Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-04-14
IT'S BOND ISSUE
OR NO ROADS,
Light on Whether Roads
S. eci5ed Will Be Built.

"lf the bend issue carries, the
borrowed money will all be consumed
in building the III miless of mac
adam roads, specified in the orders,
nothing will be left to spend on the
140 miles of otherwise improved
roads, mentioned in the last part of
the orders. - "Now who is going to
be left out of this bond issue deal?''
CIT is AS PLAIN AS DAY THAT
THE MONEY WILL NOT BUILD
ONE HALF THE ROADS SPECI-
FLED IN THE ORDERS" etc. Thus
speaks the gentleman who has assum-
ed to stand as the mouth piece and
advocate of what has been termed
the "Pay as you go plan" for pro-
viding good roads for Tazewcll coun-
ty. This same advocate no less mod
estly subscribes himself Common
Sense Tax Payer a non de plume
that no one reading his prose would
ever think of giving him. Why does
the gentleman think he is "com-
mon sense talker and tax payer?
And if he is a common sense ta!ker
and pays his taxes, why does he fail
and refuse to sign his name to his
publications? If his taxes are appor-
toned by the amount of common
sense contained in the letters men
toned, | fear the county treasurer
does rot see him very often, but,
candidly, this man may be friend
of mine and may really pay taxes, in
either event his letters would be en-.
titled to more consideration, though
doubtless subject to the same crit.
cism.
Now what does he say? He says,
"the bond issue" people will build
only the macadam roads aud the
others will be left out For the SAKE
of the argument, and only for the
sake of the argument, admit it to be
true, will the people be in any worse
position and the roads in any WORST
condition than if they adopt the "paS
as you go plan?" The "pay MS yo,
go plan" does not assure you single
mile of ANY KIND OF ROAD, and
does not even suggest the building or
providing of otherwise permanently
improved roads. The "bond issue"
plan, not only promises you 1T miles
of macadam roads. but ALSO prom
iies you 140 miles of otherwise per-
manently improved" roads. Il say
promise, and this promise in the
"bond issue" plan means assured, rs
will be hereinafter shown) and TAX
ing the Clear Fork District, as an ex-
ample, the "bond issue" plan has
gone further, and in the public meet
ings of the citizens of that district,
as will be shown by the minutes of
those meetings, it was specified that
$500 per mile, or so much thereof
as might be necessary, be provided
for the building of the macadam
roads of the district and that $1,000
per mile be expended on the building
of the other roads mentioned in the
order, that is the 6S miles of "other-
wise permanently improved roads
provided for in the order. Now if it
requires all of the $500 per mile to
build the macadam roads specified for
said district and $1,000 per mile is
spent on the other roads, there will
be left only about 10 miles of the
latter roads that the money from the
bond issue will not build. This 10
miles and more will be taken care of
from the surplus saved from the road
tax in said district during the build
ing of the above mentioned roads
from the proceeds of the bond issue
sale, as will be demonstrated in an
other article dealing with another
phase of the question, from bond is
sue standpoint.
Not only this, but every mile OF
macadam as well as Otherwise i'm
proved roads, all over the county,
has been infinitely located from point
to point, so that there can be M
question of distance, has been pub
lished, agreed upon and provided fo
in the petitions to he court as wei
as in the orders of the court, and thu
self same, court, who, on the petition:
of nearly 1000 of the freeholders anC
voters of this county, entered said or
ders, providing for said roads and fol
building of the same, will see to it
that the money derived from the sal,