The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-10-25
Twenty = Eight Counties
Have Voted Total
IN ROAD BONDS, s5,755,oo0
Some Delay In Issuing OF Bonds
Different Methods En-.
pIoyed In Work.
LITTLE CONVICT LABOR USED

Frankfort, KY, Oct. 2O.-To date
just seven counties out of the 100
have applied for State aid in 1917
road construction. This besides the
twenty-eight counties which have
voted total of $5,75j,O 900 in road
bonds.
Road Commissioner Rodman Wi
ley is urging the counties to make
application at once, o that surveys
and all preliminaries may be attend
ed to this winter in readiness for
systematic operations at the first
open season in the spring. Hun
dreds Of thousands of dollars will be
saved If the counties take immediate
action, it is said.
OF the twenty-eight counties vot-
ing bond issues these of Union and
Powell are now ir litigation and
Boyd, Carter, Breathitt and Trigg
have not yet sold their bonds. Union
voted s45O,oOO, Powell $4,000,
Boyd $4,000. Garter $4,000,
Breathitt $150,000 AID Trigg $780,
600.
The other counties voting bond is
sues are Ballard, Pulaski and Fay
cite, 100000 each; Lewis and Ken
ton. $150,000 each; Greenup, Knox
and Bracken, 100000 each; Bell,
Whitley and Harlan. $25O,OOO each;
Rockcastle, Scott, Laurel, Campbell
and Oldham, 100000 each; Nicho-
! las, 1926, 900; Clinton and Carroll,
/ $4,000 each; Russell. $4,000; Da-
viess, 100000; Christian, $4,000.
OF these issues Greenup has sold
! 100000 of the bonds, Whitley
$50, 900, Pulaski $250,OOO, Oldham
$4,000 and Bracken $4,000. The
! others have sold their entire issue,
excepting Clinton, which has only
contracted for sale.
State Inspector and Examiner Nat
B. Sewell has reports from all the
counties, excepting Christian. on the
handling of the bond issues. The
reports show that Lewis, Bell and
Russell received no premiums on
their bonds, and Lewis, Greenup,
Laurel, Clinton, Russell, Campbell,
Oldham and Bracken receive no in
terest on their road fund on depos-
it. Ballard gets A " per cent, Fay
cite 4. Knox on 100000 and none
on 100000; Whitley gets 2, Harlan
and Rockcastle 3, Scott and Nicho-
las 2, Carroll 4, Pulaski and Daviess
and Kenton 8.
Ballard has spent $4,000; Lewis,
$4,000; Greenup, $4,000; Knox,
$4,000; Bell. 100000; Whitley,
$125. 900; Rockcastle, $4,000;
Scott, $4,000; Laurel, $4,000;
Nicholas, 100000; Clinton, $4,000
for surveys; Russell. $4,000; Car
roll. $4,000: Campbell. $4,000;
OIdh,m. srO ia
Only Fayette and Kenton have
commissions handling their work. In
the other counties the Fiscal Courts
have charge. In Knox, Whitley,
| Harlan, Laurel, Russell, Daviess and
Kenton the work is being done by
contract In Bell the work is being
done by the county force and the
other counties are employing both
methods.
OF these total. $3.50, 200 voted,
S3.725.OOO have been sold and ST.
$4,000 spent, leaving unexpendei
of those sold $2.S10,000, with ST.
/ 100000 yet to be sold.
Lewis county was the first to is
sue bonds and Bell has spent the
most. Bell voted another issue of
$15O,0O0, but as it could not make
an extra levy to pay the interest un-
der a decision of the Court of APP
peals. II can issue only $4,000 of
these. II spent largely for equip
ment and ran short of money with
considerable of the original project
unfinished. This work is being com
pleted with convict labor, using the
county machinery.