The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-10-06
The Normal School and
The Big Sandy Valley

must be placed upon one or theSe rail-
road lines. In determining the COM
mission of experts during their survey
TO recommend the Sandy Valley sew
eral very obvious facts played a part
The l.. & n. territory was at once
eliminated because it could serve only
a corner of this section without giving
prospective students a chance to reach
a location without much more of a
journey than would at present be re-
quired to reach Richmond. 1t is pos
sible for the people of Carter, Rowan,
Menifee Morgan and Elliott counties
to reach Morehead on the Lexington
division of the c. & o. with as great
ease and facility as they could enjoy
by travelling to any other point. AC
Cording TO the 1920 census, the total
| population of these counties was 63,-
| 1876.
In the Sandy Valley there are entire
! ly and exclusively dependent upon the
( Big Sandy division of the c. 81 o. for
| railway outlet into the state the fol-
! loving countless: Lawrence, Johnson,
! Martin. Magoffin, Floyd and Pike.
| Their aggregate population was 1885,
| $50. And while the population of the
| Lexington division territory mentioned
above has had no unusual increase
during the past two years the Sandy
Valley through the development of its
! of new inhabitants.
The river counties of Boyd, Greenup
and Lewis could send their young
| prospective teachers with almost equal
ease to either point. -.
1t is unfortunately true that the loca
tion of the school at Morehead would
place it practically out of reach of the
Large and growing population of the
upper Sandy Valley. 1t would be nee
essary for the prospective student to
come to Ashland and after a long wait
travel back into the state on parallel
line with the valley down which he
/ had just travelled True, similar
II although smaller difficulty would face
The native of Rowan or Menifee cOun-
ties should the school be located ever
in the lower Sandy Valley, but. in the
face of the comparative population
! data just given, the only admissible
plan would be the adoption of tht
rule the greatest good to the great.
est number"
Thus have been briefly compared
: the possible locations for the schOo
and the reason which in all probabilit!
{ prompted the survey commission ap
{. pointed by the governor to recon
mend the establishment of the schoo
! in the Sandy Valley And who in tn
! face of the facts just quoted, coult
: fairly decide otherwise and best in
formed of our public servants, reas
e onably disagree with that obviousl
' correct decision? .:E
e We shall not discuss at this tim
the comparative merits and shortcom
y ings of the towns which have offere
! themselves as locations. Their claim
D have been openly presented and criti
S cised. The object of this particula
e article does not lead into these mat
a ters. 1t seems only to put before tn
Y public and the gentlemeut of the Nor
t NAL School site commission the fact
e and figures given, with respectfr
d yet urgent request from the people c
y Eastern Kentucky that they answe
: fully and publicly the question put q
d the conclusion of the preceding para
G graph. r., ....
e Nor is it the intention of this al
ticle to conclude with hasty and heat
e ed refutation of current reports whic
e questions strongly the integrity of II
= intention of some of the school sit
Il commission members. But should ia
Il vor of Morehead as site without sal
i isfactory and sufficient answer, pub
h licly made, to the questions put abov
the public must perforce arrive at
d conclusion, which events in Wester
t Kentucky and developments in cor
e nection with the expected decisio
: here have already brought perilousl
y near"
Y (The above article omits the impol
h tant n. & w. railroad outlet for Maj
y tin county and eastern Pike county
: Ed