same if the counties and in order not to increase the present keep issuing due in 15 or 20 to build these by the time bonds came due the would be very large and the taxes would then be very Then we might stop building the bnt there would be no escape from the for they would have been piled up for us for many years And when we got sick of the taxes our troubles would only have jmt I It Is well to remember that it is easier getting Into a snare than to get oat of that the best way to get out of a difficulty is to keep W. B. The Glee was called for times during the evening but failed to It seems that after singing their first number the unfortunate ly for had urgent business Those who to be entertained by the accomplished quartette of course were As it was three bright young the Misses Marie and Beulah Harkness and Miss Margaret English furnished most of the A humorous selection read by lain Klock was a fitting climax for the camp It was a new experience for Post Com- mander F. M. Sheffer to preside at a But never gets Everything went off in apple pie ord r. stuff ia left of like the will not spring up ly or grow from yellow bird or trembling Of thorns men do not gather nor of a bramble bush gather they was told the world nearly two thousand years It is a fact of importance that almost one half of the lumber consumed in the United States in 1905 was of the several varieties of Over 80 the so called soft the and other FARCY PRICE FOR for Emma Miss Emma aged 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M C of Bloss was killed by a Pennsylvania senger train at Clifton a suburb of Saturday evening Miss who has been in for was ont with bur Miss Whee aad they failed to see the train as they tbe tracks ran down by the Miss was which ihe were open and in that wesae Delaware county are the determine If the re- sponsibility for Miss Blair was one of s most estimable yonng women and her Jitfa Is great shock to tke Tta were taken to for a Seme Stock of the Agitator Feb. Walter M of Wilkes who the Spring Brook stock and dairy farm at Upper sold three head of cattle recently for Mr 8 L went on Saturday to where be was called to serve as juryman in the United States Mrs. Walter A White was to Lindley last to attend the neral of her Recent at D B Ellery and Mrs. L C. Lamb and of and Robert Kelley and of Cherry George of preached his farewell sermon here last He removes this week to a farm at H. Y. A son has been bom to Mr. and Mrs. Boyd ot N. J. Mrs. was formerly Miss Wet tie ot this Mr. and Mrs. M H. of are a feW days with their W E Fralic F. Is Improving after ill. Mr John WelH lost a good work horse last Mrs is spending a few weeks witb her Mrs. Daniel at NY A son has own born to Mr and Mm and a daughter born to Mr. aad Mrs. of Mrs. M. L is quite sick at her home In Charles has J. L. of was hew woods of like If we are to grow trees for future use we should grow such as will be and every who shall examine the growth now ing on the soil of Tioga county will see how totally inadequate that would be to meet the Can such trees as will useful be grown there? if For over two hundred years Europe has been growing white pine successfully from seed secured In and why not We if we will but so far as the state of Pennsylvania is the trinl is being and it is to be made in Tioga county as well as In other parts oE the At the present time the owns acres of within the boundary lines of Tioga No doubt more will brf but whether or not that shall occur it is proposed to begin the ation of her present holdings by growing yonng in due planting them out in suitable localities To that end five acres of land has been secured at on Marsh for a and ssed which will be planted early next for not less than seeds for other valuable species of timber These little will be set out When large the age of three or four In the an or greater cumber raised each year It is that it Will be a model forest-tree to any in and is devoutly be that It saall be an lev son to the There is no reason under the sun wny the land the has more or Iws land which now produces him bnt U an nal not grow trees not only for own nse bnt for It is no difficult to grow a tree than a of except In the matter of There Is no mystery abont It. There are thousands and thousands of acres in Tioga county that Is now wet to grow anything that requires goad that be set out with Carolina lar and within ten years be of to six cords Of wood per acre worth from 00 to 00 psr cord on the and keep np production pro White pine will from to forty thousand feet ptr acre trom in 60 to 75 years It U hoped that when tbe stote be able to produce more yoang tr her nurseries than she that th will toe given away to those who will b obligated to for
