Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-10-16
Yours for Booze Way,
JAMES MARET

Yours for Booze Way, 7
JAMES MARET. |
Auto trips were made by the
delegates thru the courtesy of
Henry Roberts and Board of
Trade over the convict built road
from Bristol to Wallace, in Wash
lngton County. Va, where the
camp and stone crushing
plant is located. Other trips were
made including one of a Is mile
run into Sullivan County, Tenn.
All these systems of roads are
fine and automobiles often make /
40 to 30 nile rate over straight
lines. Bristol, Va Tenn, is To-
Gated in two stats. The center of
State street running East and
West is the dividing line. On the
Tennessee side it is dry" aud
wet" on the Virginia side but
will will be dry in the Fall of 1916
when prohibition will be put into
effect as a result of the vote in the
late election turnout the State.
Bristol has a population of $4,000
and it its hustling qualifications
were taken in consideration and
comparison made with numerous
other cities of $4,000 population,
the latter cities would have moth
ing over Bristol which has lis
tanneries, manufacturing plants,
wholesale dry goods, groceries,
shoes. hats, hardware, -four,
grain and etc. not only in the mat
ter of size is it the greatest jobbine
center of perhaps, the United
States. but the variety of manu-
featured products that are shipped
to all parts of the country probab
ly exceed in number and value the
. manufactured goods of any othel
city of equal size.
The object of the Association il
to encourage the building anC
maintenance of good roads in thu
Southern Appalachian mountain
and to promote the building O
Interstate roads among the State
of Virginia, West Virginia, Nortl
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
Alabama. Tennessee, and Ken
= lucky. All the states mentioned
have made great progress in roat
making except South East Ken
= lucky which las Jagged somewha
behind but is now showing mucl
more interest in the subject thai
in the past and from indication
will push good roads in future
especially will Boone Way receiv,
the attention that it justly de
. serves and we hope will be push
to completion.
One of the speakers in the con
vention had this to say:
splendid touring pixies ar,
already in existence from the lin,
I, of the Lincoln highway at the
Illinois border, thru Indianapolis
to Louisville, and there Is a fairl,
good pike i'll service from Louis
vile to Crab Orchard.
1 Considering the intense scenic
and historical interest of the Ken
lucky route in contrast to the
barrenness of the northern sys
TEN. it is safe assumption that
the completion of the Boone Way
link from Crab Orchard to Cum
berland Gap, will swing the trend
of transcontinental and interstate
touring from the main:route of the
Lincoln highway south to the
route of greatest interest
To the great bulk of motorists
and there are hundreds of thous.
ands always on the roads, the
choice of routes would be made
without the least hesitation
From the east, the route of choice
inevitably would be thru the
wonderful valley of old Virginia to
the Kentucky line, over the Boone
Way. and north to the Lincoln
highway before turning west. To
the western tourists, approaching
from the wide sweep of the Mis-
sissippi valley and from the more
distant western country, the whole
appeal would be to turn south at
the Illinois border. Sick of the
prairie after hundreds, eventhous-
ands of miles OF it, the western
tourists would inevitable steer
south across Indiana and into the
Kentucky hills rather continue
across the flats and coke ovens of