Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-11-25
.Turnpikes.

people will be able 70 appreciate the
beauty and ths advantages Of mud
dy roads. The winter rains have
begun, and the probability is we
shall see no smooth roads again IN
til next spring. We shall expect
to see our friends from the country
coming 10 With the soil of our roads
clingiLg to their clothes, and their
horses looking like they had not
felt curry comb for a month. We
should expect, if we travel the roads,
to see some rails lying in suspicious
proximity to the mud, as if a wheel
might have sunk so far down as TO
need the help of the rails to ge! out
again. We recollect to have no.
ticed, too, wagons coming into town
sometimes with one axel propped
up and the broken wheel upon the
wagon. We might name other eds
asters Of the road" but the expe-
renee of our friends befnre next
spring will furnish a sufficient a.
mount Of facts for them to BIZ able
to give just verdict.
We have, as our patrons are aware,
time and again urged upon this peo-
pie to build TurDpikes from Fayette-
vile to ali parts of the county,
We have not given the preference
to any one system that has been
suggested to do the work, believing,
that the people, when they came to
pass upon them would select The
best, and moreover being perfectly
satisfied, SO far as we are concerned,
with any system that will accom-.
plish the result. What we have
been striving for is the building of
Turnpikes, by whatever means
We have probably given more space
to, and spoken more earnestly upon,
this subject than any other, because
we have felt that the pI osperity Of
our county is in great measure
bound upi u it. Picture to your
self the condition Of Lincoln sOun-
ty intefsected by about ten Pixies,
and compare it with the Lincoln
county Of TO day. Our convenient
ces would be so much increased that
We would hardly know our old coun-
ty. Our facilities for doing business
would be so much increased, that ev-
erybOdy would feel its Impetus. and
move with a quicker step. Then
we could build our railroads, build
up manufactures, induce immigra,
ton of the best citizens to our coun-
ty, and every interest would be
benefited.
As we said at the outset, our
people will have good opportunity
to judge Of our roads. The pros
pect is that we will have a long hard
winter, and little pleasure to man
or beast is to be anticipated in tray-
cling in our county if it should
be necessary to bring on: the wag-
on, the small load and rough Jour
ney will make it Improbable and
vexatiOus. Not so if you had
Pixies. Then the wagon could be
brought out, and travel CHEEKY a.
long, and get through in day light,
escaping the bitter cold and dark
ness of the night. Besides a good
load could be hauled either way, and
when we got through at night, it
would look like something bad been
dOne-"sometbing attempted, some
thing done has earned nights re-
pose"
We would like 10 have the good
people of this county come up,
firmly resolved that this shall be
the last winter that they will travel
over tad roads. Think of what
We have been saying for tie last two
years or longer in favor of Pixies,
as you ride to and from town over
these dreary roads, and resolve that
you will give reasonable amount
to build Turnpike on your main
road at once. When each citizen
comes to this point, We are certain
of getting the roads, and getting
them quick. We can easily spare
enough in one year to build every