The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1915-02-23

to manhood without ever having seen
turnpike. He said that the coun.
try there is as thickly settled as from
Stanford to Wayncsburg, and that
money spent in that section for pixies
would do more good than that spent
for similar roads ir any other part
of the county. He said that as ii
was the money of the whole county
it behooved the court to spend it
where it would do the most good.
The people in that section are prac-
tically mud-bound in the winter;
many of them never see the court
house or get to their county seat
for business on account of the roads.
He said that the question resolved
itself as to whether the court consid-
cred it better to build four miles of
pike from Waynesburg, to which
there is already a good pike, or to
build 10 miles of pike and thus open
up a territory eight or ten miles
square, with a large number of
feeder roads running into it from
both sides. The people there are in
urgent need of roads, he said, and
the people of Grab Orchard and Bee
Lick section have pledged themselves
to give not less than $500 toward
the road. If the fiscal court would
give $4,000, this would make $1,000,
and with like sum from the state
aid fund, there would be $4,000
available for this greatly needed
turnpike. Not all of it need be built
the first year if the money could not
be secured now. He showed also
how Stanford would be more benefit
ted by this road than by the other,
since with pike already built to
Waynesburg all of the trade that
could possibly be expected from that
territory now comes to the county
seat, while with the pike from Crab
Orchard to Bee Lick, trade which has
been hemmed by mud roads,
will naturally go out to the county
seat. He said that naturally Grab
Orchard would be more benefited
than Stanford, but declared that
Lincoln county owes as much to her
East End as she does to her West
End which is so plentifuly supplied
with good roads, while the East End
had been left to her dirt roads. He
suggested that if the intentions of
the people of the East End should be
tested, the court adjourn until Sat-
urday and give the people of Crab
Orchard and vicinity an opportunity
to come before the court then with
their subscription papers, when they
would show just who would give the
So, 500, for which Lincoln county
would receive the benefit of $4,000.
w. E. Perkins, leading merchant
Of Crab Orchard, followed Mr.. AL
corn and made strong plea for the
Crab Orchard-Bee Lick road He en-
phatically stated that all the people
Of the East End wanted was simple
Justice, and that the court ought to
give it to them. He declared that he
spoke for almost a fourth of the vo-
ting population of the county, which
had never had single mile of pike
quilt since she county took them over
and removed the toll gates. He
pointed out that that part of the
county had never before asked for
4 single mile of pike, and told of the
severe conditions on rural route No.
out of Crab Orchard, on which the
carrier has had to drive two horses
for most of the winter, knee deep in
mud. He declared that if the people
IF the East End didn't have a good
case, they ought not to have any,
Thing; that it was up to the court
that it had a right, if it had made a
previous selection or appropriation,
to rescind the order, and change the
Waynesburg has
good pike, he saiG, the people of Pu-
ASK have taken care of their end,
and he simply asked now that the
Lincoln court look after its own peo-
pie, and 'give US a chance" Mr..
Perkins declared with emphasis: "If
we don't bring you down a subscrip-
ton of $500 from our people, we
won't ask for a thing. We have
helped this county build its other
roads and pixies. We now simply ask
that you listen to our cause, which is
4 just cause. Will you ignore us?
We know that this court is respon-
Sible. Will you leave us out in the
cold to build four miles of pike
where it is absolutely not needed?
If you ignore us it will show that
there's self mixed up in it some
where. We only ask for justice and
Justice we expect. Do as you think
you should do as men. We don't ask
unreasonable, only justice"
Both Mr.. Perkins and Mr.. Alcorn
we're loudly applauded when they sat
down.
County Attorney w. S. Burch said
that he desired to make a short
statement by way of explanation. He
said that there may have been some
as to state aid. He
said that Lincoln county has 56 miles
Of pixies to county seats. The fiscal
court at its last meeting asked Cor
state aid on these roads as well as
on roads yet to be built. He said
that Lincoln ..oIitv bad virtually
oeeN promised $4,000. He said that
the court was of the opinion that it
had to keep up those pixies and the
dirt roads. About $4,000 had IT, be
spent on the dirt roads and probably
as much as $4,000 on the pixies. The
Eubanks people had offered $1,000
for pike to them, and had been the
only people before the court at its
last meeting asking anything. He
said that the court had appropriated
1000, which with $500 subscribed,
and doubled by state aid would give
ST. 800 for this road. He said there
had been some agitation for a road
from Grab Orchard to Brodhead and
for this the court had appropriated
$500, to be doubled by the state
fund. He pointed out that after the
work had been provided for on other
roads, there was left about $1,000.
Of course, he said, the county could
vote bonds if it desired to build more
roads. Speaking for himself person.
ally he said that he knew a pike from
Crab Orchard to Bee Lick was very
badly needed.
Mr.. Perkins then got up again and
urged the court not to cut the Bee