The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1922-08-23
LEXINGTON BOARD
COMMERCE SENDS
! EXPERT TO GAP
Mise County and Kentucky
4 Road Boosters Have Great
4 Meeting Here Last Thurs
Z day

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2pad was suggested by w. G. Coutts.
IN Biz Stone Gap, Va, and Col. Jim
sMare,, the Boone Way Man, back in
siSie, and between them the PROPOSE
\ tpn was agitated for II time, but it
appeared that the time was not ripe
for making progress over the pro-
1 rcsei routing.
'fa Early last February number Of
1 citizens Of the eastern counties
through which the road will pass,
4 vhile attending meeting held by
The government and others, at Uni
s8yersity OF Gentueky, in Lexington,
( organized the North Fork and Vir-
e inn Highway Commission, with
i Headquarters mt Jackson. After
some months the president of the
4 organization, who is mighty busy
nan, seeing he could not spare the
time from his business to give the
Necessary attention to the road prop
csition which it deserved, readily ac-
cepttd the suggestion of road boos-
4 tiers for a reorganization along lines
Whereby added life and activity
s:would be given the movement This
iTssulted in the holding OF conven-
{ ton in jackson, which is located 40
8miles south of Lexington, on July
18th, 1929, which was attended by n
good number of the leading business
sand professional men and county of
sincials from the seven counties touch
5ed by the kyva routing from Lex
sington 10 Pound Gap, on the Ken
stucky-Virginia border. y strong or
ssanization was effected, with the
election of NJ. II. Holiday, jackson.
As president. DR.. A. Nj. Gross, of
Hazard, yice-president; EuIa liam
simonds, secretary-treasurer. jack
'son and board of directors, one
sfor each of the seven counties, all
good leaders in their respective To-
Ssaliiies. Col. Jim Maret, the old
Toad scout Of the Cumberlards, was
Chosen press agent, with headqu.1-
ters al Lafayette Hotel, Lexington,
(which position he accepted with the
fslrong assurances of the hearty CO.
Operation of officers, directors ami
good roads people generally. Col.
.SslaTet has entered upon the work
shlong similar lines which were sue
fessfully followed in putting Boone
away through the Cumberlands OF
northeastern Kentucky. A highway
ifow routed from Louisville to Poone
! sbin, n. c., the site of the old home
ssoi Daniel Boone, in 1850, on the
81 adkn River, Davidson county, in
Che Tar Heel state, 1 3 miles west of
Lexington and 8 miles east of Sails
Slry The routing follows the geu-
tral line of Boone's Trail from
,3heonesboro, Kentucky, to the old
ssaOin home Il distance of di0 miles,
he routing includes Frankfort,
lexington, Boonesboro, Mt. Vernon.
acorb'n, Middlcsboro, Cumberland
gap, Jonesville. Va, Appalachi.,
aSreer's Ferry, Gate City, Bristol.
SVa.-renn.
4 he kyva Road is n hard surfaced
highway from Lexington to Stanton,
5rowell county, 40 miles. That por
S"on OF the road between Lexington
zand Winchester consists of ~ miles
s'oherete and z miles of Kentucky
S'Oek asphalt. A regular speedway
Soh which speed of 10 miles per
ghour could be made if it were al
Movable.
CLARK county, next east of Licking
9,oh' has hard surfaced road into
roweii county. and the latter coun-
~ mas the same class of road on into
Us county seat. Stanton. This coun-
ana It's next neighbor east, Wolfe
'ouhty' under State Highway Com.
MISSION have lately let contracts for
'he construction of sections CT the
highway within their territory and
propose to let other contracts in
,'ZS' Breathitt county. in which
sa n is located, has completed 10
.I''es Of its heaviest grading and
o oaa at a cost gilmore than ss5,-
uuO per mile.
rsrry county has recently adver-
c ESQ., through the State Highway
commission, for bids on construction
" TWO mile section of the Kyva
's4aing out of Hazard, with the ex-