The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-03-19
FAVORS BOND ISSUE
FOR GOOD ROADS
Continued from page two)

DuC as matter OF TACT, 1T is pro-
posed and intended to build from
one hundred to one hundred and
twenty-five miles of good roads, in
addition to the main thouroughfares
and to bu'ld them as quickly as pos
sible, and to select them as in the
judgment of the commission, the
travel over the roads and the
condition of the roads would indicate
which was the most important and
necessary to be improved.
l, for one, have implicit faith in
the honesty, patriotism, and purpose
of the proposed commission, and feel
: ,ure that they will build every mile
W. good roads possible to be built;
they will build them without fear
or favor and where needed most, and
good Judgment and economy would
dictate that they should be built
first; and no matter where they
build. 1t is proposed that the entire
bond issue will be expended for good
roads in three years so, no matter
what road you live on, when the
main roads are built, and the hun
dred or more miles OF cross county
roads are added, no man could travel
very far In any direction without
striking the good roads.
Again, when you have built one
hundred or two hundred miles of
good roads, and while you are build
ing them, every mile the commission
builds is a mile less for the regular
county commissioners to keep up,
and every mile you take off them
means more time, more work, more
money for them to spend on the
roads that are left, and as a matter
Of fact, with the good supervisor
Union county now has, and with the
able township commissioners thal
are now in office, | believe that if you
Will vote the bond issue, and let the
permanent roads commission wCt
busy and build this two hundred
miles of roads, that the supervisor
and township commissioners with ali
the time of the chaingang, with more
money and time to devote to the
three hundred miles that this will
approximately leave them to take
care of, that they can so greatly inn
prove the other roads that nobody
Will have any cause to complain.
Further, | am satisfied that if the
bonds are voted, as l am glad to say
that increasing numbers from every
part of the county seem to feel sure
they will be, and this commission
with Highway Engineer from the
United States Government, get the
results that / have the fullest con,
fidence they will get; it will be no
trouble to get bond issue to COM
plete all the roads in Union county,
so that nobody need be left out, no
road need go unimproved and no.
body need to vote against the bond
issue on that account. Again, if the
results are not all that we hope and
expect them to be, nobody is hurt
we will certainly have from one hun
dred to two hundred and twenty,
five miles of better roads than we
have ever had, we will have them in
the shape and condition where SO to
$12 per mile will keep them up. with
commission who are giving their
services free to Union county, doing
all that men can do to make good
on this estimate from the United
States government where heretofore
they have cost much more and we
have gotten no permanent results at
all. Since :'Neb" and &c. r. G." did
not see or would not admit my argu,
ment that it would not cost any more
to have the 100000 bond issue than
it has been costing I'll try to make
it palmer. Union county has pur-
sued for years the same policy OF
road working that many other coun-
ties have pursued, with about the
same results. The trade and traffic
and wear and tear of the roads con
stantly gets heavier and heavier. and
the policy is and has been just ia
make the absolutely necessary re-
pairs, when things get so bad that
something has to be done, there is
and never has been any definite plan
or system and while we may be do.
ing as well as any other county. that
pur3ucs the same plan. 1t constantly
lakes more and more to repair the
Dads and we never get through and
ere no nearer to good roads under
TINS plan than we We're twenty wears
ago. According to the experience oi
the United States government in
building and keeping up good roads
they 50" if you will build the per
mancnt roads properly (and don't
get The idea that permanent roads
means macadam roads,, that you
cen keep them up for an average
of less than $1,000 per mile (and
mind you. you can keep them up for
$1,000 per mile, not because you do ii
by contract only, but because YOU
nave built them with proper width
grade and drainage, and that is why
it is necessary to build by bond issue
and to build permanent roads, and to
build by contract.
If you spent last year $65.0O PEI
mile, and that is what you spent il
the figures OF what was spent as
given to me by the county officers is
correct, and YOU have 500 milca OF