Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-13

of illustration, let us recall an actual
occurrence that is familiar to most Of the
readers of The ENQUIRER. For long
time the people of Beersheba congrega-
ton in this county, had felt the need
of enlarging the stone enclosure around
their cemetery. The work involved the
hauling and laying of many hundred
loads of stone, and considered in dollars
and cents, represented an outlay that
would have been severe tax on the
pockets of the members of the congre-
CATION. Indeed it is doubtful as to
whether it would have been at all prac-
ticable to have raised cash sufficient to
do the work. But while the matter was
under discussion, an old member re-
called how the original wall had been
built in the days when there was not
much cash to be had, and suggested that
the same thing could be done again. On
an appointed day the people OF the sur
rounding country gathered with their
teams and tools, pulled off their coats
and went to work. Before nightfall the
wall was completed, and the people were
astonished at their achievement. And,
also, among other things, they had real
lied that the "way to build a wall is to
build it."
In connection with this incident, it
might also be mentioned that there ac-
crued a benefit that was even greater
than the building Of hundred cemetery
walls. Old scores were settled by the
dozen even without the embarrassment
of explanations or apologies, and the
whole thing gave such general pleasure
and satisfaction that almost every indi-
vidual participant was in a humor to
sincerely regret that there was not in
sight another task of similar or even
greater proportions.
Now, suppose we apply this same idea
to road working. The roads are dread
fully bad now, and unless they are work.
ed during the summer, they will be
dreadfully as bad again next winter. To
work the roads now, of course, is imprac-
ticable. In the summer, however, there
is at least month during which the peo-
really have but little to do. Most of that
time can be used in working the roads
without serious inconvenience to any
body. These things being true. how
would it do for the various neighborhoods
to commence now to prepare for such a
campaign of road working in this coun-
try, next summer, as has never been seen
before? If the idea is good one. how
would it do to 60 about it something like
this. Hold a meeting, agree upon de-
tails and elect some liberal, intelligent
and progressive neighbor as executive
officer. Let these neighbors canvass
among all the people interested in the
especial road that may have been selected.
and secure subscriptions-not stinted
subscriptions-but liberal, broadminded
subscriptions, in keeping with the means
and abilities of the different subscri-
bers. Let these subscriptions be payable
in work at so much day, etc., to be COM
menced at a specified time, and then
when the time comes, everything having
been arranged beforehand, let the people
turn out with their laborers, teams, wa
gons, plows, picks and shovels, and haul
rock and grade and macadamize the roads
like, for instance, they were building q
cemetery fence.
To grade and macadamize five or six
miles of road is big job, it is true;
but from the above it is easy to see that
there can be made available force that
would be equal to 10 times such task,
and with such system once fairly under
way, it cannot stop until this county is
blessed with the finest roads to be seen
in the south. Not only this, every land
holding contributor who puts ont a dollar
will get back more than double, and
non -landholding contributors will be
rewarded in like proportion.
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