Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-10-22

ticularly into the money that !:
derived from government and
state aid, and was informed by
Judge Price that it is not the pur-
pose to ehdeavor to build all of
the government aid roads in one
|or even two years but that the
money will be apportioned equi-.
|tably SO that every section Of the,
county will be benefited. Dr..
Baker thought that the govern
|ment's requirement Of a road
THAT costs approximately SIS, 600
a mile was too high. M, c. Ke1-
|logg asked him if he did not think
IT good business to build a road,
say at $4,000 a mile, that would
last for 15,or 20 years without it
being necessary to spend money
on it for repairs, rather than one
that costs only $1,000 a mile,
which will wear out in two or
three years and have to have an
other large sum spent upon it to
repair or rebuild it.
Other speakers scovered other
objections that are being made.
The farvia question was discuss
ed. Judge Price said that the
Court had been experimenting
trying to find some sort of road
treatment that would be perman
ent, and hold a road in good shape
while repairs were being made
elsewhere. Tarvia was pronounc-
ed a good automobile road, but
unfit for horses on the hillsides
The opinion of the Fiscal Court
and others seems to be that the
!use of tarvia was a mistake, and i
lis accepted as assured that no
more taryia is to be applied on the
roads. a.
County Road Engineer J. G.
Baxter gave lengthy resume Of
road making history of Madison
county. He said that he knew
that he had been criticised and
many were objecting to voting
road bonds on his account. He
defined any man to irnpeach his
honor or integrity in the conduct
of his Office, and said that as far
as he was concerned he would be
willing to step down and out as
Road Engineer if as many as a
dozen men of his party asked him
to. He said that he had told
Judge Price some months before
that he probably ought to quit.
Judge Baxter showed, however,
that is no easy matter to find an
experienced road man. He told of
road conditions when he first be-
gan to have anything to do with
county affairs half a dozen or SO
years ago, and compared them
with the present. He gave in de-
tail every bit of information that
he thought could possibly be of
value to those who are honestly
anxious to see the road situation
in Madison improved, and the tax
voted. He said he had taken nc
hand in the road election and does
not intend to; that he has his du-
ties to perform, and it is up to tho
people of the county to say
whether they want to vote this
tax and afford funds by which the
county's road can be kept in rea-
sonably good condition.
After every objection that any
one present seemed to have to
voting the tax had been express
ed, in order to meet these objec-
tions and give the people conf
dence and assurance that their
money is to be carefully spent, S.
M. Saufey moved that commit
tee of farmers and citizens, one
from each magisterial district, be
named, to have charge of the
couhty's road program in the
event the tax is voted. He told
|of the success that has followed
tile appointment of such a private
Citizens Committee i'm Rich
Jnond to have charge of the $780,
1000 which is now being expended
upon the city's sewerage and
street Improvement work. He
said that so far as he had been
able to ascertain every taxpayer
is well pleased and satisfied with
the way the work is being done;
that the Citizens Committee is
cooperating and advising with
the City Council and every citi-
zen knows that a fair, square deal
lis being given. Such a plan he
suggested for the county at large
in connection with the proposed
road tax, that the people might
feel assitred that their money is