Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-06-30
NORTH AND SOUTH ROAD.

Pursuant to the recently published
notice, the members of the board Of
commissioners on Wednesday went
over the two routes between Yorkville
and Glover that are under considera-
tion for adoption as part of the north
and south road, provided for in the
York county road law.
One of the proposed routes follows
the Kings Mountain road to the Kings
Mountain Chapel, about four miles
north of town, cuts across from there
to Filbert and runs thence on to Clo-
yer. The other follows the Lincoln
road to a point opposite Union church,
about four miles slightly northeast Of
Yorkville, and thence runs due north
past the residences Of T. N. Thomas
son and j. B. Wood, across Allison
creek to Glover.
Interest in the proposed north and
south road began to develop immedi-
ately upon the passage Of the act pro-
viding for the same, and has been
growing steadily ever since. During
last year, partisans of the rural routes
circulated petitions and solicited sub
scriptions in their favor, and now that
the time Of a final official decision on
the part of the board Is drawing near
er, the subject Is commanding more
attention than heretofore.
In discussing the matter Wednesday,
Supervisor Boyd said that the board
would probably take steps to ascer-
tain the exact distance between York
vile and Glover by both routes and
would also probably have profiles
made of both routes in order that 1t
would be practicable to get a more
definite idea of the cost.
Advocates of the F'ilbert route claim
that in addition to the distance be-
tween Yorkville and Glover being al
most if not as quite as short by the
F'ilbert route as by the Lincoln road
route, the road is much better to be-
gin with and the construction costs
will be considerably less. Advocates
Of the Lincoln road route claim that
it is shorter and more direct, and be-
sides this it's adoption will be OF great
convenience and value to large num-
bers of Bethel township people, who
will get no benefit of the Filbert route
at all. They point out also that the
adoption of the Lincoln road route will
give all the people north of the south
ern corporate limits of Glover, every
possibility to reach Yorkville that
could be had from the. Filbert route,
while scores of Bethel people to whom
the Lincoln route would be a great
convenience could get no benefit of the
F'ilbert route whatever.
1t is pointed out also that while there
is already a good road between York.
vile and Filbert. the road between
Yorkville, and the Union church road,
especially across the Dobson and
Witherspoon bottoms Is unspeakably
bad, and that while it is true that the
repairing of this road might be rather
more expensive than will be the re-
pairing of the worst portions of the
road between Filbert and Glover, still
the DObson and Witherspoon hills
will have to be fixed up anyway, and
the necessary expenditure may as
well be done in making this section of
the Lincoln road a part of the north
and south road, as that it shall be made
independently later on.
From information gathered during
the past few days, it appears that the
people along both routes are growing
tremendously interested. and the out