Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-04-07
Clear Fork


Tazewell County continued from last
Saturday and held at the Court House
thereof on Monday, February 9th,
1911.
Honorable Fulton Kegley, Judge,
presiding.
In the matter of the petition of
the Board of Supervisors and Free
holders of Clear Fork Magisterial
District of Tazewell county, Virgin
ia, petitioning for an election to be
called in said district aud in said
county, to determine the question of
Bond Issue for the Macadamizing and
otherwise permanently improving the
roads Of said district:
This day came the petitioners, a
majority of the Board of Supervisors
of Tazewell County, and fifty free
holders of the Clear Fork magisterial
district and presented their petition
to this Court, praying an election In
the Clear Fork magistera al district of
Tazewell County, and in Tazewel
County, to determine whether or not
the Board of Supervisors of said
County of Tazewell shall issue bonds
of said County of Tazewell for the
purpose of matchmaking or other
wise permanently improving the pub
lie roads and bridges of the said
Clear Fork magisterial district of
said county; and, it appearing to the
Court that said petition is signed by
a majority of the Board of Supervi-
sors of Tazewell County and by at
least fifty freeholders of the Clear
Fork magisterial district of said
County, and that said petition is in
proper form; that the approximate
location, length and width of the
roads of said district proposed to be
macadamized, built, or permanently
improved are set out in said petition,
and that all of the requirements of
the law have been complied with,
1T is ORDERED that the regular
judges of election for Tazewell Coun-
ty on Tuesday the 18th day of April,
1911, (Which time is more than 80
days from the entering of this order) /,
shall open poll at the respective
voting precincts of said County and
take the sense of the qualified voters
of the County and of said district, on
the question whether tie Board of
Supervisors shall issue bonds of said
County for the macadamizing, build
ing or otherwise permanently. i'm
proving the public roads of said Clear
Fork magisterial district of said
County, the approximate location and
width of such roads as are proposed
to be macadamized or otherwise per-
marently improved being as follows
ROADS IN SAID DISTRICT TO
BE MACADAMIZED.
From the town of Pocahontas
in said district in said County, begin
ming at the west end of Water Street
in said town, up Laurel Creek to
Bossevain, distance of about 3
miles, said road to be macadamized
to the width of IL feet.
Prom the present macadam
road, near the. residence of T. R.
Smoot, near Tip Top, Virginia, on
the headwaters of Clinch RIVER, by
way of Tip Top and Abb's Valley
Except about A miles across Stony
Ridge and Valley Ridge), by Mrs.
Mollie Harrisson's, and down Abb's
Valley to point about opposite to
Bossevaln, thence across Laurel
Ridge to Boissevain, distance of
about 8 miles of macadam road. to be
macadamized 10 feet wide.
3-From Jeffersonville magisterial
district line at the farm of j. S. and
A. P. Gillespie, near Witten's Mill,
across the divides and down Bluestone
River by way of A. st. Clair's, to
TIE corporate limits of the town of
Graham, near Hickman Except
about 2 miles over the divides), a
distance of about IL miles, 8 miles
of which from A. St. Clair's west to
said Gillespie's farm, to be macad-
amized to the width of 10 feet, and
about 8 miles from A. st. Clair's to
the corporate limits of the town of
Graham to be macadamized IL feet
in width.
4-From A.. st. Clair,s intersect-
ing with the road mentioned in the
third paragraph, by way of st.
Clair's crossing and Graham ceme-
terry, to the corporal limits of the
town of Graham, rear Keys planning
mill, distance of about 3 miles, to
be macadamized to the width of IL
feet.
5-From Falls Mills east up
Bluestone River, towards the town
of Graham, distance Of l-2 miles,
to amacadamized to the width of 10
feet.
6-From Fails Mills west up Mud
Fork, distance,of LIZ miles, to