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MR. RHEITS PLAN FOR GOOD ROADS SCH?ME FOR RAISING $34,000,000 FOR THE CAROLINA HIGHWAYS. Mr. Goodwyn Rhett, chairman of State Highway Department, has outlined his plan whereby in a period of six years the sum of $34,000,000 would be raised for up-building of highways and bridges in South Carolina, his plan being announced as folfollows: Chesterfield -county would receive about $380,000 and has ninety-three miles on the State highway system, of which about twenty-three miles have already been constructed or provided for. To construct the remaining seventy miles with sandclay or gravel surfacing \^ould cost some $350,000, which would leave a margin of $30,000 for contracting additional mileage that might be added to the Stat< system. Chesterfield county has no roads at present requiring a hard surface. N Greenville county would receive about $1,140,000 and has a total of 131 miles on the State system, all except about ten miles of which has already been improved. At least $1,000,000 is needed in this county immediately, however, for hard surfacing those roads on which traffic is too heavy for the existing top soil surfacing. Richland county would receive about $1,100,000 and has seventy-nine miles fr on the State highway system which F is practically all provided for under ^ the $2,000,000 bond issue for pavers ments already available in that counf ty. The State fund could therefore be applied to the construction of roads to be added to the system or in retiring a part of the county bonds. In like manner every county in the State would receive a sufficient fund to take care of the immediate needs so far as the State highway system i? and Hue tn the federal aid, each would receive more than it contributed. It is true that the needs would increase during the sixyear period on account of the traffic multiplying on some of the roads. On the other hand, increased traffic would mean increased revenue from both the automobile license and motor fuel taxes, which in turn would enable a greater mileage of hard surfacing to be constructed. Some of the advantages of this plan are: 1. It would enable all of the counties to share equitably in the benefits to be received from federal aid. An equitable distribution by counties of 1 this fund is not possible under the | revised federal statutes. r 2. It would enable the federal aid projects to be limited iif number and thus greatly reduce the administrative cost of handling these projects. The gove nment formalities are just the same for a $1,000 project as for one costing a half million. *3. The bridges provided for in this plan would overcome the great barriers which our rivers now constitute. Such bridges would be of .State-wide significance and the cost of their construction is not properly chargeable to any county, and seldom to any group of counties. This fact has been responsible for South Carolina's slow progress in constructing necessary bridges. 4. This plan would in the future obviate the necessity for most of the county bond issues for roads. The total of bond issues for road improvement already authorized by the counties of the State amounts to some $23,000,000, but most of these issues were for improvements that would simply be supplemented and made ? 'complete by the present plan. In some cases, no doubt, counties would find it desirable to provide for additional road improvement which would require bond issues, but they would certainly lose no advantage on account of the State work. ; 5. This plan provides for continousness after the six-year period. Any plan that is not continous will necessarily be disappointing because the needs of the traffic will continue . to develop and no present plan could f be sufficient to provide before a given date for needs that will develop after that date. At the expiration of the six-year period South Carolina would still have about $3,000,000 per year to spend for road construction, in addition to a maintenance fund sufficient to take care of the constructed roads;. 6. The State Highway Department is at present supervising road construction in conjunction with the various counties to the amount of about $4,000,000 per year, so that the proposed plan would be little more than a normal increase in its activities. This means that the department would ? have a chance to expand its engineering forces gradually without the necy essitr of sending outside the State for trained road engineers, and at the same time would be able to handle the work with reasonable efficiency. 7. The adoption of a more or less k \ I fixed program covering a period of years would make for efficiency and economy. The present procedure of I planning as we go^ with no knowledge as to what the appropriations of succeeding years will provide for, not only brings about waste on account of incomplete studies, but is also wasteful on account of the fact that it is impossible to co-ordinate the order and progress of road and bridge construction among the counties, so as to employ the State's sources of material supplies to the best advantage. The attached tabulations show how the revenue could bo raised, what each county's share in the proposed road construction fund would be, and a list of important bridges that might be constructed with the bridge fund. Without increasing the present property tax one cent the State of South Carolina may spend approximately $34,000,000 and complete within six years a system of improved State highways comprising about 4,000 miwt, more than 600 miles of which would be hard surfaced, and the rest surfaced with sand clay, top soil or gravel; and under this plan each county will not only retain its own money, but get br.ck more than it puts in for the construction and maintenance of its State highways and bridges, e The money can be raised as follows: 1. Federal aid from the national government at present rate of about $1,100,000 per year for six years, $6,600,000. 2. The automobile license receipts. If the license fee is increased to correspond with the average in the United States, which, for example, would change the fee for a Ford car from $6 per year to $8 per year and for a (yadillac from $16 per year to $25 per year, this source would yield on an average approximately $1,300,000 per year or a total for six years of $7,800,000. 3. The two-mill property tax now effective would yield an average of slightly more than $1,000,000 per year, or about $6,200?000 for the six years. 4. A tax of one cent per gallon on motor vehicle fuel would be imposed without appreciable burden and would yield an average of between $500,000 and $600,000 per year, or say $3,400,000 for the six year period. 5. A State bond issue of only $10,000,000 would bring the total fund up to $34,000,000, and this .issue could be so arrange'! that a part of the revenues above suggested would take care of it during and after the six-year period. This $34,006,000 fund would be sufficient to carry out the following described program of road improvement: 1. Construct 2,000 miles? of soft surface roads, including minor bridges and culvets, at $5,000 per mile, $10,000,000. 2. Construct 400 miles of hard surface roads, including grading and the minor bridges and culverts, at $25,000 per mile, $10,000,000. 3. Construct all of the important bridges on the State highway system not already provided for at a cost of about $5,500,000. 4. Provide annually a sufficient amount to maintain all State roads previously constructed varying from $400,000 per year at present to about $1,500,000 per year when the State system is complete, cr about $5,500,000 for the six years. 5. Maintain the State highway department at a cost f about $200,000 per year, or $1,200,000 for the six years. 6. Provide interest and sinking fund of $1,800,000 for bonds. Interest and sinking fund, after the sixyear period could be provided from the same revenues, with a substantial balance for matching subsequent federal aid and continuing the construction of hard surface roads. The State highway system as at present planned contains about 3,500 miles of road, of which more than 1,600 miles will be completed or provided for by the end of 1921 including more than 200 miles of hard surface. The 2,400 miles provided in the above program would therefore complete the system and enable the addition of some 500 or 600 miles to the present layout. The 400 miles additional of hard surfacing would also take care of practically ail parts of State roads where the traffic is too heavy for the soft surface and where the counties have not already made arrangements for hard surfacing. The expenditure of the $20,000,000 proposed for" road construction can be equitably distributed amoung the counties according to any reasonable schedule and at the same time complete the highway system as above stated. If the distribution were ased, for example, one-thipd on land area, one-third on assessed valuation, and one-third on motor vehicle license receipts for 1921, no county would receive less than about $180,000, and in each case the county's proportion would be sufficient to complete the State roads within its limits, due regard being had for the fpe of surfacing which the present trafi fic would warrant As examples < how a distribution of this kind woul work out, consider a few of the coui ties at random: Orangeburg county would recen about $710,000 and has 180 miles < road on the State system, of whic about seventy-five miles will be cot structed or provided for at the en of the present year. The remainin 105 miles could be graded and sui faced with sand-clay at mcost n< exceeding $525,000, which would leav at least $185?000 for constructin several miles of needed hard surfai ing. Besides, a much needed bridg across the Santee river betwee Orangeburg and Clarendon counti< could be provided from the bridg fund. . GOOD^MONEY ON PEANUTS. Marlboro Farmer Made 70 Bushel and Half Ton Hay Per Acre. At a time when the farmers ar at a loss to meet changed condition: it is perhaps timely to invite thei attention to peanut raising. It i perhaps %e one crop other than col ton that can be classed as a "mone producer." At any rate those intei ested will be able to get some infoi mation from the experiment made b Mr. John L. McC^ll. He planted te acres this year and they will net mor than fifty dollars per acre. On th acreage planted an average of sever ty bushels was harvested, with a hal ton of hay. Peanuts are quoted i the rate of $1.50 to $2.20 per bush< and hay at $20.00 a ton. Mr. McCall recommends the Virgir ia Bunch for the trade and the Inr proved Spanish for sale to the O mills. He has made a study of th peanut industry and will be glad t t*lV tn anv one interested. Belo^ is given some data gleaned from few minutes conversation. Two and a half bushels in the hu will shell one half bushel and thi will plant one acre. Plant one pef nut to the hill, fifteen inches in th drill. Rows three feet wide. Flat break the land thoroughly plant a little below the level, culti vate flat and lay-by in the same mar ner. Broadcast lime on top of th plant when three or four inches higl using from .600 to 1,500 pounds pe acre, the amount of lime varying o course according to the character o the soil. Plow three to four time! no hoeing necessary if planted flal Quit plowing when plants begin t peg or bloom. Use point to rip u; in September and stack at once. Mr. McCall estimates the cost t be not more than $25.00 per acre This includes everything, labor, lim? thrashing and land rental. He wil plant sixty acres another season b; giving each tenant four to five acre to the horse. He has a thrashe with 800 bushel capacity and wil thrash for the public at a cost of te to fifteen cents per bushel. There is a market for peanuts an the oil mills are ready to buy. Som of the mills are preparing literatur now which will be furnished the farm ers in due time.?Pee Dee Advocate o Typewriter Supplies. 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