Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-09-01

Final plans have been announc-
for the official Inspection Tour of
OF the Southern appalachian
Highway Association over Boone
Way from Bristol to Lexington,
KY. The party will be in charge
of Henry Roberts and A Gray
Gilmer, of Bristol, and will be
composed of a number of promi.
nent men from Southwest Vir-
ginia. Meetings will be held in all
the towns along the Highway
and prominent speakers will ad
dress the crowd on the subject of
Boone Way and good roads in
general.
Hon. J. F. Mixer, Editor of
the Automobile Blue Book, the
greatest Tourist Routing Agency
in the world, will come from
New York especially to join the
party. Several cars will start
from Bristol and they will be
joined by others enroute.
Among the speakers may be
mentioned A. Gray Gilmer and
Mayer George NJ. Warren. of
Bristol, w. H. Aston of Washing.
ton County, Capt. n. S Fiuuey of
Russell County, H. !. Scott of
Blue6eld, E. J. Prescott of Big
Stone Gap aud Hon. ]. F. Mixer
of New York.
The party will be piloted thru
Cumberland Gap into Kentucky
by Mayor J. l.. Manning of Mid
dlesborOugh, who will meet the IN
at Cumberland Cap, Tenn Other
Kentuckians will join the party
and make the trip to Lexington,
where the big road Convention
opens on the 5th aud the Lexing
ton Races on the 9th.
The party will leave Bri ;tol at
6 a. N. Monday morning Sept
4th and will spend the first night
at Plneville. They will leave Pine
vile at s a. m on the 5th and
hold meetings enroute as foil DWs:
BarbourSville 8: 90 Corbin 8; 90
London +; 10; %; Livingston 1900;
Mt. Vernon 1; 90; p. m: Crab
Orchard =; 0C.
The meetings will be held from
the cars in the streets of the
towns SO as to save time The
party expects to arrive at Lex
ingtOn about 4 o'clock.
This force has constructed ri
miles of macadam road on Boone
Way from Cumberl md Gap to
Boode's Path under State High
way Com nj ssion supervision
Duffield aud Bristol will sOou be
completed. The divisions beyond
Bristol to Lexington and Boone
Park, N. c.. will be completed ~
June /, 1917, when it is ex
pected to ha We completed route
from Louisville. Ky, and Chill
Gothic. Ohio, through the Ken
tuck " Blue Grass "and the
" The Cumberlauds " into The
Appalachians and the " Land of
the Sky" Distances to these
North Carolina points from
Louisville, 500 from ChiIicothe
600 miles, the route merging at
Mt. Vernon.
To the little mountain town of
Mt. Vernon Rockcastle county
Kentucky, belongs the credit of
originating this big movement
and successfully fighting it thru
to successful completion, this
soon to be one of the greatest
connecting " highway links in
our country, not exceeding the
Dixie Highway uses on its East
ern loop, the same road-bed with
Boone Way from Cumberland Gap
as far as Foxtown, Madison coun-
ty, Kentucky. Had not Boone
Way already been placed en- the
map when routing the Dixie High
wap at Chattanooga in May 1915
he Eastern loop thereof vie
Cumberland Gap. would have
been an irredescent dream. 1t was
the biggest card that Cincinnati
and Lexington, along with other
cities of the East. had to play al
the big routing convention at
Chattanooga, the conditions hav-
ing been created by the little
mountain town above mentioned
without one cent of fiancial assist
ance from Ohio,s metropolis, al
though asked a humber of times.