Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-03-31
Who VIII Be Left Out

rowed money will all be consumed in
building the lit miles of macadam
roads specified in the orders. Nothing
will be left to spend on the 40
miles of OTHERWISE IMPROVED
ROADS, mentioned in the last part
of the orders.
Now, who is going to be left out
in this bond issue deal? 1t is as plain
as day that the money will not build
one half of the roads specified in the
orders. In Jcffersonville District,
the order first names al 3D. miles of
macadam, numbered from i to 16,
which are required "TO BE MAC
ADAMIZED, D." some IL feet mac
adan and the balance 9 feet mac
adam; and then in the last part of
the order, there is set out another
group of roads, numbered from / to
25, covering a Ia miles. reaching
over the whole district, which are
ito be built and permanently i'm
proved by macadam, OR OTHER
WISE THAN BY MACADAM :" and
to be width of not less than Is
feet"
Beyond question, the bond issue
leaders intended and knew that under
the law and the order of the Court,
the Al Sd miles of macadam roads
in Jacksonville District will be and
must be built first, before spending
anything on the other roads. 1t will
take all of the 5000, 900 under the
bond issue plan to build the ii 81
miles of macadam in Jefferconville
District, which would be less than
$4,000 per mile, and we have not the
least idea that the 100000 would
build all of the al Sd miles of mac
adam roads. The bond issue leaders
know that they cannot build macadam
roads under their plan for less than
$4,000 per mile, and we challenge
them to show that they will have
anything to spend upon the Cd Id
miles of road in Jacksonville Dis
trict, which are specified in the last
part of the order; and we further
challenge them to show the voters
that they were acting in good faith
when they included these roads in the
order. We charge that they were
acting in bad faith and that it was
done to mislead the voters and catch
their votes.
In Clear Fork District, the same
trick and game are being played. In
the first part of the order, there are
42 Id miles of roads which must be
macadamized as specified, and then
68 miles of roads to be improved by
macadam "OR OTHERWISE THAN
MACADAM. i"
But in Maiden Spring District, the
bond issue leaders refused to do this
and specified SO miles of roads to be
macadamized, and which likely could
be macadamized with their SITS, 600 :;
but they declined to stick into the
last part of the order lot of roads
scattered over the district to be i'm
proved "OTHERWISE THAN BY
MACADAM, Tin order to catch votes.
The man who votes for the bond
issue in Clear Fork and Jacksonville
Districts, relying on getting the
OTHERWISE IMPROVED ROADS,
il sure to be disappointed and wiser
man after the election, when he finds
the money all spent on the first set
of roads, which must be macadam-
lied, and his district in debt for 80
odd years, during which time there
will be no more money for his roads.
The road tax will be going to pay in
terest on bonds and into the Sinking
Fund to pay the principal of the
bonds at maturity.
Under the pay plan, all the mac
adam roads specified could be built in
ten years, or less, and then we would
be out of debt and could go ahead and
build and improve the other roads.
The people who will get the main
use and benefit of these macadam
roads may vote in favor of the bond
issue for personal reasons, regardless
OF cost or waste, because they wish
the borrowed money spent where it
will benefit them and their lands, but
to the people who live in the sec
tions reached by the roads to be i'm
proved "OTHERWISE THAN MAC
ADAM" there is every reason why
they should vote against the bond is
sue plan.
Here are the 41 344 miles of roads
in Jetfersonville District, which must
be built first and macdamized, and
will take all the borrowed money
Seven miles west from town of
Tazewell; 5 miles east from town of
Tazewell; 3 1-2 miles from Mrs.
Kate Peery's to Wittens Mill; q
miles by S. c. Peery's to Tazewell
depot; 1 Id miles from depot to j.
Ed Peery's; 2 Sd miles from j. Ed
Peery's to John .Peery place; d miles