The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1921-08-19
OHIO RIVER, BIG SANDY,
VIRGINIA, ASHEVILLE HIGHWAY
Hardwood Boosters Working Plan for Long and
Picturesque Road Through Here.

points.
This highway is thus strategically
located at just about the right dis
tance between Cincinnati and Wash
ington to afford convenient north and
south tourist and traffic trunk line,
and the Big Sandy has carved a nat
ural route for great part OF the high
way, while convenient gaps allow it to
go through the Appalachians into
Virginia, Tennessee and North Caro-
I lima.
This highway traverses a wonderful
country, rich in natural resources, with
an immense development already but
just in its infancy.
This highway would have a strong
appeal to the tourist, for it was in Big
Stone Gap that John Fox, Jr, made
his mountain characters, known and
loved throughout the nation. and this
highway would traverse the heart of
the region in which the scenes of his
books are laid.
Literally thousands of tourists in the
north and east are waiting to drive
south, over comfortable roads, espec-
tally in-the Fall to Florida, East Tenn
essee, Asheville and, of course, wilt
return in the Spring while thousands
of tourists in the south want to go
north in the summer, SO that, when
open, this highway will be traversed
by thousands of tourists at all seasons
of the year, as well as affording good
roads for people and communities
along the line, which in itself will be
of inestimable value and well worth
the effort necessary to get II If no
tourist traffic were considered
In addition to being of great con-
venience and value for purely inter-
community local traffic, 1t would allow
traffic to flow out TO the north, this
section being at present bottled up,
especially southwestern Virginia and
southeastern Kentucky counties. so
that they cannot get north unless they
go west to Cumberland Gap or east to
Bluefield, and even then they have
rough riding getting out to the north.
This highway baby" has not yet
been named. but is getting old enough
to have one, Mr. Roger thinks 1t should
be called The Pine Trail, thus instantly
annexing the nationwide favorable
prestige Of the novel Of John Fox, Jr.,
but the publisher of this Journal in
sists that the full name of the novel
should be used, "The Lonesome Pine
Trail"
One of the great values to city or
towns being on a named highway is
that 1t shares in the nationwide adj
vertising given the road through the
Blue, Book. other guide books and
touring maps, auto magazine, and
newspaper publicity. Usually tour
list coming south wants to come over
named highway, so, while he may
know nothing or little about a certain
place on 1t, he is just as sure to learn
considerable about each place while
studying the route and going over 1t.
Another conference is planned to be
held soon on the Ohio river, we sug-
gest Huntington, in order to get rep
resentatives from Jenkins north to and
including Catlettsburg, Ashland, IRON
ton and Huntington interested.
1t is planned at this conference to
organize permanently, finance and
name the highway, or to arrange for
another general meeting for that pur-
pose. In the meantime, everybody in
terested in the project should boost
and push 1t.