The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-03-20
For the Valley Virginian ]
Cona.y Roads A Suggestion.

County Roads - A Suggestion.
Mach has been snd about Improving the
condition Of our county reads; bas little
has been done Every one will, l suppose.
eoncede that something otsg1t to be done
and the next question IL, iIuw to do it !? It
will not be deuIed that the present road law,
giving the entire management to each town
snip, anything likea regular system Of roads
lis impossible; and i the people want to
have system which will operate successfully,
and FROM which they may expect to derive
any advantage, they naust have the present
law altered. If our representatives in the
Legislature will have a law passed-a special
road law for Augusta coNnty, Us 10 the case
OF Loudan county - then the Supervisors
can take the sense Of the qualified voters Of
the county, aud at the same time the city
council can have the sense Of the voters Of
Stanton. taken upon the question, whether
the people Of the city aud county are willing
to be taxed tcn.ceuts per hundred dollars on,
the real and personal pruparty ia their limits
for the purpose of McAdamizins the leading
thoroughfares of The coanty By ao estimate
made on the values in the city and county.
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will yield a revenue sufficient 10 pay six per
cent. upon two hundred Thousand dollars,
($2eo 0o0), and create sinking fuod wiich
sill pay oil the entire debt in seventeen Or
eighteen years; and this sum Of tsso hun
dred thousand dollars 1890 000l will build
one hundred miles OF the very best road Of
full turnpike width.
The proposition made by the Supervisors
at thc. late meeting, inviting Inc people Of
the different townships in the county to hold
meetings and consider tho question OF
Improving the Roads, &C., and to appoint
delegates to general county convention will
not do. Township meetings cannot be lad
on any question: at least, meetings which
express he real wishes of the people; and
even if full meetings could be Mad aud dele
gates cent to general cor vesssieB, nothing
could De done until ss.s present law relating
TO the subject If roatss Is amended, 50 as to
put the wArle matter under one management
aud reduced 10 system. Il is needless to
argue the question Of the advantages Of she
course have polluted out ever the one pro
posed 10y the Supervisors. II shey can get
the law altered giving TO them the exclu-
s!ve control OF the county roads, they need
take no responsibility upon themselves about
taxation until they haye submitted the cues
ton to the people. The people want the
roads, and ara willing to pay tor them, pro-
vlded they are sure that their money will be
judciously AND economically expended; aud
who conbts tha5 cur Beard will do it proper
"? They have shown themselves worthy OF
the trust already reposed in them By the pso-
people, and ffola my personal knowledge OF
the members OF it, aui sure that if the pco-
pie will vote them reasonable amount of
money they VII make more miles Of good
road with it than they can get ia any other
way. / believe tina, if any we'll eiisested p!a,
Is proposed by them that the city council nilI
Cooperate in the measure. But whatever is
lone Must be done quickly. The Legislature
aiii soon adjourn. If the Supervisors viii
meet and petition 1t to amend the road law in
the say proposed, then lie sense Of the peo-
pie could be taken in May, at me regular e /,
lecions withou; any additional cost VIVA,
.ay the SuperHtsors . They n,ust have seen
tina: their recommendation about towashin
meetings will not answer. Then try some O
ther plan. | a.a rot welded to mine any
say SO that .ha bail is set ia rnptioa, snd VIC
are lifted out of the routes and nsnd which We
have been Flooding all our lives. The ave
rage tax nov ia the county for the road re
pairs is about 81 cts. on the sI00, and what
does it amount to? Three times that tax
and We have 100 or 125 miles of the bes I.
roads in the world AUGUSTA.
At a called meeting Of Grecnv,lle Council No
62 Friends of Temperance. held ia THAR Hall
March, 9Th, 1873. the following preamble ard re-
solutions were Adopted
Whereas, it hath pleased he Almighty Dspaser
of events ia his all wise Providence 10 r-mcv.
IRON our nds! bs the hand of death our much
heioTed and highly esteemed yourg Brother
William Taliaferro. Therefore. Resolved:
That in he demise of Brother 1allater,o 1hi+
Council has sustained the loss Of one of its mos
useful and jealous members. and community al.
upright and worthy young man.
That we most deeply sympathise with the fam
'!y and friends Of our deceased brother in tIieii
al bereavement hut whilst we tender them as
surance OF this, we trust they have the greater
assurance that their loss is his Infinite gain
That this Council attend the funeral of our de
ceased Brother from his late residence
That the members of this Council wear the usu-
IL nadse OF mourning for thirty days. 0
That a copy Of these resolutions be, sent to tha
family Of our deceased Brother and tina; the ia.
psrs OF the city OF stanton end the Friend; O.
Temperance be requested. to publish them
j. n. Mitchell,
ii; Eheltz. COMMITTEE
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