French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-01-17
FEDERAL AID FOR ROAD
THROUGH HENDERSON CO.:
DEPENDING ON RUTHERFORD

X D1NU YIN OhI
Henderson county is interested In
roads and those in n%eighboring coun-
ties and especially interested in the
prospect of having a section helped
by federal aid, as will be gathered from
the following in the Rutherfordton
Sun:
Raleigh, Dec. 29.-I am herewith en-
closing to you literature covering some
OIL the points that will probably be of
heIp and information TO your readers
M the advantage Of the passage of
the bond election law, and hope that
you may be successful in having this
money made available in order TO Sc
cure the construction of the road
through your county.
l am perfectly satisfied that the State
Highway Commission will do every
thing possible to aid you in securing
the Federal Aid funds for doing this
work. : sucm
us maintenance through your county
is going to be of wonderful advantage
to the county owing to the fact that
h Hickory Nut Gap road, when OPEN
w. = NAAhOOOIOO4y NC Tie HOSI SdI1S-
factory the safest and the most scenic
road from the eastern part of the State
to Asheville, and VIII also be the best
load from the eastern part of the State
botn in location and grade. There is
no other road from the east to Ashe-
vile over which an automobile OF aver
age power can Climb the Blue Ridge
on high gear.
This IS all true of the road through
Hickory Nut Gap, and taking this in
consideration with the many points of
interest along this route, and especial
ly the development by DIR. Morse and
his brothers at and around Chimney
Rock, and the beautiful scenery near
the top of the mountain both east and
west will develop, l believe, an enorm-
Gus amount of tourist travel and more
money to Western North Carolina than
anything that can be done.
In a conversation with Mr.. Duffy,
Commissioner of Highways of New
York, he told me that the tourist travel
through New York State last year
brought to that State SIS, O0O, 900 that
otherwise would not have been eXpend-
led in the State. l merely mention
this to show that in a measure North
Carolina can benefit from this class of
income.
With best wishes, | am
Yours very truly,
w. s. FALLS,
State Highway Engineer.
Urged to Vote Bonds.
The following editorial is taken from
the Sun:
On second page of this issue of The
Sun will be found several articles OH
federal aid in road construction, their
maintenance, etc, that should be Ut
special interest at this time. ut Sat
urday, January 10Th, the people Ct
Cool Springs, RutherfordtoD, Green
Hill and Chimney Rock townships will
have an opportunity 20 vote $4,000 in
bonds, which if carried, will lie supple
mented with an equal sum by the Fed
eral government, in building the Cen
trail Highway through Rutherford
county from the Cleveland t. the Hen
derson county line. In our opinion
this is one of the most important ques-
tons submitted to the voters in a de-
cade and every citizen should arouse
himself to the plain duty of helping
and seeing that the bond issue is car
RED by a large majority.
If the bonds are voted n the road
built the citizens will have a guaran-
tee that they will have a first-class
highway. The work will be under
plans and supervision of the Federal
authorities, and yOu can rest assured
that the roads will be second to none in
the state.
by the completion Of the Central
Highway through this county "a great
State road leading from the east to the
west will be opened up and bring thou
sands Of tourists to our beautiful
mountain county and thereby develop
this section as nothing else will.
Another great thing to be consider
ed IN this connection, is the fact that
after the road is built, the State will
take it Over and forever maintain it in
frst-class condition, hui saving the
county this expense for years to come
AS a means of transportation and per-
manently cementing all parts of the
country together, nothing can take the
place of good roads.
The construction of this road
through the county should be recog-
nlzed as an absolute requisite and the
voters should see to it that the issue
should not fail.
District Engineer H. K. Bishop in
recent letter to State Highway Engi
neer w. S. Falls, said: This seems
20 be a desirable highway to improve
under the Federal Aid Act. We shall
be glad to entertain a project from
you. covering the ~surfacing of the high.
way, together with such other neces
sary work as may be incidental there
to. Recent inspection showed that thu
road had been we'll graded and th'
alignment seems to be very good.
: There is some little work to be done
! perhaps on the western portion nea:
the county line, but in the main it il
in shape for ~surfacing. We shall b.