The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-02-07
A NTacadamized Road.

A charter has recently been granted
TO company under the corporate name
of the Kentucky and Tennessee Mac.
adamized Road Company" for the pur-
pose of constructing and keeping in re-
pair a first-class road from Rogersville,
in Hawkins county, Tennessee, by the
way of Big War Gap, Mulberry Gap,
&c, to Cumberland Ford, in Kentucky
The company also has power to build,
grade and macadamize a branch road
from the south foot of Stone Mountain
via MOOresburg to Whitesburg, on the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Railroad. One very great advantage
this company will have, to start on, is
the fact that the road from Rogersville
to Mulberry Gap is already graded, and
with small amount of repairing is
ready for the stone.
| The Importance of this Improvement
to the people of Rogersville and to the
whole county of Hawkins, can scarcely
be over estimated. This country can
never prosper until we have good roads,
and just as soon as we secure these our
people will begin to get rich. To the |
people of ROgersville this road question |
is almost one of life and death. The |
old town has been standing still so long |
that it begins to show signs now of ret
regarding. The time has come now l
when we must move. 1t is impossible |
for US to remain in statu quo any longer.
If we do not move forward on the road |
of progress we must go backward. We
must higher improve in business and
keep abreast of the times or we must go
down, down until the town dies and is
blotted out of existence
With a frst-class macadamized road
leading from here to Kentucky, another
from here to Jonesville, Virginia, an
other to KingspOrt or Estellville, and
with the RogersYille and Jefferson Rail
road repaired and put in good condition,
ROgersYille could hold up her head and
defy the competition of any inland town
in East Tennessee. Then our institu-
tions of learning would begin to prosper
as they have never done in the past.
Our merchants, instead of selling small
parcels of goods to occasional custom
ers, to be taken home in a pair of sad
dle-bags, would be the owners of whole
sale houses supplying country merchants
in all the mountain region of Kentucky,
Virginia and the Clinch Valley in East
Tennessee. Business and trade would
bring money to Rogersville; money
would stimulate our people to enterprise
and very soon manufacturing establish
ments of various kinds would spring up
here; industrious, working people would
come here and settle with their families,
and we would have town of which we
would be justly proud.
The formation of this Macadamized
Road Company may be, and we hope is,
the beginning of a new era of prosperity
and enterprise for the good old county
of Hawkins and the historical village
of Rogersville. If every man who has
a surplus dollar will put it into this
turnpike company the work will be
speedily accomplished, and his dollar
will return tc him in the enhanced val
ue of his land and other property more
than ten fold
The men at the head of this road en-
terprise are active, intelligent, enter
prising citizens. What they undertake
they viii be apt to put through to sue
cess. Books, we suppose, will be open
ed soon for subscriptions of stock in
this company. Let all those who feel
any interest IN the business prosperity
of Hawkins county, or of Rogersville do
the very best they can in aid of this en-
erprise-remembering that in building
up the county you are working for your
selves.