The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-04-07
/ PLEA IN BEHALF
OF GOOD ROADS
, And Their Maintenance In
Ohio County.
SUGGESTS PLAN or WORKING
And Expenditure of Public
Money So AS To Get
the Best Results.
RESPONSIBILITY is PLACED

see SO mucn IN the papers IN re-
gard to good roads, feel like it is
time we quit experimenting and
wasting money in building temper
airy roads by dragging loose dirt up
into the middle of the road in road
working season only to be worked
into a loblolly and washed back into
the bitches again in the winter. AS
everyone knows it is impossible to
have a good, solid road bed compos-
ed only of dirt, during the freezing
and thawing season of the year re-
gardless of how well it is graded
and drained, | think you will
agree with the sad but solemn fact
that our roads are in no better con-
dition than they were five years ago.
However, | don't mean to cast any
reflection on the officers at the head
of our woodworking system.
i Now, I'll give you my views on it.,
and if | am wrong you'll have to
show me-I'm from Missouri. / am
under, the impression that each
Magisterial District in the county
under the present system gets about
$4,000 with which to patch up the
roads and by this fall. the money
will all be spent and next spring
the roads will not be in any better
oh ~ I'm
not guessing at this; know it to be
a fact Does it look like good, COM
mon "horse-sense" to keep right on
spending our hard-earned dollars in
such a useless way?
| again ask you where to place
the blame for this waste of public
money. Now I'm going to take the
responsibility of placing it myself,
and if the shoe doesn't pinch too
hard. try not to frown. lest some one
might think you one of the boys
The trouble lis simply that just
as long as you don't take an in
terest in the road problem and try
to get the people of Ohio county in
terested in building some permanent
roads, just that long you'll have to
pull through the mud. You may sit
around and whittle on goods boxes
at the crossroads store and curse
the county officials till Gabriel blows
his trumpet. But you'll have to go
home through the mud If you don't
change your system. Now If you
want to do a good turn for yourself
and your neighbor, urge that We
change our system.
When you get sick you want a
doctor to give you something for
your system. Same way with Ohio
county. If you don't think she's
sick, just examine her system and
see what she pays out annually in
doctoring roads. To be honest with
you, think she is failing in health
instead of improving. So after all
is said, don't you think it about
time to begin building some perma-
nent roads?
Now with the $4,000 yearly APP
preparation, according to my views,
it will build some permanent roads
in each district of the county. III
properly handled. We will take. for
instance. Sulphur Springs Magiste-
rial District, in which we have an
abundance of good quality limestone
rock. Now this $4,000 that is used
as patch work would install rock
crusher In this district. or course
our roads would not receive their
annual mussing. Q would say
working" but that would be hand
ling the truth too carelessly). | am
sure the people would be willing to
go back to the old way of working
for a year or so, at least until we
could get started And the next
year suppose We spend $1,000 In
crushing stone and the remaining