The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1907-05-03
THE GOOD ROAD QUESTION.
"Citizen and Taxpayer" Commends
County Commissioners for Their
Good Work-A Suggestion
as How to Extend the
Good Work.

marvellous what a change has taken
place with the people on this ques-
ton in so short a time. am in
formed that different persons are
circulating petitions and subscrip-
tions lists to raise money to
continue the macadam work on
from the Forest to Tiger River.
This is a most commendable spirit,
a most progressive one, and |,
for one, am glad to see it. 1t
shows the people know a good
thing when they see it. The road
work to the Forest, five miles west
of Union, is about completed, and
the people beyond there have had a
taste of good roads and they want
more. In all probability if the
County Commissioners SHOULD be
bold enough" to carry the road
on to Tiger river, after the promise
to the public that the roads would
be macadamised five miles north,
Feast, south and west of Union, then
the people west of Tiger would say
it should be built to the Laurens
county line, yet all this time many
of the voters on the north, east and
south of Union have been support
ers of good roads when the cause
needed friends and the strongest
opposition to movement was on the
road leading west. People have
come to town with subscription
lists saying it will keep your trade
over about Cross Keys; any man
with an ounce of brains knew
that when the subject was first
agitated, but where is Lockhar,
Mills trade. Is that worth looking
after on the east? Now, Mr.. Com,
missioners, the battle for goot
roads has been fought and won
with the slogan five miles o.
rII"o,s''"" north, oare, south ana
west; and we want the HefA- --
7 think | can give remedy 10
all this trouble. Our last board @
county commissioners, Betenbaugh
Bently and Wilburn, deserve an
, will in time, if not now, receive tn
, mbounded praise and thanks {
| their people as being the most pre-
n gressive and aggressive counto con
! missioners that the county eve
4 had for inagurating this macada1
h work, and stone should be place
: by the roadside giving these me
# credit for what they have done Il
,s their people. Let these men WI
h have gotten up the subscriptio
It maxi a campaign fund OF T.
o amount, hrve our present etlicle
&c county commissions order an elt
4 ton. vote on 40 year bonds,
our roads out by contract Just IL
ps railroads, have II county civil {
es eineer and good one that can't
bought, to see that the contract
nd carried out, and in a very sh
tn time we will all have macad'
nf roads in every direction. So
RI men oppose a bond issue but
confess | can't see why. Any II
ot with much brains can see q
"a know that properly made ma
ny w dam road, with very little rep
mir will last one hundred years
MT longer, in that length Of time II
erd will probably be ten or TIVE
owe times as many people in CI
the county as there is today, and j
, of will be worth 500 per acre al
Tvs thhese roads, so the increase
,ys; value of property will more t
,Vo- off set the expense and when
,ton taxes are paid all along ON b"n'
thc is not felt so much as II direct
the like we are paying today. 1T
,O6: not take as great a bond lssu
,ton some people imagine. Some
and has said there was 800 mile
.rers public road in Union COZ
ran That may he correct, but no p'
81 at expects every little cross road t
Head macadamized. suppose that
or $50 miles of road running
tho directions of the compass !
oLaoI that is necessary to macadan,
49, D" trun your little caoss roads int
j., ndo, main thoroughfarcs. An
''" item! many miles of road in
Kevs, Santuc and Pinckney
mem ships don't need any macada'
sup- is just as good road as an,
'lttee. wants-bad places along cou
year 49, don;,ed We need n
in ap- n;.';I nno;ncer and mauv q
graves , roads should be changed just
Ice boen done by the board towar
Needy Wanaet V[1m t nnd The citizens alon,
com nI n,rn;no land have heen
cared ; ;oau Nv p nn,'en1;.s;oners to run