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Editor Home Journal:
Seeing you, with "a Subscriber" and
some others, have manifested Il good deal
of zeal and public spirit in behalf of
bridges, for which | know you have the
thanks of all good citizens, | have decided
to add a few thoughts, basinG my right to
talk upon the fact that | am Il citizen and
taxpayer Of Franklin county.
Our County Court has at last decided to
build one bridge, where it will not suit
the convenience of the majority of the
travel of the north side of the river. They
did so, as ! have been informed by part of
the Court itself, not because it was the
bridge needed the worst, but because it
was needed some. and they thought that
they were getting it done very cheap.
Right here was the mistake, for it has
been well asccrtained that Il bridge can
be built, the way this one is to be built.
for less than the sum appropriated by the
Court. But VIC are Cold that the contract
or is to keep it in repair for ten years.
THIS does not amount to Il baubce, as the
repairing on n new bridge will hardly be
gin under ten years. Yet no one cenSurcs
the contractor, rs he mi'rcprcSented moth
ing.
Again. we arc told that the County
Court has appointed a Committee to locate
4 second bridge, and intends to make II
proposition to Moore county to build half
or Il third. Good. But will she do this!
When we look at the forty long, weary
years, that the County Court has been de-
Gliding to build one little wooden bridge,
and at last are to put that where it is not
needed the worst. the prospect looks Il lit
tie gloomy. | do not wish to be under
stood as opposing this upper bridge. The
point | wish to make is, that il there is
only n bridge built, it ought to have
been put where it was needed the worst.
This upper bridge will not be worth Il
cent to the most of the people on the north
side of the river. In going to their coun-
ty scat they would be going right away
from town, and when they got to the
bridge they would be farther from their
destination than when they started. Be
sides, there are two creeks to cross. The
road across one OF them is SO near the river
that when the river is past fording the
creek is the same.
The upper end of orr county has already
a bridge-the lower end Il ferry. The
center, where tile most people would
cross, is left open. unless this Committee
a%ccOmplishes something, which is doubt
ful. They have never received any eli-
cial notice or order about the matter.
There has been Il Committee appointed.
previously, on these bridges, and it
amounted to n farce. Can it be possible
that they are appointed to Kill the thing ?
But, says one, the County Court did not
know where the location of a bridge
would suit the most of people. There was
a petition, signed by about five hundred
citizens and a majority of the people ON
the north side of the river, presented to
the last Quarterly Court, showing exactly
where they wanted the bridge. Not only
this. but proposing to build at least one
fourth of said bridge, besides paying their
part of the tax tor the same. l know the
majority of the people are in favor of
bridges. Mr.. Crisman. the gentleman who
got up the above petition, told ne that all