The Adair County news., 1913-04-09
A DOCUMENT
OF INTEREST.
in. COffey County Road Engineer,
Reports TO the FiscaI Court
of Adair County. D..

Gentlemen
l herewith submit my report as
County Road Engineer for Adair
County KY, for the 6 months ending
March 81, 'l3.
Immediately>after the Oct, 1912,
term OF the Fiscal Court at which
time you elected me County Road En-
gineer. L attended an examination as
required by law, and secured from the
State Commissioner of Roads certifi-
cate authorizing me to act in the ca
pacity to which you had elected me.
Uuder a ruling of the law made by
the Hon. Jas. Garnett, Attorney Gen.
eral of the State: Immediately upon
my return from the examination at
Frankfort, KY, assumed the duties of
the Office, on Oct, II, 1912.
Ny first act as County Road Engi-
neer was to go over the county and
examine the roads, culverts and
bridges, for the purpose of ascertaining
as well as could the needs of the
county and the conditions pertaining
to roads in each section.
l found the roads in deplorable
condition. a few sections only having
roads worthy of the name, the main
part of the county being traversed by
a series of gullieS, rocky branches,
creek beds, etc., in an almost impasSi-
ble condition.
As required by law l have with the
assistance of the Hon. n. HI. Moss,
County Judge, laid off the county into
what we think are convenient and
practical road districts, appointing by
mutual agreement, from one to three
Assistant Engineers in each road dis
trict, as the needs OF each division in
our Judgment required.
For the present we think that these
road districts will suffice to give us a
chance to put to practical test the
intentions of the trainers Of the new
road law.
We have laid off and described in a
book kept for that purpose, the
bounds of IS road districts in the
comfy, and have appointed the fol-
lowing Assistant Engineers:
Dist. No l, VIM. Mckinley.
" 2, d. NJ. Moore.
3, w. f. Todd.
"A, S. T. Hughes.
" ). John Dohoney and w. S.
Stotts.
" 6, June Willis.
-, J. c Dohoney.
s. W. S. Pickett and w. H.
Kemp.
q" 9, Chas. w. Sparks.
10, Millard Corbin and J H.
Breeding.
" IL, J. w. Burbridge and Al
bert Turner.
" u, Jas. Jones and J, w.
Marshall
/" l3, Virgil Hurt.
" ii, Cassius Breeding-Josh
Beard and Jim McQuearY.
" 10. J. B. Coffey.
- I6 Tom McDermott and E.
B. Morgan.
" L, Granville Russell and
Hardin Cundif.
" IS, S. L. Banks and f. .
Turner
Where we have appointed more
than one assistant in a district we
thought the territory was too large
for one man to look over and take care
Of properly.
The Assistant Engineers are all
employed with the understanding tltat
they are TO perform the services re-
quirCd of them for the sum Of one
dollar per day when actually employed
in the performance Of their duties
4 certified claim for their services
to be presented 10 the Fiscal Court
for allowance upon this basis.
OFactual work upon the roads OF
the county but little has been done
since I assumed the duties of the
office. did go out on several of the
roads during October and November,
1912, and got the overseers to warn in
the hands and try to get their diyis-
ions in as good condition as>possible
before winter set ia, but in the most
fthe county the hands had already
worked out their time and there was
no possibility of doing any genera
improvement before Spring and sum
mer Of this year.
About the first week inJanuary thi.
year, We had, as you all know, tht
most disastrous food this section ha.
ever known. This flood in addition t.
washing the roads all to pieces anC
creating almost impossible condition
in many places. washed away As fee
of the approach to to the bridge owe
RuSSell'S creek at mouth of disap
poinment creek, and rendered useles
and unsafe, about go feet of the az