Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-01-14
SEEK US. AID
ON BOONE TRAIL
Plea Originates in Yadkinville for
Benefit of Highway-lts Merits
Cited-Talk of More Cement.

Yadkinville, Jan. ~. - Chairman
A. B. Hobson of the Yadkin county
road board has affixed his signature
the resolutions passed by his board
requesting the federal road authori-
ties to designate highway no. 60, the
Boone Trail as part of the federal
highway system. A week ago today
the county commissioners put their
o. X. on the resolution and it was
signed by the board chairman j N
Davis.
1t is understood that the Kiwanis
club of North Wilkesboro, the road
commissioners of Wilkes and the
county commissioners of that county,
have also endorsed the resolutions,
which will be forwarded to Chairman
Frank Page of the state highway
commission, who will be asked to in
turn forward it to the federal au-
thorities with the request that the
Boone Trail will be designated as a
national Highway
Hear of Paving
People Of Yadkin county as we'll
as Wilkes and the people further to
the west are jubilant over the cur
rent report that the hardsurfacing
contract of that section of the Boone
Trail between North Wilkesboro and
Brooks Crn-., roads will be let on
February 3, next. There have been
many rumors anent the proposal to
hardsurface this particular stretch of
the Boone Trail, but recent newspa--
per dispatches and editorial comment
indicate that the state. is to now let
the hardsurface contract on the thir-
ty mile section, three miles of which
already has had it's hardsurface coat
ing, thus settling the matter spec
uIation as to when it will be done.
The contractor who built the con-
crete highway from here to the Yad-
kin river has stated that he will un-
dertake the building of the six mile
section between Yadkinville and the
Brooks Cross Roads for approxima-
tely $4,000 mile less than the con-
tract price of the road justfinished.
1t isexpensive to move road machin
cry and equipment, and the contrac-
4 +L,& hn 1ro11 afford fn
do it for less money on account OF
the fact that his equipment is now all
upon the ground and his force wait
ing to go to work either here or
elsewhere.
The resolutions passed by both the
road board and the county commits
sioncrs of Yadkin county are as fol-
lows:
Resolutions by the board of coun
ty commissioners of Yadkin county
n. c. asking that route No. 60, known
as the Boone Trail, be paced on the
federal highway map, and it be des-
ignated as a part of the federal high
way system.
Wheleas, Route 60, popularly
known in the northwestern part of
this state as the Boone Trail, bran
ches off from Route 40 at Castle
Hane, in the vicinity of Wilmington
and traverses the state in northwes-
terly direction via Clinton, Lilling-
ton, Sanford, Siler City, Liberty,
Greensboro, Winston-Salem, 4adkin-
vile, Wilkesboro and Boone, N. c.
and penetrate the Tennessee border
l-etween the PROSPEROUS Tennessee
cities. johnson City and Bristol, and
as originally projected was and is one
of three or four most important high
way routes in the state; it directly
connects the southeastern with the
northeastern section of the state; it
touches some of the most important
commercial and industrial centers of
the state; its connection with other
important routes in the state are very
convenient; it traverses the very
heartof the so-called Lost Provinces
and opens up to the travelling public
an attractive and convenient way to
the important and rapidly developing
tourist centers of Boone and Blow
ing, Rock. 1t offers the tourist more
in the way of romance and interest
in pioneer history than any other
route in the state; and it finally point
the way directly and unerrignly to
the great northwest beyond the Allie
ghanies.
Therefore be it resolved, that we
request the State Highway Commits
sion to use its active influence to
place this route on the federal high
way map and have it adopted as
part of the federal highway system
as early as may be.
North Wilkesboro, Jan. lat was