Southern good roads . Dr. .Iose|)h Hyde l^ratt. state geologist, ofChajiel Hill. X. C. Xearly ti\e miles of the section of theroad from the Tennessee state line toward Hot Springs has already i n coiii|ile|id anil satisfactory progress is being made. That part of the Central Highway- inBniiiMimbe county from Ashe^?ilIe to the ]\Iadison coun-ty line, \\hile iiassalile for motor cars, is lieiug greatlyimproved by the progressive commissioners of Bun-combe county. The northern pruug of the Central 8 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS January, 1915 I Highway by way of Canton, Waynesville and Mt. Sterl-ing to New
Southern good roads . Dr. .Iose|)h Hyde l^ratt. state geologist, ofChajiel Hill. X. C. Xearly ti\e miles of the section of theroad from the Tennessee state line toward Hot Springs has already i n coiii|ile|id anil satisfactory progress is being made. That part of the Central Highway- inBniiiMimbe county from Ashe^?ilIe to the ]\Iadison coun-ty line, \\hile iiassalile for motor cars, is lieiug greatlyimproved by the progressive commissioners of Bun-combe county. The northern pruug of the Central 8 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS January, 1915 I Highway by way of Canton, Waynesville and Mt. Sterl-ing to Newport. , is in excellent conditionfor automobiles witli exception of about three miles at;Mt. Sterling on the Tennessee side, and the Tennesseeauthorities are organizing a movement to put this por-tion of the road in good condition before the 1915 sum-mer season. The Central Highway from the Tennes-nee-North Carolina state line across the state as far asDurham lias been designated as the route of the South-. A section of the Asheville —Spartanburg Highway on Saluda Mountain eru National Iliglnvay from Washington to San Diego,and logged hv W. 0. L. Westgard of the A. A. A. in1913 The Asheville-Spartaiiburg Highway bj way of Hen-dersonville. Saluda and Tuxedo, doMii the famous Sa-luda ilountain to Spartanburg, has all been completed,with a splendid roadway of easy grade, with the ex-ception of aliout one mile in Henderson county, onwhich a large force of men is now at work and willeomjdete the same within the next sixty or ninety road has been used during the past summer fortimrists coming to Asheville. as well as the Asheville-Greenville Highway across Paris ^lountain. which upto the past year was the only inlet for automobile tour-ists into Asheville. There are now three motor highways into Ashevillefrom the New York-Atlanta Highway: From Charlottethrough Chimney Kock section and Hickory Nut Gapinto Asheville; from Spartanlmrg, S. C, across
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