The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1906-03-14
IMPROVEMENTSWANTED
Pointers That indicate the General
Feeling Of the People.


Mr.. l. T. Farris, of Cane Valley, was
met Friday. 81 am in favor of better
ing the condition of our county roads.
/ want the Fiscal Court to purchase
rock crushers and build bridges where
needed. will cheerfully pay my part
of the expense. Persons who do not
travel over the county have but little
conception of the condition of our pub
lie highways. They are getting worse
all the time, and if they are not inn
proved, in few years farmers can
not reach the market with third of a
load of produce. Repair the roads is
my motto"
DIR. S. P. Miller: 81 want to see the
county roads in better condition. The
grader does good work, but in order to
make substantial highways the grades
must be covered with metal. If rock
crushers are the machines needed, then
l am in favor of the Fiscal Court pur-
chasing them. But in my judgment,
the way to get good roads is to build
pixies and tax the county to pay for
same"
Mr.. G. T. Rodgers, Of Midtown, puts
it in the following language which can
not be misleading: 81 am heartily in
favor of good roads and bridges over
all the streams wherever needed.
These Improvements are badly needed
and just now there are many places in
our roads almost impossible. Good
county highways finances farm lands
and besides they make every class of
business more lively. Adair, is one of
the best mountain counties in the State,
if it can be called a mountain county,
and she is justly entitled to better
roads and more bridges. l hope the
Fiscal Court will make an appropria-
ton for these improvements | am
perfectly willing to pay my part of the
tax for rock crushers."
MIR. S. D. Barbee, who is farmer
and taxpayer speaks in this language:
81 do not think more bridges should
be built at this time, but l am in favor
of the County Court buying rock crush
ers. The roads in many localities need
immediate attention. Delay makes
matters worse. / am perfectly will
ing to pay my part of the tax for
rock crushers.
Mr.. w. A. Coffey says: 81 am in ia
vor of better roads and believe it would
be economy for the county to purchase
two stone crushers. 1t will require
but little expense now to grade our
roads properly, and when this is done,
if we can put stone on we will soon
have them in condition that they can be
kept in good repair with but little
expense. Public improvement results
in private benefit to every property
owner in the county. The results of
the past few years clearly indicate this.
The spirit of public improvement began
in our country in 1902, since which time
we have, l suppose, spent something
like twenty thousand dollars in building
bridges, and the betterment of our
roads and taxable wealth has increased
dnring that same period about seven
hundred thousand dollars. While this
is not all due to public Improvement,
yet it is certainly due to some extent
to this fact. If we only attribute one
seventh of this increase in the value of
cur property to the public Improvement
made, we have then realized five dol
lars return for every one expended.
This increase in wealth may be attrib-
uted by some to the board of supervis-
ors, but the sales of land prove this to
be incorrect. In my opinion the prop
erty owners of our county, and es-
pecially the farmers, will receive
greater return for money judiciously
expended in the building of good roads
than for any investment we can make.
With good macadam roads, the farmer
living six miles from town is as conven-
lent to market as those now living half
the distance. do not favor a burden
some rate of taxation, but think we
should build as many miles of good
highway each year as possible without
it becoming oppressive. Nothing can
in my judgment 50 greatly enhance the
value of farm lands as good roads and
bridges"