Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-01-16

40 miles Of macadam or surfaced
roads. and about 60 miles Of improv-
cd grade out Of total of something
less than 400 miles, with numerous
bridges, ranging in span from small
slabs to steel of 120 feet Thus it
cannot be said that Tazewell has no
good roads. for it stands pre-eminent
among all the counties in the State,
/ with more than 80 per cent Of its
highways improved.
In the early prosecution of the
County's road operations, much mon
ey was expended for damages to the
land, fencing and the like, which bit
sharply into our appropriations, but
the present administration hns never
recognized that good road damaged
any mans property, and the policy
was Immediately adopted to preclude
! such expenditures, and fortunately,
with married. success. Confronting me
) It -his mon ent is en annual report
IF Morr'r County West Virginia. in
Heating 'nyort of >vcr $50 600 90
for damages within the year. Taze-
well County can scarcely show as
many hundred during The past six
years.
Many knotty problems Of long stand
ing have been satisfactorily solved,
much to the County's credit, through
the efforts of your road office. and it
is desired to call your attention to
the imHnnnsity of the work carried on
each year by our Department, which
we believe is second to none, and the
success attained has been made poss-
ible by the hearty and effective CO.
operation of our Board of Super
visors, Prosecuting Attorney, County
Treasurer, County Clerk, and the
State Highway Department. whose
material assistance rendered is here
by gratefully acknowledged. Permit
me, gentlemen Of the Board, to app
end for your information the accom-
plishments Of the past, and the pros
poets in road work for the coming
season.
In the Maiden Spring District the
following items Of measures not in
Guided within the Bond Issue Of the
District were complete.
l. Rights Of way near Doran on the
Richards to Raven road with right
to use BERN near track of the NJ G.
w. r. r. Co. for fill, was procured
from said company, notwithstanding
great opposition and the entire in
ability of the county to proceed with
its road construction at the point
named; the resulting advantage is
the now complete macadam from
Richards to Raven.
2. Completion of the main stree
of the town Of Richards to come
Raven and Cedar Buff.
g. Completion of the road or stree
through Cedar Bluff under said
Towns Bond Issue and the saving
therefrom sufficient funds to com.
plete the Cedar Bluff to Richlnnds
connection.
d. Procuring the State Highway d.
Dartlnent's consent to use convicts
on this work to its completion, and
later the Departments consent for
an additional stay of six months of
the camp in the District. without
Big Creek road could never have been
finished.
s. The completion Of the macadam
road from the bridge near Wardell
to connect with the Fincastle road
about to be let to contract. Without
this completion Raven, Richards,
Cedar Bluff and surrounding coun-
try would have been practically cut
off from the Fincastle during one
half Of year.
6. The construction by the N. &
W. Railway Company Of q cement
retaining wall at Pounding Mill; thus
5enefiting the safety for travel, Of
this road under the bridge, which
previously sustained the greater part
Of the approach fill Of said Company.
Jeffersonville District.
l. Permanent bridge of steel con-
crete construction at Plum Creek.
2. Concrete and timber bridge over
Cavatt's Creek, thus affording Bap-
fist Valley, Dry Fork and surround
ing country highwater passage to
the Depot and other points, at the
same time eliminating an almost
calamity as to the situation Of these
people.
8. Completion of the road from E.
P. Moore's to Burke's Garden Sid
ing.
4. Completion of the Fincostle
from Cecil Peery's to point near A.
j. Steele's.
s. Double undergrade crossing at
Five Oaks. constructed by the N.
md W. Railway Company in persis-
t"nt representation Of this dangerous
noint, and Notwithstanding repeated
rnfusals and the pigeon holeing of
very request in this re:ad.
Clear Fork District.
1. Locating Pocahontas to head Of
Abbs Valley road under tipple at
Big Vein, obviating thei cby, two
cd cro.sings and very dam
gerous hillside curve.
? Right of way at Flat Top to
~ailroad. thus distressing of worry
it0cp grad of about Is per cent. Tho
Horntv Commissioners having never
h"-n abb to obtoin this by their re-
-"atnd efforts during many years; at
tho same time agreement was made
18th West Virginia to connect. Since
IBIS understanding with the West
Virginia authorities, war conditions
rtcrvoncd and prevented compile
lion of Tho wor'-; the matter however
rs again b?"n tal-en up with their
'o'ntv enriRror.
4. Tho Bur'-n's Garden to Wythe-
Tile road has b"en to some extent
improved, so that there is no diff
Guilty to go from Tazewcll to Wythe-
vile in a Ford car.
Sion pOctq nr danger ciuna1q