Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-07-12
McC ormick Very Much Inter
ested in Road Program.

Mccormick, S. c., July 8.-A great
deal of interest is felt and express
ed in the fact that Augusta has final
|ly taken steps toward the improve
ment in the road from Martinez to
IFurey's Ferry on the Savannah river.
The improveent of this short stretch
of road has been under discussion for
some time and it is gratifying to the
people of this section to know that
at last the work will be completed.
at last the work will be completed.
When this is done it will complete
for the best and at least by ten miles
the shortest route from Greenwood
to Augusta. The road through Nc
Cormick county has been graded and
top-soiled and put in first class con-
dition from Greenwood county line
to Furey's Ferry on the Savannah
river. Several years ago when the
proposed route of the Dixie Highway
was being agitated Mccormick coun-
ty offered to complete this road which
was then being graded, however,
Edgefield made a proposition to build
a top-soiled road through that county
and the route by Edgefield was &C
cepted in preference to the route by
Mccormick. Notwithstanding the fact
that Mccormick lost out on getting
the Dixie Highway, her determine
ton to have a good road was not
abated and today Mccormick county
has as good a top-soiled road from the
Greenwood county line to the Savan-
nah river at Furey's Ferry as any
county in the state and Dixie High
way OF no Dixie Highway.tourists are
beginning to find that the route
through Mccormick county is by far
better than by Edgefeld. Route maps
and highway directories have avoided
Mccormick county by reason of the
short stretch of five miles of rough
road through Columbia county in
Georgia, from Furey's Ferry to Mar
tinez, but with the completion of that
road, we are assured that this will no
longer be the Ease and that the route
through Mccormick county by travel
ers of the Dixie Highway from the
mountains to Florida and to the sea-
coast will be adopted and that this
route will also find favor on road
maps and directories. When this is
done, a bridge at Furey's Ferry is as
sured.
There are many advantages offer
ed by the route through Mccormick
county which Edgefeld cannot Of
fer. The highway leading through Nc
,Cormick follows the railway from
Greenwood to the Savannah river,
passing through towns or villages
where fuel and repair parts a be
obtained, and where %telegraphic COM
m%unication can be had in an instant.
In the construction of this road the
safety of the travel has been n of
the main objects and as a means to
this end all unnecessary railroad
crossings have been eliminated. Work
is now being done on the last of these
railroad crossings where an underpass
is being built.
But with the completion of the
road from the Greenwood county
line to Furey's Ferry McCromick
county has not given up her program
of good roads. Contracts recently let
for the top-soiling of the road from
the Abbeville county line to the main
road leading from Greenwood to
Augusta. This road to the Abbeville
county line will be met at the line~by
the Abbevllle county autaoi1I1es
which will open up even another
route of travel from the mountains OF
western North Carolina to the sea-
coast via Pickens, G%reenville, Ander-
son, Abbeville, Mccormick and Au-
gusta. Here is where the road by Flu
rey's Ferry will again play an impor-
tant part in bringing traffic through
Mccormick county and to Augusta
and vice versa.
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having grown rich, desires to divide
his money with those who have
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