Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-01-27
Total for s yrs. SIG, 1877. So


The proposition now before the
people is to have bond issue of
$500, 100000, the bonds to run for a
period of thirty four years; the OBJ
ject and purpose of this is to get the
money and spend it on permanent
roads. If you will take the trouble
to make the necessary calculation
you will find that spending SIG, :
1888 in eight years is in the same
proportion as the expenditure of
$493, 797. 90 in thirty four years. If
the road fund is managed in the fu-
ture as it has been in the past within
the next thirty four years we will
have spent $5OO,O0O.OO.
We see from the above that the
sum of SIG, 1877. So according to our
Treasurer's report has been spent on
the roads in Tazewell County. Citi-
zen what return have you for all
this vast sum of money? Has the
road in your neighborhood been i'm
proved? If not, what has become of
the money?
You are driven to the inevitable
answer, that it has been wasted.
One other question: Would any
business man of Tazewell County put
from $12, ZOO to SIS, 900 annually
into a losing business; into an enter
prise that has cost each year, for the
past eight years more than $12, 900
and which has brought no returns
whatever?
If not, why do you permit the
County officials do this self same
thing? Have not the County officials
"hid thy talent in the earth," and
do they not deserve the same con-
demnation of the slothful servant?
To this you will no doubt reply, that
all the fault lies at the door of the
Board of Supervisors, but in this you
are mistaken; it is as much my fault
and your tiult as it is theirs. We
hs.Ne been preceding for years along
wrong lines il the expenditure of
money on road. You are able to
render great assistance to the Board
of Supervisors n casting your vote
for the bond issue and thus direct
your officles Jus how the money
shall be spent on what roads.
Heretofore the money for roads
has been spent in a'arge measure nv
placing stone IN won places in the
roads and covering same with CLAW.
or in throwing up tn. CLAY without
the stone, which wrk is usually
n done in September an October each
r year. The travel oveithe roads for
\ the few weeks precedii, the winter
s is not sufficient to paclthe road he'd
n solid, hence, the soil hos the waite,
o that falls upon it until the freeze
which usually follows th,beavv rains
e in the fall, and the road litter ono n,
s two freezes, is in really worse con
: dition than before the .onev ,yo,
e spent on it. No benefit ,s dar;va,
from the work during the sun,,na,.
/, for the reason that the worl 10 A..
l. IN tne ran Oh .he year no nefit il
a derived from the work in tn, ,y;,4o
e for the reason that the wtl, d.
y loosens the road bed, rather Aan :
], make it solid; in fact the gasfma ;ov.
a ity of the work on the roaos ~.
'r advantage and an absolute u
l. If the money of this CT,
!, heretofore been spent in ma ,
le which has not produced thdb BEST M no
D suits, it is high time for change
in We have some citizens ho stat
I'd they object to the StateH Highwa
$. Commissioner rendering ufAny ser
se vice, in remedying the evi that ha
l. overtaken US. Why shoul there b
any objsctionsY The stateHishws,
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