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AUDITOR’S REPORT OF PATTON BOROUGH AND PATTON
BOROUGH WATER WORKS FOR YEAR OF 1938.
We, the undersigned, Auditors of the Borough of Patton, Pennsylvania, have
carefully checked the boeks of account of Patton Borough and the Borough of
’atton Water Works for the year ending December 31, 1938, and respectfully
submit herewith a report of our examination which is correct to the best of
1d
belief.
our knowledge
Respectfully submitted,
FRANCIS X. YOUNG,
H. J. MULLIGAN,
R. G. SHANNON.
BOROUGH OF PATTON.
STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES FOR THE YEAR 1938
CURRENT ASSETS:
First National Bank $7,276.06
Sewer Assessments Receivable 549.74
Sewer Extensions Receivable . 253.84
Paving Assessments Receivable 3,010.92
W J. Gill Est., Rent 250.00
T. C. Gill, Rent 48.00
T. C. Gill, Collector 4,195.67
Alley Paving Assessments Rec. 114.14
Tax Returns Year 1931 . 687.99
Tax Returns Year 1932 988.86
r 1933 40.97
ns Year 1934 .......» . 92452
fear 1935 . 2,675.30
r 1936 . 2,797.09
r 1937 ied . 2,928.20
nt Assets 4 $27,642.30
PROPERTY AND IMPROVEMENTS:
$12,000.00
. 4,000.00
nn 258.53
d Fixtures ; wernese. 519,09
< 350.00
ioe 56.50
528.54
351.75
295.86
cts - nme 48
CURRENT LIABILITIES:
Borough of Patton Water Works $13,500.00
$13,500.00
Total Current Liabilities
SURPLUS
Reserve for Depreciation i mr—s———— . ALR 4,487.90
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year 1938
48,289.15
T ies $66,277.05
INCOME:
Rent Income
$ 48.00
9,214.59
alti 36.21
Percen 506.32
Tax Red 23.83
Taxes Rec Com. Sales . 44.97
Fines and 5 75.90
Pole Tax 41.75
Liquor Li 1,416.67
Income rent 472.50
$11,880.74
> Company
n Insurance
Compensation
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X Collector's Compensation
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Engineering
y, Commission on Ret. Taxes
s given on Current Taxes
’ROFIT FOR YEAR 1938
BOROUGH OF PATTON WATER WORKS.
STATEMENT OF EARNINGS FOR THE YEAR 1938.
WATER RENTALS . $17,252.11
OPERATING EXPENSE:
Labor
Su
bo $5,338.07
3.37
43.36
$8,604.80
Less M Inc. 91.11
8,513.69
Gross Profits from Operations = . © 3138.42
GENERAL EXPENSE:
Salari — . . are $1,080.00
Auditors’ Compensation Sma sashes ; 30.00
Telephone 5 rw ae 30.00
State Taxes : er rmm—iens 113.80
1,253.80
Net Profit from Operations $ 7,484.62
DEDUCTIONS FROM INCOME:
Reserve for Depreciation of Plant . cos $4,000.00
Interest on Bonds hn a —— : 2,500.00
6,500.00
g :
Net Profit from Operation ee 984.62
rapa ZCROUGH OF PATTON WATER WORKS,
STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES F Y
CURRENT ASSETS: SPOR Yraz ua
First National Bank, Depository Steins tse): 404 15
Accounts Receivable . i
THE UNION PRESS-COURIER.
OF THE NORTH CAMBRIA COUNTY
BASED PRIMARILY ON THE STORY OF JOHN HART, INDI-
AN TRADER—FROM WHENCE CAME THE NAME OF
“HART'S SLEEPING PLACE,” SKETCHES OF LOCAL HIS-
TORY, COMPILED BY REV. FATHER MODESTUS WIRTNIR
ED. NOTE—On Memorial Day, | John Harris, the founder of Harris-
the Cambria County Historical So- | burg, in his 1756 schedule of the Kit- |
ciety, dedicated a Marker, at tanning Path, also called the Main!
Hart's Sleeping Place, about three | Road, and also the War Path estimated
miles west of Patton, on the Bak- |the distance “From the Clear iFelds,
er's Cross Roads and Hastings | south of Ashville, as 12 miles to Hart's
Highway. The paper read at this | Sleeping Place, and from there to the!
time, by Father Modestus, is giv- | Head of the Susquehanna also 12!
en herewith in full. It gives histor- | miles.”
ical local sidelights of interest and | Roads.
is well worth reading, because it | 1819, March Session. A petiton was
deals with our own particular sec- | presented for a review of a road from
tion. | Huntingdon Road, from Huntingdon
+++ | County to Indiana. We are standing on
BY REV. MODESTUS WIRTNER. |that road which passed up here over
Governor Gordon requested the In-| Turkey Knob, through Spangler, and
dian traders, Jonah Davenport and! through the Salt Works to Cherrytree. |
James La Tort to bring him a report ot | An old map, preserved in the rooms of
the Indians of the Allegheny Moun-| the Cambria County Historical Socie-
tains. In their 1731 report we reaa:|ty, shows this road. : !
“From the Clear Fields to the head of At the Quarter Session of Peace,’
Susquehanna, Chelisguagua creek, 25 held at Ebensburg, Pa., on the 9th
miles.” The Clear Fields were so call-| day of December, 1819, An Order to
ed because of the clearings along have a road from Litziniger’s (Ecken- |
Clearfield Creek, due to the herds of | rode’s) Mill, laid out to Turkey Point. |
the buffalo grazing over the region. Report of the reviewers of said road:
They were exterminated by the whites “To the Honorable the Judge within
in 1800. The two clear fields were a hamed: |
mile south of Ashville, one on tne “We the persons appointed by the
Clearfield creek, the other on the Lit- | within Order of the Court, Thos. Croy-
tle Clearfield creek. ! le, Philip Pringle, Stephen Lloyd, Da-
The Shawnee town of Chelisguagua, | vid Pryce, and William Pryce, all be-
place of the snow birds, according to ing duly sworn to view the ground for
Heckwelder, was situated on the head | said road therein mentioned, do re-
waters of Chelisguagua creek, and was | port that in pursuance of the said Or- |
settled, when the tribe moved into the | der, we have returned and laid out
Allegheny country about 1724. The ! and do return for public use following
tribe traveled west over the Kittanning | road to see it: cee
Trail. Chelisguagua creek is the pres- “Beginning at a chestnut corner on
ent Peg run which flows northeast in- | the former route on the ridge above
to Susquehanna at Kinport. | mentioned (Turkey Knob south of Ed
Canoe Place—Before crossing the! Westrich's barn), thence southeast 197
head of Chelisguagua creek, the Kit- perches to Chestnut, 5 rods north of
taning Trail crossed the waters of Sus- | “Hart's Sleeping Place; thence soutk-
quehanna between Garmantown and | east to Litzinger Mill.”
Kinport, at Canoe Place—the place In the same year, 1820, there was is-
where the Indian was at liberty to | sued an order to open a road from Eb-
leave the path an continue his jour. | ensburg to John Weakland and Arch-
ney by water in his birch-bark canoe! ie Kirkpatrick, which road ended at
to his destination. Hence, Cherrytree St. Joseph's to lead to Clearfield. This
has no more of a clear title to the 1o0ad passed around the front of St.
name, “Canoe Place” than St. Joseph's Joseph Church, then going down tne
Church and the Hertzog farm have to | hill passed up along the East line of
the name, “Hart's Sleeping Place.” At! St. Joseph property and the line was
the highest, the latter may be called! tied to a chestnut tree, west of Hart's
“The horse foraging grounds of John | Sleeping Place. The tree stood midway
Hart. This 1731 report also gives us the between this road and the church pro- |
fact that our John Hart was not the perty. A line drawn north and south
first white man to travel over the Kit- f > {ree w St. J« oh
g Path to Pittst west of
CNT LIABILITIES:
h of Patton Water
$2,000.00 each year from Jau-
Vorks Purchase 5 per cent
|
$60,000.00
40,000.00
|
$20,000.00
tration t 5 per
ry 1, 1930 at $2,000.00 |
n
t Serial . 3
each year until January 1, 1940, and thereafter
year $50,000.00
20,000.00
$3,000.00 e
$30,000.00
|
i
Total Bonded $ 50,000.00
Accrued Interest on B 2,500.00 |
DEFERRED CREDIT I"
Res for Deprec n Pi 60,000.00
SURPLUS |
1, 1938 $53.931.99
Vet Gain for Year 1938 984.62
| roraL LIABILITIES
NOTES ON THE EARLY HISTORY OF |
, “Mountaineer” Voi. 1
| and witnessed by Jonas Davenport.
| there
' owski, John Maddox, and Jot
The authorities of the Department ot
Internal Land Affairs at Harrisburg
constructed a map of the Kittanning
Trail from documentary drafts in pos-
session of the Cambria County Histori-
cal Society at Ebensburg. On the
(Thomas Switzler) now Michael Galu-
suax, property, a part of the John Hud-
son survey of October, 1770, there 1s a
note: “Hart's Sleeping Place,” the
place where John Hart built his cab-
in,
Adjoining it west was the property
of old John Weakland; on this the St.
Joseph Church stands, and was a part
of John Price Survey of October 9 and
10, 1770; on the upper end of the plat
stands “Hart's Sleeping Place”. The
next property west is the Francis Hert-
Zog tarm, a part of the Adam Brinne-
man survey of October 7, 1770, and on
it we read, “Ownings of Hart's Sleep-
ing Place.” The notes of the Price and
Brinneman surveys refer to the grassy
land at the springs, which John Hart
appropriated for forage for his horses,
when forage was scarce at his cabin.
The Honorable Judge Robert L.
Johnston gave a lecture, Jan. 23, 1858,
at Ebensburg, which is given in the
reoruary 4,
1858: “I called upon my friend John!
Weakland who showed me the g
oak, under which the cabin of old John
Hart stood, which explains the whole
story to me.”
In the fall of 1936 tue oific
Cambria County Historical Societ; y
at Hart's Sleeping Place for the pur-
pose of selecting a site for the erect-
ion of a marker to show Hart's Sleep-
ing Place. Among them were two old |
men—Squire William H. Byrne, born
on this farm Dec. 2, 1860, and reared
here at Hart's Sleeping Place, now the
Michael Galushak farm, and died Sep-
tember 14, 1937, at Cresson. The other
William Cunningham, born and reared
on the neighboring farm, pointed out
the spot to us where the cabin and the
giant oak tree stood as shown them
by their grandfather, William Weak-
land, who was a son of old John Weak-
land.
John Hart—No. 1.
There were two licensed traders by
the name of John Hart. On April 30,
1730, Mukum, Keakeenhomen, Shaw- |
annoppan, Quoowahaune, Lamoohan,|
and Queehockahwin, “the chiefs ‘of ye
Delewares at Alleagaening, on the
Main Road” as Edmund Cartlidge
wrote their names, sent a letter to the
Governor of Pennsylvania ex]
the circumstances of the ac
death, at their August, 1729, {
of John Hart (at Hart's Log «
near Stubenville) one of the Shamokin
traders, and the wounding of Davia
Robeson, another trader, by the Indi-
ans, who dissuaded them not to take
part, alleging they did not understand
it, and ght receive some harm.
“Wherein ye said John Ha
in at ye mouth, and ye bulle
in his neck, and was so ki i:
whom we cannot learn; which we
lieve was accidental; and n
vas
lodged
oe-
pose.” tter was inter
the Indians by James La To
down in writing by Edmund C
Beside the two men hurt in the hunt,
also traded he A
ny Sad-
n Fisher,
all five were vile scrupulous 1
The Indiar concluded
1 the suggestion, “to prev
un
but by, is
Thursday, June 8, 1939. .
we would request that the Governor
would regulate the traders and sup-
press such numbers of them from com-
ing into the woods; and especially
such large quantities of rum.” This
note gives us 8 traders in Allegheny
in 1729.
John Hart No. 2.
The other John Hart, whose name is
perpetuated in connection with Hart's
Sleeping Place, noted on Scull's Map
of 1770, was an honest German trader,
accoraing to J. A. Calawell’'s Atlas of
Cambria County, 1890. Hanna, “The
Wilderness Trail,” 1911, Vol. 2, page
333, states that John Hart was licensed
as a trader in 1744; was probably a
nephew of Martha Coombe, wife of
Peter Bezallion, a Catholic.
To him tradition gives the name of
Hart's Log, his first trading post, in
Hart's Log Valley ,near Alexandria,
Potter county, as noted on the map of
the state of 1848, from the fact that he
there fed his train of 10 or more pack
horses in a kerf cut in a large log
This, though, was at the disposition of
ail the traders along the path who
wished to use it.
The pack horses were generally led
in divisions of from 10 tq 15 horses,
carrying about 200 weight each, all
going single file, and being managed
by two men, one going before as lead-
er, and the other at the tail, to see
atier the safety of the packs. The hors-
es were furnished with bells at night,
when they were set free and permit-
ted to feed and brouse. In the morning
the bells directed the guides to the
whereabout of the horses.
The Albany Sale.
At the Albany sale of 1754, not a
certain tract of land, but all the lands
or the Indians in Pennsylvania was
sold to the Government. The Western
1d ic it the sale returned to the
to learn from the French
r lands in Pennsylvania
en sold to the English. The Del-
awares and the Shawnees of Susque-
hanna and Juniata Valley complained
to the Iriquois that they had sold the
land solemnly given them, and that it
would never be sold, was sold “from
der their feet.”
The Iriquois answered: they always
sold land bound by rivers and moun-
tains, but this time the Government
bought by the compass lines, which
the Indians did not understand, and if
the Government did not tore the
lands of the Susquehanna, they would
not confirm the sale. Many Indians
went over to the French. Braddock
was defeated, and the Indians recogniz-
ed their strength. Now came the three
years war on the settlements in the
East.
Governor Denny denounced the sale
1d. Interperter Conrad Weiser
and James Croghan, Deputy Colonial
Agent for Indian Affai also con-
1ed the >. When General
arrived and learned of the dissat-
i f the Indians, remembering
's Defeat, ordered the Gov-
t back all lands
the Alleg 5. This
ile was made on October 24th, 1758
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Total Current Assets jf 7 52
PLANT AND PROPERTY: boson
Filtration Plant . 5
Water Meters ee i
Office Furniture and Fixtures pi
Plant, Property and Franchise 57 19838
Improvements —— . : 4,673.89
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