The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1918-03-05
TO THE PEOPLE OF LINCOLN
COUNTY.

1t is hardly necessary for us to say
that the most important question
now before this people is that OF
roads. We are all vitality interested
in having good roads. This is a road
age and the very best advertisement
any county can have is good roads,
which not only increase the value of
the land itself but Of its products.
We all know that the roads in this
county are not what they ought to
be, in fact that they are in very bad
condition. The people feel that they
have been heavily taxed and still
have bad roads. The present Fiscal
Court is determined to do all in its
power to see that every dollar of the
tax collected shall reach the roads
and that the county shall receive a
fair and just return for the money
expended With this end in view, the
office of Road Supervisor will be
abolished and the care and keep of
the roads will be apportioned in small
mileage to persons along the road,
who are responsible and directly
interested in having good roads and
who daily travel them, and hence
can and will, at the very least cost
see that all defects in the road bed or
bitches are repaired at once and as
soon as they appear. This system
will in our opinion give us much
better roads at much less cost The
present Fiscal Court will also APP
portion the road tax fairly and equit-
ably all over the county, so that every
road and community will receive its
just share. We think the system
adopted by the court is step in the
right direction but the court is salts
fed that the present tax is not suf-
ficient to put our roads in repair,
even with all the economical bust
ness methods it can use. 60 that, in
order to put our roads in repair, it
will be necessary either to levy an
additional tax or for the people
along the roads to donate some ma
terial, time and labor. Most of us
have upon our farms material-stone
or gravel-absolutely injurious to
farms, and which we can furnish at
practically little cost, yet which
would be a great benefit to the road
and a great saving to the county.
Most of us have men and teams which
we can easily and without appreciate
expense spare for dav, and all of
us can give at least three or four
loads of broken or crushed rock or
gravel. The material furnished and
the labor would be used only for the
betterment of the road along our
farms and which we travel. Now we
think most of us ought to have and
do have enough of public spirit and
pride in the welfare of our county
to heartily Join in the good roads
movement. We have spoken to many
people of this plan-and they readily
approve of it and say they will GER
tainly Join in it. So we expect to
have canvassers for each road ap-
pointed by the magistrates and thus
every person will be called upon and
asked to join in this movement and
to pledge material, teams and labor
for at least a day in the early fu-
ture, and thus have the roads all
over the county repaired upon the
same day. If you approve of the plan
speak to your neighbor about it and
get him interested and let us all get
together and not only repair and put
in first class condition all of our
roads. but thereby avoid the necessi-
ty of any further tax.
The week of March Is is dcsignat-
ed as road working week and it is
hoped that all who can will haul their
rock and gravel on the 20 and 21.
1t is intended that the rock
and gravel be hauled as short a dis
lance as possible, so it will be arrang-
ed that each person who donates to
the good cause will be allowed to
nut his rock and gravel near his
home.