Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-07-20
TO BUILD TO THE BRIDGE.

alexander ID. Grove, weli-known
resident of Sharpsburg, was caller
at the Register Office yesterday. and
ne brought the welcome news that il
mas been definitely decided to extend
the Maryland State Road 10 the river
oridge ar Shepherdstown. Il will be
recalled that some months ago the COM
tract vas let 10 Flanagan & Sons, OF
Washington, for the construction of thd
road from keedysville TO n poin, few
yards south of Antietam Station, leav.
ing the stretch of about two miles 10
ShepherdStown unprovided for. This
week representatives of the MARYLAND
State Roads Commission, the federal
read bureau and the Washington
county commissioners came to an
agreement, and il is said that the con.
tract for the construction of the bal.
ance OF the road to Shepherdstown has
been let to Flanagan & Sons on a pro
rata basis of the other work.
lheSe contractors have been making
rapld progress on the road between
Sharpsburg and Keedysville The
section from Porterstown. east of
Sharpsburg, has been finished as far
as Dr. CARROTS place, and il is said
TO be perhaps the best piece of road
in Maryland The contractors are
giving the most conscientious attention
TO the work, and those who have seen
the completed section of the road say
that il is absolutely perfect.
The government engineers were in
Sharpsourg looking after the construc-
ton OF that part of the road which in
cludes McComas Avenue, extending
from the National Cemetery through
the town of Sharpsburg to Antietam
Station. The contract had been let for
roadway lS feet wide on this stretch.
and for most OF the distance the grad
ing had been done and the concrete
shoulders set. Ii has been determined,
however, to make the roadway on the
avenue "a feet wide, so a considerable
part of the work will have to be done
over. Ii is very gratifying to the peo-
pie OF Sharpsburg, Of course, as we'll
as TO the public generally, to know
that the road is to be of ample width
The extension OF the new road to
Shepkerdstown will mean a completion
Of the Maryland road system TO Jeffer-
son county, and the people OF this
section will have connection with the
splendid Maryland State roads east,
.'O''ti W SdlilihblS, W ASH
ington, Harrisburg, Philadelphia and
New York, westward TO Cumberland,
Oakland, Pittsburg and Pennsylvania
points and on west How desirable il
now is that our Maryland neighbors
shall find on this side of the Potomac
good roads system. II would be al
most criminal TO spend the large sums
of money coming to Jefferson and
Berkeley counties in the construction
of the pine hills route, which can
never justify itself by the Through
travel that would use II nor by the
local interests that it would serve
The Register maintains that our i'm
proved road connecting Martinsburg
and Charles Town should be by tho
main travelled route through Shep,
herdstown, thus giving ali of our ter
ritory access to the Maryland system !;
or if the road should be built from
Martinsburg by way Of Winebrcnners
to Walper's Cross Roads, thence to
Charles Town by way Of Shenandoah
Junction, with spur to Shepherds
town, il would be satisfactory TO the
people of the two counties. We truly
hope that our West Virginia Road,
Commission will locate this road where
it will really serve through travel as
we'll as the local needs.