Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-02-05
HENDERSON ENJOYS GREATEST
GOOD ROADS ERA IN HISTORY.
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being s~and-surfaced while others are
being graded. Contrary to reports
that have gone u from the Fletcher
section, it is said the road is not be-
ing worked by contract, but by a for
! eman under the supervision of truss
tees, among them being the follow
ing prominent men of that section:
]. p. Fletcher, p. A LeLong, Mon.
Souther, w. w. Bagwell. The county
road supervisor has no supervision
over the work being done in Hooper's
Greek township, as it is purely a town
ship development.
By volunteer services, without pay,
Mr.. Patton is supervising road con
struction in Hendersonville township,
having taken charge of this work By
request of the trustees. AS county
supervisor Mr.. Patton has charge of
the expenditure Of the $4,000 county
road fund, the surveying and laying
out of the highways on which it will
he spent, and the supervision of the
county chain gang, the place and ma
tire of their work, etc.
The sand-clay process of road build
ing will be followed in practically all
the work of thetownship and county.
In order to facilitate road .%surfacing
an order has been placed for a sand
dredge, which is expected to arrive
theearly part of this month. A con-
tract has been entered into with Major
Theodore G. Parker for all the sand
needed and the dredge will be placed
in Mud Creek near HendrsonVille.
The dredge will have a capacity for
keeping seventy-1ve teams busy haul
ing sand on the various roads leading
to and from Hen~dersonville. 1t has
been built to order SO as to conform
to the needs and conditions of the
streams of this mountain section and
therefore a little delay has been nee
essary in it's shipment. The machine
will take the sand from the bed Of the
( creek and dump it into the wagons,
thereby obviating the necessity for
handling it more than n time in re-
noval from the stream to the wagon.
Hendersonville township will pay half
the cost of this machinery while the
county will pay the other half by orde-
Of the commissioners.
1t is the policy of Mr.. Patton to
leave unimproVed those roads foc
which citizens living thereon will nor
contribute sand for surfacing. Major
Barker has contributed all sand de-
sired and the greater part of that for
the highways in this township will be
taken from his streams. j. p. Fletch-
or is furnishing considerable sand
from his sand bars and Cane creek
This sand is already on the banks Of
of the stream and there is no expense
attached to getting same only that in
cident to loadin gand hauling. Vari-
GUS other citizens have offered the use
o ftheir creeks for sanding purposes
and their contents are used when it is
found convenient.
In order to assist in the road work.
a number of citizens on various high
ways have voluntarily contributed to
the cause in order that road improve
r1ent might be furthered. Their sub
scriptions amount to between $40O
! and $500. ri - tl-t
Mr.. Patton states that the road work
is progressing satisfactorily and he
outlines improvements on the follow
ing thoroughfares:
Under the supervision of r. K. Stepp
there is a squad of men on the Spar
tanburg road working from the city
limits to the township line, a distance
of about two and one-half miles.
About one-half the distance has been
completed, except for the sanding,
rome of which has been done in any
part of HendersonVille township, as
such work has been postponed until
the arrival of the dredge.
Under the supervision of T. H. Liver
ct the Price-Lane road has been COM
pieted from the Grab Creek road TO
the Mud Creek road. a distance of
about one and one-half miles. Mr..
Liverett has also completed the Black
roed from Mr.. Lofts place to the
church of St. John in the Wilderness,
q distance of two miles; and the
TTacey's Grove road from Bats Fork
to the township line, a distance of
two miles. Mr.. Liverett has his force
of men on the Dana road from Bats
Fork to the township line, about half
OF which has been completed.
Under Jim Carver the road from
East Flat Rock to the Greenville road,
"a distance of one and one-half miles.