Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-17
THE COUNTY CHAINGANG
Report of Operations During 1912 ant
Eouipment on Hand January 1, 1913

Report OF OperdtionS Dlrln9 lSlE ana
Equipment on Hand January 1, 1918.
Office of Supervisor Of York County.
Yorkville, S. c., January Is, 1913.
T N obedience to an Act of the Gen
i eral Assembly, approved February
25, 1909, l beg leave to submit the fol-
lowing report in regard to the opera
| tions of the York County chaingang
during the year 1912, together with a
statement of the equipment on hand
January 1, 1918:
During the greater part Of the year
the chaingang has been employed on
the North and South road out Of York
vile as directed by what is commonly
known as the county road law, and up
to January l, 1913 had completed the
construction of between four and five
miles of said road full thirty feet wide
and at grade which at no place eX-
ceeds per cent. With the exception
of about one mile this road has been
pretty thoroughly sanded.
The bridge force has been operating
in various parts of the county during
about eight months of the year. 1t con-
sisted of an average of eleven hands.
The bridge force started out with
eleven hands and operated in various
parts of the county during period of
eight months doing a considerable
amount of construction work, includ-
ing the following jobs:
l. Built small bridge on the Char
lotte road, and did e. considerable
amount of concrete work on that road.
g Built a bridge 200 feet long over
Allison Creek at the McCaw place.
8. Rebuilt steel bridge 102 feet in
length over Crowder's Creek at Davis's
Mill.
4. Built bridge rs or 80 feet in length
over Crowder's Creek at r. B. Riddles
Mill.
5. Built bridge at the Starr place on
Bethesda and Rock Hill road.
6. Built bridge at the Glenn & Alli-
son place, on lower Rock Hill and
Yorkville road.
Z. Built steel briuge over Turkey
Creek on Blairsville and Chester road,
and in connection with this bridge
built three concrete piers and four
earth and stone windwalls.
s. Built two cylindrical piers and
wooden bridge at Thompson's Mill.
9. Built one concrete culvert SKI and
thirty feet long at McFadden place on
upper Rock Hill and McConnellsville
road.
10. Built abutments for 24-foot
bridge on D. E. Finley's place on up
per Rock Hill and McConnellsville
road.
II Built abutments for $50 foot
bridge over Wildcat Creek on upper
Rock Hill and McConnellsville road.
IL. Built one concrete culvert AXIS,
Sc feet long at Bass place on upper
Rock Hill and McConnellsville road,
and another concrete culvert AKA and
SO feet long on the same road, also on
the Bass place.
13. Built one concrete pier for bridge
over Tools Fork and began another
cut.
IA. Built cattle chute at D. E. Fin
ley's place on upper Rock Hill and
McConnellsville road.
Is. Built two steel bridges with con-
crete piers, on North and South road,
one over Fishing Creek and the other
over Dobson's branch.
16. Built two bridges at McElwee's
Mil, one large and one small.
II. Did quite a lot of necessary
ditching and other miscellaneous road
work, including the putting in of II
sets of tiles each set "a inches in dia-
meter and 80 feet in length.
Present Equipment.
The present equipment of the chain
gang as the same was listed January l,