The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-06-06
REPORT OF UNION COMMITTEE.
Trip to Columbia via Carlisle Fish
Dam Ferry and MOnticellO-Re-
turn via Newberry and
MaybintOn.

The Union Times publishes the
following:
Executive Committee and Gentlemen
of the Union Chamber of Com
- merce:
We, your committee, beg to SUBJ
nit the following report. Promptly
at 7 o'clock Tuesday morning we left
Union in a car furnished by Mr.. En-
size Nicholson for Columbia via San
tue, Carlisle, Fish Dam Ferry,
through Fairfield county and on to
Columbia returning through Lexing-
ton county and Newberry to Union.
The trip was made without accident
or discomfort save n puncture
which detained us a half hour at
Prosperity on the return trip. The
weather was propitious and the trip
enjoyed by each of us.
We found the route via Carlisle
and through Fairfield county entire
~ feasible and shorter by some ten
miles with the chief drawback being
the Fish Dam Ferry over Broad river
just four miles beyond Carlisle and
exactly Is miles from Union. This
is not a grievous drawback for it took
US but s minutes to make, the cross
ing on a fat which is regularly main
tanned by Union county. About the
toughest road we encountered was
for a half mile before reaching this
ferry and for six miles beyond that
point. We did not go via Crosbyville
and Feasterville, as did Messrs.
Chambers and Lipscomb, but left
these points to our right and took the
main ridge road via Beaver Dam
church and the home of Mr.. John
Stone. Mr.. Stone is one of Chester
county's largest cotton planters and
= the distance from Union we found to
be 2S.3 miles. From here on to Co
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30.7 miles from Union, and Samuel
Clowney's farm 32.1 miles from In
ion we found the roads very good. We
passed Ladd's store, Monticello and
Jenkinsville. At Hinnant's store we
were Is miles from Columbia. There
Is a 10-mile stretch of road on this
side of Rocky river bridge which is
bad road. The roadbed is rock and
rough. When we rolled into Colum-
bia and up to Wright's hotel where
we spent the night, we had made a
journey Of 74.8 miles. There is no
part of this road from Union to Co.
lumbia that would be expensive to
put in good condition, o is there
any part of it that would be expensive
to maintain. The road through Union
county is now in frst-class condition,
with the exception of the mile or two
as you approach Fish Dam Ferry.
About the only criticism one would
make of the road up to the approach
to the river is the fact that from I'm
ion to that point there are IS cross
ings of the Southern railway.
In Columbia we went to see Mr..
Norman, secretary of the Columbia
chamber of commerce and Mr.. G. W.
Davis, county commissioner for
Richland. We met with some en-
couragement from these gentlemen,
but they did not seem to favor the
Fairfield, Fish Dam route, mainly
for the reason that they seemed COM
mitted to the Newberry route. Mr..
Norman said that was a fixed point,
but did not say who fixed it or how.
We left Columbia about Z o'clock
Wednesday morning and reached
NeWberry through Lexington coun-
ty before dinner. We found this
route to be fairly good all the way to
Newberry. Several miles in Lexing-
ton county the roads are rocky and
poorly worked, but generally better
than the other route. We did not en-
counter the bad roads here that
Messrs. Chambers and Lipscomb en-
countered for the reason that We did
not go by way Of Irmo. We took the
road via Hopewell and Wateree
churches. Chaplin, 22.2 miles above
Columbia was in our route, and there
we tarried a brief period. Little
Mountain is just 81 miles on the way
up. Upon. our arrival at Prosperity
we were met by an escort from New
berry, three cars bringing Col. T. H.
Hunt, president of the Newberry
chamber of commerce, Col. Cole L.
Blease, mayor of Newberry, Col. E. NJ.
Evans, president Of post j., T. P. A.,
Mr.. W. G.. MayeS, president of the