Southern good roads . more than 1800 feet in lengtii. thi-ough whicli passesthe Southern Railway, is a pei-|ien( ascent of1363 feet. Spanning the streams on the mountain arefour steel bridges with concrete abutments being erec- ted by the autlniiilies of .Mi-Dowell county at a cost oLa little more tlian $10,(100. The funds to build this road were derived liy a liondissue of Old -Fort township amounting to $20,0(30, whichwas passed with but two or tliree dissenting votes, $10,-000 from the post roads fund of tlie U. S. Governmentand a pulilic sulsscriptinu in that district of al)0ut $5
Southern good roads . more than 1800 feet in lengtii. thi-ough whicli passesthe Southern Railway, is a pei-|ien( ascent of1363 feet. Spanning the streams on the mountain arefour steel bridges with concrete abutments being erec- ted by the autlniiilies of .Mi-Dowell county at a cost oLa little more tlian $10,(100. The funds to build this road were derived liy a liondissue of Old -Fort township amounting to $20,0(30, whichwas passed with but two or tliree dissenting votes, $10,-000 from the post roads fund of tlie U. S. Governmentand a pulilic sulsscriptinu in that district of al)0ut $ It is expected that this road will be open forautomobile traffic some time during the suumier of1915. which will enable tourists to travel from More-head City over the Central Highway, passing throughXewbern. Goldsboro, Raleigh. Durham, Greensboro,Lexington. Salisliury, Statesville, Hickory, jMorganton,Old Fort. Ridgecrest and into Asheville, thence to theTennessee State line neai ^ft. Steiling and Paint Central HiRhway through Chunns Cove between Asheville and Black Mountain .V force of state convicts is at worlx on the ]\ladisoncoiujty link of the Central Highway- working east fromthe state line at Paint Hocls. under the general super-vision of 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 Tennesseea
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