The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-11-22
CALHOUN HIGHWAY
GETS ATTENTION
NEW INTERSTATE ROUTE GOING
FORWARD
Three Big Bridges to Be Constructed
on Road-Makes Fourth
Route
The State.

made on the Calhoun highway since
it's incorporation into. the state sys-
tenn by the highway commission and
reports from officers of the Calhoun
Highway association, which is pro-
noting the road, indicate that this
road will be rapidly built and every
possible effort to speed up the work
will be made. This highway has now
been recognized by the Georgia and
South Carolina highway departments.
The route runs from Cheraw across
Chesterfield county to Lancaster,
thence to Chester, Carlisle, Whitmire,
Clinton, Mountville, Cross Hill, Coro-
naca, Greenwood, Abbeville, Calhoun
Falls, Elberton and Athens, Ga. 1t
will probably reduce the mileage be-
tween Raleigh and ATLANTA by about
40 or as miles, and will be strong
competitor for recognition as a short
route to the Bankhead National high
way.
At a recent meeting of the board
of directors of the association author
ity was given for the development OF
a branch line, Cheraw to Wilmington,
N. c., which would give short route
from Wilmington to Atlanta and the
West. This road will be complete
top sod road early in 1922 across
Chesterfield county. Lynches river
bridge is now about to be built.
Lancaster county expects to have
the road finished across that county
by the middle of 1922. A portion of
the read has been built in Chester
county, but the section from two
miles west Of Chester to Broad river
has not been built. Authority has
been given for a bond issue which
win Produce funds to. complete the
route when the bonds can be sold at
par. One township in Union county
has also provided for a bond issue,
with which it will build the Calhoun
highway across the township where it
comes within three miles of the APP
palachian highway already construct
ed into Whitmire.
Counties at Work
Newberry county requires only to
improve the Appalachian highway
from the Enoree river into Whitmire
and to build one nile to the Laurens
county line. Laurens county is now
building, with force of IS laborerS.
between Whitmire and Clinton, and
has already built the greater portion
of the road from Clinton to Mount
vile. This section has not yet been
top soiled, but will be topsoiled dur
ing the winter.
Laurens-Cross Hill highway will be
used from Mountville to old Cross
Hill. Thence the new road will short
ly be constructed to Puckett's ferry
on the Saluda river. A bill has al
ready been passed requiring Green
weod and Laurens counties to bridge
the Saluda river at Puckett's ferry,
and funds will be provided at the next
meeting of the legislature for the
construction of this bridge
Greenwood also contemplates early
construction to the Abbeville county
line from the city of Greenwood. Alb
beville is now building from the
Greenwood county line into Abbeville
and is surveying from Abbeville to
Calhoun Falls.
The bridge engineer of the Georgia
state highway department is making
surveys of Savannah river near Cal
houn Falls with view to determining
upon the site of the. Savannah river
bridge.
All Of the counties in Sodth Caro-
lima are pledged to the support Of this
highway and have made requests to
Y
the state highway commission for
recognition of the highway as a por-
tion of the state highway system. The
route is now eligible for federal aid
when available. Three large bridges
will be required. These bridges will
have to be. built on Catawba, Broad
and the Savannah, with a fairly large
bridge on the Saluda. Federal aid will
be sought for the three, large bridges
and possibly for the Saluda bridge.
Other smaller bridges will have to be
improved later.
May Reopen Next Year
1t is highly likely that the route
will be declared open for traffic not
later than July /, 1922, though three
of the rivers will have to be crossed
by ferry at that time. 1t is the de-
sire of the association to have no