The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-09-05

confer with the Court on the expen-
diture of this money in order that
the taxpayer would know they were
getting full value for the money
spent upon the roads and that the
Fiscal Court itself was doing the best
it could with the means at hand.
Third, the Magistrates of Bourbon
County each receive from the County
about fifty dollars per year for their
services, and as they are working for
almost nothing, they felt that others
interested in the same proposition
should share a part Of the response
bility and familiarize themselves
with the road building Of Bourbon
County.
Automobile and road traffic has in
creased so, that the traffic upon the
public roads has multiplied many
times within the past fifteen years.
There are now from fifteen hundred
to two thousand automobiles in Bour-
bon County, and if each machine
travels an average of ten miles per
day, there is automobile traffic On
the roads of Bourbon County of If
teen thousand miles per day, or six
or seven million miles per year.
The amount of money now paid By
the taxpayers of Bourbon County
for road purposes will not stand
this traffic. Motor trucks are in
creasing and are carrying a great
deal of the short haul freight. With
in the next few years motor trucks
will compete with railroads in the
hauling of light freight and any
town that does not have good roads
leading into it will be left OF the
transportation map. Good roads mean
as much for a town in the next few
years as railroads have. been in the
past, and we know that any commu-
nifty not in touch by a railroad Is re-
tarded in it's growth, and any COM
munity that does not take up the
good road movement and build roads
that will withstand the increased
motor traffic will also be retarded in
it's growth.
The people often regret that the
L. & ". Railroad was not built from
Paris instead of Winchester, and in
a few years time we will regret that
the turnpikes of Bourbon County are
not built so as to receive our proper
ton of the motor traffic.
Our neighboring counties are vot-
ing the tax for road purposes and il
we are to keep step with them we
must also vote it. The same per-
sons who are now opposed to the
road tax would have been opposed
to the freeing of turnpikes more than
twenty years ago, had they had a
voice in that subject, but how many
people to-day would want the old toll
gates returned?
Road tax will make it possible to
operate thre or four crushers upon
the side pixies during the year and
thereby build about forty miles of
side pike each year, which in the
course of five or six years will re-
build every side pike in Bourbon
County and in the same course OF
time, the main pixies of Bourbon
County can mostly be rebuilt of some
durable and permanent material.
With the resent amount of taxes
received, the county roads can never
grow better and will gradually grow
worse, and If something is not done
by which more money can be OBJ
tanned for road purposes, the roads OF
your county will be almost impassa-
BILE within five to ten years time.
1t is the duty of every progressive
person to vote in favor of this road
tax.
Let Bourbon County retain its
good name of progressiveness and
keep step with dts neignboring coun-
ties.
GEORGE BATTERTON,
County Judge.
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