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

borers that they viii bring in.

borers that they will bring in.
Let's build our own roads with our
own men and money, and without or
with State supervision, as we may
decide is best for US. 1t will be time
enough to have big bond issue af-
ter we have given the pay plan q
fair trial.
We had a bitter taste of the bond
issue plan on small scale from 1892
to 1909. The people are not general
ly informed on this point, because
these bonds were not voted, but issued
for the County by the Supervisors
under authority of the statute. The
bond issued leaders are informed on
this point, but they continue to tell
the people that thousands and thou
sands of dollars of the road tax mon
ey have been wasted under what they
call the pay plan in the last twenty
years.
1t is not true. Just the reverse is
true. We were under the bond issue
plan for making permanent improve
ments from 1892 to 1909. The Su-
pervisors issued county bonds for
$S3, 500. 1t took one half, fifteen
cents of the road levy of thirty cents,
together with the railroad tax fund
from 1892 to 1909 to pay off these
bonds, and during this time the aver
age amount left to be used annually
on nearly 600 miles of public roads
did not exceed $500 per mile. Don t
you think that much was needed to
keep them passable?
VOTE ACCORDING TO THE
FACTS AND DO NOT BE MISLED
BY THE "HOT AIR CAMPAIGN"
FOR THE BOND ISSUE.
They also tell the people that the
pay plan has been tried since the for
nation of the County in the year
1900, and it ought to have built lot
of macadam roads by this time if wit
wa any good. This is some more hot
air, and not supported by any facts.
From 1900 to 1884, there was no
iphi SaN. law IGtlulEeu TIE Hldle
citizens between 16 and &c years of
age to work the roads, and this was
the main support of the roads down
to 1893, when the working was
held unconstitutional by our Supreme
Court. In 1885, a small road tax of
10 cents was laid, and it continued at
this rate to 1892 and didn't raise as
much as four dollars per mile annual
ly for the repair and maintenance of
the public roads.
From 1892 to 1910 the road levy
was SOC. per 500; one half of which
was used for the repair and mainte-
nance of the public roads of the
County, nearly GOO miles, and the
other half, together with the railroad
tax fund, was consumed in paying
interest on the bonds and providing a
sinking fund to pay off the principal
of the bonds.
After getting the old bond issue
paid off it was wise to try the pay as
you go plan for permanent improve
NETS, and the Tazewell Road Law
was passed in February, 1910, SO as
to make start on small scale and
show the people it's advantages over
the bond issue plan, which had been
tried and wasted so much money, and
in Jeffersonvile District, the advan-
tages of the pay plan have been
shown in building the road on Hubble
Hill at cost of $500, where as
State supervision and contractor
would have mcde it cost $4,000, on
the same grade and specifications.
JEFFERSONVILLE DISTRICT.
There are some stronger reasons
why Jacksonville District should
vote AGAINST BOND ISSUE"
We have already a good start on the
other districts, having 10 miles of
old macadam and rock road and few
miles of new macadam, and are now
building some new macadam under
the pay plan for $500 per mile,
which would have cost $4,000 under
State Supervision and a contractor.
We have our machinery bought and
paid for and it will last for years.
Our district road committee is J. S.
Gillespie. M. l.. Peery and Supervis-
or. Our road foremen are Henry Kin
Ger, Dug Vermillion and Bob Kincer,
all capable and experienced road
builders. We have the home labor and
teams handy. Give us the same
amount of money to spend each year
on the roads that the bond issue
would take, and Jacksonville Dis
trict will build her roads better and
almost IS fast as the bond issue will,
and we could keep on building. If the
bond issue should carry, say in Clear
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