Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1913-08-15

Mr.. Jas. Maret, Secretary,
Mt Vernon. Kentucky.
Dear Sir
We are sending you
herewith a blank for you To fill in,
giving US information rs to the
towns which yOnr proposed Boone
Way would pass between Ora b
Orchard and Lancaster, Lancas
and Nocholasville, aud Nicholas
Vile and Lexington.
We appreciate the arguments
you have advanced in favor of a
direct route from Crab Orchard
to Lexington. not via Winchester
Our suggestions from the official
sources of the State, however
show the Highway running from
Mt. Vernon thru or near Crab
Orchard to Stanford, and thence
running north-eas thru Lancas
ter, Winchester, Mt, Sterling etc.
with, of course, a westerly line
from Winchester ta Lexington,
Frankfort, and Louisville. We
intend to include also, tentatively
at least, the route shown on your
sketch under date of February 20
1913, in addition to the official
route: and for that purpose need
the information We have asked of
you so that we can definitely To-
cate the road between Crab Orch
ard and Lexington according to
your routing. Since with this
exception We have Kentucky
practically finished so far as our
National Highways system is
concerned. we will very much APP
preciate a reply at your early con
venlence, and wish to thank you
in advance for your kind a.ten
ton to this.
With the exception noted above,
the State has designated your
Boone Way as one of their sug.
gestions for our National High
ways.
Very truly yours.
TIMOTHY w. SPRAGUE
Engineer to Board of National
Councillors.
The National Highway associa,
ton has the leading business and
professional men of our country as
members. Its object is to have
constructed many thous .nds Of
miles of highway throughout the
United States aided by the Nation.
al Government. Among the
prominent men who are taking a
leading part in the work we find
the names of Gen. Coleman Du
POnt, the man who has built a
splendid system of turnpikes for
his native state, New Jersey,
much of it at his own expense; he
being Chairman Board of National
Councillors; Chas. Henry Davis,
Z. E. President. Washington, d C..
Will Ward Duffield Engineer of
chart construction and a host of
others from all portions of the
country. The question of high.
ways has beeu taken up and
systematized for action and pres
entation to congress One of the
trunk lines as proposed by the as
ISOLATION and which was shown on
their first issued maps shows the
line sailed the Great Lakes-Atlan
tic, starting at Charleston, S. G
as passing through Columbia,
Granville, Ashville. Johnson City,
Cumberland Gap, London, Rich
mOnd to Winchester, there to
intersect with a trunk line called
the South West leading from
Washington to Galveston Texas via
LeAi gton, Louisville, Cairo,
Little Rock, Texaskova, Dallas
Houston aud the Island City en-
the Gulf. The secretary of our
commercial club through cores
pondence has called attention to
the Boone Way proposition aud
its route and has about convinced
the Natior al Highway Association
that it should endorse the route
from Cumberland Gap tn Lexing-
ton via Crab orchard. Lancaster.
and Nicholasville instead of the
route, via Wincester to Lexington
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