Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30
A DARK SCHEME,
IN THE MAKING
Effort Being Made to Give Dixie Short
Route Highway a Black Eye to
Benefit the DoubIe-Pronged,
So-CalIed Dixie Route

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So-CalIed Dixie Route
Some person or persons have put on
foot a SCENE to entirely dlscredit what
is known as the Dixie Short Route,
that extends from Albany, KY,
through Pickett county, to jamestown,
CrossvIlle, PIkeville and on to Chatta-
nooga.
When the great meeting was held in
Chattanooga two years ago to deter
mine the location of what is known as
the Dixie highway, that extends from
Chicago, Illinois, to Miami, Florida,
thus section WAS cheated out Of Its
rights by political chicanery. instead
of the route beng designated as run
ming through this county in olrect
northerly direction, thereby saving a
distance of l20 miles as against either
the Nashville or Knoxville routes,
those IN charge of the location of the
proposed great national highway, d.
vlded it and designated one branch as
running via Nashville and one via
Knoxville. 1t IS easy to see that such
division kills the plan for great
national ri.;hway to be known as the
Dixie Higt 'ay for when it was split
into two sections there was then no
real Dixie Highway.
DIXIE SHORT ROUTE.
Fentress. Cumberland, Bledsoe and
Seeuatcnle counties threw their inhu-
ence together to pull for the location
of the Dixie Highway directly north
through these counties and urged Its
adoption primarily because 1T is 120
miles shorter than any other route
between Chattanooga and Louisville.
Political juggling divided the Dixie
Highway as above stated.
But that did not settle matters by
any means, for Bledsoe, Cumberland
and Fentress counties who were join
ed by Pickett county on the Kentucky
llne-declared they would build the
Dixie Short Route anyway. confident
that the many advantages it would
have would be sure to bring the travel
this way when the true conditions be-
came known, which was sure to follow
early after the completion of the road
through the counties named.
SHORT ROUTE A WINNER.
Some persons have become fully con-
vinced that this Dixie Short Route |
would surely be built and they realized |
that its completion spelt doom to the !
forke route that has been styled Dixie
Highway.
TRYING TO KILL IT,
Recently an effort has been made to !
kill the effectiveness of this route by
using the proposed funds that ere to be
expended by the federal government
and the state TO build a great highway
north and south through the state In
order to do This they have had route
that runs from Albany,
KY, to Byrdstown, Pickett county,
from there to Livingston, AIgood.
Monterey Crossville. Herbert Do
main, Pikeville, Dayton and Chatta-
looga.
Such route would not only be long
n than either of the prongs of the pro-
posed Dixie Highway that run via
Nashville and Knoxville, but IS intend
ID to lead to the conclusion that such
route represents the best that can be
lad over what - called the Dixie Short
Route. That of course is not the case ,
" any means. II
SITUATION EXPLAINED.
Beginning with Albany. KY, the !
is this: There is good pike
extending to the Cumberland river.
me distance from the Cumberland riv- :
r across Pickett county to the Fen t
ress county line Is about four miles I
nd the farmers Of that section say if I
'lekett county will not construct that g
hort gap they will do it. Pickett r
ounty has IT good graded road now I
uiIt to point where it will intersect ;
Tith the Dixie Short Route IN it's di- n
ect course south to Jamestown. Fen n