Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-08-04
AUTOS TO COME THIS WAY.
Proposed Route is by Easley, Seneca
and KnoN's Bridge.

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day. had the following, which will be
of interest to those who are inter-
tsted in the New York-to-Atlanta
automobile route: s.
There is some work ahead for the
pathfinder Of the Atlanta Journal on
the Southern end Of the official route
for the national highway before that
route, in three portions of it at least,
is put down definitely on the map.
One Of the most unsatisfactory
links lies between Roanoke, Va, and
Salisbury, N. c., coming South. On
Tuesday there are three parties out
in that territory looking for better
, way than the one by way of Bedford
City, Bedford Springs, Lawyers,
Franklin Junction Chatham and Dan
vile. cutting short of Lynchbrug.
That is the route the scouts followed.
The search Is for a more direct and
better route.
One alternative in this section was
recently travelled by Osmond Barrin-
ger, of Charlotte, who sends the notes
and odometer readings on it to the
Journal on a letter head inscribed
New York Herald-Atlanta Journal
Tour, Piedmont Air Line Route,
Charlotte Division" with a list Of the
city committee, showing himself as
secretary.
This alternative is by way Of Dan
vile, Chatham, Piney Fork, Penhook,
Union Hall, making 70 miles fiat
from Roanoke to Danville, with an
unsatisfactory road beyond Chatham
as far as Penhook. Another party
now on the road will transmit
through Mr.. Barringer information
on route on through Chatham to
Franklin Junction, 'and branching
from there westward to Pnnhook,
thence on to Roanoke.
Three other parties are out from
Roanoke, working southwark toward
Greensboro or Winston-Salem. One
of these parties is searching for a
and Mayodan, leaving Rocky Mount
to the east. A second is proceeding
by way of Stewartsville and Cham
blisburg, directly east Of Roanoke,
and thence directly south to Rocky
Point. The third Is trying out
dirtc road south to Martinsville
route that goes southwest from Roa-
noke to Christiansburg, and there
turns little east of south to Floyd
Court House, Patrick Court House
(StuarD, and thence to Mayodan,
where either fork is yet a possibility
to Greensboro at the southeast or
WinstonSalem at the southwest,
both about equally distant from
Mayodan.
From Mayodan southward James
V. Price, of Madison, n. c., has the
suggestion to offer that the route
pass through Madison and thence to
Summersfield (probably through
Stokesdale.) AT Summersfeld, says
Mr.. Price, one macadam highway
extends in one direction to Green's
Doro, and another in another direc-
tion to Winston-Salem. Mr.. Price
says that the roads from Madison
to Summersfield are good dirt roads.
Another problem hardly less i'm
portant is the one regarding that sec
tion of the route between Anderson
and knoX's Bridge. That portion Of
the route traverses some bad terri
tory that in very wet weather be-
comes mpracticable. The necessity
for the Improvement of the route
between Anderson and Knox's Bridge
became apparent when the scouts
came South. After they were ad-
vised by the Hartwell people them
selves not to attempt the road from
Anderson to Browns Ferry the
scouts had to make a wide detour of
almost twice the normal distance in
order to reach even Knoxs Bridge,
all the unbridged streams of the in
terveninS territory on the straight
road being swollen by the rains and
not possible to ford.
Under date Of May 10, ID. l.. Reid,
of Anderson county, wrote to the
Journal suggesting 4 route that may
be tried out by the pathfinder This
suggestion would carry the official
highway some nine miles distant
from Anderson city to its closest
point. 1t would go from Knox's
Bridge to IGarle's Bridge, and thence
to Scptus, Equality. Brushy Greek
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