The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-03

A9 N4A4O W ECGMs L
vile Highway.
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TO abolish h one stretch of wretch
ed road which effectively discourages
automobile travel between GreenviIle I
and Ashevills, which robs the Hen
derson county FARMER of his most
profitable market, is the purpose of
the good roads convention which
meets in Hendersonville on August
18th.
State Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt
and other good roads experts will be
present. Representatives from Green
vile and Buncombe counties will be
there and an organization effected,
ways and means devised and the
heartiest Cooperation of all three
counties enlisted in the movement.
1t is believed that "a unity of pur-
pose" among the three counties in
terested, Greenville, Henderson and
Buncombe, to complete the admirable
highway between the North and
South Carolina cities, already partial
ly built, will receive its decisive i'm
petus from this meeting and that the
twelve miles of difficult road in Hen
derson county-the connecting link
will be improved.
Buncombe's magnificent macadam
now reaches to Henderson's line.
That superbly graded road from the
Buncombe line to H~endersonville is
the second link in the chain. The
twelve miles of wretched road, over
the mountains, from Hendersonville
to the Greenville county line, is the
third ink-the one weak link-for
G~reenville county is building and
Ill - ~0o1 - &Lo ITnn50n
son line.
But this Henderson county road
blocks the complete purpose of the
highway. Farmers find it almost inn
possible to market their product in
their logical market of South Carroll
ma owing to the present d~eplorable
= condition of the road.
And that the progressive farmers of
Henderson county realize the i'm
portance of the new highway needs
no repetition.
The men of Mills River, for in
stance, have notified County Road SUI
pervisor Justice that they will relin-
quish their just claims to the ser
vices of the chain gang that Mr..
Justice may be free to put the con-
victs on this road to the Greenville
line.
They appreciate the fact that a
good road to Greenville will enable
them to get their produce into their
most profitable market.It means
tens of thousands of dollars to them
in the course of a year in increased
prices alone. 1t means many more
thousands of dollars saved in valua-
BILE time and in wear and e Of their
stock and wagons.
In this instance the interests of all
classes of citizens are similar and
the farmer, the automobile owner,
the ordinary, plain, everyday CITIZEN
of the county may we'll have a hit
of purpose" in the construction of the
missing link in-a-magnifcent high
way which will SOC reach from the
mountain city to the mill city.
Mr.. J. P. Goodwin, supervisor OF
Greenvil1e county, in a communities
ton to Mr.. Justice in reference to the
good roads convention says:
"I am truly glad to know of the
meeting. We intend making splendid
improvements here in Greenville
county in connection with the high.
way to Asheville."
Among other letters promising CO
operation on the part of Greenville
business men is one from Mr.. G. d
Allen, who writes most enthusiastica
ly of what his town and county is do
ing and will do in connection witt
the highway.
Mr.. Joseph Hyde Pratt, North Car
DINA State Geologist, says:
81 am very much interested in tn
road to Greenville and hope to see i
pushed through at an early date"
1t is known that Buncombe county
is vitality interested in the completion
of the highway-for it means a very
great deal to Asheville.
Scores of automobiles make the tr1I
daily now from Greenville to Ashe
Vile, via Hendersonville. Whe1
this twelve-mile-long link through
Henderson county is completed TIT
number will be vastly increased, anC
hundreds, where now tens, will enjoy
the delights of a motor trip through
the most picturesque mountain seen
cry on the American continent.
To sum UP the purposes of the goot
roads convention, the farmer benent'
most of all, for, to repeat, it open:
wide his most profitable market al
South Carolina is Western North Car
Olina's tWice-a-year market.
The farmers sell the fruits of theil
toll there in the fall, and in b sum
mer South Carolina moves up int
these radiant mountains, where tn
farmer feeds e monce more.
Buncombe needs the road, for i
means increased automobile train
from and to it's sister city, and Ashe
vile, with it's customary grasping o
a good thing, will be quick to re
spond.
G~reenville, the Gateway to &c
There" is vitality interested, also. l
affords the automobile owners Of tina
prosperous city, and Of all the man
towns surrounding it, an opportunit:
to make the trip in their cars wit
safety, with ease, with time-savln
quickness.
Henderson county is most interest