Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-02-11

CONTAIN dill urgent appeal IOr DeC-
ter roads in Morgan county. For
some time it has been making a
careful inquiry among the citi-
tens and the opinion seems to be
general that we have arrived at
the time when some definite ac-
ton should be taken to secure
them.
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So why not start the movement
to secure better roadS-to build
some real roads in the county?
We suggest that the county
authorities put the matter up to
the people by a vote on a good
sized bond issue for building one
or two across-the-county macad-
amized roads. Other mountain
counties are doing this, and in
nearly every instance the people
are voting the bonds. Now when
we can get the State and Federal
aid is the time to push the mat
ter. If we sleep the other coun-
ties in the State may get to work
exhaust the amount that the
State can appropriate and leave
US still in the mud, or in the pos
ition Of building our roads with
out that assistance.
There is another big advantage
in combining with the State in
road building. The grades must
be properly surveyed out, and
the construction planned by men
experienced in that line of work.
When the State aids in road
building one Of the first require
ments is that the preliminary
work be scientifically done, the
grades properly laid out, the
drainage properly provided for,
and the construction done accord
ing to approved and tested meth
DDS. Then when the road is
Anpleted the people will have
the satisfaction of knowing that
the money is we'll spent and not
wasted. This is one of the big
items in road building.
If we were to wait for the
present system of road making
to get lis out of the mud, the
child born to-day would be Older
than the Wandering Jew before
it comes to pass. The county is
wasting, yea, worse than wasting
hundreds of dollars every year il
an alleged attempt to better the
roads.
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Let's take a look at what W.
are now doing, and the money W,
are expanding and what we ar
receiving for it. | haven't tn
figures at hand to give them ex
actly, but conservative estimat
of the road expenses for MOrgar
county, including the salary o
road engineer, the rights Q
way purchased, the wasted wor
on the roads that the county pay
for mot including the work tha
the citizens dounder compulsion
is approximately three thousan
dollars. This is gone foreve
and the roads are no better tina
they were fifty years ago. 1t
a senseless, unbusinesslike nee,
less expenditure of money fro
which the citizens get no return
It is literally pouring money in
the mud-holes.
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If the above figures of our e
penditures are correct land
they are not exact the same RAJ
will apply, the money we ann
ally waste and get no return fC
saying that the amount is thu
thousand per year, would pay t
sterest on sixty thousand dolls
worth Of bonds at five per Gel
Sixty thousand dollars will bu
twenty miles of road, rating t
construction at So, 10000 per mi
hich is a fair estimate for
(, if the analysis Of the lin
e up the river and on YOGI
est to be good material,
night be considerably Il
q. But twenty miles Of II
would not be sufficient, and
bigger bond issue would have
be issued.
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