Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-02-20

ala. according TO Louisville
Times nearly every county seat
WOuld have from 4 TO + trunk
lines leading to adjoining county
seats. Rockcastle map shows up
six as follow: One road leading
to each of the following places
London, Mckee, Richmond, Ian
caster, Stanford and Somerset.
Below is estimate OF the cost
for State Highway system:
Total number of miles
70 connect all county seats 6 200
Average cost p mils 1000
fatal cost of con
struction S24 500, 900
Comparative Tax Rates.
Kentucky paws S.. per thousand
Would pay S.. SO per thousand
with State aid. Arkansas, S21.70;
Washington. 1869. Kentucky
Is one of fourteen States that has
no bonded debt. Massachusetts
has a bonded debt Of Sll6,OOO.-
600; New York, S8O,OO.OO0:
Tennessee, $!1,OOO,OO0 and Vir-
ginia, 100000.
Kentucky has $4,000, 1000 aires
or land and property value of
$1,000. OO0. 900 taken on a 80 per
cent basis.
State tax of sc on the one
hundred dollars 5000. 600
Kentuckys part of the
SIS, 1000. 600 proposed
Federal appropriation is So, 600
$l,l83, 900
County tax Sl.lS3 600
Total amount of income
per year So. 800 900
$24, 100000 divided by 50, 366, OO9
equalc IL years time required to
construct the system.
Increased value of land and the
value of this system to the State
cannot be estimated.
THE movement for good roads
In Kentucky has been going for
ward for many years. but at times
Its progress became almost i'm
preceptible, and save for the fact
that the economic value O. high
ways has become a recognized
principle one. cannot boast that
much has been done to provide
the state in general with roads of
any great serviceable value. Of
late, however. the principle has S
become too big thing to be kept
out of sight, and The Times along !
with other great elements in the I
Commonwealth has brought to i
the public eyethe need of sys- e
TEN of communication better than y
any other in the country. |
Terrell Leads Fight. T
Leading the fight in the Gener il
al Assembly is TO be found the t
sturdy figure of Claude B. Terrell t
Speaker of the House of Represen- n
tatives. a resident of Trimble C
county and man of the soil. who d
would see the country dwelier, the
farmer and the stockman getting
more out of life and getting it "
There is no limit to the <
Improvement in the condition of .
iviug possibly when means of =
Easy transportation of corps and .
incoming comforts are at hand. y
These things being known to g
he Speaker, he has put his heart y
q the cause of State Aid for Good .
Roads. He knows that the lock ~
d in treasures of the mountains III
Will enable those counties, long 9
supported by the balance of the %
State as ''pauper, to take their u
place amongst =
hose honorable and honored ~
ounties VIII oh pay their own IN
Eay-that is, when roads are built Vi
which will afford ingress and 10
gress to the groaning wagons os
'hich shall bear outward the pro- III
uce OF those hills and valleys sn
nd which shall bear in the in ne
reased comforts OF the outside "
orld. 1t is for reasons such as 'ai
,ese that Speaker Terrell is in
lie thick of the fight for State "a,
id for Good Ro ds. which to
7entually viii unite the county pie
ais of the Commonwealth. IN,