Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-02-06
The East and West Road.

Although the construction Oh d HTS
class road from Yorkville to the Cher
okee line is an eminently desirable
proposition, from all we have seen OF
heard in connection with the matter
up to the present time we have not
been inclined to give it very serious
consideration.
This proposition had its origin at
recent meeting of the Yorkville Board
of Trade, or at least it got its first
publicity there through a resolution
introduced by Mr. ]. A. Tate, and duly
adopted to about this effect: "Resolv-
ed, that we ask the delegation in the
general assembly to provide $4,000 a
year for five years to build first
class road from Yorkville to the Cher
okee line" Following the action OF
the Board of Trade, a meeting Of GER
tain citizens, especially invited, was
held in Yorkville, last Monday, to fur
ther consider the matter, and as the
outcome of this meeting a committee
was appointed to go to Columbia to
confer with the legislative delegation.
Among the questions that were init
mated in the meeting Monday, was the
route of the proposed road; but one
of the gentlemen present, wisely
warned against the raising Of any such
issue, because it was clear to him and
others that a thing like this would
cause the meeting to quickly break up
in q row.
There are at least three more or less
plausible routes to the Cherokee line
from Yorkville-one is by way Of the
Adair's erry road and Kings Noun
tain battle-ground; another and more
direct route is over the Howells Ferry
road by way Of Hickory Grove, and
still another is over the Sutton Spring
road by way of Sharon and Hickory
Grove, or lower down by way Of Hood
town. And it is too plain for anything
that the selection of any one Of these
routes to be improved by taxation i'm
posed upon the whole county, would
not only raise the biggest kind Of g
row among the people living on the
whole county to kicking as well.
OF course, it is as plain as the nose
on ones face that the only way to get
good roads is to build them, and the
only way to build them is to pay fol
them; but also it is peculiar charac-
teriStic of York county people, that
they do not care how you divide EN-
so you divide 'em even," and there Is
in this proposition a whole lot tina,
seems to lose sight of the proposition
Of dividing 'em even.
Right here, as has been pointed out
before, is the principal basis Of dis
cord over the distribution of the bene-
fits of the chaingang. There are more
than one thousand miles Of public
road in York county, and the chain
gang has never built as much as ten
miles in a single year; but assume
that the chaingang could build ter
miles a year, and it would take al
least one hundred years to give all the
roads fairly equal showing.
To be sure there is as much reason
why the county should spend ten
thousand dollars a year on a road
from Yorkville to the Cherokee line as
there is why it should spend $4,000 OF
more. as it is doing on the road from
Yorkville to Glover, or on the road
from Yorkville to Rock HILL as 1T pro-
poses to do: but if anybody thinks 1t
is possible to double present eXpendi-
lures under the present unequal ba-
sis Of operations without raising a
kick that will fall but little short Of q
general explosion, all we have to say is
let them try it.