Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-08
CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE &c. ~
WILL CONNECT THREE STATES i.
WITH CHAIN OF GOOD ROADS
State Legislatures Are Asked to Give ConvCS for Work
While Congress Will Be Requested to Lend National Aid to
Highways. tr.r. =

CHARLOTTE, y. c.. April THE
greatest impetus ever given to good road
building in the Carolinas and Tennessee
was the result of the recent meeting in
Hendersonville, y. c. The object was
to see how much had been done on the
three great highways-the Charlotte to
Knoxville, Greenville to Asheville and
Spa tanburg to Asheville-and to COM
plete plans and arrangements for their
completion this year.
AS a result of the convention, the thr6e
roadways are assured. and it is believed
they will be completed by October, IN
time for the big automobile run to Knox
vile. Ashevime sent the largest delega-
ticn to Hendersonville. there being in the
partv 10 members The trip was made
in 20 automobiles in short time. To show
the enthusiasm of rural delegates, the
most striking incident of the conventiin
occurred when C. w. Conner, of Bear
Wallow, unannounced, arose and stated
that if somebody would come down I'd
Hickory Nut Gap and survey the SIX
miles which have been the bugaboo IN
plans of the Charlotte Knoxville highway
advocates. he and his neighbOrs would
quit their plows and go out and make
that road.
PRATT PRESIDES.
The meeting was presided over by Dr..
Joseph Hyde Pratt, state geologlst OF
North Carolina, who had called the meet
in.
Knoxville was selected as the next place
of meeting of the Southern Appalachian
Good Roads association, and this meeting
will be held in September or October.
Q. The actual results of the meeting may
Unanimously adopted:
The Hendersonviile good roads meet
ing. held under the auspices of the State
Economic and Geologic Survey and the
Southern Good Roads association, TealiZ-
ing the great value of good roads in
the Industrial advancement and uplitt
Of the south, and believing that the time
has come for the state to take some def
mite action in regard to state aid, Ii Is
hereby resolved that it is the sense of
this meeting that states interested should
appropriate sufficient amounts to maze
it possible to give adequate road en-
cheering of all the counties in the con-
structiOn of their roads and bridges.
THAT il is the sense of this meeting
that the best use that can be made OF
convicts is in the construction of public
roads, and that the Southern Appalachian
several legislatures within it's territory to
provide the legislation therefor. 1t Is
further resolved that it is the sense Of
this meeting that the state should give
to the counties assistance in the actual
construction of their roads and that each
state should appropriate out of the gen.
eral treasury for this purpose at least
$3.50, 600 annually. said amount to be APP
portioned amongst the counties. Provided
the said counties raise twice the amount
allotted by the state, and provided, fur
Their. that such money as is apportioned
by the state to the counties and raised
by the counties to meet the states allot-
ment shall be spent in the construction
of public roads whose location and plans
4rd specifications for construction ave
approved by the states highway en-
gineers
~. CONGRESS IS ASKED.
That our senators and representatives
in congress are respectfully urged to use