The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-05-19

the absolute necessity of better
roads. and with the aid of some
of the nighbors he commenced a
short stretch of sand.clay. The
result was so surprising that a
road was completed between
Pinehurst and Southern Pines.
That settled it. More sand-clay
road was demanded. The an
tiquated system of building road
by having the citizens Of the
township out at odd intervals to
shovel and dig a little was seen
to be useless, and a bond system
was adopted and township mon
ley provided to build roads on a
cash basis. The experiment
was tried with certain misgiy.
ings. but it was a success. Then
the Infection started, and in a
year or two it was the best that
100 miles Of sand clay road could
Ibe reached from Pinehurst; then
l20o miles; then 500; then 1000,
and now the mileage depends
EXACTLY on TIE distance you want
to travel, for Plnehurst is con
nected with all of the continent.
A map of the good roads OF
the Sandhills, country at the
present looks like the bottom OF
| Ia -four selve. Just to appre-
ciate the rapidity with which
roads are being built now it. is
Suggestive to take a look at Har
nett county. Last October Lill-
lington began the construction OF
the first roads in the interior of
lshe county. More followed
quickly. and in April seven
townshins had voted bonds and
begun the construction of good
roads. The Harnett roads are
as new as a pin, but they are
models, and. today Harnett is
connected at Sanford with the
Lee county system, Lee county
has just connected at Cameron
! with the Moore county system,
and Moore connects with all the
roads of the West and South.
six months ago Harnett and Lee
lcounties were shut in from the
world. Today car may set out
from Harnett county and travel
to Florida, to Massachusetts,, to
Iowa or the Rocky Mountains,
or anywhere.
Rapidly this road movement
has been pushing forward, try
ling to crystalline in intelligent
isystems as well as in local town.
tship and county units, until the
result is broadening into State
and National unit. From New
York to Atlanta was projected
the National highway. That is
practically completed in North
Carolina, and in most of the 9th,
Ter States it has become right
good road. The Capitol high
way is nearly finished through
North Caroline, and also from
Washington to Savannah and
Atlanta. But the movement
that made these roads has gone
far beyond the original idea. At
present the Capital highway, on
reaching Raleigh, moves east.
ward from the straight line and
passes Fayetteville and Raeford
on it's route to Pinehurst. But
the roads through Lee county
will bring a straighter line
through Lee and Catham, the
road diverging eventually so
that there will be two lines, one
by way of Raleigh ond Sanford
to Pinehurst, and one by way OF
Durham and Chapel HILL. the
seat of the university, and from
there to Pinehurst. But before
the roads are completed through
Chatham county it is likely that
Harnett county will present a
shorter route than exists at pres
ent for the through line from
Raleigh to Pinehurst and, in all
probability that will be a Capi.
tai highway.
Engineer W. L. Spoon, of the
Government service, says he
wants to have all of these South
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