The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-07-14
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MASON COUNTY TURNPIKEs
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In going over the various roads of
Mason County, have found that there
is no spirit of cooperation between
the management of our turnpike sys-
tenn and the property holders living
along the various pixies of the county
see no reason in the world why
farmers living along the pixies cannot
be depended upon for assistance in a
great many ways In the blowing sea-
son of each year, it is to the interest
of every farmer to remove as much
rock from the ground, which he is
blowing, as is possible to do so, but in
the larger percentage of farmers do
not attempt to remove same. The turn
pike system could secure, in my opin-
ion, rs per cent of the necessary rock
for road repair from farmers, each
spring, as they do their seasons plow-
ing, but in order to do this, farmers
should be advised as to the county's
desire to use this rock on the ad-
jacent pixies. At the price of $3.50 per
rod, do not believe any farmer would
refuse to furnish rock on our turn
pixies, but he should know before he
starts his spring blowing, that he has
a market for part or all which he re-
moves from his ground.
have called attention to a number
of farmers who have gotten this rock
out right adjacent to the pixies and
some have laid for more than year
and they have been refused a market
for same. | know a great many farm
ers who never have seen our supervis-
ors of pixies and there is no reason
why there should not be a spirit of CO.
operation. The class of rock that is
soften from ground as it is plowed is
the very best that can be had, being
gray limestone. of course
rock that has been exposed to the
elements lying on top of the ground
for years, is not very desirable, but
at that, it is far superior to the blue
Limestone rock which comes from
many Mason county quarries.
On June 25th, took the German
town road from the city limits, follow
ing its course to the Valley pike, a
distance of s $40 miles. This pike is
in fairly smooth condition, there hay
ing been some rock spread upon II
during the past spring, and the travel
is heavy enough to wear the rough
rock down. The water running in
the middle of the pike causes cutters
and uneven spots. There is no at
tempt to get the water out of the mid
die of the road although the cutters
on the south side of the pike or next
to the hill have been cleaned out and
take care of the water from the hill
sides but no attempt is made to get
the water out of the middle of the
road into these cutters. which is most
necessary. l especially wish to men
tion the hill leading from the Angus
Wood farm, now owned by Mr.. Slack,
to the gate of Mr.. Leslie Smoot, which
is distance of, at least, 400 yards
The water runs the full length of this
distance without an interruption save
two places and these two places have
not been made by the hands of man,
and any hard rain will wash this nil
more than $25 will repair. The Ger
mantown pike needs rock and drain
age and there should be almost $500
per mile each year, available for re-
pair work. There is only one bridge
on this pike for it's entire length of
IL miles, and am of the opinion, that
$500 per year. would keep this road
in very fair condition. There was
spent on this entire pike the past year
$1O39.
l took the Big Pond pike, near
Judge Halls farm across to Beasley
Church. its entire length being lilo
miles. The first half mile of this road
has had no work in the last year, but
there was some work put on the bal
ance of the pike during 1915, the
amount spent being $67.55, and the
road shows an expenditure of that
much money.
In one of my previous articles,
made inquiry about Mason countys
road machinery. On the Big Pond
pike, | discovered one of the countys
graders. 1t has been setting there
long enough that the grass has grown
up around II sufficiently to almost
hide II. The Big Pond pike is a sue
'cession of hills from end to end and
needs breaks put upon the hills ia
carry the water of from the center OF
the pike. This is badly needed and
certainly should be done In places
the gutter is filled up higher than the
roadway and in one place II runs
clear across the pike into the other
gutter $40 should be available for
repair on this road, annually. There
are 3 bridges on this road with an av-
araoa onau from, 10 80 az Rook