Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1921-08-31
:, TENNESSEE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 81, 1921

ana construction, with steady trea
. and earnest determination, went for
ward to slay the forest and erec
therein monument to their memorie
Ihey toiled from day to day and tn,
3 setting sun of each succeeding da,
t found them one day nearer their goal
, BY their obstinate persistancy the,
went from mile to mile until now SD
miles of right-of-way are cleared of
and the stumps removed
Mr.. Benedict's road men were EN-.
ployed in June to grade the three
fouths-of-a-mile stretch of road which
was left over from last fall and this
is considered the best piece of road
in this country. When this was COM
pleted the grading was not allowed to
stop but has been going steadil, -..
ever since. The end of the graded
road is now over five miles from
| Clitty and about two and one-half
miles from the Memphis -Bristo
highway intersection. The man who
graded all of the highway and railroad
for the Ransom-Benedict Co. is en-
ployed to complete this road. He
with his assistants will continue the
work from day to day, which will
insure its completion in due time.
At present the Treasury of these
road builders has not one red cent
in it but the grading is costing $II.5o
per day. About thirty miners here
are having $500 per month each check
ed in the office from their earnings,
which goes into the road fund. This
is pretty liberal for the men are WORK.
ing only about two days per week,
isn't it? But they are making this
donation with as much, or more, ease
of conscience than would John d. in
giving barrel of oil to public in
cineration of all his competitors.
Of course any financial help that any
body desires to contribute will be
gladly received and will answer
good purpose: but if nothing at all is
donated by nonresidents, the men say
they are going to foot the expenses
and they are asking every body every
where to share the benefits which
the road will afford.
The Bon Air Corporation has given
free of charge the use of all the
teams needed for the prosecution of
the work, sometimes twelve and
fourteen mules per day being used.
Also the dynamite, fuse and detonat-
ors for extracting the stumps were
donated by the corporation These
TENS may seem insignificant but a
glance at what this part of the work
amounts to is surprising.
The work was proceeding without I
and was doing well but {
t was thought best that the project t
axe on some form of organization in {
,rder to insure its success. At this
ime automobile owners in Clifty and r
ricinity number about twenty or i
twenty-five. They were called to v
,ether and organized into the "Clifty Q
Auto Club" The chairman of this
lub appointed constitutional COM
nittee and the constitution drawn and b
by this committee was the c
nost drastic and obligatory edict that [
vas ever submitted to body of men. a
t was adopted unanimously and by p
IS adoption he members Of this club t.
lerged themselves to talk good roads, a
, use their influence amoon gtheir g
riends in the interests of good roads c
nd to build good roads. n
With the organization perfected, the W
ub went to work. Each member be- o.
an to gather about him his friends Ii
nd our army of workers from day to in
ay was like the snow ball which we! al
ave started rolling at the top of al
1.-THE farther it went the larger it til
.ew Oftentimes forty men would W
, there to take part in the achieve til
ent which meant the tearing dowi4 u,
the wall that had soylong irnpris- ia
,ed.s,them. Houston's men at the W
lmo displayed courage that adorns b,
e pages Of history these men, byt
cir courage, persistancy and deter
ination, accomplished feat which d.
III iinger in the memory of man as te
adition down through all the ages tri
II pass. And while these men were tn
pending their energy, were sacrifice pa