Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-10-16
LETTER FROM WEST.
Strong Appeal For Improving
Public Roads of the County. .
Refers to the Savannah
Water Power.

please allow me space in your VAL
liable paper to state few facts. l
have never forgotten the correct
form of addressing Reader" and
"Veritas." Having read with much
interest the letter from Justice" in.
your last Issue, / wish to say some
thing. The plea made by Justice"is
good, but it lacks strength because,
it is an appeal to others to help
place you in position to enjoy life.
doubt the praoticability of such
a plan. People do not usually work
themselves into q frenzy about a
matter like that. Northern and
southern people, they are pretty
much alike the world over. Whom
some of my fellow citizens were
rushing to sell their birth right for
mess of pottage, / wondered if
some of them would not live to re-
gret it. 1t may not be too late even
now for some of them to learn more
about this matter, before going
deeper. 1t would have been wise for
all people owning land along the
water front to have held out for what
it was reasonably worth and have
given per cent of the proceeds to
improving the main thoroughfares
throuph Edgefeld county. You
could get the people of Edgefeld
county together on proposition
like that. The Martin town road
follows the creek and river for
many miles and if the land owners
along this road had agreed to hold
their bottom land for reasonable
price, they could have afforded to
give portion of it to the perms-
nent Improvement of this road and
other roads, which would have made
lRdgeGe Geld county a good place iH
which 60 live. AS it is, western
Edgefeld county is about the most
Inaccessible, primitive, God-for-
saken country in Christendom, in
the winter time. The whole land
scspe looks tired to one who has
been where the people look to the
permanent improvement of the pub
lie highways.
| l am one of those who expect to
come into sudden fortune from
owning creek lands. I will join with
the others, who have not yet sold
themselves into bondage in agre eing
to give certain portion of this
fortune to a fuld for many milos
AS possible of the principal roads of
Edgefeld county. Helping Au
gusta will never do US any direct
good. Just 80 you spend your money
when you get there it is immaterial
TO the people of Augusta how you
got there.
Justice" speaks of her ancestors
having helped to run the Indians
off. These northern capitalists, re-
ferred to by Justice, are the pale
faces in this deal and they have
bought with them string of beads
ami few bright trinkets to ex-
change feT our valuable lands. Let
us at lcaai be good Indians and
make .han contribute something
towards ameliorating our savage
condition.
A good road from Augusta to
EdGeiaId up the Martin town way
wouid tarn western Edgefeld
county iroio wilderness into a
place fit fof he habitation of man.
Then toe nice road between the
creek am, river would be nice for
our Clark Hill friends. AS it is,
one must leave his automobile in
Augusta and go prospecting if he
hopes to penetrate the inaccessible
portions of Edgefeld county.
One Can circle the globe without
the least anxiety about making con-
nectlonS, while 1t takes stout
heart to penetrate the jungles Of
western Edgeheld county during
the rainy season in winter, when
the roads are to be seen at their
best. This is the time the northern
capitalists should try to buy up tho
lands. Then it is when our fellow
citizens would accept ten dollars
an acre for their lands with one
hand while holding their victim
with the other.
A good road from Augusta to
Edgefeld, by way of Golfers, and
from Golfers to Clark's Hill, would
mean more to the county and the
people than anything else I kno"
of. People would build dec
houses along this road and GO