The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, July 01, 1908, Page 7, Image 7
40T UUR ROADS.
How the Public Highways
may be Improved?Operations
of the New Road Law
?Suggestions as to Practical
Application of the
Funds.
Mr. Editor : We don't want
the sentiment f?r imr\A i-no.in ?~
pvvu 1 V/UU3 IV/
die. We can't fold our arms
and pay taxes and expect good
roads any time soou. We must
still work to interest our people
in making good roads. When
we once get our people interested
in good roads and get them to
see the advantages of the same,
then they will either work or
pay to have good roads.
The pubhc road by my home
was formerly laid off in a three
mile road section with about
twenty road hauds. If they
had worked yearly 4 to 8 days
according to law this work would
have jen equal to twenty to
forty dollats per mile of public
road; and it would have averaged
but little less for the whole couuty.
But as it was, only a few
^ people here and there worked
the roads, while now every man
must pay his money. The money
must come. This money
ought to give 30 to 40 dollars a
mile for all our roads. It is obliged
to make ashow some where
The mntiow In -J
- uv mvuv^ iv UC U'UrtHICU
from this new road law (individual
tax and levy) will just
about give every road ml he coun
tv a good old-fashioned working,
if every section of the county
is worked the first year, and
about one half as much work
each year thereafter will keep
the roads all in medium fix, if
expended that way; or again,
this money would grade aud
macadamize and put in first
class condition about five to ten
miles of road each year, if sperl
that way. But it will not likely
all be Bpent for either way above
named, but wiH be put out partly
in both of these ways, with
some other expenses.
Our board will, we presume,
work quite a few bad hi.ls aud
may try a mile or two of macaam
road the first year. But we
don't believe in macadamizing
any section ot a road that is not
straightened and graded exactly
as it may stand for the next fifty
years. Just how to work each
road a little enough to at least
keep the aide ditches open and
to keep all roads passable, and
at the same time do the most
substantial aud permanent work
possiblo with so small an amount
of money, is a puzzle to any one.
We can't expect too much the
first year.
We hope this new road law
will give us a start in road
building which will lead on to
good roads. We must work our
roads willingly or we must pay
ourselves (or some one else) to
work them . It seems tome that
property tax anouui an be put to
permanent road work. There
are many places our roads can bo
straightened to advantage, and
there are many steep grades
that can be gone round to advantage,
besides the regular
work of grading the old road bed.
The citizens of each section can
greatly aid our engineer and
supervisor by planning needed
< changes and by giving small
THE
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rights of way to better our roads,
I hope pure selfishness will nol
keep any road from being put al
the very best place possible foi
the traveling public.
Mecklenburg county, Nortl
Carolina, lias been striving tc
get good roads for ab^ut 1?
years and n >w h ?s about one
third or more of her public roadi
put in good fix. In about 40 t(
50 years time?twenty to thirty
imn o it *
jco o iiuiii iiuw~~ tutjy ill it y 11 <iv t
all their roads made good, if the)
continue to keep up the roar
spirit and work.
With ten miles ot our road'
made good each year we migli
have good roads in 50 to 11
years. But we hope the im
provement in our roads will b<
much faster than th.it?we hopi
so. If we will do our level bos
I believe we will soon get out
side aid.
The most of the states north o
us are getting state aid to buih
better roads. The states of Vir
giuia, Maryland, Pennaylvanij
and New York are all helnini
- ft. *
to build better roads. The stau
of New York 19 now spending
the enormous sum of fifty mil
lions of dollars to improve lie
roads. It's time we were doing 1
little. Let U9 do what we cai
willingly and then ask and in
sist on the 6tate and even tin
national government helping 119
There is now a Good Roadi
spirit throughout our whol
country. People are becomin)
interested in the ro?ds. Tin
Good Roads spirit is sure to b
felt sooner or later?it is cominf
this way. Other sections are a
work already, and we must hav<
better roads too.
I hope the good roads move
Ilient will Strifce our pnuntv snni
like it did old Mecklenburg Co.
N. C., some years ago, and tha
the next generation will be bori
to travel good roads.
Good roads will benefit ever
class of our people?will buil<
up our towns and wonderfull)
improve our whole country, wil
shorten the time of travel, anc
lighten the burden of the poo
old mule.
Mr. Editor, while I am not i
candidate, still 1 am for bette
roads, and willing to help in am
cause that will build up ou
country. T. M. Belk.
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of real coffee in it, either. Dr. hhoop'
Health Coffee is made lrom pure toaste*
grains, with malt, nuts, etc. Really i
would tool an expert?who might drink i
for coffee. No 2U or 3D minutes tediou
boiling; "Made sn a minute," says the doc
tor; sold by Dennett Grocery Co. w
Lightning Kills Stock.
Sumter special in the 'Jolum
bia State: Mr. R. C. Tisdale
who lives in the Joidon sectioi
about six miles from ?*umtei
had the misfortune to have i
mule and two horses killed b
lightning Wednesday afternoon
The horses were in the stable a
the time. A colored man, Rich
ard Bradley, who was cuttin
wood in the yard of Mr. Tisdale
about 100 feet from the stable
was shocked by the stroke whic
killed the animals and was un
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a quarrel at a well.
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