Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-09-26
THE ROAD TO SHARON

A representative OF The Yorkviile
Enquirer took advantage OF an op-
portunity to accompany Supervisor
Thos. w. Boyd on little trip that car
ried him over some of the roads be-
tween Yorkville and Sharon.
Supervisor Boyd's business was to
inspect bridges over. Turkey Creek at
the. Zafe Carroll old place on the
Pinckney road, at the DRY Fork" Of
Turkey creek at the Southern trestle
and over the Main stream at Sutton's
spring.
The taking down of the steel bridge
over Turkey Creek between Claude
Robinson's and Sharon has forced
travel back into the old channels by
way Of the Sutton's spring and Pinck-
ney roads, and the supervisors trip
was necessary because Of the condi-
.tion into which the bridges had fallen
by reason of long disuse.
Il appears that the building of the
road from Sharon out into the Pinck-
ney road at Claude Robinson's had di-
verted practically all of the Bullock's
Greek travel to Yorkville over the
Pinckney road by way Of the Zafe
Carroll bridge around through Sharon
and across the steel bridge over Tur-
key Creek back into the Pinckney
road at Claude Robinson's and during
the week the steel bridge had been
down, the Sharon -Yorkville- Bullock's
Creek travel was beginning to follow
the. old route across Turkey Creek at
the Carroll bridge and the old route
by way of Sharon and Sutton's, spring.
Fromza point about half a mile south
of Claude Robinson.s to- the top Of the
| hill on the other southwest side OF
Turkey Creek the Pinckney road had
grown up in grass and the travel dur
ing the week had been just about
enough to again clear the trail. The
Turkey Creek hills appeared to be but
little IL any worse; but certainly no
better than they ever were, the bridge
across the creek is in tumble down
condition, though still passable, and by
careful. driving and good luck o Ford
can be piloted across the loose boulders
that, form the approaches on either
side.
Supervisor Boyd made q careful
survey of the bridge, made some
measurements and calculations, gave
enthusiastically vague answers to the
newspaper mans questions as to what
he thought of the situation; but did
give It to be understood that the drain
age commission had been to him with
reference to what the county would dc
and what thu. commission would be ex-
pected to do about replacing the bridge
after the passage of the dredge boat,
which is due there at about this time
Although the road Ii all but abandon
ed, the supervisor seemed to think that
the bridge would have to be kept up.
At the Gouriey place the lightly
travelled Pinckney road from the north
runs into a big broad heavily Travelled
Pinckpey road from the south. The
contrast is most striking in that one
can see at glance he has run In on
what is probably one Of the most i'm
pertant roads of the county.
The Sutton's spring road from
Sharon to Yorkville appears to be In
about as good condition as it ever
was, with the exception of the bridges
over Dry Fork and over Turkey
Creek at Sutton's spring. Both these
bridges are In bad condition and look
as If they are about to fall, that at
Dry Fork especially having a decided
list that seems to threaten crossing
vehicles with a tumble In the creek.
The workmen engaged on replacing
the steel bridge over Turkey Creek on
the Robinson Sharon road thought 1t
would be several days before they
could complete the job,