The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-08-10

feed and clothe the world, and pay
the excess in store rent, clerk hire,
telephone rates, etc. are told as gen
tlv as possible; to keep from making
them mad. that it IS luxury they
can't afford and hence they mustn t
want it; and as many OF them as 90
want it must quit wanting it at once.
Now really there isn't reasonable
man in the County who would con-
sent TO have the new court house done
away with and the money spent on its
construction refunded; nor If the
bonds were voted and smooth hard
roads built would there be one fair
minded man who would return to
present road conditions.
The mile Of road built by the l. >.
government has been basely mlsrepre-
sented. There isn't a better mile OF
road anywhere in the entire State.
! There are those who say that this
was never bad road. Is a road
running through a sand bed that
mires down from three to five inches,
a good road? We positively do not
believe that any preacher or any
body else ever drove in trot through
this sand bed from one end to the
other unless the sheriff Was after
them. The undersigned has Travelled
over this road too many times not to
know what he is talking about; and
he is too thoroughly familiar with
the past and present conditions OF
this mile of road to believe any man
+! who asserts. or any newspaper WAlcn
gives currency to the statement, that
this road is in a worse fix than it ever
! was.
\ large majority Of our people
! have the wrong conception OF the
governments object in building these
sample roads here and there over the
| county. This is the reason we hear
50 much about the road out at John
C. Neel's not being the worst road
in the county. Now the government
didn't send a man all the way down
! here to hunt up an impossible piece
of road and 60 to work with no other
purpose than to accommodate the
people on that road BY putting II IN
GOOD condition. The object Of the
government was to give a practical
demonstration of what can be done IN
tie way Of road building by mixing
sand and clay III proper proportions
and for this purpose the road by Jno.
= c. Neel's place was selected without
regard as to whether it was the worst
road in the county o. the best one.
The primary object being to show,
We repeat, that by properly mixing
sand and clay. our worst clay roads
NAV be sanded and made good and
; our worst sand roads may be clayed,
like the one out at Neel's, and made
good and hard.
Now one more point and we are
through. We are told that we are
: already burdened with taxes. We ad-
nit that this is true. Now to add
100000 to our indebtedness seems
unwise. So it would be if We intended
investing this money in dead proper
tv, like court houses and jails and
like from which there would be no
returns. but when We put this money
on the roads We save a mud tax that
greatly exceeds two mill tax. The
valuable mules and horses literally
pulled to death over our roads every
wear. tie wear and tear on wagons,
bu2gieS and harness. and the time
lost incident to slow travel and trans
Dortation over bad roads, would IN
less than ten years macadamize every
public road in Newberrey County. Is
this not a sufficient dividend to offset
the two mill tax that we would pay?
Sand Packer.