Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1915-03-19
Pixies AND
BONDS, Who PAYS

State to pay $4,000.
Railroads and Corporations pay
; S3O,OOO
Farmers, land owners and prop
erty holders of county to pay
$4,000.
For which the county get:
100000 worth of pixies built I'M
der State Engineer supervision.
Bond tax will be 20 cents on each
500. worth of property. +,
There is absolutely no poll tax
to be paid on bond issue.
AT end OF ten years the bond is
sue will have been paid off d
leaving a surplus of $40, 90 incoun-
ty treasury. This is calculated
from present valuation of proper
ty in Rockcastle.
In case our county ais to vote
bond issue we will have paid out
in ten years $500 into State road
fund from the 5 cent road tax,
which would go to other counties
to build roads. Vote bonds. Keep
this money here.
Two pikes-Pnlaski county to
Madison county, Laurel to Lincoln
county for tavel to reach, Somer-
set, London, Stanford, and Rich
mond.
Something like $4,000 will be
spent in the county for labor etc.
in the construction of these two
pixies.
Other counties will purchase
S5O,0Oh or more, worth of stone
in Rockcastle. A larger portion
of this amount will be paid to labor
in getting GU: this stone
Vote for the bond issue thereby
securing good plies and scatter
over SI2O, 900 in the county Gin
GLIDING amount of sale of stone to
othes counties).
Other pixies will naturally fol-
low as well AS cross connecting
pixies, and neighborhood pixies to
reach the main highways.
Many, many advantages will be
presented by construction of turn
pixies.
We can get somewhere over
them,
People can get in to the county
from other counties and states.
Land buyers from other couu-
ties and States will purchase farms
and mineral lands here and devel-
op the same.
A county court day stock mark
ct will be created at county seat.
Mt. Vernon, Brodhead and Liv-
ingston and the villages will in
crease IN population, and factC lie 5
thus creating a market for more
and more of farmers products
Stock buyers from other ooun-
ties will be on hands county court
days;
By being able to get together
over good roads will become bet.
ter acquainted and discover that
there are just lots and lots of good
people in all parts of the. county
and that the mean ones are mighty
few and far between,
Better school facilities will be
had all over the county.
Church membership will in
crease.
There will be many visitors, of
the money spending class. who
will come up into the mountains
during the summer months.
The six days militia labor along
the routes of these pixies will be
discontinued. Tourists with
money, will visit these mountains
to view our natural wonders in
way of Great Salt Peter cave, OF
natural historical interest; Sinks
etc. and other great caves etc.
Salt peter was mined and used
from this cave in making gun.
powper in the war with England
in 1872. -.
A farm valued at $500. would
be taxed only one dollar year
and its owner would get all the
advantages of good pixies, and on
ly pay SO. in ten years and bt
thru paying.
> In case of sickness, the doctor
could reach you SO much quicker
over good roads.
Localities not reached by pres
ent proposed routes will gel pixies
: to their neighborhoods later. A