Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-08
THE WESTERN ROAD.

Citizens of Bullock's Creek and Broad
River townships. more than one hum
dred strong, appeared before the YORK
county board of commissioners Wed
nesday morning requesting that gen.
eral route of the West road OF the
county be designated so as to take IN
the towns of Sharon, Hickory Grove
and Smyrna, claiming that such desig-
nation would prove Of the greatest
benefit to the greatest number OF
people in western York and guaran-
teeing that rights Of way weuld be
granted the county commissioners II
they did designate such route.
DR.. j. H. Saye, addressing the COM
missioners In the interest OF route
leading through Sharon and Hickory
Grove, said that in his opinion, such
road would be Of benefit to a majority
of the citizens of western York. Inc
location of the west road to be built
under the county road law providing
for a north and south and an east and
west road had never been decided up
on, the people of western York had.
been paying taxes for road purposes
for years without ever receiving any
benefit therefrom, their tax money be-
ing spent on roads in other sections
of the county. There had been many
rumors and much discussion OF the
probable route of the west road ana
the western delegation had come be-
lore the commission for the purpose
of asking that the route be designated
once and for all and that IT pass
through the towns of Sharon, Hickory
Grove and Smyrna.
The question of where the west road
would meet with Cherokee county was
not a question of very great moment
with most of the delegation present, he
said. They cared not SO long as the
road was built to take in the three
towns of western York.
People of western York county he
said were growing tired of the delay
in getting a good road. Year after
year they had been looking forward to
seeing such road constructed
through western York running through
the incorporated towns. He and others
who had been fighting for good roads
for western York for years were now
growing old without seeing any tangi-
BILE results Of their endeavors.
w. s. Wilkerson of Hickory Grove
argued that the present road law had
been operative for eleven years and
that in all that time the western Sec
ton of the county had received prac-
tically no benefit from it. The chain
gang had never been in western YORK
county and from present indications 1t
could not be for long time to come.
People in the western section Of York
county, the great majority OF them,
felt that they were entitled to road
connecting with the Cherokee line
leading through the towns Of Sharon
and Hickory Grove. The matter OF
the junction point with Cherokee
county, he said, was of not much i'm
portance and personally he was not so
much interested in the junction point.
However he was strongly in favor or
an official western road through Sha-
ron and Hickory Grove and thought II
nothing but fair and just that such q
route should be designated since II
would serve the greatest number OF
people in that section of the county.
J. :. Brice, Esq, representing the
county board OF commissioners said he
did not think the commission should
designate the route now because or the
fact that it would be necessary FOR an
engineer to first go over the ground.
Furthermore the people of western
York county had come, he said, asking
for designation of q road through Sha-