Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-08-23

region, with abundant timber, but with no
gravel, and in most places but few stone
quarries.
3. The Free Tumpike-These are made
under three separate systems, which give
names to roads, respectively, as D Free
turnpikes, (2) One mile assessment pixies,
and 13) Two mile assessment pixies l will
refer briefly to each of these:
1st. The free turnpikes are authorized by
Sections 4,75S to 4,773, inclusive OF the ke1
vised Statutes. These authorize a vote of
the electors of any county on the question
whether a general tax shall be levied on the
taxable property of the county to construct
free turnpikes, and if the vote be in favor
of the tax, the county commissioners locate,
tax and let out the work of making by con-
tract to the lowest bidder. The law au-
thorizes the issue of county bonds payable
in equal amounts in one, two, three, four
and five years, to be sold at par to raise
money to pay contractors; it authorizes the
collection Of taxes on all property of the
county for five years to meet the interest
and principal of the bonds. The law per
mits the county commissioners to collect
only half the amount by general tax if
if they so prefer, and to assess the other
half for five years on the taxable property
within two miles of the road. These roads
are generally opened from forty to sixty
feet wide, turnpiked with earth twenty feet
wide so as to drain freely to side bitches,
and raised with broken stone or gravel not
less than ten nor more than sixteen feet in
width, nor less than twelve inches thick in
the centre, and eight inches at least at the
outer edges Of the roadbed of fstone.or gravel.
But the law provides that the road may be
constructed ''wholly OF earth when stone or
gravel is not accessible" The roads are
IoI o,,l1-orfc op6 hri1rac whore
necessary.o
I'd. The one-mile assessment pixies are
made in the same mode they are author
lied by Sections 4,774 to 1928, inclusive, of
the Revised Statutes; they are CONSTRUCTED
by the two days labor each year Of men
residing within one mile of the road; by
The ordinary road taxes; by special assess
ment generally for five years on all property
within one mile of the road, and by general
taxes levied on all property Of the county.
County bonds are issued, sold, and the in
terest and principal paid from taxes.
Sd. The two-mile assessment pixies are
authorized by Sections 4,S29 to 1861, inclu-
sive of the Revised Statutes. The expenses
Of making these pixies are paid by assess
ments for five years on the property within
two miles of the road county bonds are Is
sued payable from the assessments, and the
mode of making the road is as other pixies.
All the pixies are free. When it was first
proposed to make pixies in these three forms
in Ohio there was much opposition and a
large amount Of litigation. But the roads
were found so desirable and convenient that
opposition soon died out, and an objection is
rarely ever heard of, except from some To-
cality where men fail to secure a location to
suit their wishes.
In about twenty counties of the eighty
eighth Ohio, there is an abundance of gray
ell found at nearly all points, generally only
a little below the surface of the earth, and
free pixies can be made here at very much
less cost than in counties where they must
be made of broken stone. AS a specimen
of these counties with gravel, give you the
following statistics for 1879: