The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-04-01
Good ROADS FOR
HENDERSON COUNTY

town is good roads. Roads that
are good at all seasons of the
year are contributory to the
well being of all the people all
the time.
The counties of this great
country are divided into many
road districts and, with few ex-
ceptions, the work done upon
the roads therein has been i'll
advised. without system and en-
tirely lacking in the element of
permanency. Over wide sec
tons of the middlewest the roads
are no better than they were
sixty years ago for the reason
that the vast sums raised for
road betterment have been ex-
pended without system.
Road building has been re-
duced to a science and the SER
vices of a government expert are
at the command of this commun-
ity for a demonstration of scien-
hfc highway construction. Would
1T not be good business policy for
the people of Hendersonville and
the country at large to have this
demonstration made? Made this
year too. After the expert has
superintended the construction
of one mile of road he will go
elsewhere, but we shall have had
our lesson and some among us
who will have shared in the work
will be trained road builders,
fully competent to direct our
further efforts. If we make of
Hendersonville a center from
which all-the-year good roads
radiate in every direction, the
townships adjoining will carry
on the work and extend the
highways so that every point of
interest within driving distance
may be visited in comfort and
safety.
In addition to the development
of agricultural and manufac-
turing interests throughout the
county it devolYes upon us to en-
terrain in the best possible man
ner, and to their entire salts
faction, those who come to us
each summer from the states to
the south. They bring good money
with them; they will not only be
here this year and next year but
all the years to come; either here
or other places nearby. and the
most rudimentary business sa-
gacity would see the necessity
of making ours the most attrac-
tive section of the state, so far
as we can. Show them the time
of their lives every time they
come should be made the maxim
of every resident. and there is
no one thing or condition enter
ing into the problem that bears a
more vital relation - it's solu-
ton than good 70 Every
visitor must returlE IS home
an enthusiastic boe=sx tor Hen
Jacksonville and the Vs. 10 make
him such is to fed him we'll,
sleep him we'll, anu drive him
we'll. All three of these things
can be done at an increased
profit and at decreased cost by
having good roads. Every house
holder has to pay a dollar for
twenty-five cents worth of wood
because it costs seventy-five
cents to haul it in. The cost of
every item of farm produce is in
creased to the housekeeper by
the exactions of bad roads with
ont in the slightest degree bene-
fitting the producer. The value
of everysdollar's worth of pro-
perry in Hendersonville as well
as that of every acre reached by
them would be doubled by a
countrywide system of good roads
A roadway twelve feet wide,
arched, thoroughly drained,
dragged and rolled, then sprink-
led with crude petroleum, will be
a luxurious thoroughfare all the
year round, and will cost but lit
tie money.
Think it over, you people who
are equipped with something to
think with, and you will find the
proposition a good one.
Greater scenic and climatic
advantages are not to be found
anywhere this side of Paradise, |
and if we so arrange our affairs
that our visitors can profit by
easy access to+all we have to Of
fer, they return to their homes,
eloquent advocates of our country
and our interests.
All economists agree that Good
Roads form the basis of a more
general, and, at the same time,
a greater degree of prosperity
than any thing else in the world.
E. L. BAILEY.
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