Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1916-02-24
Road Conference at The White.
Reported by Amy Lyman Phillips. }

Road Conference at The White.
reported by Amy Lyman Phillips
White Sulphur Springs, w. Va.
Feb 14th.-A conference was Eelc
this afternoon at The GreenbrieT tt
arrange preliminary plans for an I'M
mediate bond issue in the White Sui
Dhur district for permanent improve
maEt Of the James River and Kama
VIVA Turnpike, which enters the
State at the Allegheny county line
also the Virginia State line, and
thence on through Lewisburg, west
"ard by Rainelle, through Fayette,
E2nawha, Putnam and Cabell count
L., to the Ohio River.
At the same time the White Sulph-
L" district votes on this bond issue,
20 Lewfsburg district will likewise
:n,e, and tits believed that the other
.;.Stricts Of, the county through which
IS route runs will follow the exam
~ OF White Sulphur and Lewisburg,
t@reby sufficient money will'be re-
ZeI to re-gTade. where necessary,
IS old Turnpike road and metal
s>:iacc it, and thereby make It a
| 1a:t oil the East and Yves! tEals-State
highway.
At the conference was Decatur
!,GtcN, president Of the White Sui
:flur Springs Company, who assured
lla hearty cooperation Of his COM
Ea!:y; Charles H. Sweeter, senior
Highway engineer Of the United
sales Office OF Public Roads and
Rural Engineering. of Washington u.
e.; Mayor ". A. Maslin, OF White
sulphur, and Judge Lee Harper, w.
b. Hines, l.. NJ. Rowan, Jno. O'F'eE-
.ell, DR.. G.. i. Wyatt and Porter Bur
dette, Of White Sulphur.
Judge Charles S. Dice, president
oc the Lewisburg Business Mems AS
ISOLATION, and Mayor J. S. McWhorter
CT Lewisburg. chairman Of the Good
Roads Committee Of that association,
"Gre also present.
Nr. Sweetser is now here FOR the
purpose OF giving expert advice and
FINISHING preliminary surveys and
e;timates Of cost en- which the bond
;ssues may be based.
Within few days a petition will
il circulated among the voters OF the
!Ehite Sulphur aid LcwiSburg dis
iriats, and on these petitions tie
County Court of Greenbricr county
will be asked at It's next meeting to
o"dcr ali election in these two dis
tricts upon the question CT tic bond
issue.
This election will be held by the
frs. Of April ard there seems 10 be
no doubt that it will carry in both
Districts by good majority. The
work will be begun as soon as the
bo1tls can be sold-probably by the
Sc OF May: ..
ii asmuch as Allegheny county, Va,
has already provided sum of money
ADEQUATE to make permanent this old
turnpike through that county, and
Augusta county, Va, will carry it on
to Staunton, where it will be con-
nected with the Valley Pike, this will
furnish a highway for tourists east to
Baltimore and west to the Ohio River
making an automobile thoroughfare
over a route that for scenic beauty
and historic interest is not surpassed
in America 1t will traverse 4 dis
lance of approximately two hundred
miles through West Virginia.
1t is also proposed to improve per-
manently the north and south roaC
through Greenbrier. otherwise known
as the Bristol-Pittsburg route, be-
ginning at Bristol, Tenn, and thence
BIZ way of Blueheld. Union, Ronce-
vertc, Lewisburg, Frankfort, and
Renick in Greenbrier, Hillsboro. Mar
linton, Durbin, Huttonsville, Elkins,
Belington, Philippi, thence OIL to
Pittsburg.
When completed the two trans
State highways, one east and west,
the other north and south, will inter
sect at Lewisburg- miles from
the White Sulphur.