Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1915-10-22

indianapolis to Louisville, the 9th
er startilg at Buffalo or Niagara
Falls; thence across the Western
portion of New York, Pepnsylva-
MIA. across Onio and entering the
state OF Kentuck, at Maysville.
thence via Lexington. and from
that point will go over the road
bed If B bone Way Boone Jack
SOM through Frankfort to Louis
vile where it converges with the
Chicago division: tho~ce to New
Oileans VIII Bard tow, Glasgow
AM Sc tt Vile, Kehtucky to
Nashv L., R'rmin cham, Moltgom-
cry and Iohile on to he Crescent
City.
Eastern Kentucky counties are
working O a proposition to build
highway from Vhitesburg,
Letcher county, lying on the Dor
Ter Of V''ginia, to Richmond
%entucK, thru the counties o.
r tcher, LIE lie Perry. Breathltt
Lee and Fst,ll, there to connect
With the Dixie Highway. 1t is
prOr SD to name this road the
Nc AIRY Highway. in honor
of cur Governor, who has been a
consistent friend and worker ir
the good roads movement.
Kentucky has got into the good
roads game for keeps, as is evi
denced by the fact that Io4 OF
her counties have applied tor state
aid and gone to work. 1t Is to be
recalled that the Legislature, il
1914, passed a road law which al
lows any county in the state to
draw from the State treasury ar
amount equal to that expended BY
said county upon the construc
ton of new roads or the recon
structiOn of old ones. The first
ones, however which must receive
attention shall be inter-county
seat Roads. Where county ap
propriates and uses $Ioo, 900 up
on the roads, in accordance Il
statutes. the state repays $50.
in yearly payments until tina
amout has been refunded to the
county. Along with this Till "a.
a provision levying FIVE cents up
on all property through out the
state, which fund is placed in the
treasury for meeting these pay
ments Under this law there ha.
Neen the greatest awakening or
the highway subject that evel
took place in the old common
wealth.
a large number of countie.
have voted bond issues Other.
are following almost daily. Bu'
ew counties have turned down til,
proposition. The latest to carry wa.
Fayette county, which has tn.
best system of pixies in the state
yet voted a $500 600 bond issue *
further improve its splendid
highways.
Bonds and appropriations t.
the amount of 81, $50, 900 has beet
voted and made by the countie.
thru which Boone Way and Eas
Dixie Highway passes in Kentucky
for the construction of these anc
local roads.
1t is proposed, during 1916 t.
route Boone Way on Southeas
from Cumberland Gap to Mocks
vile, North Carolina, the ole
home of Daniel Boone, who left
that point on his memorable mai CT
in I775 for Kentucky, guiding
the Hendersons to Boonesboro
The route will probably be about
as follows: Via Bristol va Tenn
Elizabethton. Tennessee, Eli
Park, Avery county. North Caro-
lima to Linville; thence over the
Crest of Blue Ridge Highway,
Boone CREST to Blowing Rock
thence over the Bristol Charlotte
Highway thru Patterson, Lenoir,
Hickory. Newton and Statesville
to Mocksville. with branch or
loop from Linville 10 Ashville and
B ltmore, over Crest Of Blue Ridge
Highway; thence thru Oldfort,
Marion, Bridgewater, Morganton,
and Conelly Springs to Hickory,
there to converge with Eastern
loop tor Mocksville. A spur is
also proposed from Blowing Rock
to Boone, in Wautauga county,
North Carolina. The distance
from I onieu;iio u MaaIs.;ue