The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-04-02

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MIR. EDITOR: I notice your cor
respondent from Crosswell wants
to know what right tho Supervisor
had trying to make a law without
knowing first what the legislature
was gong to do. AS for knowing
what tho legislature was going to
DOL have no foreknowledgo of 9TH
or mon s business, neither do I un-
dertake to attond to them. The
Supervisor has made no law, nor
has he broken any.
AS for tho Easloy bridge, thoro
has been no time lost by any act
Of mine. We first advertised for
an iron bridge, and tho lowest bid
for the bridge proper, 100 feet
long, was $1,000, and with cylin-
dar piers, 81, 800. Very likely if
the correspondent chad bcon in
charge of the business of the
county, we would have had by July
an iron bridge on cylindar piers
at $4,000, but I rejected the bid.
And knowing the Cox bridge
would bo to build soon, I, with
the Suvorvisor Of Greenvillo coun-
| ty and others, decided to see if
ono bridge wouldn't answer both
purposes. AS I have before said,
we have too many bridges on Sa-
luda. VIM. Ponder lives at tho
upper limo Of Easley township and
it is eight miles to tho lower, and
| Fairs bridge near tho centor, and
two below, threo bridges in near
four miles, and to have mado the
change would have given your cor
respondent q nearer and better road
than he has ever travelled to Greon-
villo, or probably evor will made
at any other place, and it would
not increase the travel of any othcr
road half mile, and would not
injure but two citizons, and they
have said very llttle against it.
But the Grecnville commissions
ers favored the keeping up of two
bridges and building ono iron. so
Mr.. Holland, Supervisor, wrote
me, but said We could advertise
for the masonry any day | would
= set. SO | then advertised for ma
sOnry and covered bridge, and
wrote Mr.. Holland to do the same
thing, stating to him that if we did
not build it would cost but little,
and if We did build VIC would ho
that far on tho way. He never
advertised. | learned his board
WAS in session that day. So
| went before tho board
and condemned the eNtortiolato
price Of the iron bridge and advo-
Gated a wooden structure. The |
board liberia ted him to do SO. then
he had 10 advertise.
lie SAYS lie heard that Grecnvillc
had agreed to build Il wooden
bridge. he heard more than did
or any other man that | have seen
until went before them. After
rejected the bids for an iron bridge
and advertised for a wooden ono,
| received bid for an iron bridge {
IO2 feet long on cy!indar piers for
- 600. You can SEQ why | steer
my OWL way with the business that |
| have charge Of and what can be |
saved by doing SO. | foul confident 5
when he learns what We got good
covered bridge on stone piers, that
will keep him dry and be good
when he is done slurring mon in
public office without Just cause to
do so, he will thcn agree that the
course pcrsucd was right. He is
badly mistaken when he says the
taxpayers were III favor of rebuild
ing. If The situation was fully cX-
planned to the people and left to q
vote, he would then know whore it
went. know tho people signed Il
petition against it, having no
knowledge Of tho difference in the
distance and what kind Of a grade
could bo got.
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