The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-02-26
r. F. d. DEPARTMENT.
Address all communications to
Thos. T.. Wicker, editor.
The SatterWhite Hill.


Here's more about the Satterwhite
hill this side of Bush River church.
The supervisor had the chain gang to
go there and pile dirt in the middle
of the road, and now it is in worse
fix than ever. There is only dis
tance Of about one hundred yards
that We are complaining of, and there
is not worse section of road in the
county after rain than this one. 1t
is deep, sticky. pipe clay that mires
to your horses knees and you are
lucky to get through with an empty
vehicle to say nothing of loaded
buggy or wagon. The place ought to
be thoroughly sandcd or yravclcd, so
that its condition will be made per-
ma'cntiy good, and that leads us to
another thought. In our feeble ,judg-
mrn all the work that the chain gang
does "uoht to be thorough and pcrma-
nrn. 1t was never intended that the
chain gang should go and work road
where some ovcrsccr and his hands
=
was il intended to work Il section Of
road that could be worked and kept
in good ron,litin'. by the ovcr>ccr and
their hands. The idea. we think in
the minds of the promoters of the
chain gang, wa> that it should work
such places in the public highways as
had become we'll nigh impaSSable and
where the ovrrSrrr and his hands had
not he time nor the means at hand
necessary /" put such Il place in Il
condition that will remain pcrma-
ncHtly good. To be more specific,
suppose there is Il bad place on your
road that will consume i'll the DAYS
required "f you t" work the road this
year. You rannut afford to put all
your tlE" "n that place and leave the
hala:tr" of the road untouched. 1t
may be- that the "Hl y way to lix Nlc
place would be to cover il with gray
cl. and lhl> rr'rli,r> mules and way-
"h>' '''" lh">" are not at your COM
maMd. J." be still more specific. sup
p">'' In" "Nrrs"rr of the road ON
whiru i',r Sallrrwhilr hill is located
Sh"Nid undertake" to gravel this hill!
Ii N"1') take all The days rr,Iuirrd OF
hlI /. A"rk this year and more too:
hr,lj'> .tr would iced mules and way-
"m~ T. !laul the gravel and for every
mI" thus employed he would have
/" r"'"a~" Il hand the mule brin~
phi IL ~ Il substitute and this wuuII
;" rr,iur" his force ol haulS as to
leave Il mere handful TO work with.
Now. the meaning Of this is, that
there are bad places in our public
roads. which il is simply impossible
f"r the "vrrSrrr and his hands to
work and such places should be at
tended Ia by the rhain.an". Now.
whrA the rhaiG"anT "nrS to such a
place, tn" supervisor should see that
IN" rlar" Is put III such permanent
c"ndlil"n as not /" call for the aid Of
the rhaln4aHg for many years. Again
we repeat, the rhainganw has no bus
mess running all over the country
roads for people who could have kept
their roads in good condition, and
have failed to do SO through neglect.
Let tie rhain-ang work the worst
plarr Inh wlrn ii does work place,
let Ia" work by all means be thorough
AMI permanent.
Perhaps some ore will say that we
are glad for the rhaingang to work
roads nn our route tha, had not been
worked because Of neglect. We an
Swrr That since the rhain~anw has
been H.ll"win, ,hi> r"liry, and will
n" dnnhi continue it, We did not wish
to y" ;na';" an exception to Inc rule.
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