Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-05-05
JACKSON co. OFFICIALS
SHOW MUCH ZEAL
And It's Up To Madison and
Jackson Counties To Get
Money For Highway

ceived within the past few day
from officials of Jackson county
in regard to the road to Mckee
which it is hoped to have built
with state aid funds next year
of the proper cooperation can be
had from the two counties most
ly Decentralization and Jack
son. The Jackson county people
are thoroughly alive to the needs
OF the situation, as these letters
will show. 1t is expected that
large delegations will attend the
meeting at Berea Friday and
here Saturday:
Tyner, Ky. April 2S, 1922
Mr.. D. ]. Williams.
My dear Mr.. Williams-T am
just in receipt of a letter from
Joe S. Boggs stating that if
Jackson county would agree to
wait until this fall for the letting
of contract on the Big Hill-Mc-
Kee road so that the states share
of the cost would come from the
1923 levy that he would recon-
mend the construction of this
road to the Commission and that
without any doubt it would be
adopted. Now Jackson county's|
fiscal court has agreed to this is
sue and an order has been made
giving the entire amount of the
Sl25, 600 bond issue to the con-
struction of this road from Nc
Kee to Madison county liz, and
it is also agreeable to us to wait
until fall to award the contracts, /
and also for us to furnish our
part Of the money before that
time in order to take care of
surveying, etc, before con-
tracts are awarded Now there !
IS another provision in Mr.. |
Boggs' letter which reads as fol-
lows: Il am not willing, how
ever, to make a recommendation
for the acceptance of this propo-
sition unless Madison county in
some way materially increases
its own appropriation
Now you can see that the
Madison end of the road is the
only matter Of adjusting at this
time in order to get the project !
approved by the Road Commits
sioners. We are meeting all the
requirements from this end and
want to go before the Commits
sioners on the 8th day of May
to get this settled so that we
can proceed to sell our bonds and
secure the money needed for the
cost of survey of said road. We
had a meeting at Mckee yester-
day and it was the consensus of
opinion that Madison county
would not fail us in the end. but
would at once take steps to Sc
cure additional funds by private
subscription or otherwise to add
to the $1,000 appropriated by the
Madison county fiscal court. It
has been suggested by many that
the Scaffold Cane road, leading
from Dixie Highway south of
Berea and following the ridge to
top of Big Hill would be the less !,
expensive to construct, but we
desire to have the people OF
Madison understand that we are
not in anyway attempting to die
tate as. to the selection Of the
route and | am writing you ask
ing. that your new Board of
Commerce have a mass meeting
to select a committee to solicit
funds or look after this end of
same. | suggest that Richmond
and Berea work together and if +,
more can be pledged for one
route than the other, then make
both propositions to the road de-
partment. Delegation from Jack
son county will arrive in Berea
on Friday, May 5th at p. m. to
meet. with the Berea people and
expect to be in Richmond on Sat-
urday at 10 a. m. for the same
purpose and | want to suggest
that you Richmond people get
busy and advertise a meetingl
for Berea on Friday night, 7:30I
and at Richmond on Saturday at
10 a. m. We will be at both
meetings and we hope that this
will be satisfactorily adjusted by
this time and that you will have
a representative to accompany
us to Frankfort on 9Th. Please
see Mr.. Turley, Mr.. Baxter, Mr..
Earring, DIR. ,Sandlin and others
and then write me at once what
is going 10 be done, or attempt
ed to be done in this matter.
Thanking you for you past inter
ests and continuance of same,
l am very respectfully yours
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