Eureka Reporter | 1905-02-17 | Page 5 | Plan Big New York County

plan big new york cauntay new york city owners of large tracts of adirondack lands including J pierpont morgan alfred G vander bilt ahe william whitney estate and timothy L woodruff have long corn of the high taxes incurred by supporting the county government of hamilton and through mr woodruff s li fluence arrangements are being made to wipe hamilton county off the map the plan is to unite it with ful ton county which on account of its wealth would stand the burden of the taxation the departments of the state which have the final decision in matters of taxation are wholly in ap of the merger and are ready to act upon the matter at once the mer ger will make fulton county the larg est county in the state