The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-08-17
Ne.vberry County Stands
Alone In Third District
With No Bond Issue for Road Bung-The Total in Other
Six Counties is So 1925, 900 fox Road Buildng-An-
derson Leads All the Rest

Newberry county not only stands
alone in the matter Of no bond is
sue for the building of public roads,
but it is the one missing link in the
state highway. system for connecting
with Laurens, Greenwood, Saluda,
Lexington, Fairfield and Union coun-
ties, and when the link is connected
it will give the county cross high
ways from every side and every end
of the county. But the link is" lack
ing. That is, it is lacking the con-
Meeting up, and it is up. to the peo-
pie of Newberry to do something to
make this connection or stand alone
among the progressive counties OF
the Piedmont in failing to do so.
At the last session of the legisla-
ture the state highway department
was reorganized and new commits
sion appointed and two mills state
tax was levied for the maintenance
of a state highway system of roads
connecting the various county seats
by system of state highways to be
maintained by the state after the
roads are put in condition to be ac-
cepted by the state highway depart
ment. And the automobile tax was
set aside for the same purpose. The
highway department now has s24,-
600 which it is ready to spend on the
roads of Newberry county so soon as
there are some connecting links with
this county to the county system
which the highway department can
take, over. Before this can be done
the roads must be made to conform
to certain requirements.
One of the roads is the Piedmont
highway which is the main thorough
fare from the coast to the mountains.
It comes direct to Newberry by Co.
lumbia and at Newberry it forks
one road going on to Laurens and
Greenville, and the other on TO
Whitmire, Union and Spartanburg'
and from there on to the mountains.
The highway commission is ready to
take over the maintenance OF these
roads just so soon as they are put IN
condition where it can be done by
the rules laid down in the statute,
and the commission has the money
to begin work at once on the MAN.
tenance of the roads. This latter
road from Newberry by Whitmire to,
Union is known as the Appalachian
highway.
On the Piedmont highway from
Little Mountain to Prosperity there
has already been spent some $4,000,
and if the opening of the road under
the railroad track at Excelsior school
house was made this section would
be in condition to turn over, as 1t
was built under the direction of the
state engineer, but the road can not
be taken by the highway department
until it is made to connect with the
road at the Lexington line. We un-
derstand that Lexington county has
agreed to put the short distance that
is now in that county on this road IN
condition for acceptance by the
state highway commission. NeWber-
ry will have to build at least i've
miles on this road from Mt. Tabor
church to the Lexington line just this
side of Chaplin, and this link must be
connected before the commission can
even consider the acceptance Of the
road and take over the maintenance
OF it.
The road must be 80 feet wide and
all drains must have concrete bridges
and all streams must have bridges
of the same character or good sub
stantial wooden bridges, and the road
must have the proper grade. And
then it must connect the link to the
Laurens line at Kinards, and the I'm
ion line at Whitrnire. That would
connect Newberry with Richland and
with the road from Chaplin to Lex
ington court house with the county
seat of Lexington.
Then the commission had on its
map the road from Newberry to
Chappells to make up the link to
connect with the county seat OF
Greenwood. This road will have to
be selected, but will very probably
90 by Deadfall and Silverstreet as
that would go about eight miles on
the main road from Newberry to Sa-