The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-02-07
MCCORMICK IN FUSS
ABOUT NEW ROADS
People At Odds Over Best Manner
of Procedure.

and a spirit of dissatisfaction on the
part of number of people in Nc
Cormick County regarding the man.
ner and method of building perma-
nent highways in Mccormick County.
The legislature of 1917 voted bond
ed Indebtedness on Mccormick Coun-
ty for the purpose of building per-
manent highways in Mccormick
County, in the sum of $175,000.
Bonds were floated and the money
has all been paid in. The commits
sion charged1'by the act Of the legis-
lature, with the construction of these
roads was given the right and au-
thority to employ. an engineer to
supervise the construction of these
roads. Since that time Mr.. NJ. E.
Worrell has been actively engaged
in the location and construction of
permanent roads through this county.
McC Cormick County is very hilly and
of such a soil that roads are hard to
construct of a permanent nature.
To date about thirty-five miles of
good graded roads have been made.
This road extends the length of the
county from the Abbeville county
line to the Savannah River toward
Augusta. During the war, labor at
one time got very scarce and the
construction work began to lag, but
since the war has been over labor
conditions have become better and
all needed labor can be had now at
a reasonable price.
1t is the purpose of the commits
sion to build a good graded road
from Mccormick to the Edgefeld
County line, and another to the
Greenwood County line, and thereby
connect the county seat of McCor-
mick County with the county seats
Of the adjoining counties.
A movement is now on foot, how
ever, to stop further grading and ex-
pend the balance of the money on
the roads already graded by topsoil-
ing them.
This movement has reached the
point where lengthy petitions numer-
ously signed has been presented to
the members Of the legislative dele
cation asking that further grading of
the roads be dispensed with by legis-
lative action. These petitions have
been signed very largely by those liv-
ing on the road already graded, by
other who will not be directly af-
fected by the road, and even by 9TH
ers who do not even live in McCor-
mick County. The members of the
commission seem to be pretty equally
divided. Two of them living on the
road already graded are in favor of
topsoiling this road with the balance
of the money, while two others want
more roads graded, and the fifth
member is fully in sympathy with the
wishes of the people generally. It is
pointed out by those favoring "a dis
continuance of the grading; that the
roads already graded are not perma-
nent, and in places are very bad
during bad weather. On the other
hand, it is pointed out by the other
members Of the commission and
those favoring the continuation Of
the grading, that the bonded indebt-
edness will have to be paid for by all
Of the people Of all parts Of the
county, and the deplorable condition
Of the roads not yet graded is pointed
to as good reason for a continuance
of this grading. Besides this, not
one-half the money has yet been ex-
pended contracts have been let for
further grading and there will be
enough money to complete the roads
above outlined as contemplated byI
the commission, and also enough to
topsoil all of the worse places along
the roads.
This case fittingly shows the dan
ger or petition. The petitions which
have been presented to the legisla-
tive delegation in the general as