Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1914-03-04
Reply of Supervisor and County
Board.
To the People of Edge6eld County:

propose to be pulled into one. But
since reading an article in The
Chronicle signed Taxpayer, and a
later one in The Advertiser signed
"Ci,izrn," and being asked the ques-
tion why don't you do something's"
hy so many people, | feel to remain
silent would be an injustice to mp
self and the other members Of the
Board. While l know the people in
the immediate vicinity OF Shaw's
Mill are fully aware of the fact that
the Board has done and are still
doing their full duty towards that
community, yet the public has no
way of getting the facts except
through the means by which Citi-
zen" and Taxpayer" have taken.
With all due respect to Citizen"
aud ''raxplyer", who are, in my
opinion, one and the same, allow me
to state the following facts:
The company has been required
by the Board of Commissioners to
bridge Anderson Branch. They
have already blidged same, pur-
chased The ate of the road to and
from the bridge and agreed to
maintain same at their own ex'
pense.
Now as to Shaw and MeKie's
Mill let me say, that the fiat has not
stopped day, an hour or minute
on account of bondage.
Mr.. John Hutson the ferryman ia
being assisted by tn" company. to
run the fl It when their assistance, is
needed. The Board has long:siuce
made proposition or demand on
the company for a bridge. at that
point, but has heard nothing: as get
from them. But We are exptG,ing
to make some arran. ements with
E,hem in the near future. Now. as TO,
the fords on the creek, we viii sssa;Ss
at the socalled, L,rrick pond.
Everybody in that part Of; county
knows that that pond has been
abandoned from neglect and. on ac-
count Of high water for a. number
of years. We put the Com pany. on.
notice that that was an old; public
road and had never been publicly
abandoned. That the peopleshad
right to dig a ford and to reopen
the road at any time and in case
they should desire TO-. do 80 the
Company would be liable, :for any
damage that Wis done by them. As
to private fords, Stringers ford, for
instance, the party owning the.
ford sold it with the land to the
Company, AS to go called Markcrt
ferry it il situated on a plantation
road Of Markert's. He has main
tained it for years for his own pri3'
vale use, sometimes allowing his
neighbours to cross it free of charge.
He has sold the land together with
the ferry to the Company. think
the Company allows him the priv.
ilege to still run his fat if he de-
slres to do 80. The creek at this
point, which is on.y q mile from
the river, reminded me, when pase-
ing down it the other day in bat
leau in company with Commissioner
DeFoe, John Hutson and Bob Nor
gan. Of the Atlantic Ocean al the
lsle Of Palms. A bridge at this
point would have to be at least
1000 feet long. While at Shaw's
mill the wafer reminds m, of the
Mississippi river, still a bridge can
be at this point about 100 feet, or
less length. Now, held, as | have
ever held, that the people in the
fork of the creek arc to be consld-
cred ten times more than the people
along the railroad, who have the
railroad and steel bridge for an ozt-
let. As to Fury's and Luke's ferry,
not competent lawyers, but common
sense tells me that if there is ever
a bridge at these or either or these
points a higher authority than .
Board of Commissioners of Edge
field, will have to be reached. The
State authorities of Georgia and
South Carolina will have to take
hand. l hope this explanation will
stop the people from asking the
Board, why they don't do some
thing down there"
A. A. Edmunds, Sup.
We concur in tn above,
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