Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-02-24
ROAD SITUATION
IS CLEARING UP
COMMISSIONER COLEMAN 10 vim.
Dictated BY LEGISLATIVE
COMMITTEE.
BOND ISSUE NOW PROBABLE
Will be Deferred Serials Payable In
instailmsnts And To Run
~ so Yoars.

the Legislative Committee, and the
complete vindicatlon OF Commissioner
Coleman. who Is recognized as one Of
the leading Highway Commissioners
In the country. the road situation Is
rapidly clearing In the General Assem-
bly,. and 1t IL predicted that the pro.
gram Of the Virginia Good Roads A.
ISOLATION will be adopted by the Lee.
islsture, and tho State will go forward
with it's sirter statos In q great good
roads construction program, during
the administration OF Governor
Trinkle.
The Virginia Good Roads Aasooia.
ton bill, which was introduced In the
Senate by Senators Goolrick. vaugh~
an. Garrett and Rison, has been intro.
duced in the House Of Delegates by
Delegates Willis, Henley, Dotson and
Row. and 1t ia expected that both Sen.
ate and House committees will
promptly report tho bill and that It
Will be passed by both Houses. This
bill meets the criticisms directed at
the Highway Department during the
past year, and transfers from Commits.
eioner Coleman TO the Ave new NOM
bers OF the Highway Commission, who
will be appointed by Governor Trinkls
and serve during his administration.
the duty of docidlng between routes.
allocating construction funds or de-
termining the order Of priority OF con-
struction. and awarding contracts for
construction.
1t is generally conceded that tho
Byrd-Ozlin bill. which is opposed by
the Virginia Good Roads Association
And the members OF the Legislature,
who have been In tho night for good
roads for years, and which proposes
70 legislate Commissioner Coleman out
! OF ofIloo. will be promptly defeated, II
ever reported out Of committees. IN
some other respects. this bill Is sim
ilar to the bill sponsored by the good
roads people In and out of the Leg.
fslature.
General o. G. Vaughan. Jr.. and Col.
Thos. B. McAdams. who are rec.
ognized as leading bankers In Virginia
and the country at large. have prno-
tically completed the details OF tho
bill providing for bond Issue TO sup.
plement State highway construction.
1t has been doomed wise to adopt the
conservative course OF authorizing
only q small bond issue of $4,000, 900,
during tho next two years. in order
that fair test may be made before
going further. The bond bill being
perfected will, therefore. provide for
$12.000,000 10 be ISSUED by the Gov.
ernor during 1922 and 1923, provided
he considers financial conditions fay.
orable. and is satisfied tho money can
and will BIO economically and efficient.
1y expended.
Tho financial situation is improving
80 much that the bill will limit the
rate OF interest to 4hso and provide
that the bonds shall be cold at par
and that de1nite amount from the
present income for road construction
be set aaide for the payment OF the
principal and interest OF the bonds az
they mature. The bonds will BIO do
ferred serials. payable in periodical In
stallments beginning In 1890, and ut
bond will run for over thirty years
The fT.ends OF the good roads moyo
ment insist that the law shall require
the bonds and interest to be paid ou
of the present road revenues without
any increase in taxes. and this feature
is meeting with approval OF the Nom
bers OF the House. who were at frs
Apprehensive that taxes would be in
creased.
All highway funds now In the Treas
, ury Will be checked out during tn,
year 1922 on contracts now under way
and the Highway Department Is prae
tically without funds for new construt
ton, inasmuch as the 10 cent tax 4
not collected until next December
The total construction funds for thi
year, including Federal funds and Q,
Guiding the funds reserved to pay 10
nonfracts under way, amount to some
riling over $4.5O0,O00. Tho Hlghwa
Department has made surveys. and re
ports that It can economically expen
at IlaEst $10.000,000 per year, so tn
bond fdinds will be used to supplement
:. the current funds and enable the d.
: partment to go forward with CON
; prehensive construction program an
close up many Of the unimproyed link
, in the State Highway System durln
the next two years.
, 1t has been pointed out that the pa!
. as.yo-go plan would delay constructio
, of the entire highway system for eigl
teen years, and the people are d.
> manding that bonds be Issued aud tn
: system completed in six years. an
I particularly that extensive work g
- forward while labor 10 abundant an
materials fairly cheap.
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