The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-12-04
TOO LATE.
Dillon County Got the Appro'
,priation and Cone.

The road from Clinton TO Colum 5ia
is the choice of many Newberry and
Richland county people who have
studied the conditions in posed by tn e
Postmaster General in his communica-
ton relative to the expenditure OF
$50, 1000 on improving and main ntalning
q fifty mile road in South Carolina.
One of the conditions is that the dis
tance must be covered by rural routes
and another is that the State or local
subdivisions arrange to set aside S2O.-
0on to be added to the governments
$4,000. -.
The matter was called to the atten-
tion of the Governor. says the Colum-
bia Evening Record, by the Postmas-
ter General, a part of the letter con-
tanning this paragraph is as follows:
"If you will cause to be selected in
your State suitable road about fifty
miles long over the entire length of
which there is delivery Of mail by ru-
raj carriers and will arrange to have
$50, 600 raised by the State, or local
subdivisions thereof. in accordance
with the requirements of the law, the
government will set aside $4,000 addi-
tional from the appropriation granted
by Congress and will expend the sum
of $50, 900 thus provided, 80 much of it
az seems wise. for the improvement
and maintenace of the road selected" :"
The Governor is given authority to
name the road the conditions being
that it is road on which rural mail is
delivered.
The Newberry Herald and News
contains the following editorial endorse
ment of the proposed road:
!. "We would like to suggest the road
from Clinton to Columbia, which is
little more than 50 miles. This road
is on q ridge all the way practically,
and is q mail delivery road. It has a
number of towns on 1t and goes
through q prosperous farming section.
"The road between Chaplin and Lit
tie Mountsin ueeds TO be relocated 80
as to avoid going directly up and down
the hills between these two points.
From Little Mountain to PrQsperi.
ty, Supervisor Feagie has already put
the road in fairly good condition, but
in order to keep it 80, it must have
attention. From Prosperity to New
berry there is now fairly good road,
and from Fewberry to Kinards the
road ia in good condition, with the ex-
ception of holes, and these could be
remedied by the split log drag, and
with very little time and labor"
From the above statement as to the
conditions In Newberry county, butl
tie work will have TO be done.
At the Office of Supervisor Muller
it was learned that the roads now un-
der improvement traverses the Dutch
Fork from the Broad river bridge to
the Is mile post. The finishing touch
es are now being put on and the link
of four miles from the Is mile post
and Spring Hill will be put in shape
as part of the proposed so mile gov
ernment road. The only movement
that will DE necessary is the obtain
ing of pledges to pay the $40, 900 as
the part Of the $4,000 that must
be met by the owners of the property
abutting on the proposed model road
Continuing the estimate the amount
may be divided among property own
ers on basis of S400 mile. The gov
erment would spend $500 mile which
would build and maintain highway
that woald prove practical example
of modern road making methods and
stimulate activity in this important
feature Of constructive efforts.