The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-12-21

year peTlOQ.
% So dao State ao bond Ssid issue f,s Of only
fund up to $4,000,000, and this is
sue could be so arranged that a
part of the revenues above sug-
gested would take Of it during
and after the six-year period.
This $34,000,000 fund would be
sufficient to carry out the follow
ing described program of road i'm
provement:
81. Construct 1000 miles of soft
surfaced roads, including minor
%1a nFi1dsss sioood Sn6 ooo sSvorts' at $4,000 per
"2. Construct 400 miles of hard
surfaced roads, including grading
and the minor bridges and culverts,
at $4,000 per mile, $10,O0O,O0O.
"3. Construct all of the impor~
tant bridges on the State highway
system not already provided for Mt
cost of about .$5,50O,0OO
"a. Provide annually sufficient
amount to maintain all State roads
previously constructed varying from
$4oO 900 per year at present to about
system is complete, or about $5,-
| 100000 for the six years.
| "5. Maintain the State highway
department at a cost of about $780,
600 per year, of s1,2oO,ooo for the
six years.
IS. Provide interest and sinking
fund of $1,8O0,OOO for bonds. IN
terest and sinking fund, after the
slX-year period could be provided
from the same revenues, with g
substantial balance for matching
subsequent federal aid and continu-
ing. the construction of hard
; surfaced roads.
nr"1ant 1.-The State ;a;a.g highway system, as at
$500 miles Of road, of which more
than 1000 miles will be completed
or provided for by the end of 1921,
including. more than 200 miles of
hard surface. The 2,4OO miles pro-
vided in the above program would
therefore complete the system and
enable the addition of some 500 or
GOO miles to the present layout. The
400. miles additional of hard sur
facing would also take care OF prac-
tically all parts of State roads
where the traffic is too heavy for
the soft. surface and where the
! counties have not already made ar
rangements for hard surfaeing,
"The expenditure of the $20OO0,-
; 600 proposed for road construction
can be equitably distributed among
, the counties according to any rea-
sonabie schedule and at the same
time, complete the highway system
as above stated. If the distribution
! were based, for example, third
on land area, one third on assessed
valuation, and onc-third on motor
vehicle license receipts for 1921, no
county would receive less than
| about $180,000, and in each case the
county's proportion would be suf-
ficient to complete the State roads
within it's limits, due regard being
hand for the type of surfacing which
the present traffic would warrant.
AS examples of how g. distribution
OF this kind would workout, con-
slider few of the counties at
"Orangeburg County would re-
ceive about $74O,OOO and has 1870
miles of road on the State system,
of which about seventy-fve miles
will be constructed or provided for
at the end of the present year. The
remaining 1O5 miles could be graded
and surfaced with sand-clay at a
cost not exceeding $525,OOO, which
would leave at least $215,OO0 for
constructing several miles of need
ed hard surfacing. Besides, much
needed bridge across the Santee
river between Orangeburg and Clar-
cndon counties could be provided
from the bridge fund
"Chestericld County would re-
celvc about $380,000 and has ninety
three miles on the State highway
system, of which about twenty-fiv
miles have already been constructed
or provided for. TO construct the
remaining seventy miles with sand
clay or gravel surfacing would cost
some $350,O00, which would leave
margin OF $4,000 for constructing
addltional mileage that might be
added to the State system. Chcs-
terneId county has no roads at
present requiring hard surface.
"Greenvlllc county would receive
about S1,14O,000 and has total of
l31 miles on the State system, all
except about ten miles of which has
already been improved. At least
81 100000 is needed in this county
Immediately, however, for hard sur
facing those roads on which traffic
IS too heavy for the existing top
soil surfacing.
"Richland county would receive
about $l,l00,000 and has seventy
nine miles on the State highway
system. which is practically all pro-
weed for under the $2O0O0OO bond
issue for pavGmcnts already avail
able IN that county. The State fund
could, therefore, be applicd to the
construction of roads to be added
to the system or in retiring part
Of the county bonds.
IN Ike manner every county in
/ the State would receive a sufficient