The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-10-13

Good roads" said Captain
NJ. Q. Toms, this morning, mean
more to Hendersonville and to
Henderson county than would
another railroad.
81 am in favor Of a bond issue
for the purpose Of building good
Aoa4s, $ Tue proper safesu4ils
are thrown around the expendi-
ture of the money"
II have never favored a bond
issue unless the strickets safe
guards haze been thrown around
the expenditure of the money. |
would favor a bond issue now
ONLY under the same conditions
that every dollar MUST be ex-
pended cautiously, carefully, and
under the strickest supervision Of
responsible business men.
Nov I'll tell you Why" CON
tinued the Caption, "Tn tell you
why I'm in favor of good roads.
"First of all, because they ena-
Bile the farmer of this county to
haul bigger loads with fifty per
cent less wear and tear on his
stock and wagon them at present.
They enable him to take bigger
loads of produce into South
Carolina where he gets the best
price for the products of his farm.
They bring the city, the churches,
the schools closer to his home and
if, at any time he wants to sell
his farm he will find ten posi-
bic purchasers where now there
is but one.
Besides this admitted and
direct benefit to the farmers of
Henderson county, there is ano-
Their but no less important fea-
ture of good roads that some
times escapes attention.
"There are now hundreds of
wagoners making trips into South
Carolina with Henderson county
produce. These men know the
condition of the road to Green
vile. They know how difficult
it is to take even their present
loads there. Suppose there was a
well-built highway, would they
have to unload part of the contents
of their wagons, would they have
to pull down rail fences to jack
their wagons out of the awful ruts
and mudholes? /
"South Carolina is logically
THE market for Henderson coun-
ty products. IF most Of the cab
bage, potatoes and fruit of the
county were sold there direct by
the farmers, there would be tens of
thousands of dollars in the pockets
of Henderson county farmers
which now stay in the hands of the
.m~iddleman.
And here another feature Of the
proposition:
The more produce sold in South
Carolina by the farmers of this
county, the more money will be
brought int othe county. And
they can only take and sell their
products there, at a profit, if they
have a good road to travel. There
can be no argument about this
whatever.
"The mohied class of the South
are becoming the owners of thou
sands Of automobiles. They al
ready are coming here in consid-
cradle numbers. Hundreds more
want to come but are stopped for
the lack of an automobile high
way. They are the very people
we want to get interested in Hen
derson county, and that they are
already interested is shown by the
success of the Kanuga Lake Col
ony and the Highland Lake Club,
whose members are composed of
men from all over the South. /
understand that the value of the
automobiles at Kanuga this past
season was not far from one hun
dred thousand dollars. These are
the men we want to come here,
but they will not come unless we
have good roads.
"The proposed automobile high
way from Asheville to Greenville
is now almost a necessity to the
continued development of Hen
derson county. | hope. it will be
and built at once. l was
down at Zirconia the other day,