Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-04-12
NO MONEY FOR
M'KEE ROAD NOW
StateHishway Commission Turns
Down Application For Help
In Building Highway

tuesday morning Ell route home
from Frankfort greatly discour-
aged. They had been before the
State Highway Department seek
ing state and federal aid for the
building of the highway over the
Hills into Jackson county and on
to their county seat, Mckee.
Although Jackson county has
voted S125,0O0 in bonds and
stands ready to make up by sub
scription about $4,000 more,
these gentlemen were unable to
obtain any assurance that the
Highway Department will coop
crate in the building of this great
. ly desired road, anyways III the
near future They brought every
fact possible before the Highway
Commission showing the great
need of this roadway. They also
pointed out that Madison coun-
ty's fiscal court had agreed to.
contribute $0.0C0 toward the COM
pletion of the roadway the short
distance, necessary to the Jackson
county line But the State High
way Department. is is reported,
said it has no money at present
to put on this road plan. and that
the cost is going to very. very
heavy to build this road.
Squire William Hurst sal that
the Jackson county men offered
to work for and cooperate in the
building OF a roadway by any
route that might be suggested,
just SO his people could get cut
of the mud. He said that his peo-
pie offered to take the Scaffold
Cane route, if they couldn't get
closer road to Richmond. How !,
ever, he declares the Highway |
Commission engineers said that :
some $4,000 or $4,000 a mi
would be necessary to complete
the present portion OF the road
along that route and when the /
work got to Jackson county the
cost would run up to- something
like $lS,O00 a mile. Such a figure,
of course. staggered everyone.
The State Highway Commits !!
sion had all engineer go over this
proposed route over the hills ard
into Jackson county a few weeks
ago, and it is supposed that he
must have made a very unfavor
able report for the State Com
mission to sit doWn" on such an
urgent plea for a road with such
emphasis. MI agree that such a
road would prove of vast benefit
to thousands OF people who knew
not the meaning Of a good road.
1t would open up an immense
territory back in Jackson, Clay
and other mountain counties
which have no other outlet to
highways.
Squire Hurst, who reported the
result of the trip to Frankfort to
the Daily Register, was greatly
discouraged. He declared he
would go.back to his little black
smith shop in Clover Bottom
much disappointed. -n".7''A
81 have taken my time off and
worked for good roads for three d
or four years, and | will still work
for them to the best OF my abiliei
ty." declared Squire Hurst. But
it does seem a shame that those
fellows at Frankfort are spending
50 much money on the blue grass
roads and won't give us little up
in the mountains and help us out
of the mud"
In the Jackson county delega-
ton besides Squire Hurst, were
w. II. Reynolds, of Tyner, coun-
ty agricultural agent for Jackson
county, and County Judge Carter
Moore.
Many Richmond and Madison
county men are deeply regretful
that the State Highway Commits
sion could not see its waytogiving
some help on this road now. They
realize what an immense source
of trade would be opened up to
Madison county and Richmond
by the building of such a road.
In fact this county would become
the eutlet for all the back coun- !
try trade that now scatters about,
indiscriminately wherever it can
obtain an outlet on horseback or
'1nulcback or in log wagons.
A dispatch from Frankfort
Tuesday said that the Highway I;
Commission did approve twoI
roads which will open up other
mountainous sections and take
them out of the mud.
One road for which Cumberland |
Metcalfe and Barren county res
idents will undertake to raise SIS |
000, will be a continuation of a.
road built by Cumberland countyi