The Adair County news., 1906-02-21
LEXINGTON, KY.

Doing oil TaUdlI COulIy ClIlLGu lrdIS-
planted to the bluegrass, | thought l
would write few words to the News.
| see you are making a determined
fight for internal improvements.
The progress and general welfare of
any community depends almost entire
ly upon the highways and avenues of
communication which connect the va
rious sections of the community and
that connect it with the world at large
The section where the greatest pros
perity is to be found, is where the roads
and highways are developed to the
highest degree.
What is it that makes the great diff
ference between the bluegrass section
of Kentucky and the mountain section
in enlightenment and prosperity?
When Kentucky is mentioned as being
the home of beauty, chivalry, and ell
oquence, the mind of the foreigner in
stantly reverts to that section where
the bluegrass waves and the Orioles
sing.
When Kentucky is mentioned, as it
too often is, as being the home of the
moonshiner, the assassin, the feudist
and the backwoodsman, the mind of a
foreigner instantly reverts to the noun
tains of the state where the demoniac
hiss of the assassin's built is ever
heard.
What makes this great difference be-
tween two sections of the same state?
Evidently not the people, for We are all
of common stock; not the soil entire
ly, for lots of the mountain land is as
good as the bluegrass. No we must
look elsewhere for a solution of this
state of things.
The reason is to be found in the fact
that the bluegrass is intersected by
network of the finest railways and
turnpikes in the world. This being the
case, the only thing for the people of
the less favored region of Kentucky to
do, is to build roads, good roads, and
plenty of them.
The county of Fayette builds splen-
did turnpikes, then they spread a coat
of black oil over them twice a year,
and as result of this we have set of
pixies absolutely free from dust, and as
solid as any pavement
The Secretary of Agriculture at
Washington, D. c., recently sent to
the Home Construction Company, of
Lexington, which company is at the
head of the road system Of this county,
and asked to be allowed the use of
large number of cuts and views of the
various pixies of the county. The gov
eminent wanted these cuts to use in
their advertising matter in their fight
for better roads all over the country.
The best, and practically, the only
way for Adair County to come to ner
rightful place among the counties of
Kentucky, is to spend money for more
and better roads and lots of them.
Money so spent, will be paid back ten
fold in the increased prosperity of the
citizens.
The only way Adair county will ever
get railroad is by so improving her
internal conditions that the financial
world will be convinced that it would
be paying investment to build road.
Adair county has her own destiny in
her hands and when the world is con-
WINGED that old Adair is determined to
come to the front, then, and only then,
will capital be drawn to Adair county
in sufficient quantity to help the county.
The old axiom, ''that God help those
who help themselves will hold good in
this case as in. all others.
Yours for prosperity,
w. III. WADE.
Law Department, K. U.